#if you can’t say anything nice

[summersetter]

I need to internalize this.

learning that self deprecation isnt cool and just makes the people around you uncomfortable unironically improved my mental health a lot. like if you just stop saying negative shit about yourself you will genuinely like yourself more and other people wont be repulsed by your attitude and you will have more friends. it's true.

[finniestoncrane]

I don’t know what I want and I don’t know what I need but I’m glad I’ve got therapy tomorrow

[aalghul]

I don’t think it makes sense to assume that Jason was mocking Mia’s past. At all. The thing that got jason painted as violent back in the 80s was his anger against rapists…how does that turn into mocking a victim? and that entire story was written by winick. Do we honestly think winick intended to communicate that? The same writer who made Jason’s first kill a man who was trafficking children? Who had Jason pause in his mission of madness to make sure those kids were found by the right people so they wouldn’t be in further danger?

[chrissy-kaos]

God, you’re very beautiful. I love that you don’t post pics that are HEAVILY filtered like the other girls. It’s nice to see a real face once in awhile.

Look I’m going to be real with you. The filter thing isn’t me. I’m not into that. BUT if a girl uses a filter and that’s what helps her feel comfortable, confident and beautiful. Then it’s NOT anyone’s business or place to open their mouth about it. Let that girl live her best life.

I know what you’re going to say.. oh but it’s fake blah blah blah. You know what else is fake. “Just for men” or going to the barber and having them spray paint your bald spots 😑. Better yet using a pfp that’s 20 years younger..

Bruh shut the fuck up. Let people live their lives.

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

Chapitre 209 - The Demon King and The Puppet

Get in losers we’re going to Outo!

We’re back in the sequence of revisiting family bonding moments in the previous arcs, and to my surprise and great delight this one isn’t a Syaoran and Sakura one but Syaoran and Kurogane! I thought these were a recap montage of the Syaoran/Sakura relationship over the journey, but maybe it’s a recap of Syaoran himself? Our son the clone Syaoran and all the nice moments he’s had on over the arcs we spent together? 

And why would they do that unless they wanted us to hurt us very badly with it? 

They’re either being very sentimental or someone might die, so time to turn up the Suspicion dial for the survivability of all our characters!

Either way, the splash text reads: In order to avoid losing everything, I wanted to become strong, like that person…

IN WHICH WE HAVE A CLEAR THROUGH-LINE BETWEEN KUROGANE AND SYAORAN? BOTH GAINING STRENGTH FOR THE SAME REASON? AND IT GOING OUT OF CONTROL FOR BOTH OF THEM?

For Kurogane his trauma led him down a path of increasing violence where he didn’t value life as much and just wanted to kill people to get stronger. For Syaoran his soul broke so he was forced to follow his clone programming and killed presumably WAY MORE people than even Kurogane could ever have dreamed of, leaving countless worlds devastated in the name of “protecting Sakura” and retrieving the feathers. 

Dark parallels dark parallels!

But eventual misuse of power besides, the splash text sounds like it’s from Syaoran’s POV as he remembers admiring Kurogane’s strength and how he wanted to protect people like Kurogane does. And it’s the past tense that makes it so interesting - as if his soul is awake after all, and he’s thinking back on his memories with the Tsubasa family through this final confrontation. 

Which is only fanning my hopes that he’s planning a ruse and whispered to Lava Lamp to play along. And even more tragic that to sell the ruse he had to MASSIVELY STAB Lava Lamp, absolutely wreck Fai and Kurogane until they were too injured to stand, and kill countless clones. 

So, like. A convincing ruse to say the least!

And we haven’t even talked about the image! Kurogane and Syaoran back to back in Outo! Kurogane holding his sword and Syaoran mirroring his pose but holding wet clothing instead! The matching white top and black pants of their different outfits! Kurogane smiling as he explains and Syaoran listening attentively!

While they stand under a Sakura tree. 

Which (like in the Hanshin cover) is an accurate detail to the setting they were in! The park this training took place in had a Sakura tree in it, but here a branch of the tree is visibly cutting them off from each other. Which makes me want to scream in how appropriate that is - because even here, in Syaoran’s memory, the presence of ‘Sakura’ (and the clone programming that makes him focus on the feathers) is cutting him off from the connection he remembers forming. Despite their bond the Sakura tree is in his way from actually reaching Kurogane - just like his missing soul would have wrenched any feelings for his family away from him, and here in the final battle his need to follow Evil Wolverine’s orders keeps him from even speaking to his family, even if he DOES remember their bond. 

WHICH IT SEEMS LIKE HE MIGHT. 

[shima-draws]

Hiiii I come bearing another OC design WIP, this time it’s YA BOY, the one and only protag boy (from this post!)

He’s a darkness/dragon elemental, the black on his hands and arms is permanent and happened due to an incident in his childhood. He was a bit self conscious of the way his arms looked at first but now he’s totally chill with it (and. When he uses his powers dragons scales sprout on his arms and glow and it’s sick as hell.) He is everything to me and I would die for him and he doesn’t even have a name. WHICH IS WHY I’m letting you guys pick since I’m settled on an “N” name but I’m indecisive <3

[valewritessss]

Say what you want about thinking Percy only remembered Annabeth because Hera left her in his memory but for the love of everything just let people have their romantic little headcanon

[mumblesplash]

man i’ve had pretty serious art block before in the past but it was always more a lack of inspiration/irl stuff draining all my energy, currently Not having art block but getting hit by my first bout EVER of feeling like i just straight up can’t make anything that’s good enough and oh my god how do people deal with this

[girlsdads]

damn why do u hate lando

i’m not a fan of his whiny attitude

[theswedishpajas]

💙🌌💀🌌💙

[shewhoeatssand]

I want to befriend Kaneki and meet with him and email him forever

[tweetsofyj]

[roosterbox]

Friendly reminder that fandom is both big enough and weird enough for all of us, and sometimes this means that you’ll encounter a writing or art style that, while technically great, just Does Not Vibe™️ with you, at all. Not the content or tropes present, but the overall style itself just rubs you the wrong way.

And that’s okay.

We all have our own art tastes, good and bad. I’ve got a few myself, actually.

What isn’t okay is making your personal tastes the problem of the writer/artist. Scrolling past something that might objectively be good but otherwise Does Not Vibe™️ with you costs exactly zero dollars, and more importantly, won’t end up making the creator feel bad or self conscious for making art of a thing they enjoy, so… win/win.

[drivemysoul]

okay i started crying so hard i couldn’t speak when he first said hi, and he was so lovely and instantly reassured me it was okay. he said that it’s the best honour as a voice actor because it means that his characters and his emotions reached someone, and then i cried harder. i gave him a card i wrote for him and he thanked me and put it with his things to keep it safe and my heart was racing so hard i think everyone in the entire con could hear it. i got to show him my tattoos and he got pictures of them and a video of my snk one and he told me i’m braver than he is because he’s too afraid of needles to get a tattoo. i told him that kirito means so much to me because of my ptsd and i was able to connect to him and find comfort in him, so he said that when they started dubbing phantom bullet he researched ptsd and wanted to understand it even though he doesn’t have it he wanted to be respectful and be able to connect with it so he could do justice to that character and his story. and then he recorded a cute video in kirito’s voice for me and i told him that i made my middle name eren and he congratulated me and said it’s a good name and he’s honoured that he was part of that journey and decision and then we got a picture together and i was crying so hard. also he’s so short i was so surprised by how much taller i was 😭

[floral-hex]

woke up at 4am feeling the weight of my life crushing me, so I’ve been sitting out in my car for the last couple of hours because I just need. to. be. somewhere else.

[yuneu]

one thing about a swiftie they’re gonna resent taylor more than her average hater