#no matter how cute they may be

[cookiesandbiscuits]

I'm sorry but

They're the same vibes minus the groveling (for me anyway) 🥲

SPOILERS octa

YEEEEEAAHHHHHH💥💥💥💥

[critterbitter]

The nimbasa trio manage to make it to a meteor shower at pinwheel forest! I like to imagine all those star fragments from challenger’s rock has gotta come from somewhere.

Some other pinwheel forest shenanigans:

Usually, Ingo’s the impulse control. But sometimes the Urge To Pick Up a Sphere is too much to fight.

Wanna see more?

Here’s the masterlist!

[fool-osophie]

I haven't posted in a bit, huh, guys?

Anyways I made this really quick doodle for @clownsgirlghost. I like their personality a lot, haha.

[unimaginativebepisenjoyer99]

what being into warrior cats as a kid does to a mfer

[front-facing-pokemon]

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Currently thinking about kid Jason trying to look like his dad (willis)

[defender-of-jouvente]

Hi Isa!! What was your favorite part about being a Defender? Im geniuenly curious :)))

Hey!! Hello!!!

That's... A good question! And, I mean, it's kinda cliche, but just the act of like, helping people, I guess?

Back home, not a whole lotta notable stuff happened. (Which is kinda crazy for the big city, when you think about it.) So a lot of what we did was on a smaller scale. Rescuing lost pets, helping old folks, stopping petty theft- y'know, that kinda stuff.

It's. I dunno. Seeing the smiles on people's faces, or their relief, or just being able to help them feel less afraid. It's nice.

[sistersorrow]

Someone should make a hybrid colony manager/city builder/tycoon game where your goal is to build and operate a company town

The capacity for atrocities should be on the same level as rimworld and Dwarf Fortress

[counselor-elijah]

Reminder of the night! You can go out to dance under the moonlight while it’s still raining but beware! You might get wet and step on,,, something slippery of unidentifiable origin :(

[ottiliere]

oh my goodness your dios.. what a delight to see someone so fully invested in phantom blood dio wow. i am very happy. i love your 3D dios. really makes me want to sculpt him as well

Do it... clay is cheap bake it in the oven paint with 10 dollar set of acrylics your life will never be better. I adore phantom blood Dio so very much... years ago saw someone coin the term “phantom blood purist” and it's so funny I think about it literally every time I enter a Dio cycle. There are many aspects that go into this preference of course, and upon a great amount of time pondering i can say confidently that this is because mainly that:

1) I love history (especially the fin de siècle) and I love thinking about him in relation to Victorian values/etiquette/sociology in general... there's something so special about a society that enabled such a gross disparity of wealth&poverty while being so inherently pretentious that its asinine etiquette rules would completely elude you unless you were raised in an aristocratic family or had access to etiquette books. Dio absolutely read a great amount of these before going to the Joestar mansion btw, even before his father snuffed it I think. God help him he would not be doomed to look like a slovenly ill-bred gamin if and when he needed to manipulate the upper classes. I really can't think of a way for him to have developed these skills enough to outclass Jonathan otherwise. god and like thinking about him as a barrister too with his profligate fashion sense you just KNOW he gets drawn that way into all of the court sketches that go in all the newspapers since everyone loved to read about crime and there were a million papers for this in England alone... he'd get caricatured so bad sometimes and he is NOT happy about this.

2) You can probably tell from my indifference to the rest of the parts (except sbr; I call this the "diego rule") that I'm not the biggest fan of fantastical elements and I'm much more interested in interpersonal conflict/relationships in general... PB is extremely unique to the rest of the series because for five WHOLE chapters absolutely nothing abnormal happens and we just get to see Dio harassing Jonathan and his girlfriend until Jonathan snaps and humiliates him so bad in beating him up that he makes Dio cry. and then Dio kills his dog. Like it's literally just some impoverished child abuse victim bullying a spoiled rich kid who wanted to be his friend because lalala sunshine daisies only knows what "poverty" is from reading Oliver Twist and has no conceptual understanding of what the real-world implications of that are. That was the character development that needed multiple chapters to develop it's so fucking awesome. like yeah I'd read an entire novel of just this alone happening and how it impacts their relationship as adults no vampirism needed. I reread "dio the invader" so frequently I'm surprised the spine of my jojonium copy isn't cracked at the exact endpoint of it. I just adore him interacting with Jonathan so much it's hard to remove him from that… that's his FOIL... all the stories (some "AUs") I make with Dio involve the way he and Jonathan gravitate each other to some degree. we get the clearest view of who he is in the face of someone who is the polar opposite of himself. 🤯

2) This iteration of him is the closest degree of separation he has from his "humanity" (childhood), thus

3) I find him to be the most interesting, endearing, etc., version of him walking around, given that... well. behaviors stem from somewhere... the thematic & active severance of himself from a species he is fundamentally incapable of connecting with due to the way he adapted to help him tolerate his childhood... from his point of view I can't imagine that there is one convincing reason for him to continue being human after given the opportunity to deviate from it (despite likely still being inebriated when he vamped himself — very much an impulsive decision since he had, what, an hour or two to think that through? drunk?). If everyone's underneath him, yes, after the fact the choice seems extremely fitting. Maybe he'll cultivate a vast swathe of worshippers and disciples that obey his every command. Maybe he'll rule the world. And then, maybe, he will start to feel genuinely content for the first time in his life. But probably not. That's the drawback of having something fundamentally missing from within you.

4) He lacks a certain type of introspective awareness that 100 years alone in a box might enable him to develop... he's very animalistic to me and possesses a precarious/immature/nonexistent grasp on his emotions just given the fact that he exhibits enraged outbursts from perceived ego wounds (in both childhood and adulthood) + struggles with alcoholism due to an incapacity to self-soothe any sort of negative emotion that makes it past the self-aggrandizing filter he can't help but see life through; he really isn't in conscious control of anything happening inside of him despite needing control over everything and everyone so he can get exactly what he wants, and deserves, always. PB paints a very dim and pathetic view of his character by allowing us to see when he's most "vulnerable", which is the thing he likely hates being the most, so getting to see scenes where he's walking around publicly intoxicated and disparaging himself for acting like his father (implied: again), who he hates, and attacking men with a wine bottle for evoking the concept of his mother, who he also kind of hates but lacks the cognizant cogency to dissolve whatever cognitive dissonance is causing this mental incongruence, rules. he rules

tl;dr SDC dio is "iconic" but I feel like he misses a lot of the charm he had in part one, removed from the context of the society that had such rigid social boundaries and rules of decorum, in addition to his maladaptive approach to interpersonal relationships, his substance abuse issues, his humbling foil... he's too "cool" for me. In the end SDC dio is simply not my Dio... he is someone else's Dio. And that's okay.

[darabeatha]

/ I've noticed that at this point I'm not even writing on any blog anymore, I just come and yell about some blorbo and leave. Rinse and repeat my lieges

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[pwurrz]

one of quincy’s biggest weaknesses will forever be yakumo just. simply asking politely for something

quincy: “no. too troublesome.”

yakumo: “p-please, mr. quincy?”

quincy, immediately: “…fine.”

[that-was-tedious]

OH MY GOD

“Yes I have a photography account just PLEASE be normal”

That poor man like fans needs to mind their own business and not harass actors for shit they barely have any influence over

If you’ve ever given an actor/writer/celebrity any kind of grief for something (anything not just things beyond their control like unless they’re being seriously problematic and I mean OPENLY AND BLATANTLY racist/homophobic/transphobic/bigoted/terrible not just an imaginary slight because they said a line in a tv show or something you don’t agree with):

I hope that for the rest of your life you hit every red light

I hope you stub your toe 2-3 times a week

I hope before every bite of food you take you have a little thought “but what if this was poisoned”

I hope the universe assigns you a specific crow that will hold a grudge against you

I hope you always have a really annoying and visible cowlick that you can’t fix no matter what you do

I hope you never have paper towels or a working hand dryer in a public restroom and your towel at home is always damp

I hope your pillow is always WARM. Like weirdly warm. Like who the hell was just laying in my pillow warm

I hope retail workers never have to deal with you. This is not a curse I just feel bad for people who have to talk to you irl

I hope your food is always just a little off temp (cold in the middle, weirdly warm, why did I burn my tongue and then bite into ice….you get it)

And lastly I hope you learn to shut the fuck up and leave people alone. Mind your business. 💜

[queer-reader-07]

where's that one tweet that's like "is olivia rodrigo actually white passing or have y'all just never seen a wasian before?" because good god i am so tired of seeing people's batshit racist takes on mixed people

[batsplat]

the reaction to pecco/casey comparison post made by motogp acc on insta is kinda funny bc so many ppl are like “how dare you compare pecco to casey when pecco has the best bike on the grid and casey rode that garbage ducati” . but what about casey’s 2007 title run guys and how in some ppl’s eyes it wasn’t that legit or something bc of the bike advantage. like obviously comparisons between eras are often pretty pointless and devolve into pointless arguments and circle jerking for your fave guy but…..

lol oh man. here is the post for context

world's most boring discourse generator. the most predictable replies imaginable. did you know that. casey stoner. was very good... and had a bike that was tough to ride? did you know that. did you know the aliens were all very talented? did you know that casey's stats are very impressive? wow. you're telling me now for the first time

when I first saw the tweet, I did immediately go. *sigh* why are you setting pecco up like this. it's obviously interaction bait and, well, it does work every time. the phrasing "has equalled or outscored most of" casey's achievements at ducati is a bit unnecessary but like... god. who cares!! the only place stats like this belong is in spreadsheets proper hardworking fans made themselves to compare random shit for their personal amusement. bring back real fandom

and yeah, listen, I don't even really have the energy to engage with the merits of comparing the two sets of stats... it was a different time. you can say that casey had on average a less dominant bike than pecco did, which would be true - and he only had the clear outright fastest bike in one of his ducati seasons. you can say the level of competition was higher or lower back then, depending on whatever agenda you're pursuing. you can make arguments about when it was easier to rack up wins, given only around six bikes back then were even capable of winning races - something which is only kinda becoming true again now with the superiority of the gp24. you can point to the ducati back then being a considerably harder bike to ride. you can point to pecco's more impressive internal competition, you can point to casey's era having some undeniably pretty decent riders in the mix. you can do all of that. and it's a complete and utter waste of time. the main point of it is to have another bout of wanking about how much worse today's riders are, which, I cannot stress this enough, who cares!! literally. why does it matter. quality of viewing experience isn't directly linked to some imaginary talent-o'-metre, that's just not how sport works. everyone knows casey is one of the biggest talents this sport has ever seen! it is perhaps the single least controversial take in the whole sport. nobody's erasing casey's achievements. thank you to the random instagram user for securing casey stoner's legacy by bashing pecco. we've solved the crisis, guys, wrap it up

anyway, look. pecco's a two time premier class champion. nobody will die if he's mentioned in the same name as casey. people used to try and discredit casey's achievements... eventually the consensus morphed to acknowledge that he was obviously extremely good. once pecco's retired, the same thing will presumably happen to him. nostalgia comes for us all