#like i said. nice try.

[hinamie]

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[abd-illustrates]

💛 The "Heartless" community tab just got approved! 💛

I still don't know a ton about Tumblr's community feature, but I will be sharing my future (and maybe re-sharing some past? 👀) Heartless posts into here from here on out!

Y'all are very welcome to join this space if you'd like a focused lil' community timeline to enjoy everyone's Heartlessposting in! (^^)/

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[lukazade]

Who's gonna look after you if not the hot guys you have really normal definitely platonic relationships with?

[chimerafeathers]

i know we love to rag on Siffrin for feeling so miserably guilty and manipulative for the crime of [checks notes] “doing nice things for their friends so that they’ll be happy and care about him even if it’s not perfectly sincere on his end”

but like. in context i don’t think that thought process is anywhere near as nonsensical as it always sounds written out like that

i’m sure i’m just stating the obvious here but it’s not really about the “crime” of making people happy. it’s about what he’s not doing, which is anything that would allow their friends to have any real knowledge or agency over the situation they’re all in.

it’s about never acting according to his real feelings in the moment and letting them see the messier version of him that exists now, never allowing their relationships to evolve or develop meaningfully beyond the “safest” iteration, the thing that is Known and produces the Correct Results, because anything else has the possibility of leading to negative emotions towards Siffrin.

Siffrin knows he’s not really doing all this for their benefit, not entirely, because the “right” thing to do would give them the full context to choose how they feel and what to do about it. they’re happy, but in a way they don’t get to keep. they’re happy, but in a way that keeps Siffrin safe from anything more complex and real. they’re happy, but only because some Siffrin in the past said the right things once, and this new, bitter, lonely, desperate version wouldn’t know how to get the “correct result” without a script to follow. they’re happy, and it was real once, it meant something once, but not anymore.

they cared about that Siffrin, yes, but would they still care about this one, if they knew? if Siffrin ever allowed them to know? (he won’t, he can’t, he refuses.)

and there’s something that could have been said in favor of Siffrin allowing himself this “selfishness” if it made him happy anyway, if it could be a genuine source of comfort in a difficult situation—but it doesn’t! not really! because that guilt is there, because that fear is there, because of how flimsy it all inevitably feels.

so they’re not doing it for their family’s benefit, because that happiness is predicated on lies and ignorance. he’s barely doing it for his own benefit, because they’re torturing themself by revealing things they no longer want to reveal, concealing things they no longer want to conceal, acting out of fear of rejection rather than genuine desire for connection. who benefits from this hollow “kindness,” really?

that’s why the last loop had to be the ugliest one. Siffrin had to see that the worst could happen and there could still be love and connection on the other side. that even when the party sees the worst of him, when they have the agency he’s been knowingly denying them, they will still choose to love him.

[deoidesign]

Happy pride from Adam and Steve, my t4t gay vampire and werewolf!!!

They're from my webcomic. It's good. I'm not biased. It's funny and gentle and they time travel to a new location every full moon, where there's a new little mystery to solve!

[mikesbasementbeets]

Sometimes I think it's just scary to open up like that. To say how you really feel. Especially to people you care about the most. Because what if... what if they don't like the truth? // Sometimes people don’t really say what they’re really thinking. But, you capture the right moment… it says more. // I didn't say it. // You didn't have to.

[remake of my very first gifset one year later]

[arsenicflame]

happy "our marriage is never gonna recover from this" day

[jojo-schmo]

I'm updating my personal ref sheets and it's really hitting me just how SMOL Kirby, Bandee, and Elfilis really are compared to the rest of the cast.

[660percent]

Void

Campfire fest day 3: Longing

@outerwilds-events

The vibe I was going for was hatchling looking into the black hole on their way to the Southern Observatory and just feeling so small and insignificant. No matter what they do, no one will remember the things they’ve achieved. They will always just be Hatchling on their launch day. They just wish someone understood (I know Gabbro is there- but they’re Gabbro, so-)

They’re supposed to be standing on the ice under Brittle Hollows South Pole, but someone pointed out that it looks a little like the quantum rocks at the eye and I think that interpretation is cool too!

[anbaisai]

Happy birthday to @crystallizsch and the lovely Yuusha! May you have another wonderful year full of happiness and currynoodles💜

[nonbinarysurge]

I love this callback to issue #50 in issue #67. It's funny seeing Surge mock & sass Sonic like that of course, but it's also a really smart and subtle way of summarising Surge's motives.

In this issue Surge is taking advantage of Sonic's offer to reform herself. She, at this point, clearly has zero intention to actually better herself - she's just using it as an opportunity to eventually cause more harm.

He knows that, and she knows he knows that, but she also knows that as long as Sonic sticks to the moral code he was preaching so much to her, there's nothing he can do about it.

And here we see it summed up in just those two lines - Surge takes their exact words from their previous argument, flips them on their head, and spits it back in his face.

[elderwisp]

[moeblob]

[blatantprinterpropaganda]

so far in the world of thamepo we've seen over and over that silently sacrificing your own happiness for the good of someone you love is ultimately never the way to go (thame tried it for the sake of the other mars members, jun for thame, and inevitably all the sacrifices po made for his ex who then promptly dumped him also feature in there), so my god, i hope that this well-intentioned lie of gam's comes to light at some point asap and she and pepper still get their happy end

[the-meme-monarch]

i hate episodes where someone's kindness is taken advantage of i hate it badly