#middle of the night rambles

[lazylittledragon]

i hope the person who made the romeo and juliet uquiz never deletes it and also knows that i think about it at least once a month

[neves-trouble]

Taash positivity post!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Taash genuinely means so much to me. They're just such a beautiful, important character that deserves all the happiness in Thedas. It hurts to constantly see so much hate directed towards them, so I'm putting more Taash love out into the world!

First off, I'd never heard a character say they were nonbinary before, so watching Taash discover who they are was so special to watch. A Little Dragon Hatches still makes me tear up every time, and getting to hear my Rook talk about their gender to them during that initial conversation just felt so deeply personal and relieving to hear. Some of the things Taash describe, both about gender and about how they feel things hit so close to home for me.

Their love of dragons and how excited they get whenever they hear the word "dragon" is just so endearing. I love when characters are passionate about something! Plus they're genuinely one of the funniest companions in Dragon Age. Half of their banters have me laughing and the other half has me crying.

And their relationship with Shathann!!! They way they love each other so much but they don't know how to show it, and they're just struggling with their culture and gender norms and all of it and they can never truly make up. They never get to talk it out. But Shathann still made sure that Taash knew that she accepted them and loved them in the end. Their final quest is one that makes me sob every single time.

They check on Karash! They feed the birds! They're the dragon hunter but they respect dragons so much and only kill them when necessary!!! And they care so much about their companions and Rook and they might not show it in a typical way but they love them so much!!!

Also they're adorable and gorgeous as hell!!! They're such a beautifully made character both in terms of writing and design.

Tldr: Taash is very lovely and I absolutely adore them

[bklily]

I keep getting spiraled on the motives of Gabriel writing that letter and his final moments. He obviously wrote it after the whole alliance ring shtick began, after he was hit by the cataclysm. My immediate thought is that he wrote it right before he shipped Adrien off to London, since it was inside a photo album inside a box for furniture to be moved, which implies it was when they were moving away his things.

I can only imagine that he wrote that as a "If everything goes to shit this is my back up plan' which is fair tbh. Maybe his plan wouldn't work 100% and the cataclysm would get to him before he could revive Emilie. Since he accounts for Nathalie also still being in the picture I imagine he didn't think she'd die so... Fast? Suddenly? Maybe he thought she would still be weak and frail and sick but alive to guide Adrien after he found the letter.

So far this is all well and good but now when it comes to his final scene with Maribug and him asking for her to not Adrien know the villain that he was, I'm of two minds about it. The first one is that, somewhere deep deep down in his rotten pathetic weak little heart, he really meant it and hoped Adrien wouldn't find the letter and he'd get to die and be with Emilie in the afterlife. Which is. A fair interpretation but you'd need to pay me a lot of money to believe Gabriel Agreste has any actual remorse for what he did lmao.

My second interpretation is that he wanted to have his cake and eat it too. It's not that he 100% wanted to control the narrative of how Adrien found out his misdeeds (though I think that's a valid interpretation), but in my head he just thought like-

"hey, I have an emergency plan in place with that letter right? Might as well go out faking a sacrifice and guilt trip this 14 year old girl, gaslight my son's memories and later down the line if he finds that letter, my chances of him actually bringing me back are way higher! Win win!"

In other words it wasn't a selfless sacrifice (obviously) but more so a, "I'll do this good deed so I might get something better in return later down the line" deal. Which I think fits his overall character narrative imo.

[kyouka-supremacy]

I'm not saying that the mayla Atsushi themed skirt would fix me but like. It would fix me

[zxmbigirlfriend]

stuilly week day 1- au

i will take literally any excuse to draw gross evil lesbians. if only i could draw them the whole week💔💔

[keckleoid]

(I’m speaking from a general standpoint but also I guess a lot of my references are from Aligned because that's the continuity I'm most familiar with. But mostly from general and widely accepted facts and or fanon.)

The idea that Soundwave is Megatron’s weakness drives me crazy, especially because he can be his weakness in so many different ways.

Soundwave is considered the backbone of the Decepticons, keeping everything functioning the way it needs to function. So if you removed him from the equation things will start to fall apart, and obviously Megatron needs the Decepticons to be. Well. Leader of the Decepticons.

Soundwave is also considered Megatron's eyes and ears. He knows everything because Soundwave is there to tell him everything. He’s his shadow, the eyes on his back. In this sense, Soundwave is a strength. Take him away and you’ll significantly weaken Megatron himself.

Another way to read this is through trust. The idea of Soundwave being the only bot in that entire faction that Megatron can put his full trust in means that Soundwave is the one bot he is truly vulnerable around. So in this sense, Soundwave himself is Megatron’s weakness.

To sum it all up, Soundwave can be seen as Megatron’s weakness structurally, physically, and emotionally.

The Mega/Sound dynamic in general romantic or not is just so damn good to me I need to inject it into my bloodstream. On Soundwave’s side, you dedicate your entire functioning to a cause and that cause under someone's leadership specifically, *thats* devotion, and devotion can so easily be read as love because there is love in devotion. On Megatron’s side, imagine giving and trusting so much of yourself to someone that their absence would make so many of your walls crumble, for a prideful mech like Megatron weakness would be the ultimate sin and im afraid Soundwave has made him a sinner blehhhh

[deityoftherain]

do y’all ever think about how people’s online usernames slash nicknames slash names are what people would like to be called if they didn’t have the pressure of conventional naming schemes that occur offline because me too

[verysmallcyborg]

[ The Sun and Star ] [ Captain Waenwyn and The Leviathan ] [ The Lily Knight ]

back at it with another year of making bday gposes for the beloved @oneiroy!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! i'm always so happy to know and have you in my life, tbh it feels like it's been a lot longer <3 fornax and ryss in original, pirate au, and lily knight au flavors >:) coming to theaters near you (the sets from last year...!)

[lazylittledragon]

story time

i was visiting my boyfriend and we were running out of youtube to watch so i suggested we watch a film because i have. a list of films i specifically want to watch with him

and his laptop is on her last legs and half frozen when she boots up and neither of us pay for streaming services so i said "well, i really want to watch skinamarink but we have to pirate it and i don't want to kill your computer"

and he just looks at me. and proceeds to pull up his adblock, his vpn and his bookmarked collection of piracy websites

so anyway i'm going to marry him yesterday

[knuckleslove]

8 billion people in the world, but if you LOVE Knuckles the Echidna, you are my friend.

You with your hyper-fixations. With your need to rant and rave and rattle on about the beloved boy, gentle guardian, fierce friend, KNUCKLES? Are you maybe lonely, like that loyal last echidna?

I see you.

I have ears to listen. And eyes to admire. And surely, you could scream your boundless obsession into that tumbling void, BUT you could shout it to me, and I’ll tell you how beautiful you are for loving Knuckles too.

⁺✧⁺

Or maybe… maybe we’ll just watch each other from afar, passing fanciful stories in the night. Leaving trails to lovely things, drawn painstakingly in shallow light.

And I’ll cherish you still, for the beauty you send my way. And I’ll think of you in passing throughout my every day.

And… and if YOU love Knuckles the Echidna, you are my friend.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

If I had a nickel for every time I met a system with a Fitz Kreiner fictive I’d have three nickels, which isn’t even close to enough to buy a pack of cigarettes, so really what’s even the point

[aficionadoenthusiast]

yeah there's some obvious problems with ares in the pjo series but i think some of them are actually on purpose. the greek gods are first and foremost the embodiment of their domain, i.e. poseidon isn't just god of the sea, he is the sea, or gaea isn't just goddess of the earth, she is the earth. ares isn't just god of war, he is war, and he lives in the us now. modern warfare in the us now is a lot different than ancient greece. it has nothing to do with glory. it's opportunistic. it's capitalist. it's gross and slimy and goes to the highest bidder, and it doesn't like to take responsibility. it takes and takes. if that's not ares in the og series, i don't know what is.

[oneread]

Really into the idea of side characters first interacting with the crew and assuming Sanji is the chef though some sort of default? Like clearly he's a powerhouse fighter so that's his main job right? They're good but it's a small crew and many already have primary jobs (Chopper=doctor Franky=shipwright Robin=general menace) so having a few dedicated fighters makes sense. He must be the best chef, or get out of doing other chores for it or capable of not burning the kitchen down or something.

The dawning realization that, nope, the fighting is just kinda something he does, being the crew cook is the living, beating heart of who he is, to the point that he's actually limiting his fighting style in order to focus on his cooking. They watch him kick someone's ass without blinking, then stress over saving dinner from getting burnt because of the fight while they come to terms with how actually fucking unhinged these people are

[starmahgalaxies]

Poor Jou does not know how to begin to explain the situation he is in.

The return of the biggest little shit! /affectionate. I know a lot of it is flashback as we catch up on each of the children, but he's working overtime. Good for him.

->Restaurant patrons and staff speak Japanese. ->A handful of the dishes shown appear to also be Japanese ->Only accepts US$.

I don't blame you, Jou. I would be pissed.

You were the one who threw it.

I was serious when I mentioned indentured servitude in my last rewatch post. Anytime I hear paying off a debt that just keeps growing and growing and theoretically you should be protected under the law (no idea what the legalities in the Digital World are. Digitamamon seems to be one of the few capitalistic businesses around), but you're treated like shit, it's the first thing I think of. It is a bit of a stretch, normal indentured servitude is for years. I don't doubt that they would have kept Jou and Yamato there until they were adults.

Oh, that's another thing, child labor.

(I'm also several years post-graduation on classes with this stuff so take my word with caution.)

They are both trying so hard to be considerate. The value of talking to your friends and being honest aahhh...

One screencap does not do well to show how much the poor lad is shaking. I really admire Jou for how he handles his anxiety despite how much shit it gives him. Guy is prepared to go through med school... THEY WILL EAT YOU ALIVE PRECIOUS BEAN! (this is nothing against thinking he can't do it. It's that med school and field can be hell, as conveyed to me by others in my life) He makes a fantastic doctor.

Sora, please, please talk to your friends. They'll love to hear you are all right. Or were even here at all.

You would really have to hate a coworker to mess up so badly to increase the amount of abuse you receive. That is counterproductive. There are better ways to get out of something or convey the message of screw you to the boss without impacting people you work with who you actually like.

Yamato is a way too close to panicking and worry to recognize this though. Oh, and a child, who shouldn't be working at all at this age or knows how this stuff works.

Little brother interrupts break at work: Day immediately 1000x better.

I would not put money on that. You are much too reckless and stubborn.

The dead eyes of evil management.

This is why it's good to have faith in your friends. 👏

Two angry furry boys.

Love how bristling Ikkakumon looks. Put his partner down!!

ALL HAIL THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!

Two angry furry boys, except one of them is bipedal now.

Speak for yourself, if he's desperate enough and thinks it is the most productive option, Jou will do anything ❤️.

👏 True 👏 friends 👏 talk 👏 about 👏 their 👏 feelings 👏

"And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!"

🤝❤️

I focused a lot on shit work conditions for this, but I do really like this episode for both Yamato and Jou. They're good kids. Should lay off employment for a bit though xD. Saving the world is enough stress.

[critterishere]

I know P2 dude is like the mascot of “idgaf,” but I need to see art of this guy crying. I want tears of rage and resentment and all that,, for both the people around him and himself… I need to see him gripping his sink as he’s sobbing,,, he’s looking in the mirror and bearing his teeth. He hates where he’s at in life,,, he doesn’t believe things will get better for him,,,, and he feels like there is nothing that he can do. He’s so hopeless man.. throws rocks at his window…

[melit0n]

How I feel making Sleep Token analysis posts