#ok maybe not that deep

[namazunomegami]

“Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? Shadows are cast by objects and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. Trees and living beings also have shadows. Do you want to skin the whole earth, tearing all the trees and living things off it, because of your fantasy of enjoying bare light? You’re a fool.” - The Master and Margarita

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

guy who so desperately tries to find god. who wants to have faith in a higher authority to guide him out of the hole he's in. from the weight of guilt from simply existing, as the person he is. but every time he thinks he's answered his higher calling it turns out he's made the Morally Incorrect choice and his path to goodness and holiness was the road to the devil all along

[evelynpr]

Might be a hot take as a bkdk and tgck truther here, but I find izuocha endlessly fascinating, beautiful, but also tearfully tragic.

I see their love for each other as something representative of their innocence and naivety when they only knew so little about who they were, and what was to come.

I think the main barrier of their relationship is that its rooted in how they see each other very idealistically, specifically that they're attached to the image of their Best Heroic Selves, and not the deeply selfish, destructive, freaky, and egotistical parts of them. To each other, they need to keep fulfilling that image or else that same person they looked up to would almost die in front of them, and that would be too cruel. Although that hero is still there, that same person they looked up to is not the same now because of...well...everything.

Izuku had barely even talked to girls when he first met her. She was Izuku's first ever real friend (Sorry Kats, everyone and him knows he was terrible), so he saved her in that entrance exam even if it was so dangerous. She gave a new meaning to his derogatory nickname just by being a friend that believed in him. After that, she saved him several more times (Blackwhip and Megaphone are the biggest samples iirc). It makes perfect sense that she is Deku's hero.

Ochako hardly knew what it meant to be a hero when she first got into UA. Just by reaching out to some kid tripping, she made a new friend who would then save her in that exam, then save him again in return. This boy then became someone who was always working so hard to save everyone in trouble, and she realized she wanted to be just like him too. "I want to save people"

But...Deku changes. The weight of One for All is on his shoulders and he needs someone to carry this burden with him. He continues to want to save other people at the expense of himself, still not letting his true selfishness and ego ever show- and it only grows more and more unbearable.

Then...Ochako fell in love with Himiko. Truly, relentlessly, selfishly and devotedly in love with a girl who then dies giving her blood to her- the greatest expression of love Himiko could ever give.

Not that they can't love each other because of this happening (and...so many other things oh god), I'm honestly not sure how to explain it- But them ending up together after losing that innocence and naivety? After Ochako will forever grieve the girl who showed her love in its most beautiful and ugly form? After Izuku changed so fundamentally as a person that the butterflies of a nice girl talking to you doesn't exist anymore? After that simple image of being a hero and being in love has completely changed for them both?

Even so, I believe they still love each other. There is no label I know of that can properly describe them though. They are each other's image of being a hero when it comes to saving people. Aside from Shoto, no one else can grasp the grief of the person you tried to save dying in your hands. They would no doubt try to cope with these losses together, and just try to get better together...but so much has changed. They've changed. The world changed. What are they now? Who are they now?

"What happened...to us?"

[fru1tt0ast]

star tyrek.... ugh....

[roran01]

Here's an interesting hetalia concept. If you ever wondered how it feels like to be in those humanoid countries's shoes and live an immortal life, in theory you don't have to, cause you technically already do that.

Not "immortal" per se but you do have a longer lifespan than MANY other creatures on earth when you think about it. How many pets you had around that you lost due to old age? How many generations of hamsters or birds have you've been through? Cats and dogs? To them you pretty much are a giant "immortal" being, they age and you barely do, they don't age faster in their own eyes but they pass in a flash through yours and after the first time, that feeling always lingers around the more you see them grow old again. If you get attached enough to a pet it becomes a friend, a family, so losing them due to old age kind of gives you that experience already on what countries experience on daily.

What about the culture shift trough years and generational change? And evolution? How do you experience that? Well if you asked me like about 30-40 years ago then I'd have a hard time answering, but not now though. Our current times are quite bizarre when you think about it, now it feels like we experience changes constantly and too drastically. The tech era gives us so much info out there, our gran grans couldn't had even dreamt of, we can experience so many stuff happening ALL over our countries, in the world, without being there, all at once. A generation can think SO differently from another that's only 4 or 5 years apart! We experience "revolutionary" inventions like every month, and how many "historical events" have happened in just the first half of this decade??? It's not even done yet. How many times you've thought of the 2000's or the 80's and how they felt like "ages ago"? (As in they feel way more apart from us than they actually are, like say 100 years?). If you were born in the 80's and living trough the 2000's do you think the changes in that time gap can compare from the 2000's to now? Or even 2010's to now. It feels like we skipped at least 2 decades. Like It took at least 100 and some years to go from the first phone to the first tv, now we went from flip flop phones to virtual reality, smart houses and artificial intelligence?? I'm deviating but you get my point. Tech evolution is happening faster and faster, along with it comes drastic cultural change too, so we kinda do go trough that experience as well, at least the last 3 or 4 gens (and maybe that's the reason we feel like the time passes too fast too).

One thing you can't experience is dying and re-spawning/resurrecting but hey, if we advance fast enough to regrow limbs in the future then that counts about 40%. Two out of three not bad, and the overall sentiment is depressing but live, laugh, love I guess.. (that's how they cope)

[mephoj]

nickel and balloon would be so much more interesting if people explored the way nickel became everything awful that balloon used to be but so much worse ironically all in the name of "protecting" everyone from that history repeating. and not softboy tsundere yaoi or whatever is going on in those tags rn

[taee]

i'm so sorry but-

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Megastar 🤝 BillFord 🤝 Japis

My holy Trinity of childhood toxic ships

[underwaterwasteland]

The Kiss, but make it Erisona :)

[modwyr]

while obviously my stance is: if you think bg3 was in any way complex, pillars of eternity will knock your socks off. but also i think pretending pillars is in any way like bg3 (or da for the sake of big fantasy rpgs) is a lie (its better) because it is very different gameplay wise and lore wise and tbh my advice for the first game really is just stick with it. you'll be surprised at how much sticks in your head, and its actually perfectly fine to not pick up on every bit of nuance and worldbuilding on a single playthrough - you're not less of a fan if you find out a piece of lore from someone else. enjoy the game for yourself and if it gels with you, you'll naturally want to replay it and from personal experience pillars 1 becomes next level on a second playthrough when you're more familiar with it.

[zeondraws]

I used to spend my time on another tumblr blog doing extremely dumb incorrect quotes from characters. Also because I was too terrified to draw or do any crazy edits. I think that blog is like a decade old and has so much cringe in it-

How about I try to make some incorrect quotes to remember the times 15 year old me was shitposting ✨

Roper: Caz, I'm too tired to babysit you.

Caz: Too bad, I'm staying.

Roper: *pulls out the police letter*

Caz: ... I'm going-

Muir: I'm so tired.

Gibbo: Don't you.. want to go to sleep?

Muir: *looks at Gibbo*

Muir: No, fuckyou. Wecontinuethegame...

Gibbo: *throws dart at the board*

Muir: *grabs dart* watch..

Muir falls to the ground and starts snoring

Rennick: You should smile more. It would suit you.

Roper: Careful Rennick, you might wake up bald tomorrow.

Rennick: He loves me.

Roper: I hope your ego makes your head explode.

Alex: You know, I collected bugs as a kid.

Henderson: Okay, but please remove that huge moth from my room I'm terrified-

Sunil: Erm, his name is Jeremy and he's a magnificent moth! Excuse you

Finlay: The math is not mathing

Addair: There is no math, only McLeary throwing broken fuses into my fucking engine.

Addair: I'm going to obliterate him.

Muir: Clearly, we can open a luxurious mud bath down here for our visitors.

Roper: Sure, might even help Innes grow his hair back.

Innes: *almost chokes from his cigarette smoke*

I'm too eepy to write more, can you tell I'm tired, because it's very late here yes

Gooooodnight

[oceanwithouthermoon]

"fandom discourse isnt that serious" yeah duh but i feel like i should be allowed to talk about things like people being misogynistic or justifying abuse without being told im complaining too much or something, when these are such extremely prevalent issues in fandom 😭

[cacw]

it sucks to be me

[haxardouswaste]

honestly, seeing the splatfest results made me cry. not like a “woe is me my team lost” or a “wah wah im a bad sport” type crying, cause gg you do you, but I just cried for… like Deep Cut themselves. this is their debut game, where they were introduced and ment to be the main stars of, but in the finale of THEIR OWN GAME they’re overshadowed by the idols that have existed for longer than they have.

they didn’t get anything really special. other than being the primary boss fights in story mode and bare bones information about their clans, that’s it. other than dialogue during the news that you can easily skip. no dlc surrounding them, no sunken scrolls that go into their personal backgrounds, nothing.

and ON TOP of everything, one thing that made the splatfest headache inducing… was the tryhards. on all teams, ESPECIALLY past. the difficult power imbalance between me as a defender going against like ruler +20 is insane.

but, other than my previous complaint, i had fun. the music was amazing. the venue was beautiful. the tricolor stage itself was fun. seven wishes made me tear up. every team member on team future tried their best.

i could be salty and bash those on team past, but im not gonna.

congratulations, team past. and for those on team future and team present, we tried.

[seaofreverie]

A (very random) observation

[arkiwii]

very sad still see the saria/silence divorce headcanon still going around

have you ever tried to consider that they never dated before lone trail because it would be unrealistic with the timeline and the events and also because it would be overshadowing the actual truth of why they couldn't get along