#idk if thats just bs

[cosmogenous]

should look into the psylocibin monkey evolutionary theory

[xiaojaan]

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(Pictures not mine. Credit to owners.)

[dizzybizz]

sleepy gill and gill with the bubbled evil cat

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[spearxwind]

Honestly now that im using comicfury I really want to upload more stuff there because its really satisfying looking at all the comics together. been considering uploading some older stuff too, maybe even some of my better written scribble comics, but i dont knowww if i should bc i do like that atm its my most polished stuff

[youmakethelight]

Okay, but I'm casting my mind back to try to imagine how I would have felt about tboc daryl before season 10 got me so stupid about this show, when I used to be a casual viewer. And I still think I'd have just thought daryl lost his mind tbh.

This is just me going off on tangents about the show now, don't mind me.

He felt a bit off in season 1, I can't lie. The costume change would have thrown me even if I wasn't as attached, because I'm probs just the type of neurodivergent that struggles with too much change at once, and him being away from TF, in Europe, and looking so different, then calling Laurent useless, then the ways he looked at Isabelle at the end of 1x06 - that was all just too different to the Daryl I knew idk. But I stuck with it.

But having his first on-screen kiss be so entirely unpredictable for what I thought I knew of his character felt gratuitous*. And then it's like suddenly I'm being railroaded into following him on this rolleroaster that I don't understand. One minute he's longing for home, the next he's playing baseball and "just having fun". Then home has found him, but now he's invested in this kid I still haven't learnt to feel invested in yet. And he's never even talking about anything to do with home anymore, even after Carol is there? It's suddenly all just about Laurent, and part of the problem for me is there wasn't enough balance to convince me of the story.

And I think this was most of my difficulty with enjoying TOWL, too. (Don't come for me please for talking about my personal experience of watching TOWL.) I watched TOWL first out of all the spinoffs, and I remember this one part where I think Michonne and Rick were in a kitchen or something and Rick felt so different to me and it made me sad, and then she called it out. And he said something like that it's been so long, he's lost who he used to be or something like that. I can't remember exactly, but it made me sad. And I think, for me, I didn't get enough glimpses of the Rick I recognised within the short 6 episodes that I never felt satisfied or happy with it. And maybe I needed more TF references or something??? I didn't even feel enough concern for Judith or RJ from him - maybe I'm misremembering, but I think your memory of the feeling something gave you is important. I get that the leadership want these spinoffs to be accessible to people who didn't watch the flagship show, but I think that's a big part of where it's losing the magic for me.

The thing that was better for me about DD season 1 is that it was all about getting home, and his determination felt relentless throughout the first 5 and a half episodes before it suddenly got weird with Isabelle acting like they've been a family for 19 years. Like, before that, I felt connected to his mission.** But then in season 2, it's almost completely gone, and Carol feels like the only part I can still connect with. Like, I know Rick didn't mention Daryl either I think, but I wish both of them had talked about each other. Idk, it just would have felt more like it's giving me something I can connect with? Rather than just throwing the characters into entirely new situations and also deliberately making them feel a bit out of character?

That whole part in TOWL where Michonne feels surprised to find Rick a bit changed is so similar to what they seemed to want to do with Daryl and Carol, and I don't really get why they did it to either of them. It's more believable with Rick than Daryl bc 1. He isn't Daryl and definitely adapts more to new environments, and 2. It had been many, many, many years, not like a month. But idk, I still wasn't keen, but at least they gave it a redemption arc or whatever you'd call it. With daryl it's still just like - ???? And for what reason??? I don't know. I just don't find it compelling idk idk idk.

*Even in season 9, when we met Connie, I felt a bit like 'oh are they gonna force a ship here bc they have them spending time together 🤨 (rather than just letting connie want to help for her own character reasons rather than making it about daryl and shipping), but if it's gonna be someone who isn't carol, I think I'm okay with connie', like bc we actually had reasons to like her and there was chemistry with Daryl. So why neither Connie nor Carol, but Isabelle? The show just never got me invested in darabelle in any way.

I already liked connie before they had her going on missions with daryl, so I actually cared about her a lot. I loved seeing her on those missions bc I was excited for her to have more screen time and I found her character empowering. So, I didn't want to see her reduced to just being Daryl's love interest, and tbh, I don't think they handled it well, bc they still reduced her to being Daryl's accessory, rather than giving her her own character depth. But I *still* would have been more on board with pairing up Daryl with Connie than Isabelle. Tbh, by the time that Carol was broken up with zeke, and they had the conversation about running away together, I didn't think of Daryl and Connie as making sense to pair anymore... But I also didn't see much point in the Leah romance either, so whatever, I guess this show just has a pattern of pairing up Daryl with random women he doesn't have chemistry with, instead of the ones he does?

**I always remember that Zabel pitched the idea for the show as "what if, in trying to get home, you find something else?", and the thing is, in order to get me to be convinced that Daryl "found something else", I'd have needed A LOT stronger of a pull for the French story. There was nothing there that hooked me to becoming convinced of Daryl finding something while trying to get home. Just having him voice the words "I found something", having Laurent the prophet say "you miss her too, I can tell", putting his crossbow next to Isabelle's hospital bed, and having him look at her for an extended time after she recovers, doesn't suddenly convince me of that idea. Idk. I'm not in the TV industry, so I don't know how that magic gets done - like when season 10 slowly turned Lydia into one of my favourite characters after she was introduced as an antagonist. But I have enough brain cells to see (from the moment they nonsensically forced them to share a bed??) that they were trying to convince us Daryl found "something" in France, and tbh, if I can see the strain in their efforts to make it happen, it's probably not working. And even NR couldn't answer why Isabelle when asked at NYCC. He was literally like, "idk they have similar pasts?? Idk???". Like, girl, if you don't know, why should your audience?

[queeriboh]

I heard the northern lights could be visible tonight so I drove 30 minutes out into the middle of nowhere. I couldn't see anything w my bare eye so I didn't have any expectations, but I took some pictures on nightmode and

holy shit

[elisedonut]

Colin just bouncing on his tip toes while talking to Percy while Percy is not hearing a word of it because cute

I was thinking about that hospital concept again but specifically of Colin wanting to kiss someone before he dies I don't think he says it like that but that's the point of it and Percy agreeing because by this point it's been like a bit since they've met and even with like Bill in Percy's ear going stop- stop- you are going to just cause yourself pain

Percy is falling anyway

so yeah he agrees to it and Colin bounces on his tip toes for a second and it's so cute

[yingren]

small tag psa.

my ship tags are bothering me again by just not looking clean enough so i'm going to put them on hold for a little while. borrowing the idea from a handful of my mutuals to just tag things with urls until further notice. i'll add a "." at the end of the url tag and that'll be the ship tag for now. i feel like tagging asks and the first post of a thread is not worth the headache. you can easily find an ask by searching your url on my blog anyway.

so to be clear: regular tag for all threads and asks: #url tag for quotes, imgs, funny posts, music, etc for a ship: #url.

figuring out what to do with multis but for now i'll do the same for them cause obsessing over tags is killing my mood to write anything at all which is stupid as hell because it shouldn't matter at all but my brain is a machine that turns one tiny thing i don't like into a huge problem :)

[lemongogo]

[everythingwasnormalhere]

i just noticed how good being a south park fan actually is bc the fandom of another of my shows is going wild since the creator was found out to be racist (im pretty sure hes not actually but wtv) all questioning whether they should keep enjoying the show and all....... meanwhile i am in racist homophobic bigoted paper kids hell and i couldnt be happier

[woodsborostabathon]

sometimes i think abt the fact that between radio silence neither of them could pull out their phone calculator once while making scream vi to see that 1996 + 25 = 2021 and NOT 2022 and rlly just have to remind myself that atp the movie is like almost (2) yrs old and that bs is in the hands of god bc it is not in mine!

[pastelpousay]

OKAY MY LAST HADINA RAMBLE FOR THE WEEK

(we all know that’s a lie💀)

But, like i took note of something while I was watching Hercules the animated series and so far I noticed how Hades literally keeps flirting with like half the women he sees (I think it’s just Aphrodite and Athena 💀) and like I think maybe he was just like

“Wow she’s so pretty it kills me” type of crush or something

But like with Rina I’m thinking maybe it’s more like

“She feels like home” type of ordeal

ALSO OFF TOPIC BUT I AM IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA THAT RINA FEEL FOR HADES MOSTLY JUST FOR THE IDEA OF HIM BUT LATER ON WHEN SHE ACTUALLY STAYS WITG HIM SHE REALLY STARTS TO FALL FOR THE REAL HIM THATD BE SO FUCKING CUTE

Okay I’m done thank your time 🙇‍♀️

[pup-pee]

im like half srry 4 this

attempting 2 draw bart bc i just cant draw him consistently ever

[gilfhunter069]

Being autistic with extreme hyperfixations is so funny bc i'll be like "Yea I'm p sure I'm mulitfandom/mulitshipper" and then I only focus on one hyperfix for months/year on end, go silent until I pick up something else and never speak about that hyperfix again. Or get uncomfortable of another ship involving one of the characters of the ship i'm extremely attached too. And then I realize I am neither of those, but in fact a secret third thing.