#it pretty shitty out here

[sunnybergamota]

Relationships are indeed hard and managing them do take a ugly ass work

[bluedawnflower]

i unsubbed from Watcher today but the people acting like steven lim is the devil and is singularly to blame for Watcher shifting to paywalled streaming are weirdos.

[eelclaw]

stupid fucking bastard. i am not coping with the leaks

[arttsuka]

I had a funny idea about Nick telling jed and octy each in private that mouth kissing is the way to greet a "good friend" in both their cultures, and since they probably don't know anything about eachothers culture so the next time they meet eachother in public they'd kiss and since they both lean into it they actually think it's the way to greet ,until one of the Roman soldiers ask jed about it and Jed's like "ain't that how y'all say hello?" And the soldier shake his head 'no' and ofc they go:

"why didn't you tell 'bout this sooner octy" "pardon? But isn't this the way YOUR people greet ,Nicholas told me himself- oh" then they play a trick on nick as revenge (they still countine to kiss but they're mad nick lied to them)

So, I was trying to figure out a design for Nicky and I was pretty confident in what I came up with so I started coloring it etc. Only to have a flash or realization that 'wait, we know what he looks like, his hair is brown not black' but it was too late. I had already used black in 3/4 drawings.

I was too lazy for actual dialogue so the ask itself should fill in the gaps

I did use brown in the last drawing tho, in a futile attempt to erase my past mistakes

[straycalamities]

the fixation of fandom these days on there always being a Black and a White. A Right and a Wrong. A Villain and a Victim. is soooo fucking tragic and frankly REALLY DAMN ANNOYING

especially in stuff where like..if THAT'S your priority? you've missed the entire damn point. and yet it always is. so loudly.

look beyond your blorbo. your kintype. your CC. your f/o. look beyond your otp. look beyond your found family dynamic and actually absorb what's going on with the other characters. i'm begging.

honestly do a study on the characters you hate most or care about the least. take a half an hour to put yourself in their shoes

no this isn't an anti-shipping, anti-kinning, anti-selfship, or anti-blorboing post, because i don't think those are the things that inherently ruin characters or tags or whatever other ppl think. but if you do do that, it'll make it even better if you look at a larger scope beyond that as well I promise

[sludgekludge]

always bugged me that blitzo basically has a breakdown in front of stolas, crying about how he can do better, how he needs the book, not believing stolas can love him, and stolas doesn't show concern even once. blitzo's screaming and crying, in hysterics, because he just went from 'i thought i was going to lose my business' -> 'you're abruptly telling me you love me after being distant' and we're meant to hate him because stolas, the one who never once asks if he's ok, not even in apology tour when emotions have settled a little...stolas got his feelings hurt a bit.

stolas wasn't the only one crying and breaking down. helluva boss pushes the 'perfect victims are the only ones that matter' mentality so hard. its why blitzo doesn't matter, why stella doesn't matter. because they're more abrasive than soft boy stolas.

i had a similar thought process when watching that scene lol

i think you're spot on about the perfect victim thing, though. there's a reason stolas is the saddest guy in the whole world, he's soft and waifish and nice and has only ever experienced being battered. if your trauma response is fight over faun, that's brutish, and you're undeserving of sympathy. miserable

[maraudersidk]

I need a modern au perciver but with percy still running away cuz angst duh🙄

Star football player oliver and youngest ceo of weasley-wood firms percy weasley-wood or even better persephone wealsey because shes my current fixation rn

Im imagining olivers fans not understanding how they get along but then insert clip of perse cursing out the coach for giving oliver a red card (is that what they call it?)

Also my reasoning for percy running away is because the weasleys missed her valedictorian speech, not on purpose obviously but im thinking something came up with one of the twins and they ran late and made it after the whole thing and it just made perse snap.

Percys a very overly independent person and tries to separate himself from his family since he was a kid in the sense that he never asks them for help; hes gotten multiple part time jobs on his own, got a bus card for him and all his siblings when he was 10, did community service, extra credit, got his licence on his own.

And i think he always tried to tell himself he doesnt mind and that she can do it on her own but this was the one day that was supposed to be about her, it was her graduation ffs and they missed her speech where he probably mentioned them and thanked them like imagine how humiliating it is when your family isn't even there.

I think he left that night after 'the fight' for the after party some of the other graduates where hosting and then he went over to olivers instead of going home and then went to pick up his stuff when the house was empty.

By the time the family figured out where he might be staying he was already gone to america and was getting a full ride at MIT (bcz if anyone was gonna get in it would be her) i think her family didn't even know she registered and she'd told them that she was going to oxford (yes she did also get into oxford bcz is it unrealistic? Yes, but its also percy so no it's not) anyway the family kinda just accepts that shes gone and this can definitely be better written but i haven't rlly gotten by thoughts together on this yet.

Also im imagine the twins looking up their old captain to see how he's doing just to see a video of him full on eating their sister's face off.

[omgcatboi]

I don't often post my non kink related art but I'm tryna get the attention of someone else in the community and am too shy and cringe to reach out so. Here, have this portrait I did of Hanzo Shimada. With my finger. On ibis paint. This took me four hours. Progress for proof below.

[gatzbright]

writing [love]; dream, a writer.

Dream: I like writing. I like writing poems; I like writing songs; I like writing everything. I like storytelling—I just like storytelling. Storytelling in general is fun. I do a lot of storytelling through, like, my videos, through my video editing ... that's my favourite part of writing.

Dream: So, it's [love is] special, you know? You can't really explain it. Um, you know, with your mum, your dad, your—your sisters, your brothers, your cousins, your—your friends that you've known since you were a kid. Your friends that you just met a year ago that you are absolutely in love with as a person.

Dream: 'Have you written stories as well as songs lately?' Yeah—I mean, well ... I feel like songwriting is very—it's like, you just take stories—like 'Roadtrip' was, like, essentially a poem, and a story, that was turned into a song. And I feel like that's with a lot of stuff. 'Mask' is the same; 'Mask' was a poem turned into a song.

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott | Dream Subscriber Twitter Space April 30th, @/dreamwastaken | It's Been A Long Day, Spacey Jane | Dream's Tiktok 'love is scary', @/dreamwastakenwastaken | Photograph in the studio from Dream's Instagram post, @/dreamwastaken | The Story of Mary MacLane, Mary MacLane | Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled With Shrieks, Christopher Citro | Johnny Cash’s handwritten to-do list, 1969 | Tweeted screenshot from Dream's notes app, @/dreamwastaken | Anne Carson interview, 2016 | Dream and George on the Dream Panel at TwitchCon Las Vegas 2023, TwitchCon VOD | Tweeted screenshot from Dream's notes app, @/dreamwastaken | On Writing, Stephen King | A fan's Tiktok of Dream and George at emo nite, @/angstboycam | Dream explaining 'Spotlight' in the 'to whoever wants to hear' lyric booklet, Dream | Your Song, Elton John | Fan photos of Dream and George at Dream's tour

Dream's 'Kind Of Love' speech LA concert night two, @/milktea_grn | The Power Of Love, Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Fan photos of Dream and George at Dream's tour | You Are In Love (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift | Dream explaining 'Paranoid' in the 'to whoever wants to hear' lyric booklet, Dream | Dream and George on the Dream Panel at TwitchCon Las Vegas 2023, TwitchCon VOD | Words, Gregory Alan Isakov | Dead Poets Society, dir. | Dream Subscriber Twitter Space April 30th, @/dreamwastaken | Sweet Nothing, Taylor Swift

Fan photo of George recording Dream at his concert | Addressable Thou, Chase Berggrun | Bright Star, dir. Jane Campion | George smiling at Dream in IRL DREAM TEAM IN MADRID, Sapnap VOD | Endymion, John Keats | Dream and George on set: Everest – Dream & Yung Gravy BEHIND THE SCENES, Dream Music | [brIght], E. E. Cummings | George and Dream in IRL DREAM TEAM IN MADRID, Sapnap VOD | Sand and Foam, Kahlil Gibran

[sp00kymulderr]

Somebody kiss me 🙏 🧎

[osachiyo]

hi🧍🏽‍♀️

[dreamlogic]

aye can i get a fuckin uuuhhhh

break. on my burger

[idliketochill]

have another birb(s)

[ir-abelas-vhenan]

Oh cool you're a gamer? Normally I'd claim such a chill and nebulous label for myself, but thanks to a helpful anon I now know instead that the proper term is "piece of shit"

[pumpkinrootbeer]

Aang being a shitty dad is fine, but it's the way tlok makes Aang a shitty I have a problem with. You're telling me a guy who's entire culture was whipped out and whole family was massacred wasn't overjoyed at the possibility of sharing his culture with his entire family?

Would Aang have given more attention to Tenzin? Probably, them being the only airbenders would have almost certainly fostered a complex dynamic between the two— even to the extent that it would damage the father/son relationship. I think it's also worth pointing out that Aang was raised in a culture without the nuclear family dynamic we see him participarting in with Katara and their kids, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that Aang would fall short of the expectations and responibilities being a typical father figure brings especially when he himself never experienced that dynamic. Especially, especially compounded with the task of rebuilding a struggling world and maintaining peace.

However, do I think he would neglect to show his kids his culture? Their culture? No. Certainly not the extent he did, and especially not when we see how excited he is to share it with his friends in the show. Why wouldn't he be excited to share it with his kids? With all his kids? How the writers of The Legend of Korra make him a bad dad is a complex series of failures not the least of which stem from racism, the unwillingness to even attempt an understanding of multicultural families, TLOK originally being a 12 episode miniseries that then got greenlit for another season and was suddenly taxed with building upon a world that was never intended to exist beyond its original scope, and a fundamental misunderstanding of Aang as a character.

tldr:

[gothicprep]

“not everything is about [your thing]” is good general advice for the internet.

we all have a big issue that we care deeply about, and it probably is important, and you’re right to care about it. but be very careful not fall into the “when all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails” trap. it’s very common.

the world is a big and complicated place, so not everything is relevant to everything else. sometimes it’s good to draw connections but a lot of the time you get led down absurd rabbit holes, from one tangent to the next.