#more of a character study as well

[rhaenyra-daemon]

Aemond wouldn't dare to utter the words, burrowing into his lover's warmth, but Daemon heard them unspoken all the same:

"You're mine. Mine. Mine."

Title: blood of my blood

Rating: M

Length: 1980 words

Tags: father/son incest, dubious consent due to identity issues, guilt

Read here.

[hinamie]

congrats on your recovery n all yuuji but unfortunately for you I thought the scars were cool >:/

[otaku553]

New blorbo :)

Also a silly interaction with this piece

[deoidesign]

Doing master studies the only way I know how: Stealing them and making them my guys.

(Barberini Faun)

(The Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)

(Covent Garden - William Bruce Ellis Rankin)

[candyje11yfish]

slight redesign. love her🩻🩸

[crimescrimson]

Albert Wesker in Resident Evil Remastered (2002)

[missingn000]

hey all! i wrote a what-if character study & action fic for if king fought sanji instead of zoro during the raid on onigashima. i'd really love if you gave it a read! thanks so much!

link

playlist

happy reading!

[rigelmejo]

Beginner Resources: Studying Hanzi

Are you starting to learn Chinese? Are you trying to figure out how to approach studying hanzi?

First, I would suggest you read some short article that explains radicals in hanzi. Those are the components that 'spell' the hanzi character, there's not very many, and they can often help you guess the meaning or pronunciation of a hanzi you run into. Here is a list of Chinese radicals on Berlitz.com so you can get some familiarity with what they look like, their pronunciation, meaning, and some example hanzi that have those radicals. This Chinese Character Radicals wikipedia article explains how radicals can sometimes contribute a meaning or sound to the hanzi. I suggest reading through both of these articles fully, and saving them to reference later. You do not need to memorize, or spend more than a couple hours reading these. Just having a basic familiarity with what radicals are, and what they contribute to a hanzi, will be helpful as you learn hanzi.

For Chinese beginners, this is still absolutely my favorite study resource for learning hanzi. The book teaches 800 common hanzi, from HSK 1-3, and it uses mnemonic stories it provides you (so you don't have to come up with stories on your own - unlike Heisig) to teach meanings and pronunciation and tone. After studying this book, it's achievable to keep using the same kind of mnemonic story strategy used in this book to keep learning hanzi on your own. That's what I did. This book got me from 0 hanzi knowledge, to enough to read graded readers (I read Mandarin Companion and graded readers sold on Pleco app), and then from there I'd picked up enough additional hanzi to start reading the Newcomer/Beginner stories suggested on Heavenly Path Notion Site's recommendations. (I jumped into reading harder stuff way faster than I perhaps should have, and eventually went back and read some of the Newcomer/Beginner stuff Heavenly Path recommends such as TuTu DaWang 禿禿大王).

Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1-3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters; Includes All Characters for the AP & HSK 1-3 Exams

There is also an anki deck, with mnemonic stories provided, to keep studying hanzi if that method works well for you and you need a little more aid for a while before moving onto learning hanzi entirely on your own. This is the anki deck I used for around ~500 hanzi when I was trying to speed up my hanzi recognition, since I jumped into reading BL webnovels pretty fast (faster than I probably should have lol): Mnemonics - 3018 Simplified Chinese Hanzi

There is also a traditional version of that anki deck: Mnemonics - 3035 Traditional Chinese Hanzi

[k9punkout]

luka's interview is so much more haunting than it appeared to be when it first came out.

in this interview (you can read it for free on vivinos patreon if you haven't already), luka speaks of HIMSELF like he's a product, a thing to be maintained and used, and acts like it's a privilege to be exploited the way he is.

and because of how little we know of him, we can't tell if he's acting this way out of fear, or if he's developed this mindset due to the way he has been treated throughout his life.

it was confirmed that heperu has been abusing luka in horrid ways (stopping his heart???), and the effects it had on his mindset are present in the interview (he brings up the topic of human heart beats several times and speaks of humans like they genuinely are products made to serve the segyein). he seems to be downplaying his abuse, simply referring to it as "strict training" and even saying he received "all the support [he] could possibly need," when really he was being tortured to perfect his craft.

the saddest part is that he refers to heperu as "father." and that really just says a lot about him. his owner was the closest thing he had to a parental figure, and he was so horribly harmed by him ever since he was a child. he may have genuinely thought that love is meant to be that way, and developed and grew with that mindset.

it explains his obsession with hyuna, and why during that one scene during "all-in," he seems to be sort of forcing himself onto her? (he doesn't seem to be trying to do anything TOO crazy, but she's still frozen and clearly uncomfortable.) Luka believes that if you want something, the only way to get it is to take it by force, and he likely thinks this way because he's been used and hurt by aliens for their entertainment all his life. he might've genuinely believed that this was the way of the world because it's the only thing he's seen.

it's why he's so possessive over hyuna, and why he mentally abuses his opponents on stage. he needs control, and he only knows one way to get it. he sees this method of harming people as a way to achieve power as conventional and normal because it's all he's ever known. i honestly believe that he DID kill hyun-woo, but I don't think he's an evil person.

in my eyes, Luka is a child that lived a horrific life, and as a result developed a fucked up way of thinking. we barely know anything about him in canon, but through his actions and behavior we can see that he clearly doesn't know how to act normally, especially around things that he loves and idolizes. i think hyuna offered him the first glimpse of acceptance and safety he had ever felt in his life, and he grew unhealthily attached to that. paired with his messed-up worldview and trauma, it developed into a possessive obsession that led him to do the things he did.

love him or hate him, you have to acknowledge that deep down he was once (and maybe still is) a little kid that was exploited and violated when he needed to be protected.

[lokh]

ive been thinking about this but. i think shuro understands laios' character pretty well, but he doesn't value his strengths or interests (monster knowledge). in the DVD extra where laios imagines what would have happened if they'd been on better terms, shuro STILL leaves because he thinks his chances are better with a trained crew (which....... is likely to be true but. look at how he ended up anyway lmao). meanwhile kabru recognises that while the party isnt particularly strong, the reason they get so far in the first place is BECAUSE of what laios knows about monsters. shuro seems aware that laios knows about monsters or has an interest in them, but views this as frivolous and a waste of time and doesn't seem to realise how much this knowledge carried them in the first place

[vichi60]

pizza head doodles :]

[daniclaytcn]

it's in his kiss

rated T | 2k | canon divergence | character study

Instead, he reaches out and slides a hand into Tommy’s hair, tugging at his curls until Tommy comes willingly, and then his mouth is on Eddie’s. Eddie has never kissed a man before. Eddie has never kissed a man before, and Tommy seems to understand this, because his mouth against Eddie’s is soft at first, yielding and supplicant and gentle. Eddie doesn’t want gentle. Based on that interview where Lou Ferrigno Jr. said that Tommy was supposed to kiss Eddie, instead: a look at an alternate ending to 7x04.

[read here on ao3]

[qrichas]

btw! from twitter, some context from qforever and qcellbits convo

[mariocki]

A fleeting appearance by Gareth Thomas as Briggs, running a car hire service (but not delivering customer satisfaction) in Public Eye: The Man Who Didn’t Eat Sweets (5.9, Thames, 1971)

[kacievvbbbb]

As someone that loves ATLA and is recently getting back into the fandom and has also been spending alot of time in the One Piece fandom as off late

Luffy and Aang have a very similar energy that I enjoy. They are just both so precious oh my god 😭. They are so different but they have very similar narrative functions in how they inspire the people around them to embrace silliness and childlike joy.

But also I love the way they move their powers are fun and they love using them. They are constantly using it's ungrained in the way they move Aang loves airbending he's never not jumping around with it and Luffy loves being rubber

Which makes their differences all the more exciting and seeing how that same scale of personality

they both deal with inherited will Aang more literally and directly that Luffy (as of yet) and they interact with that differently. Aang's inherited will is a weight on his shoulders a burden he has to bear while Luffy's is a pleasant surprise to those around, and the source of his desire for freedom. And this comes through in how they interact with the ultimate version of their powers the literal embodiment of these inherited wills. The avatar state and gear 5

The avatar state for Aang represents a destiny he is still to young to bear, it is unpredictable, overwhelming, uncontrollable, it is something to be feared and worried about, it represents a loss of control for him and he struggles to reconcile that kind of destructive power with himself and his values. It scares him, and That’s why it remains lost to him for much of the series till he makes it his own.

Meanwhile for Luffy Gear 5 represents freedom, he is literally being freed from the constraints of reality. It is the culmination of everything he’s ever been. It’s everything we love about luffy turned up to a 100. Gear 5 is silly, goofy, cartoonish, unserious, fun loving, filled with laughter, insanely power and lowkey a little scary. Even tho Luffy is technically transforming into another person (or god) but god it is still him it is everything that has ever embodied him. And Luffy loves to be in it he has so much because as he said it’s him at his freest.

Aang and Luffy have very different character philosophies, priorities and move through the world differently. Aang is very much concern about the people in the general sense while Luffy is very much focused on helping his friends which then spirals to helping the general population, it just so happens that he is very good at making friends

But at their core they are just both fun loving little boys refusing to let their tragedies define them as they and their rag tag group of walking disasters rove the world like criminals, freeing the people from oppression.

[sabxhere]

Little character study I did of Ellie Miller from Broadchurch💖