#let's talk about it

[elliecupcakes]

Messmer's double blinking animation [video source]

[herejusttosufferalong]

Let's talk about it

I have received numerous asks in the past couple weeks questioning the possibility that there may be some sort of jealousy on Luke's part due to Nic's prominent rise.

Due to the high status nature of some recent events, Emmy's, TIME 100, recent TIME Mag article, etc., people seem to be crafting a narrative on Luke's behalf.

Now, we all do it to some degree especially with our theories/timeline of events.

However, there is no basis for the idea that he could be jealous.

Most folks will point to the lack of engagement on Nic's IG posts but honestly that is nothing new. His inactivity has always been prevalent.

Is it possible that he could be jealous of her success post S3 though? The answer is yes, of course it is possible.

Her star has skyrocketed garnering multiple projects in the works, signing with CAA, the list of achievements listed above and other events she has been invited to over the summer since the release of S3.

While Luke has... traveled.

And ya know good for him, he is a modern AU Colin after all.

Now, no shade to Luke but I honestly expected this. He does not have the body of work backing him like Nic did coming out of the gate post S3.

She had Big Mood and was still riding high from Derry Girls which had a major uptick in viewership during the lull in between Pt 1/2 release for S3.

And no one can deny that Nic absolutely dominated when it came to the interviews/press tour for S3. Fans and the GA literally fell in love.

Luke is not exempt from the love, it was just different.

Now looking back, the outcome Luke has had is more in line with previous leads following the success of their season. Not everything comes immediately.

Neither did Nic's success.

Her success is not solely due to BTON as she has been a workhorse for years now and this is the fruit of that.

It is HER moment.

His will come.

So again, is it possible he is jealous of her success? Yes, but I truly don't believe he is.

We have no proof stating as much and his inactivity on SM means fuck all at the end of the day since he has always been inconsistent.

Stop expecting things from Luke, crafting narratives around the disappointment when he does not act as you wish and then stating those narratives as fact.

[negrowhat]

Did we talk about Xiaobao frantically asking Huai'en to stay in the last scene? Right before Huai'en kissed his cheek? Did we talk about it?

[leoreadss]

Maybe it's nothing, but could we talk about the girl in yellow and the strange thing she's doing? Why yawning? Film appearances usually do not do things that are too distracting to a scene.

[audreyrose7]

SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

being a forceful dick who threatens hellfire is NEVER going to convince us to join your little cult. (Especially because lots of us left religion for good reason, and a lot of us actually know your religion/Bible better then you do)

I truly wish y'all would GET OVER YOURSELVES, if we wanted to know about your unhealthy obsession with your little zombie club fandom we'd FUCKING ask!

[rest-your-head-in-my-lap]

On Being Ace and Horny

It's complicated. I've had a lot of shit going on with my sexuality for a long, long time. I've always known I was ace, this is true... Kinda hard for me to not realize when everyone else around me started going through puberty, starting feelings things like that and I just. didn't. I didn't look at people and think about them touching me. I didn't watch porn to jerk off to. I didn't feel the pull of my body's needs in the way it always felt like so many of my peers did. Many people experience this age and sexual attraction and feelings differently, this is true, but it always felt like there was something missing for me. I did and do read erotic material, sure. I've seen the same things they have. It just never clicked for me the same way. I watched and I was interested but never felt any urge besides that. Sex for me has never been a need or craving, just a dull want on the occasion. I'm simplifying a lot of details here- Point is. I personally don't experience sexual needs in the way an allo would. I've sought out content mostly to satisfy curiosity or for the more romantic aspects of the material. So there's that right? Nice and easy, I'll just never have sex or take part in those kinds of things, right? Yeah, turns out it's a wee bit more complex than that. See, I still enjoy things of sexual nature. Just because I lack sexual attraction/feeling doesn't mean I can't take pleasure from it, it's just in a different way: I view sex as a sense of being close to a person I love, as bringing them pleasure and getting my feedback from that. I enjoy people's reactions to me, I take pleasure in the more metaphorical/intangible things I'm given from the experience. Just try to imagine not being able to feel with your hands, you might still be able to ascertain texture and the like, but it'd be different from most people's methods. Complicated metaphors aside though, this means that I can also have 'kinks.' Though not exact, there are still things I favor or preferences that aren't the 'default'. I can also want or desire sexual experiences with my partner, I can want to be sexy or look hot. These are all things that similarly to allos, I experience, just not in the same way. Because of the fact that I don't entirely sway to one side or the other, I'd often feel strange about my sexuality in the past; Trying to repress all of the more sexual urges so that I could be a 'proper' asexual. But the fact of the matter is, there's no such thing as a 'proper' asexual, or a correct asexual or a correct label of any kind. People and feelings are flexible and pushing yourself into a box helps no one. I still identify as asexual and I am allowed to still identify as an asexual. I am allowed to be myself and not try and pretend I feel things I don't. Hehe, there's my little ramble-y blurb about my experiences. Admittedly I haven't reread this or anything so do forgive if it's a little circular.

[dubiousdisco]

[orphanblaque]

we need to stop treating social justice like a religion and start treating it like an action we pursue. you don't have to believe what i believe. but you do have to not cause harm to people who do believe it. today, in a society where we are encouraged by social media to say everything we think, we have to consider what we mean by "harm" though. thoughts are not dangerous, actions are dangerous, as anyone who read 1984 can attest. so we have to consider harm beyond direct physical harm, and consider the larger movement caused by those words that create the harm. in the past, if your crazy cousin said at a family dinner that transpeople weren't real, everyone would roll their eyes and move on because your crazy cousin doesn't have much influence beyond their social circle and they are just gonna talk shit and do jack so it's very easy to manage to not see that cousin again and therefore not hear the talk. but when your crazy cousin starts posting all these things online, they reach a wider audience than just the friends who are all talk, and more importantly, they reach those who don't realize it's supposed to just be talk. and then they start doing shit.

jk rowling saying shit online about trans people is not the same as your crazy cousin rambling about stuff to your family at dinner. she has influence and reach, and people take her words seriously to the point that they go beyond thoughts into actions. and that's when it becomes dangerous. that's not to say talk can't be harmful, but it's not as permanent a harm if one person in your life says it and in order to escape that talk you can move to a more accepting place. if your talk makes everywhere unacceptable to someone because now that talk is everywhere, it's harm.

if you don't believe there is a difference between sex and gender, that's fine, but you have to respect that i believe it and allow me and others to act on our beliefs, so long as they don't hurt you in turn. and if talk about trans and non binary people being real upsets you and you want to walk away from it, feel free to do so, but remember that the stress you are seeking relief from when you want to not hear about trans shit is only a tiny fraction of the stress trans and non binary people are going through considering how your talk spreads and informs people about how to act towards those who are trans and non binary.

now, in considering all of this, social justice cannot be a religion, because it is not about what we believe, it's about how we act. because policing people on what they believe is always and has always been wrong, regardless of how morally right we may feel out beliefs to be. and since social justice is not a religion but an action, touting how much you believe in these things is not a form of activism. it's a form of touting. we're done spreading awareness now. everyone is aware that things are wrong. either doing something to make it right or shut up. and if the only thing you can do to "make it right" is to cause harm to others, then you are not seeking justice, you are seeking vengeance because you are not actually hurt. you are uncomfortable with the feelings that you have and don't know how to deal with them. if that's the case, i refer you back to shut up.

[tfyoulookingatgiuxs]

New episode, new trauma, new tears and we return to a psychiatrist. No okay, I'll stop. The eighth episode of the second season of Helluva Boss is out: "Full Moon" we've all been waiting for it for a long time, Vivienne made us sweat it, but we're finally here to talk about it together and give our opinions on the episode. I warn you that I have no intention of putting the show in a bad light, because I love this series and I'm just here to express my opinions on it. With that said, let's get started.

We can start by saying that the length of the episode is neither too long nor too short, so initially I didn't know what to expect other than getting the tissues ready. The beginning of the two lovers singing reminded me a bit of those Disney songs, to be precise the one from Frozen, I know it's silly to say but think about it. Stolas sings a sad song where he says that what he is doing is right and that he is afraid of dying alone and ruining everything, while Blitz is just happy and horny and shows no concern at seeing Stolas again after not seeing each other for a long time. The song is nice, and it already helps me understand that this meeting will happen and that along with it there will also be a discussion (as if we didn't already know it before but let's move on). However, most of the time the episode focuses on the enemies of the series that we left in the first season. That is, the Cherubs and the DORKS.

I can say that I was expecting their return because especially with our agents we had been left hanging, after they had caught the demons while fighting in episode six of the first season. In fact, this led the two to strengthen themselves and have a larger headquarters complete with a military base and an army of priests. I'm not saying that they are enemies to be feared in terms of physical strength, but certainly because of their aces up their sleeves. I would like to point out to you that DORKS now have an access to the hell world, which is really risky for humans. Okay, yes, the portal is small, but it is still too large an access that cannot be put into human hands. Speaking instead of the Cherubs, well... then, I'm not saying that I wasn't expecting their return, but I was expecting it in hell. These little angels were kicked out of heaven for mistakenly killing a human they were supposed to save. I don't see blocking them on earth as a reasonable choice, it would have been more sensible to send them to hell. But then I thought: "Maybe it works like in Hazbin Hotel." If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll refresh your memory! In HH (Another work by Vivienne located in the same universe) Sir Pentious, to deserve heaven, died sacrificing himself for his friends. So I thought the same thing goes for the Cherubs. As long as the members of the I.M.P do not kill them, they will remain stationary on earth and will never fall into hell as they deserve. The Cherubs are now no longer as powerful without their angelic bows, although together with our imps they are two much lower ranked species - so it might even be a fair fight - but they are not as powerful as they could be before, so I see them at the moment irrelevant because they are not enemies to be feared, and I can say that they are lucky not to be dead yet. Although, I can say that their trip to the Lust ring made me laugh a lot, as they looked at the Sex Toys store with shocked faces.

GUYS LOOK IT'S FIZZ✨️ MY BABY🥹

Okay - back to us. Here we come to the crucial moment we've all been waiting for, the meeting between Blitz and Stolas. Please know that when I saw all this I didn't know how to react and even now I can't explain to you how I feel about it. Stolas here was heartbroken to walk away from Blitz, but knows it's the right thing for both of them. He always wanted a relationship with him, with his first friend, and he thought he was succeeding after seeing him again for a long time, but he knew that deep down this was a forced relationship, a sexual relationship with benefits on both sides, and therefore Blitz was forced to stay with Stolas and he didn't want that. With the crystal of Asmodeus he revealed his feelings and how he cared about him, using a calm and comforting tone, given that from the beginning he was afraid of ruining everything. Here in this thread Blitz takes it for role play, but only after he realizes he's serious does he start to get angry, not because he did anything wrong, but just because he was dumping him and ignoring him while he was trying to express himself.

Blitz from the beginning has always been with Stolas to receive something, even when his father "sold" him as entertainment for little Stolas in the episode "The Circus", let's remember the first episode of this season. But Blitz had gotten on well with Stolas and didn't hate him in any way, in fact perhaps he thought he had made a friend that he didn't want at first. Unfortunately, however, as Blitz grew up, with everything he went through, he put negative things about himself into his head, things that perhaps people told him, things that unfortunately he wasn't able to handle and therefore others identified him as an asshole. So he just behaved as usual knowing that sooner or later everyone will take flight and leaving him alone, something he said in episode six of the first season: "Truth Seekers". So Blitz's way of reacting is the consequence of everything he's been through. It's obvious that he doesn't believe what Stolas says when he tells him that he would have wanted a relationship with him, because no one loves him and therefore he wouldn't see why Stolas should do it. When he yells at him he cries because the fact that Stolas was dumping him hurts him, because even if he is with him for selfish purposes, he was MAYBE fond of that bond. I say maybe because until now Blitz has never confessed that he loves Stolas, but even if he did he would hide it because once again he doesn't believe that anyone could love someone like him. Blitz has always had a bad view of royals, which we can also see in episode six of this season: “OOPS.” When Blitz reveals to Fizz that the royals are all the same and that they treat their own kind (the imps) inferior. Maybe he learned this thing growing up from his father, we don't really know why Blitz has this bad vision of high-ranking demons, I can only think that he experienced it as a child with his father. I don't justify the way Blitz reacted because he could have been more calm like Stolas was, but here we must also point out that our owl demon did not want communication with him. What he said to him is definitely horrible, because he didn't expect these thoughts from him. But saying goodbye to him and teleporting him out wouldn't have made things any better. Ask yourself why he thinks that way! Speak. If it ended badly it's because there was very little communication here, but also remembering that in their entire relationship they never spoke seriously, not even about the stupidest thing. If you remember, in "Western Energy" the fourth episode of this season, in the scene where Stolas is in the hospital we can see all the messages they exchanged, from the Ozzie's incident up to that moment. There we can see that it was Blitz who didn't want to have some kind of discussion/argument with Stolas, always responding with curt answers and implying that he didn't want to talk. Here it is Stolas who does not engage in the discussion, distraught by the imp's abrupt words. I'm not blaming Stolas, but I'm pointing out that if there would have been more communication, things would have ended differently. Ultimately, they both cared about each other: Stolas because he thought about giving freedom to the little imp and Blitz because he doesn't accept the "separation" with him. Because a normal demon in Blitz's place would not have cared that they would never see each other again because now he can carry on with his business without necessarily having the grimoire, therefore being able to easily access the earth without problems. But the fact that he reacted and that he even let off steam by crying, I find it painful for him who is growing little by little and significant. Stolas has also grown and we have all seen and appreciated this. For me there is no best or worst because they are characters who have a lot to tell and I can't wait to see them again.

What do you think of this episode? If I have to be honest (don't kill me) I wasn't thrilled. In the end the conversation between Stolas and Blitz lasts only five minutes and as mentioned before, due to the lack of communication there wasn't anything that justified my hype for the release of the episode. It was certainly destined to end like this, leaving us on tenterhooks, but it wasn't as tough as I expected. I thought the episode would focus only on them, but by putting the cherubs and DORKS fighting with the rest of the I.M.P I found it a little pointless, I mean I didn't expect to see it in this episode! Obviously I don't want to judge or say that this episode sucks, absolutely not! For me Vivienne will always be an artist to love and I don't judge her for a single episode. For me the other episodes of this season hold many more surprises, but in case I'm wrong then I might reevaluate this episode. But in my humble opinion I would have preferred it to be shorter so as to focus only on the two. Anyway, this is where our conversation ends! I hope you enjoyed it and let me know what you think and what rating you would give to this episode. For me it's a 7/10, beacuse i still crying-😔

-Sorry for my english!!

[pisshandkerchief]

the warrior cats roleplay at recess kid to my chemical romance adult pipeline

[cowabungholio]

i think one of the big things that's missing from junior year is the party checking in on one another. the bad kids make for a phenomenal adventuring party, but they fail to check in on each other (which could be a matter of 'we're a party, we don't have to!'; believe me, i've been there as a PC). they obviously help one another out with big ticket issues, like cassandra and kristen and fig and gorgug's grades...whatever might affect the overall health of the party.

brennan seems to be mining for the small moments (riz and sklonda's conversation seemed like an action trigger for the others, his delighted reaction to the accidental fig-turned-gorgug gift to riz, how eager he was for fabian to take a rage token in order to destroy a personal relationship).

i think, because - for instance - adaine and fabian are doing well, superficially, there's no focus on their loneliness or monetary struggles (of course, adaine hasn't opened up about this, so there's only so much to be said there...but she also went from very rich to very poor very quickly in a way that is noticeable...). it's not a top priority, and the usual NPCs that would be around to do the checking in aren't there. fabian's stuff gets played as a bit constantly as well. which is like, that's fine to a point, it's a comedy show! they're all comedians and improvisers! but 10 episodes in and fabian and adaine are only opening up to mazey (newly introduced) and aelwyn (newly reformed - this one i'm not particularly fussed over, i want them to have a relationship)...feels not WEIRD, just strange. and the bit can only stay funny so long before it's just sad (fabian fabian oh fabian). there's always a bit of truth to every just kidding, or however that silly phrase goes.

they're so resistant to talking to one another (maybe because they're used to brennan's NPCs) and i wonder about that, if it'll come to a head or if it won't come to anything at all.

[herejusttosufferalong]

Bringing back the ring theory due to the photo we got the other day.

We saw this ring a lot last year and even during the press tour this year.

He most notably wears the ring on the middle finger of his right hand.

So it’s interesting…

That the little rectangular ring seems to make an appearance on this “unknown” (it’s Luke) man’s hand.

But not the location of it now.

Do my eyes deceive me or is it on the left hand ring finger?

Thoughts anyone???

I already know what @lukola4evs thinks about it. #AlreadyMarried 👀🥃

Also let’s not forget that another notable ring of Luke’s is on her ring.

I just find it interesting that Nic designed her Claddagh ring with these two little addendums.

They have a meaning and they are a pointed message.

To me it’s clear and it’s what gives me hope.

[f4riedimples]

https://www.tumblr.com/f4riedimples/741452685386072064/lol-some-of-yall-be-feeling-so-good-making-yn-the?source=share

Real honestly 🙄 I don't usually write about y/n's features because I like to keep them ambiguous unless I say so, but know that reader in my fics is never white 😤 (no offense to white people)

FR! Like Ik some ppl think im doing too much but I feel like its need to be said. Cus either yall works only for a certain audience or yall wanted to make an oc. Those are the explanations. Now if you’re a very young writer and don’t realize these things then okay, you get a pass, but the rest of yall are too old or too educated to keep doing the same things. There was literally a screenshot from a post where it said “you were the only white woman-“ mind you they never specified in the title that the reader was supposed to be white! Like do yall not know how to keep y/n ambiguous? Certain readers shouldn’t have to make a lighter oc’s or make excuses for why their hair is silky.

[fertilize-my-eggs]

What do y'all think of this??

Imagine getting pissed off because people tell you." Fictional characters aren't real. " And for some reason you're pissed off by it why? I'm genuinely curious about this and anti's mindset to think like this.( P.s. I saw their response with others on twitter and it was so bad.)

A fictional character isn't real because they're only drawing on paper or being animated on screen such as anime, shows and movies.

Like any time, I see people whine and say ____ is bad, it always ends up being fictional content. Tbh I see more people complain about certain things and it's just silly to think about.. like do people generally get upset over an anime character to the point they started telling others to rip their skin off or be aggressive and or encourage people to harass them all because it fictional content.

[the-sun-and-the-sea]

does anyone here like bo burnham