#one of The Roles Ever

[mortalheartache]

Thinking about what could have been…

(The rumor that Hayden was gonna voice Shadow in Sonic 3 💔)

[eydilily]

gem n joel the strongest duo (family) that you are

and of course. her

[oddthesungod]

Memory is all that remains 🌸

[joenateuser]

The Substance (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat

[clowfish]

am I the only one who was stuck watching those eggshell peeling livestreams on tiktok that they NEVER peeled all the way

[lakrisrot]

🌂🌹👒 watch out! he is plowing the strawberry field with gravity fissure

so I wore my Essek cosplay this weekend and got these incredible shots. and then @zmeess drew the boy!! the last pic is a silly phone edit of the reference photo in question, bcs the background was a little too close to my street lol

credit: photostegi on IG x3, my friend x1

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of the things that continues to strike me on reread is how much the character of Darcy, and Austen through him, finds Mr. Bennet dead. And how much Elizabeth, in growing and changing and discarding her past blindness, has to move past her way of seeing her father and thus of seeing reality, because the two are connected! Darcy’s letter exposes her father’s flaws to Elizabeth in a way she’d never been able to see before. Most especially the way his laziness and neglect of his own gifts have hurt his family and that ultimately he doesn’t. care. Not enough to change. It literally says that she comes home from Hunsford and tries to laugh at her sisters’ and mother’s folly (the way she used to; the way her father has taught her to by example for her whole life) and she can’t anymore! It sticks in her throat. She is grieved by the failures that she sees in him, all the more so because she IS his favorite and she loves him! And the thing about Mr. Bennet is he never changes. The Lydia/wickham situation exposes to him sharply his own conduct and the consequences and he feels it! Because he is neither stupid nor unfeeling. But he, like everyone, has free will. And he chooses not to change when the opportunity presents itself. He even jokes about how quickly his feeling bad will pass and how soon everything will go back to normal, to his laziness and his selfishness. He is set in his ways and he serves as a contrast to Elizabeth’s personal journey because he embodies a version of a person she could have become and was in danger of becoming if her only goal at all times was to laugh at and judge people from the sidelines.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[drawsmaddy]

[ID in ALT text]

They're best friends!!!!!!!!!

[heartorbit]

so when's the wxs phantom of the opera set

[pocketgalaxies]

I will never let you go.

[chawliekin]

and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…

[residentinsomniacartist]

wait wait wait guys have you ever thought about how the Mighty Nein are everything they shouldn’t be upon first glance

no no guys guys listen to me they’re all the antithesis of what they’re meant to be and that’s why they’re such amazing and heartfelt characters

like, Caleb is a wizard who’s afraid of his own fire magic. his own power causes him to falter in battle. his strongest spells are his most dangerous to himself. wizards are supposed to be prideful of their magic, but Caleb’s is the reason he hates himself

Beau is a monk who never wanted to be. her job is one that people normally associate with being calm and collected and Beau was a wild rebellious kid who got dragged into this line of work against her will. she never wanted to be this!! but now she is and she’s gotta deal with it!!

Fjord is a warlock who never wanted power from his pact, which is why you’d think a warlock would make their pact at all. but no. Fjord made his pact because he wanted to live, not because he wanted power. he was a scared orphan who hated his tusks, not a buff, muscled, angry half-orc like people assumed

Nott is NOT, that’s the whole crux of her narrative! she wasn’t pretty, like a halfling girl was supposed to be. she wasn’t a goblin, she was just transformed into one. and not only that, but despite being a three-foot-tall alcoholic kleptomaniac, she’s the mom of the group!

Jester is a Cleric whose god isn’t actually a god and who would much rather bash bad guys over the head with her lollipop than have to stop and heal her friends!! she’s a bubbly, optimistic ray-of-sunshine, but you know when she says she’s gonna change the world with friendship she means it as a threat

Mollymauk is an amnesiac, but he doesn’t want to remember who he was. if you ask him, that wasn’t him! he might be a flirtatious hedonistic carnie, but he’s also single-mindedly devoted to making the world a better and more loved place than it was when he found it. he’s a liar, but he means well. he’s an arrogant fool, yes, but he’s right! he did it! he left it better!

Caduceus seems like he’d be creepy and grim from growing up in a graveyard, but he’s actually the most chill out of the entire Nein by far. he’s calm, he’s sweet, and he’s comforting, more than anything else. you’d think he’d be amazed by seeing the outside world for the first time, but he spends the whole time knowing that one day he’ll return home, that he wasn’t supposed to be the one to leave

Yasha is a barbarian with skeletal wings and a dramatic, monochromatic look, but she’s a complete sweetheart. she’s Molly’s best friend, she was a carnival bouncer, she’s a lesbian disaster who collects pressed flowers in a book out of love for the wife she lost. those black wings were actually hiding soft white feathers

Essek was born straight into the den of politics, he was a spymaster, he literally started a war for his own gain, and yet. he’s sounds irredeemable on paper, but. he’s not!! sure, the Nein kind of have to drag his alignment kicking and screaming into neutral, but they manage it. Essek learns and grows and he overcomes his nature. he becomes good, against all odds

guys guys guys don’t you see it!! look at them!!they’re such compelling characters!! they’re everything they’re not supposed to be!! dude y’all how didn’t I realize this earlier!! they subvert their narratives in the most interesting ways ever and I justhshsbhshshsjnsmshsnhsfn!!

[oddthesungod]

they're a little bit fucked up and i love them a lot 🥰

[forgetriestowrite]

”I hate you and I always will. Forever, until the stars twinkle out of the sky, until nothing is left but darkness, I will hate you forever.”

“Do not lie to me.”

Ok so Asmodeus is one of the most tragic characters I’ve ever seen actually

Because he is so insistent that he be right, that his Prime siblings be the betrayers, he claims that he hates his brother (even though we all know that’s not true because look at what the fuck we just watched)

And I was thinking, why? Why does he need this? Why does he need to hate the sun, why does he need his siblings to understand that mortals are lesser?

And then that led me to his view of mortals, how they don’t matter, they die so fast, they are little blips in the eternity of the universe, and he needs that to be true

And I kept thinking, what happened? What made him this way? He was full of light, he loved his siblings so much, so what happened?

And then I remembered how he came into the real. He was born in fire, he was born already in the most excruciating pain imaginable, and the only reason he survived it was because his sister was there to take it with him

But she got to be mercy. She got the everlasting light of a candle, eternal and constant and calm. And he got the raging fires of hell, the pain of being made real and permanent and stuck. And gods, if I were born in that much pain and it never stopped, and there was a constant reminder that I could’ve gotten something good out of the whole thing and didn’t, I’d hate being real too. I’d hate any reminder that I am real, because if mortals are real and important, then something real and important must have made them, and that means Asmodeus is real. The pain is real. The pain is permanent.

He doesn’t get to be the eternal candle. He doesn’t get to be the new dawn. So he claims he doesn’t need it, that he hates it, but Asmodeus is a liar and he lives in pain, and he loves his siblings but will destroy them before he admits that.

[critter-covenant]

Class is in session!

Idea inspired from this that I've been meaning to draw for the past few days