#just come along for the ride!

[winchestress]

I thought I found a chill corner of the fandom (devil's minion freaks) but then the finale happened, and now it's a fucking battleground. why is fandom like this. why can't i have my old man yaoi in peace.

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Dick (Nightwing) and Jason (Robin) stare at Bruce. One sports pleading eyes, the other a shit eating grin. There’s a child between them with black hair and blue eyes.

Bruce, he doesn’t know what’s happening but he doesn’t like it: No.

Dick, grinning: He’s our younger brother now.

Jason, nodding seriously: You’re not gonna take him from us.

Tim, got kidnapped while taking photos of patrol, just happy to be there: Where’s the Batcave?

Bruce: what.

Dick, grinning wider: He’s ours now.

[linoyes]

© huiracha

[greensaplinggrace]

honestly what i find most valuable about buffy's relationship with spike is that there is absolutely nobody else that could have followed her through the melting point restructuring phoenix fire ruination and rebirth of her entire life and come out the stronger for it with a bond forged of unbreakable steel except for him. i cannot imagine either angel or riley even coming close to surviving that process. they'd have burned and melted away completely before they ever reached the quenching.

[spac3d0lls]

“talia was a codename for noel!”

“noel was catfishing mischa!”

don't care. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 ��� 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

[stupidvillainousposts]

Fidds, as "Bodies" plays on the car radio: Oh, Stanley! It's our song!

Stan: Fidds, we don't have a song...

Fidds: O' course we do! Don't ya 'member? This is the song that was playin' when ya hit me with yer car fer the first time!

Stan, suddenly remembering he did that: *Nervously, While Ford Glares Daggers at Him* Ah, that's right! How could I possibly forget?

Fidds, genuinely happy: That was such a nice day. Ya have such a good taste in music. :)

[eydilily]

really cringe but i wanted to test out how to do an animatic again and the only clip i had was this one from pearl

i have not . touched anything moving in so long oh god

[3rd-shrike]

another theory of who the @askoverkill director is: siffrin. obviously!

but, well. specifically ISAT siffrin.

i've been giddy since loop's reveal, because it means that this theory i've been holding onto since i read through the entire blog a few days ago holds more water!! i mean, there's a lot of evidence to touch on!!! (so please expect this to be lengthy and FULL of images... sorry!!)

references on a character design level to specifically events related to ISAT's siffrin, loop's attitude towards the siffrins (including themself), and a buncha other things like choices in worldbuilding that might be me nitpicking but still lend the idea a bit more credence... this au makes me insane i think.

i'll be discussing it down here:

✦ "regarding the director's character design..."

let's start with the most direct and blatantly obvious reference to ISAT sif!

the star on their chest.

unlike loop's current star (which has remained mostly consistent with their star in ISAT), this one is lopsided & more reminiscent of a crack, with the edges spreading outwards in lines. and gee, i wonder where we've seen that star before...

the star that happens when siffrin & the king attempt to say their country's name. i should also point out that these kind of cracks are similar to the ones seen in the sky once you get past the king in act 5, which are a result of siffrin's just-about-giving-up of his wish.

not only that but the spiraling eyes! the 2-lined white star!

i also wonder who that could be referencing...

(please disregard the empty box, that's where the battle sprite is)

while you could argue that the spiral can be taken from loop's image when you lose the act 6 battle, i'd say that mal du pays' spiral eyes have more significance, since we often see loop with mostly normal eyes, while the only close-up of mal du pays eyes we see is a spiraling one, and they are literally a representation of siffrin's fears and self-hatred.

the star, too, is drawn differently to the way loop's star is! loop's eyes, both in ISAT & in overkill, are drawn with a more average, rounded star. siffrin and the director's star pupils, in comparison, are drawn very simply with just two intersecting lines. no rounding, no sharpening of the points, just a cross.

and a bit more conceptually, in contrast to loops' star head, the director's head is described as a black ball, and when combined with the black & white mask + the shining light... it almost feels like an eclipse, or a black hole (though this one's a bit of a reach).

✦ "regarding loop (and the siffrins, a little)..."

a bit more abstract & loosely connected to the theory, but loop exists!!! seeing as their star has barely changed from its usual upright four-pointed glory (other than it becoming rougher/frizzier & looking more like a blood splatter at sometimes), i'm inclined to believe that this is still loop-as-in-saap-siffrin.

(as mentioned previously,) they also have the rounded red star in their eyes that they get in the second phase of their act 6 boss battle (and in their special attack frame), and the double spike + closed eye seems to be taken from that too.

and if we take into account their heavy experience with guiding the siffrins (and genuine shock at there being a kid), their mentions of a 'usual' script for them to follow, absolute resignation and exhaustion with having to lead these siffrins to their deaths over and over and over again... it really feels like loop's been there from the start. you'd be preeety hard-pressed to make a copy of loop specifically, so that leaves either ISAT sif or another siffrin we've not known yet, and i'm more inclined to believe the former's more likely, given the (probably mocking) reference to loop's "royal we".

✦ "regarding other things referencing ISAT events..."

there are a few things to mention! first of all: the sky breaking. the world ending.

this all reminds me very heavily of act 5's... everything, really. the sky breaking into the signature red, the mentions by the party & loop of sif's wish ending/breaking the world. it all feels waaay too relevant to ignore, and that word choice definitely feels on point.

and then there are the curses! the theatre & blood curses. turns you into a puppet, and makes you rot while alive. very thematic. very reminiscent of a certain someone's spiraling thoughts.

and more recently, the explanation for the outer & inner loops!! this one fucking blows my mind away, bc jegus christ that's so cool??? but it also makes sense if you consider a LOT of ISAT siffrin's thoughts about the time loop in act 4 & 5:

the director's not only got siffrin dying over and over, but they've got the entire play repeating again and again. it makes sense, especially if ISAT sif felt like that was basically the highlight of their lives (in true king fashion), not to mention the reason all of them ever met. and if mira is considered the director's "favourite actor", then it's only natural that the outer loops (likely triggered by zem) would start from the beginning of the crisis, from mirabelle's dormont, when the play truly started.

finally, there's also the little bits of words we can see in the director's reference sheet! (courtesy of @shadowedfaith048)

likely hinting towards this being post-ISAT in some way! and bearing in mind the "a bad wish" at the bottom, it can be assumed that a lot of this might be the unfortunate result of wishing (and maybe wishes being broken, who knows!)

✦ "in conclusion..."

i believe that, in some way, the director is ISAT siffrin after something went awry with their (or even just a) wish. maybe it isn't even just ISAT sif! ze could be two or more sifs stuffed in a trench coat! and maybe the worst possible ending happened during the act 5 battle w/ bigfrin, and the ensuing world-ending & destruction from giving up their wish was amplified by a hundred. maybe this happened after act 6, some time after sif did get his happy ending. i do believe that at the very least, this had to have happened after ISAT's act 4. too much red in there for me to believe otherwise.

i might reblog & update the evidence list as the story progresses, so please don't take this as final!!! new evidence could come out that might result in inconsistencies for this theory, lore drops could further push it to be true, (again) who the hell knows!!

and for myself? i'm just having the time of my life connecting possible dots and going insane over this au lmao

[thepettymachine]

Imogen Day:

Imogen has never thought to live near the beach but that was before her older twin brother "kidnapped" her best friend and "forced" her to live with him in Sunlit Tides. That is a giant no in her book. So she has made herself a very un-welcomed guest and whether he likes it or not, she is staying put. Since she's here, maybe she'll enjoy the ocean air and the bloody marys on the beach to cool her head off. After all, she doesn't know why she's here either...

[samephotoofskswlink]

Follow to see the same photo of Skyward Sword Link every day.

[petite-ursus]

There's a point in Hat Full of Sky where the Hiver is described as shark-like, disregarding all other prey since it had sighted on Tiffany. A few pages later Granny Weatherwax is described as walking through the crowd like this:

And I just think it's fun, especially when you add in Tiffany's slightly uncomfortable understanding that Granny "took over" the mind of the owl the night prior.

[alchemistc]

How confident are you about bucktommy getting together again? I was being quiet optimistic til I heard about the S9 renewal, cause I’m scared about them not wanting to get Buck settled til the literal end of the show…what is your opinion about it?

The truth is I don't really care?

Like yes, absolutely, it would be great for me personally to have more canon on screen moments between the two of them. It would be fodder for character and dynamics for me to enjoy.

The S9 renewal doesn't mean anything to me. They had a pilot greenlit for the spinoff already, I'm assuming TPTB expected to at least get at least one more season congruent with their spinoff. They could have been WRONG but it's bad business to cancel the original before you can milk the spinoff.

To answer your actual question: I don't have any particular leanings either way as far as confidence in getting them back together. Tim has an outline and the writers fill it in episode to episode. Oliver and Lou probably know a little more than us as far as the trajectory, considering they've got an idea about overarching storylines.

As a writer, storyline wise? It would be a waste of time to keep Buck going back to Tommy, thinking about him so much he has to start giving his baking to neighbors, seeing him ONCE and jumping straight into bed with him, creating even MORE issues with him and still leaving it open ended - it's bad storytelling to leave that unresolved and in my opinion would make no sense narratively if it wasn't leading to a reconciliation.

Here's the thing though. 911 leaves shit unresolved all the time. They get bored with threads of a story and move on. They move things around narratively all the time. They clearly don't have a show bible. Sometimes contract negotiations get in the way. They also LOVE a whimsical misdirect that takes the audience in a random new direction just to be a "twist" or "shocker".

It's why there's so much room for us to work within the spaces the show doesn't give us.

So yeah, I'd love to have Lou confirmed as a guest star for 9. I'd love for them to end 8 with some conscious effort to begin to integrate Tommy into the ensemble the way Karen is, even as criminally underused as Tracy is on this show. I would love for them to take in the full picture of the story they have written so far, a rom-com dramedy with all the hallmarks of a happily ever after, and roll with that. Oliver got to pine. He got to will they won't they. Hell, he even got to fuck. It would make sense.

There's too many mitigating factors for me to say with my full chest I have ANY idea what happens in that writers room.

This is the way when you're consuming an unfinished piece of media, with a creator who knows enough about fandom spaces to have approached earlier seasons with an eye on keeping the 'shippers entertained.

Tldr: who knows 🤷‍♀️? Tim, and maybe Oliver, and maybe Lou considering his other obligations got cancelled and I'm sure he'd be eager to already have his next gig lined up. ABC PTB, probably.

The rest of us just gotta sit back and watch what they end up with on screen.

[historybunnny]

It was shortly after the O'Doyle girl's funeral that Lawrence's sleep disturbances began. They had started small with troubles falling asleep at night and the bruised-coloured circles under his eyes became darker, showing off his insomnia to the world like a flashy new coat.

He never questioned it when eventually his sleepless nights ceased; he never thought it'd been replaced by something more peculiar like sleepwalking. After all, he wasn't privy to such phenomena.

Without fail, he'd rise from his bed and make his way across the house silently. Careful, even in his unconscious mind, not to step on the creaky floorboards and disturb anyone's slumber.

Always he went to the steps - the true mystery being how he never stumbled - climbing towards the attic. Up, up, UP he went, one foot in front of another until he eventually reached the top; almost as though he were a moth drawn to a flame, only instead of being attracted to orange glowing embers, the flame was a bright red door.

Each morning he found himself lying just outside the door with no recollection of how he'd gotten there, or even remembering that they'd had an attic at all. Never did he question what was on the other side, too afraid to pull the handle and see.

Instead, he'd stand just outside, shivering there wearing only his nightgown, a ringing in his head as he'd whisper "Oh dear, I've gone positively mad!"

[scaarletwiitch]

Ok, but what if Agatha is reluctantly doing Wanda a favour and has to drive Billy somewhere. They get in the car and start the engine and there’s a cd in the player and it just starts, picking up from where it left off when the engine was turned off. Agatha gets horribly flustered and ejects it, tossing it into the backseat because it’s Speak Now by Taylor Swift and does not fit her image. Agatha dismisses it as belonging to Rio.

Billy politely says nothing, but knows Agatha drove over alone to pick him up.

On the return journey Billy mentions he quite likes Taylor Swift and Agatha has him find “Rio’s CD” from the floor in the back. They listen to it. Agatha quietly hums along with some pretty deep cuts. Billy pretends not to notice because he values his life and is kind of scared of his mom’s friend.

Rio quite liked Taylor Swift’s first two albums but couldn’t get Agatha to listen. When Speak Now came out and was so very purple, she bought it for Agatha and Agatha actually got very into it.

[s2pdoktopus]

It started as just me wanting to draw Tatsuma as a teen and evolved into... Whatever this is...

[dykedvonte]

The second fic idea is a what-if scenerio where Jimmy dies in the crash due to and altercation with Curly and how Curly would navigate being Captain once he has to notice the little things and how he and Anya's relationship develop as he adopts an identical view point to hers rather than just keeping the peace.

And maybe i will write it but only time will tell tbh but it's stuck in my brain dome for the time being.