#just lil things to think about i guess?

[littlemissclandestine]

Adler & Sims Analysis - Part 1

A random thought i had at 4am

Sims has a skin called ‘Penumbra’ whereas Adler has a skin called ‘Umbra’.

If we look at the actual dictionary definitions for the words with a quick google search…

Umbra:

the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.

Astronomy: the dark central part of a sunspot.

Literary: shadow or darkness.

Penumbra:

The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.

A peripheral or indeterminate area or group.

Easier to explain with this image:

This makes sense if we look at both characters. Adler, "America's Monster", is essentially consumed by the darkness of his job. Has no desire to quit as Woods says in BO6, "Quit isn't in Adler's vocabulary."

Sims however, is the penumbra, the lighter shade. We see this all the time. In Cold War, Sims wasn't entirely on board with idea of the brainwashing. We can recall him questioning his close friend -> "Damn. Through the eye socket. You sure about this, Doc?" He knows it's wrong. Adler on the other hand is so obsessed with finding Perseus and purging evil that he essentially becomes the evil himself.

It's known that Sims and Adler have been working together a long time. Adler has called Sims soft on not one but two occasions.

-> "Don't get soft like Sims." - Adler to Bell before Fracture Jaw "recall"

-> "Getting soft in your old age, huh, Sims?" - Adler to Sims after apprehending Gusev

In Sims' bio in Cold War, it's mentioned that he's always been in the shadow of Adler. The peripheral (see def 2) . Never the one with the "spotlight".

Kind of weird how our eyes are automatically drawn to the umbra in the picture, the one with deepest, darkest shade. Just how Adler always gets the recognition because he's the one doing the dirtiest and most dangerous work without a second thought. I mean Hudson himself mentions it during a safehouse interaction.

-> "Strategically speaking, this borders on insanity. Which is precisely the type of work we rely on Adler for." - Hudson to Bell before the Lubyanka infiltration.

[surreal-duck]

live drama adaptations part 2 (prev)

cast reveal and girls movie night 🔥

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[somegrumpynerd]

Do you have any hcs for the twins?

Here's two I remember that I really like! (Also these are definitely not my ideas originally but I cannot for the life of me remember where I first saw them)

For Dream it's that he's just as strong as Nightmare. Like you see Nightmare lifting his henchmen with his tentacles all the time, Dream should also be able to lift like 3 people at a time. I wanna do something silly with it in my truce au but here's Blue finding out in the meantime (he lost his phone and Dream's helping him look for it)

For Nightmare it's that he can also do the starry-eyed thing that Dream and Blue and Cross can. Dream knows he could do it when they were kids but assumes the corruption changed that, but really it just doesn't happen very often so none of them have seen it. This is how it looks

[aelisinsims]

i'm sorry there's so many pictures, i was just so happy with this area and i wanted to show you guys

[gentil-minou]

Wei Wuxian with a little eldritch guy hanging off his shoulder telling him to be bad but WWX just pats its little demonic head and say don't worry sweetie I'll feed you when we get home.

It's a really snarly looking fella and Wei Wuxian just coos at it and calls it cute pet names and gets a kick out of naming it Angel. It makes the eldritch guy angryily puff up all adorably so of course he just becomes incorrigible with the sweetheart nicknames.

Wei Wuxian who tames a centuries old demonic entity that latched onto the resentment only to turn it into a glorified toy poodle he carries around in his little tote bag and every once in a while it pops up to ask ₩Ɇ ₭łⱠⱠ₴ ₮ⱧɆ₥? and wwx just pets its creepy little head and says "Nah, they're just having a bad day it's fine." And then they both see someone litter and share identical looks and decide yeah we can get that one.

[galindatopland]

fundamentally i disagree with the notion that Jeff Knows Everything because he read shauna's journals. that implies not only that shauna wrote in detail about Everything that happened during those nineteen months but most crucially it implies shauna wouldn't be an unreliable narrator

[ganondoodle]

i often really do feel like an .. unwanted part of the fandom, i dont draw beautiful landscapes, i have unpopular but strong opinions im constantly annoying about and rarely change, dont like/dont draw the pretty young popular twinks and hot gurls to fanboi over nor do i turn characters into one, the opposite moreso, draw only one ship no ones heard of really, got little energy to interact with the few people that are nice to me and send me asks so it probably looks like im ignoring everyone and unfortunately but still rarely get so stressed i get overwhelmed and emotional about pehaps seemingly minor things and spiral almost into a breakdown feeling super embarrassed about it afterwards but the damage is already done and i look like a freak or agressive weirdo

[slushie5544]

WHY!?

WHY DID I LOOK UP CORPSE BRIDE (Mind you my all time favorite Tim Burton movie ever made) WHILE IM WRITING MY LOVES PINING AND NOW ALL I SEE IS THEM DUETING THE SONG AND I SWEAR TO GOD I MAKE ANOTHE TGOD DAMN AU BEFORE I EVEN FINISH THIS ONE I AM GOING TO ACTAULLY EXPLODE

(See tags for the rest of this shit idea)

[moeblob]

"Him? Oh, you know, he's kind of a loser." - probably everyone except for his younger brother.

Germaine is based on the layer of hell (Dante's Inferno) for material wealth before self, others, and god. So basically very materialistic and possessive of his belongings. Unfortunately, his younger brother qualifies as a belonging in his mind. So he does his absolute best to keep his brother safe and sound and scratch free - which is a bit tough in a post apocalyptic setting but he mostly manages.

Also a fact I just like to mention: he is incapable of lying.

[kayayayayayayayayayayayaya]

Curently Reading book 6 and one Thing lead to another and i read my Mom a Few Pages.....

Oh god my dyslexia left me unable to read and my Mom very confused....

It wont let me sleep so heres my doodle in want does NOT happen in the book but my Mom now thinks IT does

[ryo-hirakawa]

is it common for your hair to become curly as you grow older bc i swear just last year alex powell had straight hair but today i watched the new prema vid and there he is with curls

oct 2023 vs mar 2024???

[cheeseknives]

My hate boner for the TGT fanboys has been rekindled as the news about the divorce have come out, the comments about her being gold digger or "she always seemed like a pain" etc. is so annoying to see. Like do you know them personally? Does there always have to be one who's "wrong"? Why is it so often just "wahmen this and that"??

[batfossil-fr]

I’ve been really thinking of reopening my art shop soon… I’ve been taking some practice doodles (hence all the posting lately) while I shake off my rust and I’m finding things I enjoy working on again. I miss trying my hand at more dragons/OCs and colors. my shop’s so broken rn lmao but that’s a problem for a later date it’s just nice getting back into art

[harpoonsnotspoons]

I love relating too hard to songs that make absolutely no sense for canon me but make WAAAAY too much sense for my source

And the song is puke my gutzz O_o if anyone wants it. Kinda a banger

[ourdreamsareneon]

it's crazy the level of discourse there is about antis/pros and how teenagers just devolve into purity culture so quick. I'm sure I used to be like that, but somewhere between dating gang members and reading copious amounts of philosophy the world became a lot more gray to me when I entered my twenties and I've realised three things that I think are important for teenagers to know:

To quote my favourite childhood book series: "People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict." Sure, going to car meets, selling drugs, drunk driving, stealing cars, playing chicken with cops are all examples of bad things that you shouldn't do but am I going to sit in my lovers bed and tell him that this life he was born into that saw all his friends die in drive bys and that saw his own dad pull a gun on him when he was a kid makes him a shitty person? Even though I can see all of the good in him, and can tell he doesn't want to do this, I should ignore it and focus on the negatitives? We have all done bad things, we all do bad things, and we all will do bad things. It doesn't make you a bad person.

Purity culture hurts everyone. There's a great book about this called the History of Sexuality that delves into how purity culture and the censorship of sex is at its essence the capitalist authority controlling the means of reproduction. At large scale 'pray the gay away' and 'contraception is a sin' make it so that men and women couple up more (instead of same sex coupling) and have unprotected sex. On a smaller scale 'AO3 is evil because it has pedos' and 'watersports is the grossest thing ever' do the job of the capitalist authority on a more digestible level. Us vs Them no longer is 'alt right vs communism' they use your words to make it 'pure good hobest people vs pedos who like piss play.' you are making bullets for your enemy and handing them your own damn gun. I promised I wouldn't make this whole post this one point tee hee sorry if you want me to elaborate just ask lol

Fetish ≠ real world experience. I'll build my own pyre as an example: I love me some good CNC (consensual non-consent) in my fanfics but in real life sex I have a praise kink so bad I have cried during sex multiple times. I am into tooth rotting sweet stuff and the kindest people in the world in real life. The media you consume 1000% has an effect on you, I'm not arguing that. I am however arguing that if you have media literacy and know what media is and is not harmful to you, it shouldn't effect your real life drastically unless you have other shit going on. I know this is rich coming from the "I have dated people in gangs" guy because that may show what kinda guy I'm into but prommy that's not a sexual attraction thing, it's 100% a lifestyle thing that again I will elaborate on if you want. Point being, porn ≠ reality and what gets that blood flowing isn't necessarily a reflection of how good or bad you are (ofc there are kinds of porn that are bad but that's beside the point and a very complicated thing for me to type while I'm this sleepy)

thank you for coming to my ted talk. pls I am begging on my knees for people to stop having black and white world views but i also know that's just a product of being a teen so if you are a teen pls! go out there and! consume media from different cultures and people with different lives to you! the world is at its best when it is wide!!! and full of love <3