#no i will not be elaborating on that bc i am tired

[seeinganewlight]

nancy drew parallels

the trial of the missing witness (2x12) ⇾ the ransom of the forsaken soul (3x13) ⇾ the heartbreak of the truth (4x12)

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

I am unreasonably upset about the fact that I've been forced to accept that Gabriel was a Gerald.

For context, in An Inspector Calls, Gerald Croft is engaged to Sheila Birling when he meets a homeless, struggling Eva Smith in a bar, and essentially in return for a home and money he shows her affection (ahem), then gets rid of her once he no longer has a use for her. Now, obviously this isn't a direct translation, but the essentials are - a Gerald is a character who uses another character, in return for something they need, usually masking the fact that they're using them with affection and love.

And against my will I've had to accept that this is exactly what Gabriel does to Nathalie.

Did I want to think he had potential to be better? Did I think he genuinely cared for Nathalie?? Hell, did I just really really want somebody to care about Nathalie???

Probably all of the above but the point is: he's Gerald. And I cannot - I literally can't unsee it now. Their whole dynamic in S3 is like “oh boohoo I'm sorry I wish you didn't have to use the peacock Miraculous and kill yourself over it but uh I need to use your powers” “yeah no that's fine I'm all good”. Which, given the "Gerald" theorem, I'm assuming leads to the fact that what Nathalie needed, above all, was someone to care about her - and Gabriel came along, as Sheila Birling puts it, "like a fairytale prince", and was so caring and gentle and... Yeah. She fell for him. And. Yeah he genuinely did seem to care like twice. But so did Gerald. Gerald actually admits that he did care for Eva, just not the way that she cared for him, and, uh, not enough to not just dispose of her. So he discards her anyway when she stops being useful.

Leading me neatly to my point.

He starts using the peacock Miraculous the second it's fixed, the slimy bastard, HOWEVER. It runs way deeper than that. Assuming I'm right (which I almost DEFINITELY am), then Gabriel only needed Nathalie while she was useful. She didn't stop being useful in season three - she's still scheming for him, helping him with plan after plan. It's only partway through season 5 that she officially servers ties with him, and starts to actively hinder him.

Nathalie stops being useful when she fails as Safari. And I reckon that's when Gabriel and Tomoe decided she had to go.

(It's painfully, I-was-ugly-crying-over-it obvious in Conformation that Gabriel is fully prepared to let Nathalie die - in the original storyboard, her alliance was encouraging her to sleep, and he's very obviously prepared for this moment - I've made a separate post about it that I'll link if I can find it. However, onto the next bit)

With all of this, there's one thing that sticks out to me - Nathalie didn't see any of it until it was already too late. There could be many reasons for this. But you know who would have seen through it? Whose parents were all loving and perfect until she married the wrong man? Emilie. Emilie, who left behind those videos, which on the surface look innocent, but when you look deeper look like a (love confession???????) AHEM a warning. I reckon Emilie noticed what was going on and realised that Nathalie wouldn't see through Gabriel, so she left those videos addressed to Nathalie (not Gabriel, which surely they should have been - they were about him, after all - unless they were there...) as a warning. I don't think the videos were supposed to be about helping Gabriel, I think Emilie was warning Nathalie to get the fuck out of that house, and to take Adrien with her. Because Emilie knew it'd end like this.

Yes I'm still mad ok give me a break.

[right-there-ride-on]

Sbr is only mildly morally ambiguous and that’s okay

okay so the title is misleading 🫣 this is just a short examination of Johnny v Valentine (and Johnny & Valentine) with a little analysis of the confrontation.

for me valentine’s defining character trait isn’t his patriotism but that’s he’s a massive fucking liar. excellent writing for a politician. the only promise he ever kept was the one he made to lucy not to harm steven. and even then valentine is also super vindictive, so even though he didn’t kill him he made sure to torture him a little. Valentine is not at all the magnanimous man he presents himself to be and the constant discrepancy between his words and his actions proves that. when he’s trying to trick johnny into ending the rotation he hits all correct appeals but johnny knows in his gut that this man is a liar.

sometimes ppl act like sbr proposes a huge moral quandary about valentine’s intentions and whether he was the one “walking the righteous path” all along. but there’s really not. that’s Johnny’s internal battle. Since nick’s death johnny believed himself to be a curse / burden / bad person, but through the race he undergoes several trials that end in self-improvement and learning to have grace with himself. by the end of the narrative Johnny has evolved into someone who does have the strength of character and integrity necessary to judge the actions of someone else, whether he believes it or not, and regardless of whether he feels the right to. So yes, johnny was right to kill valentine. there’s no ifs or buts about it. the true brutality and cruelty of Valentine’s ideal world was very clearly portrayed in the way D4C Love Train functions. the corpse appeared to ‘choose’ Valentine by granting him Love Train, but at the same time it was also healing Johnny. if we look at the corpse through the lens of it primarily being a tool used to achieve the collector’s desires, we see that it empowered both Valentine and Johnny and indirectly or not set them on a collision course with each other. Perhaps there was a question of who was ‘righteous’ for the corpse itself, but the narrative itself tells us over and over again that it’s Johnny.

look at it this way. Johnny, who for most of his life believed he was spiritually and later physically damaged beyond hope, was empowered through the corpse and ended the narrative with a new chance at life. Valentine, who desired a world where not just America would prosper, but where he would be the head of said prospering state, and embody the power behind it, was granted the ability to achieve that world. Yet during their confrontation, the callous cruelty and negative consequences of Valentine’s vision is made apparent over and over again. First with Lucy, then with the innocents killed ‘somewhere else’, and lastly with Gyro and Johnny. Valentine’s actions always betray the truth of his intentions; once he proposed the deal, should Johnny have accepted, he intended to backstab Johnny and kill him the moment he got what he wanted. If he had truly been the ‘righteous one’, he would have kept his word and left Johnny alone once the rotation was reversed. But leaving Johnny alive would have meant he was no longer the most powerful man in the room, and that idea is something Valentine can’t stand.

Valentine is not a good person with good intentions. He claims to care about America, yet throughout the story discards his men and citizens like bugs (consider the train engineer). His actions continually demonstrate the reality: Valentine is power-hungry, petty, vindictive, ruthless, and above all else, a manipulative liar.

Valentine’s patriotism is the motivation behind his actions, but his brutality and deceptiveness defines those actions and is evident in everything he does. The implicit reason Alt!Diego failed was because he believed Valentine. By the end of the story there shouldn’t be a question on whether Valentine or Johnny was in the right. Valentine was the villain and he needed to be defeated. His ‘righteous’ world was, unequivocally, wrong.

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a 10 panel comic featuring characters from the owl house, set after For the Future. The first panel shows Belos being ejected from the body of Raine, who's currently slumped in Eda's arm as she says "Raine, let's have gay sex", and Belos proclaims "EW AHH NO GROSS!!!". The next panel is an incredibly simplified doodle of the hexsquad reacting. The next panel shows Gus looking at Belos (pooled on the floor", before thinking "nows my chance to get inside his head again!". The next four panels show Gus removing the magic amplifier from his ear, drawing a spell circle, followed by close-ups of both his and Belos' eyes as they both glow blue. The next panel shows Gus saying "alright Belos, time to see what you-" before being cut off in the last panel as it's revealed that Gus can see the ghost of Caleb. Gus makes an exaggerated face of surprise, Caleb waves with a smile while Belos says "Caleb stop" from the floor. End ID]

(IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY THIS LOOKS LIKE ASS IT'S BC I SCANNED AND COLOURED IT DIGITALLY 😭 I drew this in my sketchbook at a fever pitch during one of my free periods) this is my only prediction for watching and dreaming, actually. Not realistic, but funny to me specifically

[pettykingratboyy]

Bryan Danielson is who CM Punk thinks he is

[dootplusone]

Thinking abt AOS Jim being protective of McCoy every time he remembers the torpedo incident from into darkness.

[carnalmantrap]

Petunias Journey Iceberg

I made a silly iceberg for the Petunias Journey/the other 2 games in the series I made with @artiethebeeboi about frogs because i couldn't sleep

Also link to the first game if anyone is interested or didn't know I have made games cause this is the first time I've talked about them here lol

[iobartach]

Infected World

universe: resident evil

verse name: domhan ionfhabhtaithe

Description: Tba'd but lots of lore details here!!!

"Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat."

[babey-dont-hurt-me-no-more]

At the oddest point ever where most Kirby blogs don’t suit my taste so I only follow like four that post like once a week, and as a consequence my dash is more Danny Phantom at this point even though I have been out of the fandom for uhhhh. Five going on six years now. And to thin out the phantom content I have mutuals posting about Journey to the West and also Miraculous Ladybug, both are media I haven’t consumed. Seeing Kirby posts on my dash is like encountering a shiny Pokémon

[cemeterysquids]

the difference between pp7 ecolo and pp20th onwards ecolo is like the difference between a hare and a rabbit

[rexcaliburechoes]

transmasc diamant would have so much internalised transphobia in him

[autosarcophagy-avaritia]

stupid how many breakdowns ive had in the time of having this acc and them all turning out fine

[swagging-back-to]

can we please talk about how theres like... two lots in the entire sims 4 universe that's 50 x 40 tiles

[bandzboy]

just taking Ls today fodasse um pessoa não pode ter nada na vida

[avimour]

1, 6, 22 for Crulexs!

thank you bestie.. <3 <3

answers below the cut

What circumstances led to your Dark Urge becoming their Class/Subclass?

Deep in the Mindflayer colony underneath Moonrise Towers, a dragonborn is able to gain enough of his consciousness to do a couple of things. One of these things is to take his own intestines and wrap them around the throat of the necromancer who had cut him open so many times before. Another is to stare up at the ceiling, the fleshy awful ceiling, and make an oath that he will undo all those of her ilk. That none of them will find peace with him around. An oath so strong it rivals the blood that flows through him. The final thing he does is pass out from blood loss, right before he's able to kill the necromancer.

Crulexs ,my beloved, is a paladin, oath of vengeance. He's very edgy because of it, and I adore him greatly. ^_^ ^_^

6. How does your Dark Urge react to waking up with memory loss?

Blood on his hands, a pounding in his head. He's lost more than could ever be imagined. He has only a phrase, The Dark Urge, and a single oath. An oath to Destroy all that is evil. He picks up his warhammer and shield and gets to work. After all, he is on a nautiloid. And what more evil can it be to force someone to become a mindflayer?

22. What first impression does your Dark Urge give off to strangers?

Nothing good. He's a big, hulking beast, usually covered in blood. One good eye staring. Rarely blinking. If someone isn't actively talking to him he can almost fade into the background. Completely silent breaths. An extremely menacing aura. Probably smells just absolutely awful. Like gore and rust.

However...once someone gets to know him? He's more like a guard dog than anything. And all guard dogs have a weak spot.

Belly rubs!!

[laisai]

well, i suppose it is a lovely day for the otw to be imploding inside while people are running around outside with torches and pitchforks.

gods, i am tired.