#nickell speaks!

[colorfulnickellandgarden]

god the way eramis is written is so fucking funny

everyone going out of their way to be fair to her, zavala went and explained how she’d get a fair trial, they’re not gonna kill her, they got her a therapist, and girl’s sitting in her corner fuming like it’s “objective: survive”

[narwhalsarefalling]

todoroki: midoriya, to get in touch with my fire half of my quirk, i have started watching famous media with fire quirks in them.

midoriya: oh thats good! what have you watched?

todoroki: i was about to say. i have a question

todoroki:

todoroki: am i a stereotype?

[colorfulnickellandgarden]

i do really like this take, and i want to add on to it a bit. in the expanded universe - which despite being noncanon keeps becoming canon, like with thrawn - there is considerably more nuance to the whole force-sensitive vs non-force sensitive issue.

in fact, it’s better to describe it as “non force user vs force sensitive vs force user”, because being force sensitive and being a force user are actually different things. all force users are force sensitive but not all force sensitives can actually use it.

theres a character in the junior jedi knights series who sneaks into luke’s new jedi training area, but the whole thing is that he isn’t a jedi. he can’t be. he can’t use the force to move a leaf. BUT he has better reflexes, more reliable/accurate/better instincts, and if i’m remembering right can even sense the force being used.

admittedly, i don’t really expect this sort of nuance, but i think it would be a very interesting aspect of legends to bring into canon. and of course it would make your take even more interesting. i mean: she’d be so close. she’d be able to sense ahsoka using the force, make some level of progress in lightsaber training beyond just swordfighting without the force. but she can’t use it. it can’t happen, she can use the lightsaber all she wants and spend hours trying to move a cup but it is never going to happen. she’d always be an inch away from being a jedi, which is perhaps worse than not being force sensitive at all.

So, regarding the supposed hints to Sabine’s Force-sensitivity in the trailer: my two cents is that she’s not, but that she wants to be.

If Sabine were Force-sensitive, I think she would have discovered it during Trials of the Darksaber. Force-sensitivity isn’t easy to hide; I doubt she could have lived with two Jedi and all their weird Force shenanigans for half a decade and not figured that out. Adding it in now wouldn’t make sense, and it would kind of be a disservice both to Kanan and Ezra’s stories and her own.

Instead, I think she calls Ahsoka “master” because she continued learning about wielding a lightsaber from her. Through that, I imagine she got to feel closer to Kanan and Ezra, and I think as time went on, she probably started yearning to wield Ezra’s lightsaber in the way he did, and Kanan did, because she’s so desperate to feel connected to them again. When she raises her hand in the trailer to call to the Force, I’m betting it’s just out of desperation to see that wish fulfilled, and when Shin tells her she doesn’t have any power, I think that means she failed. 

[tang3r1n]

cute idea but hero!chizome grappling with a hopeless crush on all might’s daughter figure (jus a chick he took under his wing izuku style)

like UGH. he’s such an old-school gentleman FUCK. he sends flower bouquets with your favorite flowers and like a 4 page letter with the most beautiful and eloquent language used to talk about how in love he is, and he talks like he’s fucking dying. exhibit a;

“i would lay myself at your alter, goddess, my insides laid out for your tasting, your pleasure— please eat of my flesh, consume me whole and let me feel accomplished as a simple, filling meal for you.

oh i beg of you, let my soul forever intertwine with yours, let me feels the silk of your skin, the heat of your breathe, plunge your hand into my heart and cherish it. sink your teeth into my neck and devour me.

i yearn for you, lovely thing. warmly, obsessively, lovingly, carnally, i can only hope you pity my foolish desires— my insane ramblings of fanatic and desperate attempts to gain your affections. please, please by the grace of all that is just and fair, let me worship you. let me treat you as you want to be.

i pray to no god but that of your body, of your mind, of your soul. there is no religion outside of your teachings, my muse. your word is my law, my written oath, music in the grand hall, the rain, the air, the existence of love. i would sooner accept death and the failure of my life’s work than to even acknowledge the existence of beauty that shines brighter than yours.

i beg of you, let my lowly hands hold you, let my soiled and ugly form touch and feel you, let me court you, my fair woman.

let me love you.”

omfg and he’s so petty. randoms in the street and fellow heroes flirting with you? he’s sighing and scoffing dramatically before completing dissecting their speech patterns, body posture, heroing skills, physical appearance, literally anything he can to make them leave you two alone

i feel like he doesn’t care abt how he looks (i mean duh no nose.) but the second you mention liking muscles he’s suddenly finding excuses to flex and stretch around you non stop, he’s doubling up his workout routine and bulking like a MOTHER FUCKER to see if you’re staring yet.

AAAHHH idk i just love chizome and need him insanely badly.

[twinsunsintatooine]

sidgeno and mcdrai. and by that i mean a canadian prodigy hailed as a generational talent, made captain of their team at 19 with a collected temperament and polite manner, alongside their sassy european alternate captain who is just slightly older and to whom they are attached at the hip, and with whom they have said they want to play together with forever…

[leafdragon16]

Sketchbook Friday #23

Alternate Title: OH GOD HE’S GOT ME SOMEONE HELP M

Alright so it’s been over a year since I posted one of these (HOW) but I have been trying to draw regularly again so here we go

Vehicon practice for an upcoming AU sketch :)

Read through almost the entirety of IDW and I cannot stress enough how fast I’d die for Nickel if she asked me to

And speaking of IDW

GET HIM OUT OF MY BRAIN OH MY GODD

IT’S OVERLORD HOUR 24/7 MAKE HIM STOP

[potato-lord-but-not]

i just had a dream where i painted this moisthur art piece but it was in the style of those ancient greek paintings you see. and in the painting arthur was essentially cannibalising moist (canon (sorry)) and then i presented my pride and joy to you and you were all like “wow yk this changes all of my opinions on everything! moisture should 100% be canon now” and yk so you like casually hit up your besties harlan and terry pratchett because of course youd just casually be friends with both harlan and terry pratchett and got them to agree to make a crossover episode that would kinda be like the non-canon Christmas special but instead of christmas it was moisthur

i felt this was really important to share this dream i just had with you

that’s insane, I wish I had enough influence to convince Harlan and the ghost of Terry Pratchett to agree to make such a masterpiece of a train wreck

[hornyhunie]

egg talks

i don’t want to be so swollen i’m uncomfortable i want to be just swollen enough it’s obvious somethings in there. i want to look bloated. i want to look squirmy. i want my tummy pouch just a bit bigger than normal. i want to walk around with eggs shoved in me for a day with just the goal of keeping them in.

wake up and get filled and then do a set number of tasks before a shower where i’m allowed to do whatever i want, keep them in or let them out or just jerk off and see what the spasming does. let my body decide.

stupid stupid stupid

[eveningscoolandquiet]

the Venn diagram for traits of Julian from the Arcana and Viktor from Arcane is so close to being a circle at this point. Slavic-coded scientist who develops magical healing powers in their adulthood after the death of someone close to them and their own near-death experience. Oh and said healing powers are intrinsically connected to a loss of self. Also they both have homoerotic relationships with their coworkers. The biggest difference is Viktor ghosts, Julian gets ghosted 😭

[ashyybees-art]

One of my favorite details of the Guardian drama-verse is that Shen Wei's definitive color in the present (outside of being the Envoy) is blue because that was Kunlun's definitive color 10,000 years ago. And 10,000 years later they've switched that color they each wear. (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )づ♡

[puck-luck]

....all hughes bros get ejected in the weirdest coincidence ever challenge👀

[colorfulnickellandgarden]

NIGHT//DAY

[autistic-lesbianism]

If I had a nickel for every time someone trusted someone they believed was a ‘higher being/god.’ I’d have 3 nickels

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened trice..

(Thank you to @amylaine for reminding me of the Sammy & Bendy one)

[sciderman]

I have never heard anyone call him “Joanathan Storm” and I think you knocked my brain offline for a minute lol

nathan summers 🤝 jonathan storm (jo)nathans with weather-adjacent last names that contribute to peter and wade's anger issues by being too perfect and also being their gay awakening

summerstorm.

[minecraft-sideblog-tm]

*sad piano music*

Somebody help him

(original screenshot stolen from Scar's twitter, thanks scar lol)

[smile-files]

some great bluish bakeoff stuff!

nickel later apologizes this episode; it's prompted by balloon's confrontation, but clearly nickel was in the mindset to apologize. the fact that he didn't raise the issue himself shows how he's still really afraid of how balloon would react. at the same time, though, he's acknowledging that "standing up for what [is] right" is important and good, even if it doesn't necessarily have the most beneficial outcome; notice how this not only shows how he accepts and understands balloon's anger towards him over the past few episodes (which had the consequence of losing them the challenge and getting bot eliminated), but also suitcase's anger towards him in the latter half of ii2 (which had the consequence of destroying their alliance).

in this episode, blueberry is assuming a role that has previously been taken by nickel and, more recently, silver spoon: he has placed himself at the top of the pecking order, calling all the shots, forcing everyone to roll with his punches. now everyone's in the same position balloon has been for a lot of his time in ii. silver, in throwing the chariot (:nerd emoji: actually a litter, they use the wrong word) at blueberry, is taking a stand against him -- announcing his frustration from being treated poorly.

for the longest time, balloon had "stay[ed] away from the thorns": beating around the bush, not bringing up the hard stuff, so he could maintain his positive relationship with nickel (and by extension his sense of having actually changed, which is linked with that that relationship represents) and not face his inevitable aggressive snap-back. but, though these proverbial thorns are painful, touching them helps him actually move ahead of all of that discomfort. balloon took a stand against nickel recently, which he was justified in doing, expressing his anger at nickel for both what he did and his denial of doing it -- and nickel harshly bit back about what balloon had done a while ago. balloon touched the thorn, and got the pain.

now, when nickel is yet again dancing around the problem, balloon's frustration returns. and, as silver took a stand against blueberry (which nickel supported), balloon channels his frustration and takes his own stand: technically also against blueberry, in trying to get himself and the others to the challenge before blueberry (thereby denying the domination he has imposed), but the drive itself came from nickel. he knows touching the thorns is painful, but that it's important and good. he should stand up for himself, and he does. he literally pokes himself with a thorn, and that literally sends him and the others ahead.

for the sake of this analogy/symbolic framework, it's worth noting how they are pushed forward because of the thorn, but there's still baggage: they fly through the desert only to crash, losing all of their ingredients. at this point, though, balloon's not going to let the pain of the thorn prevent him from touching it. balloon will keep standing up for himself, even if he keeps facing setbacks and pushbacks, because he knows what he deserves.

you can imagine that when balloon confronted nickel in this episode, he was expecting the same old same old: he'd say what he's mad about, and nickel would shut him down. but he doesn't. nickel listens to him. nickel lets balloon be angry at him, lets himself face the guilt he needs to feel. balloon is able to be mad at nickel without their relationship automatically going up in flames like before. and balloon is shocked! but will he forgive nickel? what'll he say? ...well, they're taken by tyler bombard before balloon could say anything...

for all this talk of the thorn, where's the blossom? well, here it is. thematic parallels indeed! recall how balloon misunderstanding "flour" as "flower" contributed to the grand slams losing the cooking challenge in ii2, which likely added fuel to the fire of nickel's hatred towards him -- now that same flower and that same misunderstanding is a representation of their friendship: it is what remains after the pain of the thorn. balloon finding value in this meager flower and presenting it to mephone at all (thereby insisting that it has value) is what wins them all the challenge. the flower and its beauty are not just a reward for the pain of the thorn, but a product of that pain.

balloon still hasn't responded to nickel's apology, because he hasn't had the chance to... but in disputing tyler's happiness about blueberry's death, balloon both recognizes his own attempt to change as well as nickel's: attempting that change is also a thorn, a very painful one (it literally killed blueberry), and both nickel and balloon have recognized the changes the other has tried to make and has succeeded in making. nickel is very reassured by this.

and as a final flower, a final reward for balloon's persistence in standing up for himself and what he believes in, balloon is chosen as the sole recipient of the immunity cookie -- silver spoon, someone with both a history of selfishness and a history of putting others below him, is the one to make this decision. balloon is finally being recognized, genuinely, for the changes he's made.

notably, balloon never accepts nickel's apology: no, he accepts that nickel is trying to make up for what he did. and, knowing from personal experience how hard it is to make that change and be acknowledged for making it, balloon is there to support him through it, and help him realize that he can be better -- and balloon is still on that "trek" himself, as we know balloon still has a lot of flaws to work through. they both know they have to touch the thorn, but they're all the more motivated to do so because they have a beautiful flower as well:

their genuine friendship.

...

balloon continues to be very charitable with blueberry, even as blueberry is critical of himself. nickel is also charitable -- telling blueberry to "just be nicer to people" implies that he believes that such a change is possible -- though of course he expresses this in his typical snarky way.

blueberry, though, doesn't believe that he can change, just like nickel used to. no matter how much balloon and nickel believe in him, he himself has to realize he has the capacity to improve before he can actually do it.