#middle of the night rambles

[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

[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💔💔

[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

[melit0n]

How I feel making Sleep Token analysis posts

[valhallavalgrace]

Have you used your powers at all since getting to Hotel Valhalla?

Leo hasn't used his powers once in battle and it's probably costed him a couple losses. (The dreams are likely both from the gods and also from genuine demigod PTSD.)

I've posted a flashforward in-universe valgrace fanart about this arc here... he'll be happy again one day I'm sorry

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[misc-obeyme]

Sometimes I really long to see some card art where the characters don’t look like they’re chiseled out of stone.

Like give me strong man weight lifter Diavolo with a round belly & juicy tits. Give me awkward lanky Levi and dad bod Lucifer. Give me sweet soft Asmo, renaissance painting style. I want perfectly average Solomon, covered in pact marks but otherwise just normal. I want old man Barb with crows feet and a little belly from eating too many pastries.

I know we would never get such official art and I absolutely headcanon them however I like. But I sometimes think about it when so much of the official art is all abs all the time!

And of course I worship the artists who draw the characters with different body types. You are doing the real work 🫡

[post-it-notes7]

What caused Mirror Falspar to fall off the deep end so quickly here? Was it simply DMK's presence alone?

the last time he put himself at mercy it didn't go so well

[realmsalot]

Ok ok ok so in class today we had to write a journal about what we thinking about at the time and I was FINALLY able to put this in words it has been eating my mind for a while

It is so fascinating to me that Peri/Poof is such a stickler for Da Rules, because the reason he exists in the first place is because of a loophole. Like literally if Timmy didn't realize there's nothing in Da Rules that says a God Child can't wish for his Godparents to have a baby Peri wouldn't exist.

And like yeah okay we all know that but the part that really eats my brain is it's (unintentionally?) implied that Peri's continued existence is due to an exception to Da Rules.

In Channel Chasers when Wanda is explaining to Timmy what happens when he grows up she says that "...and all the remnants of their magic dissappear forever..." which I interpret as all still active wishes are undone. And if you remember, Peri is a wish.

In order for Peri to continue exist and be able to grow up, either an exception to (or another loophole in) Da Rules had to have happened.

So I find it so fascinating that he sticks so closely to rules as written because he himself is by all means a loophole and an exception.

Anyways here's how I originally worded it in class.

[strawberricakeandpie]

I can’t believe Ryōko Kui accidentally created a character that is such a (in my opinion) good representation of the autistic experience with Laios. Like I could go on about how he fits the diagnostic criteria for autism, but also how his experience interacting with others feels so similar to my own. Genuinely, Laios’s autistic traits appear so similar to mine and it makes me so happy.

TL;DR, Laios is so autism and I love him dearly.

[lazylittledragon]

ok so storytime: while we were at the con, we discovered that my boyfriend can do an almost perfect impression of gale and throughout the weekend he'd say increasingly cursed things publicly in the gale voice, so obviously my response became (loudly) "babe, not the gale voice, the gale voice is just for US at home" because either both of us are public weirdos or neither of us are

[helenofblackthorns]

if you think about it, Livvy wanted to be like the Julian that was the mask, the version that he presented to the world. but it's Ty who is like the real Julian underneath.

[chiliger]

*stands with hands on hips, staring at the floor* Look, I know we love to have the Command Batch be close brothers in art and fics. I am a staunch lover of the trope myself.

But what about, like in real life, where the people we grew up with or went to school with, they just fall out of contact. The friends made in high school don't always remain lifelong friends.

Yeah, they can say "we'll call each other and message everyday," or "we should hang out when our leaves overlap." But the war gets in the way of everything, like it tends to do. Slowly but surely the messages in the group chat peter out. There are too many things to do, and duty takes first priority over keeping contact with the people they knew as kids.

It's not for wont of trying, the commanders would still send little messages to each other, but it could be hours, days or weeks before there's a reply because of conflicting zones, lack of signal, or other messages pushing the chat further down the list.

There's also just the fact that the commanders find their people. Meaning, through time and shared experiences with their battalions, other clones click right into place, possibly even deeper than their batchmates. The camaraderie in surviving a massacre with only two of your men surviving is different than the experience of constant dehumanization on Coruscant.

It comes to a point where the Command Batch become, for lack of thinking of a better word, almost strangers to each other. They still keeps tabs on one another, just to make sure they're still alive, but that's pretty much as far as it goes now. Maybe they'll chitchat when their battalions work together, but the mission has to come first, so most of the talking is planning and strategizing. Even when their leaves do overlap, the thought of messaging for a meet-up might feel like a nuisance, because surely your batchmates are exhausted and don't want to be bothered.

So it goes, the commanders may have been close once, but that connection has been stretched and warped by war and time. They still have love for each other and it won't ever be forgotten, because how can anyone forget the people you grew up with. They were the right people they needed back then, but they're no longer the right people now.

[lovethisfatcryptid]

Let me be your favorite plushie. I'm warm and soft and also make cute noises when you squeeze me.

[moxielynx]

all things considered if morro *does* appear in DR I’m actually really excited to see what he’d look like in the new style, considering how good all the ninja looked after they were redesigned I hope we see a Morro that reflects the person he became after dotd (aka me hoping morro finally has long hair like he was born to have)

[because-its-eurovision]

Gig Advent Calendar Day 24

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