#just stab me in the gut

[intermundia]

wartime obikin just... hits different to me, this period of their relationship (or "kinship" per obi-wan) where they're truly brothers in arms, the closest they'd ever been, their bond being obi-wan's "shining beacon," the institutional roles of teacher and student put in the past. they're still often deployed together, being "the team" and all, but despite all that.... they still don't really talk.

we see anakin's grown into a man that obi-wan relies on, but he also stills feels responsibility for his well being. you can see it in the posture of standing behind with a hand on the shoulder, the silence reassurance of physical touch, obi-wan offering his presence without prying deeper. they both contextually know what the problems are, words are kind of unnecessary. they share so many memories of battles that went wrong, where they failed, where people died and the enemy got away.

BUT while they don't verbally communicate deeply about the horrors of war, they do banter. they run their mouths all the time, always reaching for each other's attention to connect in a safe, familiar way. it's an essential release valve, a flash of levity and normality, in the midst of the trauma. the implied eye contact is everything to me in those last panels, the vulnerability there, you know that their bond is emotionally load bearing for them both.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

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[alaydabug2]

"I don't want to mess this up. Please don't let me mess this up."

*unholy screeching from the darkest depths of my achy breaky soul*

ALLKSJAJSKLSKAKAJDJFKXKX 😭

[ceaselessims]

personally i don't think we talk enough about how jon brutally stabbed jonah/elias multiple times ?? the sound design and the voice acting that went into that scene ??? because i think that was the first time i was very truly, genuinely terrified of jon

[picklesinabottle]

I think I would blame odysseus less if his reasoning was more "you are the ones who killed the cow when I specifically told you not to" or even "you all literally stabbed me" but it's just. Not that. And I don't think it's supposed to be? Like sure, they could be considered factors in his decision but when it comes down to it, it's really all about penelope

[galaxybusterz]

; PUNISHMENT FOR A MONSTER

[suguru-getos]

last week before i leave home & shift to an entirely new city & start working at an entirely new job the nerves are real…

[mo-ok]

thank you do it again please

[sleepsi]

Ough...The angst in the idea of loop returning to their party and them and Isabeau getting together but it doesn't work because of how different Loop is from Siffrin. Like (to me) Isaloop works because Isabeau doesn't view Loop as a version of Siffrin but learns to love them as their own person, all before actually getting together. (Because Loop isn't siffrin anymore. They've branched into their own person even if they didn't want to, they just don't fit the role anymore. They have to learn that's okay in order to heal.)

(this got a lot longer than I thought so here's a read more)

As much as they hate it, Loop's family has to walk on eggshells. Loop is volatile. And while Isabeau know they'd never hurt him, or anyone else, he also knows that Loop wouldn't tell him if he hurt them. As much as love can heal it's difficult when sometimes Loop leans into him like they need him just to breathe and sometimes just looking at him makes them zone out and claw their arms. They're not telling him anything. They're not communicating how he can avoid hurting them, they're just blaming themselves for being hurt. he can tell it's draining on them, and it's draining on him as well. he hates how he dreads waking up in the middle of the night to Loop's nightmares, to wake them up, only for them to flinch away from him and move into the floor. He dreads touching Loop, even if he wants to because sometimes he just doesn't have the emotional energy to worry about their potential reactions. He doesn't want to eat across from them and watch them pick at their meal, because they wear Siffrin's face. Siffrin, who would scarf down multiple plates at every meal, with a giant smile and big eye, food smeared across his face. Loop doesn't do that. Loop's scared of making a mess. Loop's eye isn't big out of joy, or excitement. They're wide in fear, they're waiting for the other shoe to drop, for their family to finally realize they aren't Siffrin...

Isabeau hates that they're right. They're right to be scared, because Isabeau loved Siffrin. Isabeau could love Loop, but Loop keeps trying to be Siffrin and it hurts. It hurts Isabeau to see this....stranger parade around in Siffrin's face, smiling like a maniac and trying to mimick Siffrin's behaviors.

And Isabeau blames himself. he knows that thinking this way isn't good, he can't go back in time to do anything to change it. But he regrets it. He regrets not telling Siffrin he loved them, because maybe if he had said something earlier, Siffrin would still be here. If he had told them, Siffrin wouldn't have died alone and scared, thinking that no one cared about them. Maybe if he had told them, they'd have eternity together, frozen in time by the king.

[yakityyaku]

honestly "time for unity" people can get fucked. Take a good look tomorrow at the ICE raids and what they do to those people and then come talk to me about unity.

Watch Trump sign in a bunch of executive orders about further destroying the climate and hurting women, trans people, and other poc and tell me we need unity.

Trump saved tiktok and we are all in this together anyway. So fuck all the people who are going to be hurt, right? Let's unify excluding those people, I guess, unless we expect them to hop on board, too. Your daughter has to have her rapists baby, but hey, we have no choice but to all hold hands and sing kumbaye right? Unity!

How many years have we had to come together? It's kind of hard to do when people fundamentally do not want others to have rights or even fucking exist. It's kind of hard when some would rather outright deny factual information that suits them than make any sort of progress.

What unity is there to be had? We can put a couple wind turbines in bum-fuck nowhere, and they'll stripmine Alaska? Sick! Anything to not be uncomfortable with the animosity of having everyone pinned against each other for political and economic profit. Anything to go back to not talking about it, I guess, right?

I'm just sick of it. I would love to have unity. Unity over human rights. Unity over fixing the fucking climate. Unity over empathy and love. But you can't shake up your oil and water together forever and say it's the same thing as being blended. It's not. It's never going to be.

[kinnbig]

do you think this haunts Arm? do you think he wonders if Big would still be alive if Arm had agreed with him about the thumbdrive? Big tried to warn them that it was a trap, and Kinn dismissed him - so Arm kept trying the thumbdrive until it broke their CCTV and allowed Tawan to escape.

Arm distrusted Tawan too. Arm and Big were always friendly. do you think Arm wonders if he could have prevented Big's death?

[alien-of-earth]

Just finished season 6 of the Dragon Prince

(More coherent thoughts in tags)

[avonsnumberonefan]

finished the show!! 10/10, better than I expected, yum! definitely wanna draw something about that, but it seems polite to tag spoilers - so blacklist b7spoiler if you're in the shoes of me an hour ago xD

[aha-my-villainous-thoughts]

Just realised why I'm so attached to Stede as a character. That bitch is just Guybrush Threepwood in better clothes and a lot more pixels.

[anomaly-beans]

When you. Have the energy and want to talk about ocs, but also have nothing interesting to say that you haven't said before and no prompts at all to use to talk about them.

[stellawolfearts]

take an oc wip. cause. yeah.....

:3

Orpheus-He/Him (the one with purple horns)

Soleil-She/her (curly red hair)