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I’m not sure if someone else already made a post about this, but I was rewatching Tombstone and something just hit me. Dean wanted to stay alone with Cas a little bit longer in that cowboy hotel room. Sam takes Jack with him and pairs Dean up with Cas, after noticing how happy Dean was to get Cas back (which he even made a comment on earlier in the episode, we love a supportive brother). Dean agrees with this change of plan. Sam and Jack immediately gets up to leave and head for the graveyard. But when Cas is about to get up too and get ready, Dean does this:
And this is the same fucking goddamn episode where Dean makes Cas wear a fucking cowboy hat. And then gets offended when Cas didn’t immediately recognize his Tombstone reference. “I made you watch it,” not “we.” The same way “where Dean spread your ashes” is NOT “we.” And Dean has probably already seen ALL of those movies, probably a shit ton of times. He just wanted Cas to see them too. With him. Like a movie date night. And then Cas imitates a phrase from the movie, “I’m your huckleberry.” And then Dean, after averting his eyes and closing them and gulping down, says “Yeah, exactly.” immediately followed by “…it’s good to have you back, Cas.”
AND NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT DEAN TOOK A PHOTO OF CAS OFF SCREEN???????? AND THEN PRINTED IT OUT??????????
#THIS. FUCKING GODDAMN EPISODE.#DEAN.#YOU AND YOUR LITTLE SCHEMES#ooohh I bet his ass was (unsuccessfully) flirting with Cas the entire fucking time#and Cas didn’t really get his very subtle (cowardly) hints so he gave up somewhere on their way to meet the sergeant#but THEN “I’m your huckleberry” happens and it’s taking everything in Dean’s power not to show how badly he wants Cas#insane show for insane people#supernatural#spn 13x06#spn#tombstone#dean winchester#castiel#destiel#deancas#casdean#dean x castiel#destiel meta#dean meta#reiotalks
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Daughters of the Crown
#dimension 20#d20#neverafter#neverafter spoilers#d20 cinderella#d20 snow white#la bete#princess elody#d20 rapunzel#my art#I spent too long on it not happy with it#but I did an insane background dammit and that was the goal#I'll do some better stuff later#the latest episode has me fucked up so hard I don't even know where to start
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One thing that I feel is really interesting and often forgotten about Essek is that fundamentally, his characterization has been from the start based upon his desperation for external perspectives and connection, which, along with much of his narrative and mechanical positioning, means that he actually has an extraordinary and almost (but not actually, as I'll show) counterintuitive capacity for both growth and trust.
(Buckle in. This is a long one.)
In particular, I would argue, knowing now that many places where the plot touches Ludinus have long been marked for connecting back into the current plot, that he was quite possibly built as a prime candidate for radicalization by the Ruby Vanguard. He felt isolated from his culture, he was desperate for other connection, and he was certainly of the type to believe he was too smart to be drawn into such a thing, given his initial belief that he could control the situation and the fallout. If things had gone any other way, he easily could've been on the other side by now.
As such, he has been hallmarked by being fairly open to suggestion, perhaps for this reason, but the thing about that kind of trait is that it is both how people are radicalized and deradicalized. This is certainly true of Essek, who experienced genuine kindness and quite frankly strangeness from the Nein and was able to move from the isolation the Assembly had engendered to meaningful and genuine connection, largely propelled by his own internal reflection. By the time Nein are aware of his crimes, he's already begun to express regret to an extent and, furthermore, doubt in the Assembly, including explicitly drawing a line against Ludinus, even in a position where he was on his own and probably quite vulnerable.
Similarly, when the Nein reach the Vurmas Outpost some weeks later, he has moved from regret for the position he's ended up carrying a heavy remorse. This makes sense! He's fairly introspective, seems used to spending a lot of time in his own head, and was left with plenty to mull over. It's not some kind of retcon for him to have progressed well past where the Nein left him; it just means he's an active participant in the world who has done his own work in the meantime.
This is another interesting aspect to him. I've talked about this a bit before but I cannot find the post so I'll recap here: antagonists in D&D have significantly more agency than allied NPCs. Antagonists are active forces, against which the party is meant to struggle; allies are meant to support the PCs, which means they tend to be more passive in both their actions and their character growth. Essek was both built as an antagonist, in a position that gives him significant agency, and also was then given significant opportunity to grow specifically to act as a narrative mirror for Caleb's arc. Even when he becomes a more traditional D&D ally, he still retains much of that, though he occupies a supporting role.
I believe that this is especially true because of the nature of Caleb's arc, which I've already written on; the tl;dr of this post is that Caleb is both convinced that he is permanently ruined and also desperate to prove that change is possible. Essek is that proof, because he is simply the character in a position to do so. But this also means that his propensity for introspection and openness is accentuated! He has to do the legwork on his own, for the most part, because that's where he is in the meantime.
But he still ends the campaign necessarily constricted; he is under significant scrutiny, he's at risk from the Assembly, and he goes on the run fairly soon after the story ends. He spends most of the final arc anxious and paranoid, which is valid given the crushing reality of his situation. It would be very easy to extrapolate that seven years into this reality, he would be insular, closed off, and suspicious of strangers, even in spite of the lessons he's learned from the Nein and their long term exposure.
So seeing his openness and lightness now is surprising, but at the same time, given this combination of factors in his position in the narrative over time and his defining traits, it's not by any means unreasonable.
But one thing that I found so delightful is how much trust he exhibits, which is obviously a wild thing to say about Essek in particular, given much of what he learns is both earning and offering trust, which was something he says explicitly in 2x124 that he's never really experienced: "I've never really been trusted and so I did not trust." It makes up much of the progression of his relationship with Caleb, and the trust that he is offered by the Nein in walking off the ship is the impetus he needs to grow.
But I think it's easy to talk about trust when it comes to people who have proven themselves to you or to whom you've ingratiated yourself, and that's really the most we can say about Essek by the time he leaves the Blooming Grove. There is this sense in a lot of discussion of trust (not solely in this fandom) that it is only related to either naivete or love, but there's far more to it. Trust at its best is deliberate—cultivating an openness to the world at large is a great way to combat cynicism and beget connection instead. It allows a person to maintain curiosity and be open to experience, but it can be incredibly difficult to hold onto.
It is clear that the Essek we meet now is a very pointedly and intentionally trusting individual. He trusts Caleb and by extension Caleb's trust in Keyleth, as he shows up and picks up a group of strangers from a foreign military encampment and walks in without issue. He trusts the Hells to follow his lead moving through Zadash and to exhibit enough discretion so as to avoid bringing suspicion upon all of them. He trusts that Astrid will respond well to his entrance, but he also trusts himself and the Hells enough to execute a back-up plan in the case that she doesn't. In the end, he even trusts them enough to give them his name and identity.
He doesn't scan as someone who has spent half a dozen years living like a prey animal, afraid of any shadow he runs across in an alley, withdrawn into himself and an insular family, which would've been an easy route for him to take. He scans as someone who has learned the kind of trust borne of learned confidence and a trained eye for good will and kindness, which are crucial weapons one would need for staving off cynicism in his circumstances—as if he has survived thanks more to connection and kindness than paranoia and isolation. (If we want to be saccharine about it, he scans quite poignantly as a member of the Mighty Nein.)
So it is easy to imagine this trust and openness as a natural progression of his initial search for perspectives external to his own cultural knowledge. Though he makes those first connections with the Assembly to try to vindicate his personal hypotheses, he finds in them exposure to the deepest corruption among Exandrian mortals, which could've—and did, for a time—turned him further down that same dark path.
But it's also this same openness to exposure from the wider world that allows the Nein to influence him for the better, and in spite of the challenges he's certainly faced simply surviving over the past seven years, he seems to have held onto this openness enough to move through the world with self-assurance and a willingness to extend the kinds of trust and good will that he has been shown.
(I would be remiss not to mention that I was reminded about my thoughts on this by this lovely post from sky-scribbles and their use in the tags of 'light' to describe Essek's demeanor this episode, which is really such an apt word for it.)
#something something hope is a weapon hope is a discipline hope is a garden to cultivate!!!#HE'S SO GOOD HE IS TRULY EXEMPLAR OF THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEIN AND I DO NOT THINK THAT'S AN ACCIDENT#truly just like. enormous proponent of letting trust and curiosity into your heart regardless of the horrors.#it's hard and it makes you more vulnerable and sometimes it hurts so so much but it will also save your fucking life!#cr spoilers#critical role#essek thelyss#cr meta#I was gonna apologize for the length but I'm not sorry. I'm also not sorry for being insane about him but he's so special to me.#head in my hands he's so GOOD HE'S BEST BOI! GUIDING LIGHT NORTH STAR!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!#also truly if i had two nickels for a span of time with no essek sightings where I wrote a lot of fic#with deliberate personal acknowledgment that I was writing some pretty maximal arcs for him in terms of character growth#and then end up getting essek for half an episode and having to go OH WE'RE GOING THAT FAR ACTUALLY. FUCKING INCREDIBLE.#yanno. two nickels. but good lord I am thriving that it's happened twice#augh this is ONE of the pieces I need to write this week. we're not gonna talk about it
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Izzy Roland + nailing Brennan's characters right on the fucking head
Dropout Presents Bigger! with Brennan and Izzy and Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Up Episode 5 'Double Death Doggy Style'.
#absolutely insane bit from bigger! btw#she just got sucked through toilet pipes and spat out next to this guy holding what is OBVIOUSLY a plunger bc they're in a BATHROOM#izzy guesses king triton and she's fucking right#god they work so well on stage together#everyone go watch bigger! on dropout right now#bigger!#dropout presents#izzy roland#brennan lee mulligan#never stop blowing up#nsbu#dimension 20#i watched both of these episodes in the same day#feeling INSANE rn#you're too loud al
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episode 16 was wild
Like, that was the best episode this far
but also WHAT THE FUCK!!!
#danganronpa despair time#drdt#ace markey#arturo giles#teruko tawaki#whit young#guys that episode was insane#I legit screamed for Levi when he got shot#Like#this episode made me scream so much#And aces execution was so freaking CREATIVE#Also Arturo getting character development my beloved#Proud to say I never hated him#But like whit#Whit what the FUCK was that#Is he good??#Yk I wasn’t thinking he was the mastermind until after this episode…#I just can’t believe ace is actually dead#Like it still feels so surreal to me#And the ace voice actor??#He KILLED it with his performance#Like ace definitely shot up as one of my favorites after this#Teruko’s voice actor slayed as always.#But yeah the episode was amazing#Hope the dev and everyone involved takes a nice long break#levi fontana#almost forgot to tag him 😭
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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
#jamies bad posts#like a simple example grian is an “unwilling” (though we all know thats bs) bodyguard/protector of scar#while martyn is a willing protector of ren#but i was just watching rendogs first episode and he says that his plan is to first go around attempting to trade with everyone#and it just. it STRIKES me how similar scar and ren are#they both have tempers when called for they both go around playing a friend to all and trying to trade#fuck it in the first few minutes of rens episode hes chasing rabbits around the desert#like ren and scar are two sides of the same coin in the context of third life#thats what makes the dogwarts/monopoly mountain arc so INTERESTING#because they both have goals good and bad and when you watch the others povs each side looks so... intimidating. so different#its only when you get really up close you realize theyre the same type of person#like martyn and grian idk just watching them interact is fun. its really fun#the way martyn gave grian a diamond sword in third life to protect him versus grian doing that w etho secret life#i can mostly think of just the little details but like. come ON#GO WATCH THEIR VIDEOS. ITS SO UNCANNY.#ren and scar genuinely drive me insaneee it drives me insaneee#ok like rendog makes a business out of enchanting and do you know what scar goes insane every season afterwards trying to get#the FUCKING enchanting table#if u like watcher lore u also get the yummy fact that grian and martyn were BOTH on evo#like....#the watcher/listener parallels. idk#third life#3rd life#trafficblr#traffic smp#life series#grian#gtws#goodtimeswithscar#gtwscar
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#THE WAY THEY SAY HI TO LOGAN FIRST#AND THEY ONLY HUG LOGAN#SYD SHAKES EVERYONE ELSES HAND#ALSO LOGAN KNOWS MORPHS SMELL#ALSO NOT TO MENTION LOGAN HUGGING??#SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY INEPT LOGAN GIVING PHYSICAL AFFECTION????#btw scott was a dick didnt even walk up to morph like everyone else did#fuck you scott youre the reason syd had an evil brainworm and was traumatized by sinister in the first place fuck you#this blog is not a safe space for scott summers#he is like one of the main sources of drama in this show i hate him#x men#x men the animated series#logan howlett#xmen wolverine#kevin sydney#morph x men#xmen jean gray#jean gray#ororo munroe#storm xmen#hank mccoy#beast xmen#morpherine#this episode is so full of morpherine its driving me insane#xmen tas: s4
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this man has no fucking right to be THIS beautiful… jinshi my LOVE.
#jinshi my BELOVED… god he makes me so. insane#i say that a lot but he really makes me Clinically Unwell i just love him so so so so so so so much#him & maomao <3 my favs of all time <3 the only people EVER#i NEED to order all the apothecary diaries manga/light novels STAT#ALSO THE FUCKING SOUNDTRACK TO THE ANIME??? THE NEW EPISODE TODAY???#BEST ANIME SERIES EVER I’M NOT EVEN REMOTELY JOKING.#the song that was used when jinshi carried maomao out after she saved his life… i teared up & got LITERAL chills holy FUCK#let me order the books rn actually like ’m not playing around#the apothecary diaries#jinshi#personal
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Jericho : "Sir Marius, I mean this in the most respectful and polite way possible, but you already got one curse. Perhaps... Let us... Bear some curses so you don't have to, that's the point of friends !"
Marius, yelling : " I CAN BEAR MORE !"
Jericho "Why don't... you let your friends shoulder a little bit of your burden ? Let the world do its own spin !"
#edge of midnight#edge of midnight episode 3#legends of avantris#jericho sticks#marius renathyr#i need mikey and andy to be put on time out immediately i am so so serious#also derek's nod of approval at the insane rp while i'm screaming crying throwing up behind my screen is absolutely evil#i knew this campaign would cause irreparable damage to my psyche but woaw#can we talk about the fact that jericho and marius mirror each other in their love for humanity yet deal with it so differently#yet another paladin/bard duo that's going to destroy my life i just know it#jericho and marius are literally straight up out of a greek tragedy it's unbelievable#jericho being all “:D” but anything he says is literally devastating#Mister “it must be nice to have a stomach” understanding so perfectly what Marius is going through ????#Fucking devastating
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Pk dragon design yay
still learning how to draw object characters
they're my favorite atm. Also the tags are out of order idk why trying to fix that darn.
#M GOING INSANE#THE WORLDBUILDING IS SO GOOD#Just read all of Objectified's current episodes today#wagyu is fucked up#“it was a family-owned small business! It really doesn't get more ethical than that!!” oh cod.#eat the rich#and we mean it this time#objectified comic#objectified fanart#objectified painkiller#Satanic Preparation (pleasantries) lyrics btw#its a jam#FORGOT TO MENTION THE MONSTER DESIGNS#DUDE#THIS WEBCOMIC#THERE ARE BUGS!#IT FEEDS TO ALL OF MY SENSIBILITIES#objectified comic fanart
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wtf!1111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE WINS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#fionna and cake#fionna and cake spoilers#adventure time#simon petrikov#betty grof#the litch#the amount of emotions this episode made me feel?????#i cant wait till next week..#insane shit going down#they are so fucked up!!!!!!!#yuri#toxic yuri i hate you guys so mutch i hate you#petrigrof
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pillowbook thoughts because ive been thinking about them all day!
#pillowbook#bfdi#i havent rewatched tpot in a long time i have like 0 memories of the earliest episodes#for all intents and purposes these are my ocs#im prob gonna end up watching tpot again soon tho#just ymmm not rn okay?#pillow is a good character because you never kno what shes thinking#you cant know. figuring out her thought process takes away her charm#its like dissecting a frog#u understand it but it dies in the process#book is going insane over here#bc the 1 thing shes trying desperately to do rn#is fit in with new friends#but shes surrounded by a bunch of fucking freaks#who if were put in a well adjusted society would be outcast#but book is a newbie in this stuff#she doesnt have room to talk rn#so shes just trying her hardest to gauge what is a new normal#but its hard when pillow is glued to your side for some reason#and even by these guys standards shes weird!#mixed signals :/#talk
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pacing around in circles muttering to myself about daniel and louis and the years between the first interview and now...... daniel telling armand "he didn't even want me in the end" after offering to get on his knees for him instead... they didn't fuck but for decades "i really thought we did" / "do you want to now?"... daniel is old and dying in a penthouse full of impossibly young beautiful immortal beings and louis still laughingly offers something that daniel thought for years he'd gotten already. and then it turns out that not only he didn't, but something in him had assumed they did have sex and never explored that further and he's gone through this entire second interview so far under that assumption because that bridge has been crossed already. except it hadn't and when louis says "do you want to now" you can see the change in his expression like for the briefest of moments he really is considering it
#THE VOICEEEEEESSSSS THE VOICES..............#anyway. im going insane thank you for asking#captain's log#anyway ik other ppl have said all of this before im just still thinking about it and i CANT STOP#young daniel obviously thought of himself as desirable and he was also obviously into louis#taking off his shirt straight away... he would have fucked louis in the coffin let me tell you that#but now??? when he's fucked up two marriages and two daughters and he's old and sick????#the fact that louis offers Now even as a joke thats kinda also not really a joke#and eric bogosian is SO good at showing daniel's shock through his change in expression#his mouth hanging open a little from the surprise that this beautiful immortal being would ask him that#it's the first time we see modern day louis laugh as well i think#he likes daniel!! he thinks daniel is smart and funny and he likes his company!!#i think they should have made out a little before armand came home. as a treat for both of them#the fact that he manages to convince him to stick his feet in the rocks is the funniest bit of the entire episode btw. in my opinion#iwtv spoilers#kinda theyre from ep 5 but still#iwtv#interview with the vampire#danlou#loudaniel#is that the tag? idk
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🍷<3
#when i got hashtag sick i was in hospital and i was doing my regularly scheduled call with my dad#and i really had no plans of telling him bc ive done that before and its not like he can scare the MS away or anything#i dont know what happened. maybe because it was such a fucking bad episode. maybe because i was so tired. maybe it was a secret 3rd thing#but one minute was like fine then i just burst into tears and i was crying so hard which is MEGA EW BC IM NOT A CRIER LIKE THAT#and my dad freaked out and he was like whats wrong and i didnt wanna tell him but I also sounded insane bc i spontaneously started sobbing#and he was getting more alarmed and i was upset that id upset him and so i just spat it out i was like 'listen king'#'its no biggie but my body is trying to kill me again and im just a little sad atm' and he replied 'baba why wouldnt you tell me?'#and this man who has a very big serious job literally dropped everything and took a 20 hr flight over#and he genuinely just grabbed one of his work suitcase because he showed up with nothing but dress shirts and his laptop#and i think maybe it healed me a little. i mean it def also made me sad too but mostly healed me#and he'd been here for a couple of weeks and he left today and i feel shit about being sad about it#again because he has a very big and very serious job and i genuinely dont understand how he even just showed up like that#so I felt guilty throughout#anyway i dont think he drinks anymore but i was like king have a sip of wine with me and he did and it was lovely#and I hope I become my fathers daughter and not my mother's child. praying to both our gods#heres to healing ❤️🩹
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I saw him at a birthday party once. All the older kids were down in the basement playing video games, to hide from everyone. He was down there, too. He was older than the rest of them, though.
#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#petscop#rainer newmaker#petscop rainer#AUUUUGGGHHHHHHH#up too late thinking about rainer. fuck my lifeeeee#theres smth so ominous about him. his place in the story of petscop is so contradictory#hes the only one who cares but hes ruthless and tackless and vengeful and a 'piece of shit'#hes not doing it because he cares about care. hes angry about mike and the way she twirls makes him sick and he cant get out of this family#hes the one who talks to belle the way marvin talks about care. hes the one who gave the game to family instead of helping care#petscop is not justice. its the final fuck you from a messed up dude in the middle of a messed up situation#rainer. rainer rainer rainer rainer rainer#im going crazyyyyyyyyyyyyy#ik you cant really see much but thats the point. rainer is not the focus bc his impact is the game#petscop 11........... i love you girl.......#genuinely my fav episode in all of petscop its so fucking good it drives me insane#tw eyestrain#eyestrain
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Some Bubbline doodles on MS Paint cuz i really miss them
my gay awakening frs
what is her problem (Marceline)
idk theyre on a date or smth
GAYASS FIRST MEETING
#my art#bubbline#marceline the vampire queen#marceline abadeer#bonnibel bubblegum#princess bubblegum#adventure time#adventure time fanart#fanart#bubbline fanart#i miss them ok#also medibang fucking screwed me over so ms paint it is#fun fact they were the reason i was able to come out to myself#they are that powerful#the episodes leading up to the finally made me go insane#with them in the bkg and small hints with their interactions#my ass was like 'ok this is a tv cartoon we're talking about they wont be canon be fr'#and then they fucking became canon and it was just#explosion noises#marceline and princess bubblegum#marceline x princess bubblegum
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