#my favorite guy in the whole world

[bisexualfbiagents]

Do you know who I am? I'm Fox Mulder. I was fighting the power and breaking conspiracies before you saw your first chemtrail, you punks. I'm Fox freaking Mulder, you punks! I'm Fox Mulder! Fox Mulder!

Happy Birthday Fox William Mulder (October 13, 1961)

[commsroom]

communications officer 📻

[lanshappycorner]

sayakaaaa🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

[navree]

"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot

truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us

[charrfie]

After a very long journey I've finally finished my drawn to life PMV!!! I speak about it more in the description of this video, but this project means a whole lot to me. Please enjoy <3

[kacievvbbbb]

I like to think that on some level Shanks is just a little upset (Beckman knows the truth; that he is deeply, simmeringly, furious) at the unfairness and hypocrisy that is Mihawk still wanting to fight Zoro.

That he still thinks Zoro’s going to be his greatest challenger- the one to usurp his throne, that even though he’s down an eye, even though they are both “lacking”. Zoro is somehow still worthy of Mihawk’s attention when Shanks has been judged and found wanting.

Shanks lost an arm, and they still can’t talk about it, and Mihawk still won’t fight him, but he’ll fight Zoro. Trained Zoro. And he knows it’s not the same, he doesn’t even want the title, doesn’t want to be Mihawk’s “destiny”. He knows that he’s being childish but Mihawk started it and it’s not fair.

[havockingboo]

Levi, DD, and Helios. aka ‘The Disastrio’

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Me, every single time Jon reprises an older role in act 2 of Nerdy Prudes:

[basuralindo]

So I was asked to expand on the whole Jamil having a trauma response to Leona comment on my last post, aaand here's that.

(This pertains to chapter 6 btw, so spoiler warning)

(also it's very much sleep deprived rambling so sorry if it's, well, rambly)

First off, I'm operating under the assumption that he has cPTSD. Jamil has clearly been programmed since birth to always obey the Asims and act in their best interests, even at the expense of his own life. This is a boy who has been forced to eat poison to protect them and their assets, who's family was forced to let that happen, and who has been so desperate his entire life to escape that situation that he was willing to resort to murder and doom not just himself but his whole family which he is implied to care about. Which means if simply quitting was an option, he would have done so. So, you kinda have to infer that he and his family don't have a choice in this role, and there are severe enough consequences for disobedience that fucking up or refusing is a worse option than risking a slow painful death every time Kalim wants to eat something. And this is all stuff that's been depicted blatantly in canon, not even touching on the assumptions that could be made from there.

So that's the position Jamil is in. That is a traumatic situation. This is a guy who has been groomed for servitude and obedience since he was old enough to talk. These kinds of circumstances absolutely can lead someone to be triggered into subservience or other trained behaviors. That's just, a thing with trauma.

Now, with the Asims being one of if not THE most powerful merchant families in their country, one of the expectations of Jamil as their servant and especially as the attendant to their heir is to ensure good relationships with other rich and powerful families, especially royalty. This was shown in the fireworks event, where he states that as a prince, if Malleus came to any harm under his watch while a guest of the Asims, it could start an international conflict. These are incredibly high stakes, a misstep on Jamil's part could ruin the Asim family and potentially even endanger his country, and it's pretty strongly implied that he and his family would take the blame and suffer the consequences. Now, much like how wearing a company logo while at work makes your actions representative of your employer, Jamil serving the Asims 24/7 (and especially as the chaperone of their heir) means that he is representing their family At All Times. This is why he is forced to defer to Kalim in all aspects of life even outside of their country, part of his job is to make his employers look good, and there are consequences for not doing so. This means that anyone of high enough status to be significant to the Asims is someone who Jamil is required to be subordinate to.

Then, enter Leona. As a wealthy prince, he would be someone who Jamil is expected maintain good relations with at any cost to himself. With his position Leona could literally destroy Jamil's (and probably his family's) entire life with a single complaint to the Asims about his conduct. Like, he could do that with no actual cause just for fun, because the Asims are 100% going to take the side of a prince over an expendable servant. This means that one misstep or any backtalk from Jamil puts him at massive risk, it is entirely up to Leona whether or not he suffers for any of these actions, and while the audience knows Leona's personal morals would prevent him from actually doing that, Jamil does not.

THEREFORE (sorry this ended up so long), once Jamil was in a life threatening situation with Leona, it seems likely that all this programming and fear would manifest in desperately trying to protect him and follow orders the way he's always done for Kalim. To me, the way he snapped into bodyguard mode, and immediately complied with every one of Leona's bitchy commands (like giving him a hair ornament to throw away without question, and barely saying anything about it after), even while being humiliated and knowing he was less trained in magic, just comes off more like a trigger response than anything. Especially because I can't imagine that situation not being triggering, and I can't imagine him knowing any other way to respond.

[papayafiles]

i'll believe in you, still your number 1 fan x

(lando norris - the last one by maisie peters)

[commsroom]

eiffel drawn for me by @kalidels!!

[catominor]

like to give cato the younger a kiss on his big stupid nose. reblog to give cato the younger a kiss on his big stupid nose

[mizzyislost]

dreamin of the good ol days

[eli-am-confused]

More terrifying but ultimately impossible predictions from Eddie in wake of most of his last predictions coming true.

I am so sorry about how bad the cropping on the third picture is I could probably fix it but that’s a morning Eli job not a 1:30 am Eli job.

3/3

This is the end of the comic.

Words under the cut

Picture one

Howard: So, when’s the wedding?

Eddie: Shut up Howie. One of those random predictions had to be false.

Howard: Eh, it was worth a shot.

Picture two (I put too many words here)

Howard: Too bad we’ll both die alone now. Why didn’t you predict I’d marry some cute military man huh? I thought I was your favorite older brother.

Eddie: Honestly I’m surprised even one of those came true, let alone three. Maybe I should’ve come up with more unbelievable shit.

Picture three (I’d like to write a formal apology to my phone at this time)

Eddie: Like Paul being cloned by the sketchy company he works for, or Jerry raising a secret kid in the forest where the kid grows far too fast and far too strong to be normal, or another family member we’ve totally forgotten about being forgotten because of strange inter-dimensional eldrich god magic dullshit.

Picture four

Eddie: at least those wouldn’t’ve had any potential of coming true.

Howard: Jerry with a mini me? Terrifying.

[thousand-winters]

Do you ever think about how insane Darius' teleportation is, actually? He can do that in very long range and to other people without him even having to see where he's taking them (like when he tossed the BATTs into the Conformatorium), and as far as I can remember, he's the only abomination witch who seems to have access to that specific ability (he has many of those that seem to be exclusive of the experiments he did on his own body, frankly, but this one is more external).

Where did he even learn that? How?

My running theory is it's an ability influenced by wild magic.

Hear me out here. I've thought a lot about Hunter's whole deal with his quick-step-thingie. It would be easy to assume that has nothing to do with him and Flapjack allowed him to do it, especially since it's the one thing he keeps after Flapjack's life is absorbed within him, but the thing is he used that already with his artificial staff, it just seemed to have a much superior range, so I can only imagine that what Flapjack did both alive and dead is give Hunter the magic energy necessary to still perform that move.

But once again, then where did Hunter even learn that?

The artificial staff in itself might have been it. Or, well, a mix of that and the way in which Belos himself fights, since he also has some sort of teleportation. We don't really see it a lot, and it might be a bit questionable if it counts when he does it inside of his own mind, but he also does it in his fight with Luz in s1.

Now, Belos wouldn't be fighting all that often, but given his insistence to isolate Hunter and the way in which he gave all of his grimwalkers an artificial staff, I find it likely enough that he taught them to fight too. Or at least did the mere basic of "I'm going to beat you up and you figure out how to fight me" 💀 However it was, they could have learned that move from him or drew inspiration from it.

And so what I'm getting to here is that Darius' mentor was the one who either taught him to adapt the teleporation move to his own abilities or inspired him to do it.

Why do I say it's wild magic? Well, what Belos does isn't exactly "traditional" magic in the way he puts it, which is very ironic, but he did use glyphs and other things to develop his own magic and create the artificial staves. More over, the other two characters we see using teleportation are Eda, notorious wild witch, when she still had all of her magic, and Lilith, who as part of the Emperor's Coven does not have her magic locked by tracks.

Aditionally, it's just the Clawthornes, and it seemed that they weren't all that interested in the norms Belos' reign was trying to implement, since Gwen only even joined a coven in order to try and cure Eda's curse. Very interesting that the sisters that could do that were from a family that sort of had predisposition to wild magic in the first place.

I particularly like to headcanon this because it would be another subtle way in which Darius is not conforming to what would be expected of him as not only a coven witch, but THE Head Witch of his coven, and right under Belos' nose while ironically because of the previous Golden Guard's influence.

[jazzzzzzhands]

Inktober 2023 Yr 8. Day 5: Map Which path will you take? In the end, You will come to Me