#or at least watch the story

[vampibutch]

picking LINT off the SOFA????

[lazylittledragon]

ok i’ve got shadowlach wedding on the brain again and i’ve been cooking a Thought

you know how people will jokingly send wedding invites to royalty/celebrities and sometimes they actually show up

karlach would 100% invite drizzt do’urden to her wedding

[motivationisdead]

So we all like the “if you die then I’ll burn down the world” trope but there’s something so powerful and beautiful about living on with their memory instead. It’s not “because you’re dead the world has nothing worth saving in it” but “everyday something in this world reminds me of you and I’m glad for it even if it hurts”.

It’s “I’ll bring your kindness with me wherever I go and someone will remember it even if they’ll never know I borrowed it from you.”

It’s “This is what you would do.”

It’s “I’ll remember you for you and not for what the people hail you as.”

And it’s so painfully beautiful.

[pyralart]

I've always thought he acted like a child...

Also killing him isn't enough, I want to see him break down and cry.

I made a part two!

[novelconcepts]

As gently and politely as I can put this: that post I made about outliving him is meant to be an anti-suicide affirmation. It is not meant to be a blinders-on assessment of reality, of the future boiling down to whether one man lives or dies. It is meant to reassure myself and everyone else that the horrors come, and the horrors go, that nothing is permanent, that hope persists with split knuckles and blood on its teeth. Things are rough. Things will likely get rougher. My eyes are open to that, but in the end, the first thing they want from us is to roll over, surrender, die. And I will not be granting that wish. I deserve to be here. You deserve to be here. We deserve to see the sun rise. And it will. I promise.

[infiniteentertainment]

So we saw Tammy Thompson sing the national anthem in the first episode of s4...

Which prompted Robin and Steve to give each other looks because they remembered Robin's coming out moment in the bathroom, where they made fun of Tammy's singing...

Vickie overheard them joking, and Robin took the opportunity to talk to her, saying that she "used to think that Tammy sounded good because I had this massive crush—um, we took a massively hard class together. We were in Mrs. Click's class together," reminding the audience of Robin's explanation that, in the class, she wanted Tammy to look at her, while Tammy only looked at Steve.

So episodes later, in the boat out on Lovers Lake, where Robin looked at Nancy looking at Steve? Yeah. This was a direct callback.

And it's interesting that even though Robin's crush was specifically mentioned when talking to Vickie, it's this scene with Nancy that we see what Robin referenced in action.

But the question is: why do any of this?

Even though Robin said Vickie is the girl of her dreams, we saw Vickie for approximately 3 min of s4, and it's within the last 20 min of the final episode that they had their first actual on-screen conversation. Meanwhile, Robin had been glued to Nancy's side all season. The writers are smart, they could've inserted Vickie into the main group at any point, to give her and Robin a chance to bond, and to develop their relationship. It's been done before with other characters. If anything, it seems like the last thing the writers would want is to give clear preferential treatment to Robin's dynamic with a character who's (supposedly) not meant to be a love interest for her (especially in the season where the actual love interest is first introduced, and the audience has been mentally prepped for Robin to have romantic interactions). I'm not saying Robin can't have platonic female friends, I'm just pointing out interesting writing choices, and the usage of show vs tell.

[unlimitedhearts]

RIP Tumblr you would have loved Psych 😭

[tarmac-rat]

hahahahahha whatever you do don't think about the fact that in Phantom Liberty Johnny has to watch V sit on an operating chair and get an implant installed against their will for a cause that they never truly believed in and he probably knows exactly how the whole damn thing is going to play out already and this time there's nothing he can do to stop it.

Maybe when he asks you "What's it feel like to be a traitor?", it isn't meant to be an armor-piercing question for V's own morality. Maybe it's him saying "How's it feel to be like me?"

[thesarahshay]

Sometimes the muse just takes a hold of you and won't let go until you've made ART. Or, y'know, a Tumblr gag that only a handful people will appreciate.

[ghostbsuter]

Magicians way

A Zatara meets a Drake before the Young Justice-fication of Danny!

1/4 previous interactions

.・゜-: ✧ :-

The portal closes, and waddling in comes a teen in his PJ's, a space themed blanket thrown around his shoulders and hair dishevelled.

In all honesty, he looks like he'd just worked up and dragged himself here.

Probably what happened.

"Oh, so you get to call me at 4 am on a Friday night and when I do it it's suddenly a crime?" The teen scowls, glaring daggers at Constantine, who'd had told the big Bat he was going to call in reinforcement.

He didn't expect a child.

"Get over her shrimp," the man waves the teen over, throwing an arm around the blanked clad shoulders.

"Batsy, meet Danny. He's my kid."

Ah.

"Nice to meet ya," the kid yawns, literally dozing off on John's side. "'m gonna sleep."

At least the man seems somewhat regretting for pulling the kids from his impromptu nap?

"Sorry, kiddo, need some help here. Did Zee go hard on you during the day?"

Danny whines, but answers despite the disturbance. "Mom had to leave for a show, I didn't go along, ended up on an adventure that took a bit too much out of me."

John snorts, ruffling unruly black hair.

"One of the bat's birds will join us shortly. I needed a second opinion, minx helping?"

Interested, Danny peered up at his dad, raising a brow in question.

"There is a powerful entity currently free, I'm having difficulties identifying it." He explains. "Did anyone mess with Pandoras box? This feels like something not supposed to be on our side of existence."

Brows knitting together, he thinks. "No, I was the last and most recent one to have accidentally messed with her box." He admits. "But every monster has been contained. There shouldn't be one free, we would have noticed."

John hums, picking through his well used brown leather bag, grabbing a sack of ash.

"It doesn't feel like a demon, lest a fallen angel. It's unique in its own kind that I had to get you for help, it shares the same feeling as the curses inside of pandoras box."

Catching on, Danny stares. "You think one of her curses got away and formed a humanoid form, not much different from city spirits."

Nodding, golden glow follows the words the laughing magician speaks, answering his question with the usage of ash.

Danny looks away, knowing the spell already and meets the whites of a domino mask.

That's not batman.

Squinting, he recognises the vigilante.

That's Red Robin!

"Red Robin, right?" He asks, just to make sure.

Red Robin nods.

"Nice to meet you, heard some stuff, pretty cool in my opinion."

"What exactly did you hear."

"Stuff here and there." Is the vague answer, the bird only continued to watch him, slightly unnervingly.

"Well—"

"Kid! Got an answer!"

"Let's talk again, okay?"

He couldn't answer before danny left to go to constantine.

That was... weird.

"B, what just happened?"

Batman only shakes his head. Huh.

[mrs-gauche]

I beat Veilguard.

It's 4am. I'm a mess. I'm in tears.

[shzlpzz]

This is piracy in the ninja world

What if we were both idiots (affectionate)

[pencilofawesomeness]

Meet the Blorbos [Part 2/2]

(The propaganda continues)

KALIM AL-ASIM

The incredibly wealthy heir of a merchant family, Kalim is so wholesome it hurts. He’s based off of the sultan from Aladdin, but he is just as easily Jasmine if you look at the context. Either way, Kalim is an extremely optimistic individual who stubbornly refuses to accept the trauma he probably should have on account of countless attempts on his life due to his status and maintains his sunshine disposition through willpower and a painful amount of obliviousness. He wants everyone to be able to be happy and to live life to the fullest, and he has a endless amount of compassion; unfortunately, despite his belief to the contrary, Kalim lacks quite a bit in the understanding department, often leading to innocent, but not inconsequential, mishaps. Much like a golden retriever puppy, Kalim is a very pure-hearted extrovert who unfortunately does not realize that not everyone is an extrovert. Or a fan of parades.

JAMIL VIPER

Jamil is quite possibly the most stressed individual you will ever meet. This is largely due to the fact that he is in charge of Kalim’s well being, a duty assigned to him from a very young age, and made difficult both by Kalim’s often threatened safety and his tendency to be kinda airheaded. Jamil is based off of Jafar, but being that his one life goal is to have a damn break, and his Type A tendency to do everything on top of being expected to be able to do everything, he is also largely Genie shaped. Jamil is constantly under pressure, both external and internal, and lives in perpetual stress and anxiety. Unfortunately Jamil is allergic to asking for help (though he also has a lot of built in fear that this is a failure, and failure leads to consequences for him and his family) and also to being honest about his feelings, which leads to him bottling up all of his resentment until it explodes. A totally healthy coping mechanism, to be sure. He is very intelligent, both functionally and when it comes to navigating other people. Often times this means schemes, as Jamil is perfectly fine with manipulating people and situations into being calm and favorable. Outside of the ongoing struggle that is his life, Jamil is the type to treasure his alone time or his hobbies, be it breakdancing, cooking, or travel planning. (Somebody get this boy a nap, a hug, and a weighted blanket.)

VIL SCHOENHEIT

Vil is a young man of many talents—acting, modeling, fashion, Being a Queen... For someone based off of the Evil Queen and generally concerned about his image, Vil is not a vain person. He simply believes in hard work, and that being your best self—both outwardly presentable and in decorum—is a natural conclusion of tenacity, an uphill journey that will never end. (Yes, that does sound exhausting; it is.) His tendency to project his own impossible standards onto other people is a bit frustrating, but Vil himself is easily frustrated by people not being their best selves. That said, he is the reasonable sort, and Vil does try really hard to look out for those around him. And, just as Vil wants everyone to be their best self, he would like people to see that of him too—and... to stop being type cast as a villain, even from back when he was a kid. Turns out, that does funny things to your self-esteem. Although Vil has a wonderful grasp on his sense of self and his gender security, so he’s got some good stuff going on.

EPEL FELMIER

Epel is the most feral gremlin in this entire game, and it is a game full of feral gremlins. He is a tiny lad (often mistaken for a girl, even) but he possesses the rage only a farmboy from the middle of nowhere can. Much like the poison apple he is allegedly based off of (he’s one of the looser ones), Epel dreams of a world where he can solve all of his problems through violence, and he would love to be big and buff enough to do that. (Yes, he does have self-image problems, like all good Pomefiore students.) Unfortunately for Epel, he’s in the fancy fashionista dorm (and he lost a fist-fight with Vil) so he has to pull back and be a respectable member of society. Though Epel does learn the merit of speaking softly and carrying brass knuckles. Epel is also a generally active guy, and isn’t one to idle about; he likes being helpful, especially to his friends and to those he respects.

ROOK HUNT

Quite possibly the most insane character in this game, Rook is an Experience. (Both to viewers and to the other characters.) He is both based on the Huntsman from Snow White and a literal hunter, but what kind of “hunter” perpetually remains unclear. He has a habit of stalking people and cataloguing every detail about them, and occasionally says off-the-wall remarks about hypothetical violence, but Rook is far more likely to end his sneak attack with a riveting poem in your honor than a killing blow. (Not that the latter is out of the question for him.) Rook may be just a wee bit completely unhinged, but he means well and he hands out compliments unbarred. He appreciates life in all aspects, and the beauty thereof, and seeks to study and discover everything there is. He is extremely optimistic and is the giver of the best honest-to-goodness positive reinforcement one can receive, even if they are not asking for it. (Especially if they are not asking for it.)

IDIA SHROUD

Idia is the poster child for geeks, weebs, and introverted gamers everywhere. (And for soul-crushing grief and depression. And anxiety.) The game claims he is derived from Hades, but he’s actually Megara; either way, it’s not important. Idia is a full-blown genius who dedicates his talents to gaming, geekdom, avoiding people, and to his robotic little brother, whom he loves very much. Despite being a tall, shark-toothed individual with flaming blue hair, Idia is not the brave sort. He has terrible social anxiety and a habit of going non-verbal when he is stressed. Not to say that he doesn’t have a stubborn streak and a habit of pushing people’s buttons. Due to very unfortunate family circumstances, outside of everyone’s control, Idia’s life is pretty much set for him, and he’s accepted this. If he had his way, he would just hunker down and live life day-to-day and game-to-game. However, his lack of ambition is belied by the fact that he can and will move heaven and earth for his little brother.

ORTHO SHROUD

Ortho is Idia’s little brother in every sense of word, even if he is a fully robotic being. The game is absolutely unclear as to who he represents, but depending on which aspect you look at, he is either Hades or Hercules. (Yes, those are contradictory; yes, it makes sense, I promise, but spoilers.) Regardless, Ortho is the most wholesome bean, and his willingness to deal hilariously lethal levels of laser-based damage does not change this. Ortho constantly wants to learn new things, and he is always willing to help people out in any way that he can, be it patching injuries or being Google. He especially wants to help his older brother, who he thinks the world of, even if Ortho is often frustrated by his antisocial tendencies and negative outlook. (Ortho is often the one nagging Idia into self-care, to mixed success.) He is a ray of sunshine to be protected at all costs—except for the fact that he is literally an entire state-of-the-art arsenal.

MALLEUS DRACONIA

A lot of characters in this game are quite powerful, but as one of the Top Five Mages in-world, Malleus takes the case. He is a dragon-fae and the crown prince of an infamous yet mysterious fairy kingdom called Briar Valley, and—you guessed it—based off of Maleficent. Being a super powerful (magically and politically) and super scary dragon prince, as well as possessing an intense RBF and a penchant to attempt to be jokingly threatening, often means that pretty much everyone is scared of him. Anyway, Malleus is a huge dork and he can talk about gargoyles for hours if given the chance. He is rather introvertive and he values his long walks and alone time, but he also craves companionship and doesn’t want to disappoint people or be a letdown. He is the fae equivalent of a (sheltered) teenager, despite being older than most humans, so he gets the double-whammy of being young and old and thus is bad at social situations and at technology. He doesn’t even know how to send emails. All in all, he is a bit of an air-head, and time management eludes him, but he means well.

LILIA VANROUGE

He may or may not be a reference to that little bat henchmen in Sleeping Beauty, but it doesn’t matter. Lilia is the Dad of the Diasomnia squad—quite literally. Also belonging to the fae, his eternal smol-ness belies that he is actually probably centuries years old. He just most likely missed out on a high school education on account of being a military general and the right-hand to the Queen of Briar Valley. He raised Malleus as a surrogate parent and he also raised Silver from infancy, and as Sebek’s mentor he is parent-shaped yet again. Not that this stops Lilia from being a chaotic gremlin. He loves to joke around, sing heavy-metal, play video games, and jump scare people, enjoying life to the fullest whenever possible.

SILVER [VANROUGE]

A human raised by Lilia in a nation of fae, Silver is a very earnest and straightforward character, often unconcerned by his lack of fitting in. He might be based off of Aurora, or maybe Philip—or if you ask me, he’s Mulan—but regardless, Silver is a pure-hearted hard worker. He loves his father very much, and as a palace guard, he is wholly devoted to Malleus as well. He is most likely narcoleptic, but that does not stop him from diligently training himself to improve in his duties. Sometimes he can be a bit airheaded, whether it be his tendency to follow instructions literally or his assumption that others are as honest and straightforward as he is, but that doesn’t mean that Silver isn’t a capable guard and friend.

SEBEK ZIGVOLT

He’s probably a reference to that crocodile-goon from Sleeping Beauty, considering how many crocodile jokes are made at his expense, but it doesn’t matter. A fellow guardsmen and attendant to Malleus, alongside Silver, he takes his job seriously. Far too seriously. Sebek is rather over dramatic in most everything he does, because he wants nothing more than to (make his prince and mentor proud) ensure the glory and safety of his liege. His dedication to making sure everyone knows how great Malleus is often leads to him being sort of racist against humans, a fact which exasperates literally everyone—and is extra unfortunate because Sebek is half-human himself. (Yes, he has some self-worth issues.) For all of his ability to drive people up the wall, Sebek does everything he does with 120% effort and sincerity (and volume), and even if his tunnel vision makes him miss the obvious, his efforts pay off. Once Sebek figures out how to start to make friends, his intensity reveals a rather pure-hearted enthusiasm.

What is Twisted Wonderland and how would you sell someone on it?

Ohoho. Ohohohoho. Anon. You have activated my trap card >:D

(I'm about to be soooo annoying/unhinged and I'm sorry. I'm not.)

Alright, so:

Twisted Wonderland is a Disney mobile game made in Japan and co-produced by Aniplex. (Yes, that Aniplex.) I'm not here to sell you on the game, so much as the story, but it is a sort of story-book rpg with turned based fights and rhythm games, where you build character units from a gacha pull. As far as gameplay goes, it's very simple, and most of the emphasis lies on the characters and the story. And it's wonderful.

The on-the-box description of this game doesn't do it justice, per se, but that might be because Disney has a little bit of influence on it and they suck at knowing who their target audience is. It is about a high school based on classic Disney villains—but no, not in the way you're thinking, because I once made that mistake too. It is not a villain school. Rather, the world of Twisted Wonderland is its own entity, with characters built as sort of nods or foils to classic Disney characters. The world itself is somewhat built with these films as its past, and history has become so twisted (ha) that modern society views some of these classic villains as the heroes or supporting characters of their stories, and respect them as The Great Seven. (The seven in question being the Queen of Hearts, Scar, Ursula, Jafar, the Evil/Raven Queen, Hades, and Maleficent. None of them are remembered by name, though.)

The game takes place in the modern era, a society with both technology and magic. Specifically, it takes place in a magic high school called Night Raven College, an all-boys dormitory prep school where the only requirement to get in is a magic mirror that peers into your soul and determines whether or not you can a) do magic and b) kin the Great Seven. And, of course, the player character is a regular-ass human who gets isekai'd in and gets stuck with a talking magic cat direbeast named Grim.

Now. That is the general synopsis. I, on the other hand, affectionately call this the Mental Breakdown game.

See, here's the kicker. The magic system is pretty nifty; while it's functions as a standard magic-is-magic sort of soft system, it has ✨consequences✨

Magic has this byproduct called blot. It's this icky stuff that builds up when you a) use too much magic and/or b) are emotionally distressed. But less so in a "I'm panicked right now" sort of way and more so in a "I have chronic depression and/or anxiety" sort of way. And, when a mage is powerful enough, and sad boi enough, and then goes and uses way too much magic and sad boi juice in one sitting, this amazing phenomenon occurs called "overblot"—which is pretty much a super-powered evil form that turns the mage into the darkest form of themselves and then uses magic until they die.

Naturally, this happens in the game. A lot. The formula is pretty much that each "book" of the story, there is an overblot. One for each of the seven dorms, which are based off of the seven villains/the movies they come from. (And "based on" is pretty loose. Yes you can see the similarities, but these are dumb teenage boys with their own hopes and aspirations, and, sometimes, the game completely lies to you about what character they emulate the most. The guy who's Jafar? Well yes but he's actually just a really stressed out Genie stand in. The Hades guy? Whoops that's Meg. Is that a card soldier or the White Rabbit? Doesn't matter, he's got problems.)

The characters are so well written. I could gush about them forever, and they are the driving points of this plot and it means everything to me. They are some of the most traumatized and messed up individuals, but also, they are dumb teenage boys who do dumb teenage boys things. It is all incredibly well balanced and startlingly realistic for a game that amounts to beating the emotional constipation around people. Mostly because it cannot be beat out of them. The blot can, but they have to deal with their emotions with their own two hands, with varying levels of success.

And the shenanigans!!!! Oh, the shenanigans. I call this the Emotional Trauma game but I have once laughed so hard someone heard me through the floor. It's not all doom and gloom for sure. Sometimes you're watching your friend fall apart because his toxic mother instilled debilitating perfectionism and slowly start making enemies of everyone and sometimes you're sending three of the most gremlin students plus one cinnamon roll to infiltrate a gala that a bunch of weather fairies are throwing in the greenhouse because they stole your temperature regulating magestone to be shiny jewelry and you want it to stop snowing inside your dorm room. And sometimes you can have the exact same character who experienced losing his little brother right in front of him gush about a magical girl sledding anime and all of his gacha games. It is the best of both worlds.

And, that's not all! No, no. We get amazing character interactions. Not just pre-determined friend group interactions, but also random interactions. Yana Toboso (the writer/artist) really likes to stick names in a jar sometimes and make them interact and it is the best thing ever. Every single one of these characters I hold in my hands. Every single one of them gets to have their moment to shine. You can emotionally invest in all of them and be rewarded for it.

The game itself is free and pretty easy to get into. There's not really a bad power creep so you can get through it with what you got. Of course the fun part of collecting cards is that there are stories attached to them that you can watch, and those are also sources of joy. (And it's well documented, so you can find things online pretty easily to catch up and see more.)

I just think it's neat. (Read: I accidentally became wholly obsessed with this game and its characters and they are all blorbos to me.)

You should definitely fall into this rabbit hole with me :))) It's so worth it :)))

[therubyfox]

Guys. Guys. Please. Not every adaptation has to be live action, not every adaption can be live-action, because making it so can rob the original IP of its very essence. If making everything look realistic diminishes it to the point where you literally have to animate it anyway to make it recognisable, then why even try to make it live action in the first place? What is so bad about animation that we have to make things live action because it’s otherwise “just for kids”? Why are we ignoring a perfectly good medium only to force a different medium to do what the former was designed to do only much worse?

Some things can only be done by animation, in the same way that some things can only be done by books or musicals or games. That’s what makes adapting things so difficult, and it’s what makes choosing the medium you want to write in so important.

[charlottesolstice]

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[twinsarekeepers]

leahbeth and walkerpercy the only percabeth ever and I am so thankful for that because, and i’m sorry to those of you who saw this cursed vision, it genuinely would’ve been the worst thing to ever exist if we’d gotten a white annabeth paired with a black or brown percy