#maybe I should've known

[frogwithastrawberry]

You ever look back at something you did as a kid (or just when you were younger) and think, "Damn. That's kinda gay-" And it was. You are gay. This should have been your clue.

Tag yourself with things you did that should've tipped you off a bit earlier.

@batwingedserpent You've gotta have done something. Continue the chain

[npdlangley]

i can't believe my own father did that

[a-heist-of-words]

In the most 'Greek theatre' of ways, this is a tragedy. Tragedies are meant to teach onlookers: "See how these rich idiots, despite their riches, cannot escape the consequences of their actions, their hubris, and their defiance of the laws of common sense and decency? See their awful demise? Don't be like them."

[keiksy-cake]

Germany's second page from the Hetalia Collezione

Official revisions included "just like shojo manga!" to "maybe he likes cute things?", and the addition of "his casual clothes are often described as "dad-like"

all collezione pages

[Please note, I’m an amateur in Japanese and have to use various resources and translation machines to help me. If you notice a possible mistake or want clarification, please bring it up to me *politely* and not aggressively or hostile.]

[wereh0gz]

The Minecraft movie would've been so good if they'd just. Made it in earnest

[zeep-xanflorp]

omg just rewatched s7 finale and morty was in the background of every scene rick shared with diane. he was THERE. the WHOLE TIME. ofc rick wasn't rlly in the hole. holy shit.

[forlouren]

We won't get to see Manny and Amandla portray Oshamir again, and I cannot wrap my head around that.

[afterlife-2004]

Reminds me of “The World Was Wide Enough”, a song from the musical, Hamilton!

[popiellart]

SMASH OR PASS

tagged by @its-sixxers

tagging @milleart @elegiacescapist @susandsnell @drathe @nighthair @residueradiation

Shrike

PROS & CONS

A fledgeling vampire of clan Tzimisce. A skilled fleshcrafter, especially for his age, but will not respect your fleshcrafting wishes over his own.

Enjoys being a vampire, and takes well to Sabbat's nightly lifestyle. No crying over the lost beauty of the sunrise or soul or humanity, or whatever the fuck gay shit Toreadors usually get up to, with him.

Somewhat unpleasant personality, clumsy and avoidant when attempting bonding, prone to viewing every interaction as a power struggle, can be manipulative. Tries to be better, sometimes.

Embraced at barely 19 and it shows.

Severe and fully unacknowledged PTSD from being trafficked as a teen, habituation to violence from early childhood, disorganised attachment style, unpredictable behaviour, and he's making all of this your problem.

Unless he likes you. 🤗

To be clear, it's still your problem. Just not on purpose.

Skilled hunter and prolific serial killer. Typically targets cartel members, but his definition of 'criminal' can get flimsy whenever he's hungry. Able and willing to share.

Heroin addict. Not a health concern to him as a vampire, but it does reflects on his personality.

Mortal family heads a criminal organization. Not even the only serial killer in his family, and his brothers don't have the blood-drinking excuse. In fact, you're probably in danger.

Daddy issues. Sire issues. Issues issues.

Physically short and severely underweight, but stronger than he looks like, quick and very flexible. Incredibly high manual dexterity, long and muscular tongue. Used to physical exertion to the point of collapse, likes to be outside.

Actually cleans up real nicely. Never actually bothers to do so.

Raging misandrist. Thinks men are ontologically evil, born wretched, and most of them only get worse from there.

Unfortunately for him, bisexual. Also, a virgin.

Likes small children and animals, and tends to be gentle with them and tolerant of their behaviours. Derides the idea that feeding on animals is a 'moral alternative' to human blood.

I'll be real with you, no matter who you are, he loves his mortal twin sister more than he loves you.

[supervisormeero]

[sotogalmo]

3:28 am

Randomly getting into the game of Bad Parenting.

Uh-oh. It's already speaking to me and my life. Fucking hell

[lord-squiggletits]

sorry things are not good at the moment, and I hope you will get through this ok.

I'm paraphrasing a bit, but aiui you see Pharma as very much inclined not to explain the reasoning for his choices. What effect do you think that had/has on the other medics there, either in terms of their responses to what went on at the time or later?

(Inspired particularly by the context of The Wicked)

Honestly, I think Pharma's inability to tell people when something's up with him is unfortunately why he got rejected by his Autobot buddies so bad. I mean, ignoring the really bad implications, it seems to me like in Pharma's efforts to be restrained/professional/composed, he mostly comes off as cold. So if Pharma comes off to most people as just a cold professional, I suppose it makes sense why they heard about him being blackmailed by the DJD and just assumed Pharma was chill being a traitor and killing people? Aid/Ambulon/Ratchet/etc just like. Forgot that Pharma is a person with emotions and assumed that clearly, since Pharma is always in control of himself and always knows what he's doing, that must mean that when he worked with the DJD it was purposeful (in the sense of being willing).

Sucks too, bc in my personal headcanon the reason Pharma is so uptight and focused on a professional persona in the first place is related to social anxiety and an oppressed background. So in the process of Pharma constructing this professional persona so that other people respect and value him, it was that same persona that also made people assume he just had no emotions at all, so it was easy for them to assume the worst of him.

[paperhats-and-evil-schemes]

Black Hat lunged at his counterpart, body contorting into a vicious conglomeration of teeth, smoke, tendrils, and distorted bone. An echoing symphony of shrill, unholy roars filled the room as the enraged demon carried out his onslaught, ripping into White Hat’s body with a fury unparalleled to anything Flug’s seen from him before. And considering how much Flug's seen already...

I wanted to make BH way bigger but then WH would look too smol to see well enough haha

@ Nosy anon, I promise I'll come up with a proper actual snippet to respond to this one of these days, but in the meantime, have this random impulse drawing and a very very short paragraph of fic to go along with it lol?

[syn0vial]

kinda surreal to see people on tumblr like, "the people on that submersible should have known the risks and were just too rich and stupid to think they could die" and then reading the account by the 19-year-old's aunt saying he was "terrified" to get in the sub and only did so to please his dad on father's day weekend...

makes me think about how we comfort ourselves through horror movies by latching onto some little mistake a character makes and going, "oh, that's so stupid! i would never do that!" and thus insulating ourselves from the horror that terrible things can happen to us, too.

and, i know, i know, the true thing protecting all of us from this exact fate is that none of us have $250,000 in recreational savings to burn on submersible trips down to the titanic anyway, but. there are plenty of other situations where we might overlook our own instincts that say to get the hell out of dodge just to please a friend or loved one, or because it's their "special day" and we don't want to rain on their parade, and where we might indeed end up paying for it with life or limb. i can think of several such incidents from my own life that could've ended with me just as dead, and that's just off the top of my head!

so yeah. it's a sad thing to hear about and i wonder how much of our collective scorn for the dead is in fact a self-soothing behavior to ward off our own fears of mortality...

[dollfishu]

I literally can not take this fluffhead seriously.

How...just how

[danwhobrowses]

So finally I can talk more CR stuff after my self enforced pre-119 embargo has been lifted

and Folks, Critters, daresay I Friends: I am exhausted

But it's in a good way, mostly. But only because I have fretted myself for 2 weeks - 2 fair and acceptable weeks because people are the priority when it comes to the fires - only for the expected to be 'final showdown' to have a phase two that continues into next episode (wherein Ludinus could still appear to make things worse), meaning that I'm gonna fret myself into more exhaustion for at least another week and continue my accelerating descent into sleep-deprived madness. Other than that, I am happy with what we were given this episode.

What felt like a mountain to climb after 118 caused such deflation in the fandom has slowly turned a corner thanks to Bell's Hells', well the ones who have known each other longer than a week, will to protect one another; to save Imogen and Imogen's will to get back to her friends. Now Imogen - God Eater Imogen might we add - is free, Predathos is diminished further of power, the Hells are temporarily powered up via boons, and finally, FINALLY, we have an Option C for the god stuff: mortality, similar to how they did on Downfall. A chance for the gods to humble themselves which in a way can gauge their understanding better of what the world and its inhabitants need, to stand alongside their children as family that can be empathised with, rather than denizens living above and away that cannot be understood. Granted it won't be perfect, but no option was perfect - even the Divine Gate has proven not to be perfect - and at least this one is better than death or departure, and it will indeed be up to them to make that choice.

There is still the matter of Predathos and maybe/likely Ludinus of course, as well as trying to convince the gods of this alternative, so everything is far from over, but there is a bit more hope now and I am equally frightened and excited to see the next episode - more than I was for 118 and 119 - and its outcome.