#onlooking

[astrowarr]

after watching several povs, there's something so striking about the way mumbo died.

he dies at home, first of all, which is notable in its own right because so much of his time was spent running about, usually in pursuit of kills. he dies with grian, too— to a thing grian created, no less, but it isn't actually grian's fault for once.

mumbo dies in that tall tower and when lightning strikes, from all across the server, everyone looks. their eyes land on that tower, and everyone is watching. even in grian's perspective, you can see everyone at renwood mound, lined up and staring. those at the bamlands looked on too.

they didn't see mumbo die, but they saw grian's grief. grian, who, throughout this season, has seemed cruel and untouchable to those outside of his circle due to his involvement with and knowledge of the wild cards. they watch grian immediately crumble under the weight of mumbo's death; several of them even explicitly comment, "look at grian, he's grieving, he's in mourning."

i like to think that, until that moment, grian was almost god-like in their minds; now, though, he's the quintessential concept of humanity. grief can be religious if you do it right, after all. even beyond the grian aspect though, isn't this just the most despairing omen of what's to come?

i mean, there's something about this image of a man fallen from grace, crying out as he holds the mangled corpse of his friend in the home they made together, high in the sky, on display for all the world to bear witness to. and the world did bear witness, be it with pity, horror, joy... it doesn't matter, because they saw.

the canary curse has been broken, but this was a fittingly foreboding, tone-setting image that did a stunning job filling its shoes

[lorenzlund]

'Einige Männer sammeln Frauen wie andere Leute Briefmarken'

Warum die Karowinger und andere sehr bedeutsame alte Geschlechter Europas allesamt aussterben mussten geradezu! (5)

'Alter Engel' (Es handelte sich erkennbar um ein bereits sehr altes traditionell deutsches Lokal. Dennoch muessen auch hier die Besitzer vor geraumer Zeit gewechelt haben.)

'Hier ist die Helmpolizei. Helme aufsetzen!!' (In Deutschland galt schon mal eine Helmpflicht. Betroffen davon waren fruehere Soldaten der Wehrmacht.) Auch mit speziellem Helm ist man fuer andere sehr viel leichter in der Straße wiedererkennbar. Und er kann sogar anderen unser Signal senden, befand er sich vielleicht vorübergehend nicht in unseren Händen, gelangten anderen an ihn heran, oder hat man ihn sich so schon gekauft, er verriete anderen dann unseren genauen Standort! Diese Helmpflicht gilt auch für Jugendliche und Kinder, also nicht nur fuer Erwachsene!

[lurkinginnernarrator]

svsss au: Qing Jing peak holds live drawing classes, Shen Yuan gets suckered into being the model.

Cue: SY artfully laid out, lounging like a tragically melancholic rich lady, lighting and pose just right, and various peak lords looking for him for various reasons and just entering the class and stopping, on the threshold, buffering.

In the background of course are various disciples crying because this is the third time they've redone Shizun's hand and the lighting still isn't right

[that-mystic-knight]

My piece for the QiJiu Zine

[boxmakesart]

Baby’s first Mouthwashing fanart

[i-like-forcefem]

Dumb submissions blog idea: Is-this-a-girl?

But when you submit a guy it always says “not yet”

[paintpaintpaintman]

"A lot of people are relying on you to pull it together."

I've been sick and frustrated with art block, and yesterday had a fever-induced epiphany about what it would be like when the Lamb finds out the Goat is a "fainting goat".

Fainting goats don't actually faint. Rather, they have a disorder called myotonia congenita. To put this simply, myotonia congenita is a disorder where one is unable to relax their muscles quickly after a contraction, which happens to fainting goats when they are frightened and try to flee. These "faints" last for 10-20 seconds and cause no pain (you know, unless they fall off of or into something). It is an uncontrollable disorder for the Goat, as medication to control myotonia has yet to be invented. For this reason, the Goat is a pacifist, not because they are a coward, so to speak, but because they would die each time.

The Goat was not sacrificed-- they would have been! But their captors weren't expecting them to go completely stiff and fall over, which resulted in them falling off the side of the tall passage they were walking to see the Bishops, where their spine cracked and they met an untimely death. The Lamb's neck constantly hurts, and the Goat's back constantly burns. Oh, to be a dead bovid!!!

[virgobingo]

gojo would tell geto something like this with a completely straight face

and geto would just go haha while blushing madly

and then they'd just carry on with their day

[rudhirared]

(Okay, I'm sharing that here too)

Happy Birthday, Seikca (@seikcadaikea)! ✨

[cherrytea556]

I just know the lgb will be up in arms and come at me with their pitch-knife forks if i tell them that i would genuinely be more accepted as a lesbian than as an aroace

[dyktvideogamesfx]

I agree there's a big difference between "I think I maaay have heard it before" and "YOUUU ! WHAT'S YOUR IDENTITY, I CAN'T REMEMBER BUT I F'ING KNOW YOU !"

If you know it, then you know it! And you'd vote accordingly! You don't have to place the name, but if you know the sound, then you know the sound.

[convoloutedinjoke]

If Harry’s tragedy is that he can’t go on like this but he has to, Kim’s tragedy is that he doesn’t have to go on like this but he will.

[cokicito]

Tw: suggestive content

Sebaciel is one of those couples that have an insane amount of sexual tension but don't actually have a lot of sex. They turn the most banal things into a sultry little game. Ciel would ask Sebastian to sit in front of him while he eats the oysters, and even though nothing is actually happening, they both get horny as hell. The eye contact, the way Ciel pokes his tongue out, the slow, deliberate swallow, a tiny, barely audible little moan at the taste- Sebastian is barely hanging on by a thread. They're so depraved that Ciel orders Sebastian to tack up a horse, but then has to take five because he cannot handle Bare Forearms.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

New Yorkers love to peer through holes in the walls surrounding construction sites to watch the activity inside. In 1959 some contractor that was putting up a new office building came up with the idea of not only enlarging the holes, but providing 15 phones giving a running account of the work through a recorded message.

Photo: Everett on Demand

[crayoncat-works]

Listen... Quinn doesn't know how to flirt

[torchickentacos]

i will always shout praises of bi4bi but given recent discourse I feel the need to say that I love bi4het too! I just love bisexuality in general in its many forms, and anyone who only likes it when it's 'queer enough' for them is biphobic. Bisexuals should be able to bring their LaMe CiShEt BoYfRiEnD to pride without being made to feel like spectators and outsiders to their own event.