#maybe everyone knew that but still!!!

[salmonseagull]

Omgomgomg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m literally going to throw up and maybe pass out (in a good way)

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[supernowa-art]

they're exhausting<3

[xxplastic-cubexx]

give me some whiskey and ill draw The Most Thing i can come up with

bonus:

[ofswordsandpens]

I rewatched Zuko and Azula's Agni Kai recently and it's left me wondering – when Zuko begins to goad Azula into striking him with lightning, was he making the decision to kill her?

Because had Azula shot lightning directly at him like he planned and not at Katara, the most forthright implication to me is that he was intending to strike Azula with her own lightning. And Azula, for all her mastery, would not have been able to counter that.

On the other hand, maybe he wasn't planning to kill her at all and was simply planning to redirect it elsewhere (similar to what he did with Ozai). But given the tone of tragedy throughout the Agni Kai, the fact that they both acknowledge that this fight will be "the end" to them, I don't think it's inaccurate to read Zuko's actions as him preparing to kill Azula, even though an Agni Kai doesn't have to end with death (and in canon it didn't). Also, why goad her into striking him with lightning if he wasn't planning on doing something intentional with it? If anything, it adds another layer to the tragedy to me, because I don't believe Zuko wants to kill her. And it stands in such contrast to the way that Azula desperately wants to kill him.

I also think that there would have even been something sadly poetic in that sort of demise for Azula should the Agni Kai had gone this direction: Azula, struck down by her preferred sub-skill. Azula, struck down by the very bolt of lightning that she intended to kill her brother with. Azula, struck down by her own power.

[hmsdoodlin]

Mind if she was a beautiful arachnid robot woman

[pansyfemme]

i really love my friends

[chiptrillino]

I'm imagining Zhao was Jee's neighbor growing up, and his frown lines are the result of him listening to him talk.

poor unfortunate soul jee

[ID: digital drawing of Zhao and Jee from avatar the last airbender de-aged to a young teen (maybe 13 years). Zhao on the left of the image is leaning forward shouting at jee "play Wonderwall". on the right of the image is jee clutching a sting instrument looking perplexed at the rude request. End ID.]

[dykedvonte]

Something something Curly being confined to the gurney and being unable to talk makes it so he has to see the little things since he literally can not see the bigger things himself anymore.

However, it also makes the little things become big because his inability to talk and break the bigger things down into smaller things gives him glimpses into the cracks he couldn’t see before.

[spaciebabie]

at first getting diagnosed with cptsd was like, "yay my trauma has been validated (it always was valid)!" and i really thought that was going to be it, but then i started to do research as i do whenever i realize i have something and learned that!! the way i experience socialization is!! quite horrid actually!!

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[nadiajustbe]

Revisiting Bartimaeus tag first time in two years feels like coming home from a long journey tbh. Like, time pass by, and all the same faces will still be making memes and and laughing about similar scenes and all of this is so precision and something never changes and I love this sm I cannot describe this in words.

[thedreadvampy]

sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'

[radiantmists]

binged both chalice of the gods and the hidden oracle in the last few days and tbh i don't care if zeus would blast me to bits, if he were real it would be on sight

[camellcat]

so ever since I found out that buffy's stint in the mental hospital was actually canon and not just very common fanon I've had this idea about a killed by death au

they should've made it about buffy's trauma from the pysch ward!! can you imagine how much more fun that would be instead of inventing a random cousin that never matters before or after? a bit of more relevant backstory mixed in with some wonderful dramatics

like buffy is still sick, and she still cries about having to slay vampires before being sedated, but afterwards joyce is all like oh not this again. and the scoobies are like ?? so joyce goes on to explain like sighing she used to talk about vampires before we moved to sunnydale, but I thought we'd moved past that or whatever. then the gang are all eyeing each other like so why did buffy stop? and why didn't/doesn't joyce believe her if buffy's talked about all of this before?

I don't think joyce would actually fully open up to why buffy hates hospitals. a vague she's had some bad experiences with them would probably suffice or smth like that. I doubt she's proud to have had her daughter in a mental ward y'know wouldn't wanna share that around both for her and buffy's sakes

and instead of seeing that weird ass gross monster she sees. well. okay this is pretty much normal again but in s2. admittedly I hadn't seen that episode before I had this idea, so... oops?

but okay for like the main conflict of the episode, instead of the monster, there's all these kids that have been put away being called crazy for the stuff they've seen that's messed them up. and then for the falling action, it can have buffy realize or prove or whatever that none of the kids are crazy, it's that they've seen the dark side of sunnydale and no one is believing them. just like what she went through originally. give her some catharsis helping other people

honestly I think it'd just be more interesting if we're going to have a hospital episode like that! and more impactful as we get to learn a bit more buffy's time before sunnydale, as well as why buffy is so much more cautious with the slaying stuff around her mom when otherwise she usually has a good relationship with her. plus, the coming out scene where her identity is finally revealed would I think be extra tense with that added context of how her mom took it the first time

[sophaeros]

Q: If, like Kiss did, The Strokes released simultaneous solo albums, what would they be like? Julian: “I’d like to collaborate on them, but they probably wouldn’t let me near them. Fab’s would be kinda gothic, a lot of classical-type instrumentation – like low-pitched choirs in the background, keyboards, and his voice would have a lot of reverb on it. Albert would have the most Strokes-style solo record, with lots of funny disjointed riffs, and the theme would be love and relationships. Nick would have a Motley Crew-meets-Blur record with high-pitched [imitates Bruce Dickenson yowl] ‘Waaaaaah’ vocals. Nikolai would have an indie, chilled out, [laughs] bass-driven album.”

— the strokes for q magazine, april 2002 / wr. danny eccleston (x)

fab: knots - machinegum (2019)

albert: caught by my shadow - ahj (2015)

nick: walls - crx (2016)

nikolai: burnin_up - summer moon (2023)