#plot is in the source <3

[thekoolkat]

⁽ 💌 ⁾  @loveshard  asked / * [  TAUNT  ] : sender is taunting receiver, slowly moving in closer to their lips with no intention of kissing them, to see how far they’re willing to go.  from willow .

soleil would be lying if she professes she hadn't thought of kissing willow—even just once . their friendship has spanned for years that it's impossible for her thoughts not to race , eyes not to linger , and heart not to flutter at their sudden proximity . with the new territory , anticipation continues to build stronger with every second that ticks , allowing her eyes to close as she braces for the contact — but it never occurs . ❛ you're being unfair . ❜ she whines after a few seconds of simply breathing against each other , tone urging willow to close the gap . ❛ you just can't leave me hanging here . ❜

[kittehbiscuits]

I have a theory guys

The woman that he died over is the wife in the sequel, and also the owner of the finger with a wedding ring he pulled out of his pocket, so I guess that makes her his ex wife so I could be wrong but maybe they just didn't add ex when they revealed casting for whatever reason.

[tinkrbell]

"i'm only going to say this once: you're a fucking idiot." carter was at his limit with the niceties. he wasn't a very nice person to begin with, but when it came to them, he typically had all the patience in the world. / @fcxglove

[tiny-smallest]

Sonic Movie Universe prediction: Robotnik is an orphan because of GUN

I think what was supposed to be, tonally, a silly throwaway line is actually winding up to punch us in the face later.

Bear with me.

I barely remember the first movie since it was so long since I watched it, but aside from one, maybe two, of the comic universes, this line is the first time we have ever gotten anything at all about Ivo Robotnik's personal backstory. And it's that he's an orphan. In a story series that explicitly sets him up with a human identity- none of that Eggman stuff as his identity, not even a whisper of the name until it's a silly insult Sonic throws out later- this movie bothers to give him a Normal Human Society Firstname Lastname and a job.

(Okay, so Robotnik isn't exactly a normal human surname. But it's established canon that is the family name so. Suspension of disbelief.)

A series that we know will later delve, at least a little, into the story of Professor Gerald Robotnik WHO IVO APPARENTLY, ACTUALLY, DEFINITELY KNEW IN THIS CONTINUITY, AS HE HAS A SPECIFIC GRANDPA NAME FOR HIM AND NEARLY CRIES.

The original line was a ridiculous rebuttal to Tom during the fight in the house during the first movie. "Rub that in my orphan face," he says in response to Tom sharing a detail of his childhood during Silly Action Scene Banter. While there is a sort of tension there since the movie universe makes no bones about Sonic being an actual child and he is confirmed to be an alien, thus making the danger present of government capture and experimentation very real and kind of horrific, the scene as it plays out isn't overly out of character for something you'd expect in a Sonic movie. And although Robotnik is the threat here, he plays a large part in also keeping the scene lighthearted because of how utterly he fails to respond like a normal human being to literally anything. The comment about being an orphan at least makes sense based on what Tom said, but it's still weirdly personal and, therefore, kind of inappropriate to say. Like dude back up you're trying to kill a child why are you sharing your trauma with me that's uncomfortable.

Which brings me to the obvious point of that line- it's not just to make the scene funny, it's to show us how set apart from other humans Robotnik is. This is a man who has no idea how to interact with anyone, like, absolutely nobody, and every single scene he's in reminds us of this, including this one.

Now that the third movie has explicitly drawn a line between Shadow's backstory and themes of pain and loss, and we see Gerald Robotnik weeping over what I think is Maria's body in the aftermath of the murder (jesus that's dark) I have to connect a few dots of my own.

The first movie had another piece of foreshadowing they threw at us, this one way more obvious: at the end of the first movie, a government agent is sent to speak with the Wachowski couple. He tells them that Ivo Robotnik has been thoroughly erased from existence. As far as any documentation of him ever existing on Planet Earth, there is none. He hasn't merely disappeared- it's like he never was.

If they did this to Ivo after this catastrophe it's not a stretch to think they did the same with Professor Gerald. Hell, I thought that after movie number one. "That has to come up later- we have a character the government explicitly turns on in this series. Like, as a major plot point. The defining moment in several characters' stories. No way does their ability to erase someone not come up later."

But now I think they went a step further.

They've already murdered a little girl and broken an old man in their efforts to contain the genius they were frightened of.

Personally, I don't think it's a stretch to think that Ivo Robotnik, very young himself at the time most likely, is an orphan because GUN decided to eradicate the entire family line in an effort to prevent anyone like Gerald Robotnik from ever existing again.

Except. The son survived. Well shit. Uh. Stick him in an orphanage and keep an eye on him, I guess.

And where does he end up as a adult? A branch of the government. Where they can keep an eye on him.

(More than that, if they did erase Gerald, Ivo clearly remembers him... so Ivo may have joined them specifically to look for traces of the grandfather he knows existed and who doesn't seem to have any records proving that whatsoever. But that's Ivo's motivations and we're talking about GUN's, so, moving on.)

It's likely based on his sheer intellect, assuming Ivo wasn't embellishing too heavily, that he didn't have to grow for very long before that brilliance was obvious. Though the government's decision to let him live was strategic, weighing the gamble of assassination with the gamble of him inheriting the genius and deciding that risking him having the same genius as his grandfather was better than trying to kill him at this point, the gambit ultimately failed. Even though he was more than likely still only a child, they'd let him live too long. In just a few short years he quickly became a very real threat to the government- as in, if given a reason, he could be a very real threat. And nothing Ivo does is ever subtle or quiet, so his genius was probably very loud, and there was likely lots of attention, making an assassination impossible, because if there would be too many questions before, there would be an insurmountable amount if he died or disappeared now.

So, since they couldn't kill him, they continued to keep an eye on him and took him on at the government when he was old enough with the intention of keeping their enemies closer. Except all of their caution still wasn't enough and he went rogue the first time he was presented with the opportunity to grab at power they didn't already have, power capable of things beyond their wildest imaginations- a monster of their own making.

Ivo, who never asked for what happened to him, very likely a victim of circumstances he had no hope of ever controlling, who responded to this trauma by making his choice that power mattered more than anything- more than morals, more than hurting people who are just like he was once. That shaping his own world after all the horrors he planned to do in pursuit of that may finally, finally "be enough."

(Be enough for what, exactly, Ivo. You never did explain that. "Who knows? Maybe that will be enough." Elaborate.)

Whether he knew the truth about why he had suffered or not, Robotnik made his choices. He stood at that crossroads that demanded he make a choice about what kind of person he was going to be in the face of all the pain and loss, and he made his choice. This movie is about Shadow making his.

If this movie really wants to beat us all to death it won't just draw comparisons between Sonic and Shadow, but Shadow and Ivo Robotnik.

(If this movie wants to exorcize our souls after we're dead, if it intends to be a trilogy and not make more movies in following the original vision for Sonic Adventure 2, it'll place Ivo at a new crossroads, and this time, he'll make a different choice.)

(Especially since Professor Gerald, in a much worse state of madness and malice than Ivo, who the movie is setting up specifically as someone Ivo loves, admires, and almost certainly misses, probably won't.)

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

[liroyalty]

Me having to explain the Queen of Dracul verse to people:

Vampire bad. ... No, I know they're hot, but vampire still bad.

[kismetmoon]

ily limited colour palettes <3

[ID: a digital drawing of an original stylised Flatland character named Liz on beige background.

Liz is a thin humanoid creature with a seven point star-shaped head, one eye, light grey skin that fades to dark grey on the edges of her head and forelimbs, a metal prosthetic left forearm and a long tail with a star on the end.

They are wearing a sleeveless red top with a high neck and chest cutout, low-waisted black baggy jeans with off-white boxers peeking above the hem, and double hoop earrings.

Liz is stood with a slouch, with her left arm hanging down and her right arm half-hidden behind her torso. Her right thumb is in her pocket and her knuckles are against her hip. Her tails is curved into a backwards ‘C’ shape. They have a mildly intrigued expression with a raised eyebrow. There is a red triangular speech bubble by her with a question mark.

End ID].

ever-so-slightly-different version under the cut, blade warning

[ID: the same drawing of Liz as above, but there is a silver, machete-like blade protruding from the palm of her prosthetic hand. End ID.]

[yunogf]

official posters for Jaehyun’s new original Nctflix series

[lloydfrontera]

i will never stop being confused about people saying og lloyd was maltreated. like. what the fuck are you talking about. it's not maltreatment if you verbally and physically abuse and harass the people around you and then people start avoiding you and talking shit about you. that is called Consequences Of Your Actions and it's literally the least og lloyd should've gotten for the shit he pulled. like. someone very well could have decided not to take his bullshit and beaten his ass easily at any point. but they didn't. no one ever fucking did. javier is the closest we ever get to that and it was one (1) punch to get him to stop destroying someone's home and business. show me where is the maltreatment. cite your sources. tell me where can i find it. if you're gonna say something with your whole chest please tell me you've at least read the source material and aren't just explaining your headcanons as if they're facts. show me the fucking receipts ajsdhksf

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Leo: What do you guys want for Christmas?

Mikey: My childhood innocence.

Donnie: My will to live.

Raph: My mental stability.

April: My sense of purpose.

Casey: My lost potential.

Leo: I'm getting all of you socks.

All: NO!

[thebearincorrectquotes]

Natalie: Syd and Carmy's wedding will be the wedding of the century!

Richie: Took about that long for it to happen.

[sweetrevenged]

she almost skips across the driveway to where they were standing, she wasn't going doorknocking to introduce herself to their new neighbours like her father had suggested, but if they were standing right there maybe that was good enough.

them being cute may had played a tiny part.

"hi, i'm greer. we just moved in next door?"

@distantxdaydreams

[oncie]

UMM— you still doing Vampire Clive btw?? 🥺👉👈

oh you got it!! here's my beloved vampire clive AU, he's set in a crossover with the world of darkness (vampire: the masquerade) and he's clan lasombra !! he was embraced as a journalist by a vampire dimitri while investigating the mystery behind his parents' suspicious deaths and stumbling on a major government conspiracy (it involves vampires. it's unwound future but with vampires 🧛) anyway even though he's dead now he's even MORE pissed off and still plotting to destroy everything and everyone so watch out!!

[tinkrbell]

"he's the one that wants you. go be with them." in a cruel and twisted fate, the next words out of his mouth is something he'd never think to say—at least not directed at them. "i don't want you. not anymore." / @canncnball

[persephonyed]

open to: anyone !

      “i know we had plans to meet up tonight,” penny was reluctant to admit, but the light buzz from the cheap beer they'd been celebrating with gave her courage. “but i’m kind of worried about what this might do to our friendship.”

[dollieour]

allí    en    medio    del    callejón    húmedo, penumbroso    y    vacío,    benji    no    podía    sacarse    la    imagen    de    la    cabeza.    aquella    escena    de    minutos    atrás    seguía    rondándole,    clavándose    como    un    espino    que    no    podía    arrancar.    lo    había    visto,    esa    sonrisa    que    el    otro    le    había    dado    a    ese    tipo    en    la    barra    de    aquel    bar.    un    gesto    insignificante,    tal    vez,    pero    para    benji,    era    suficiente    para    alimentar    sus    celos.

" ¿ qué    demonios    fue    eso ? "    su    voz    salió    tranquila,    demasiado    tranquila,    mientras    exhalaba    una    densa    nube    de    humo    que    se    disipaba    lentamente    entre    ellos.    avanzó    un    paso,    su    sombra    alargándose    bajo    la    luz    tenue,    sus    ojos    fijos,    penetrantes.    " ¿ crees    que    no    lo    vi ? "

la    llama    del    cigarrillo    parpadeaba    en    la    penumbra    del    callejón,    y    benji    dio    otro    paso    hacia    él,    con    ese    andar    despreocupado    que    solía    usar    cuando    estaba    al    borde    de    explotar.    la    sonrisa    que    se    formó    en    sus    labios    era    todo    menos    cálida.

no    necesitaba    explicar    qué    había    visto.    para    benji,    todo    estaba    claro    en    su    cabeza,    y    eso    era    suficiente.    el    veneno    de    los    celos    había    comenzado    a    correrle    por    las    venas,    nublándole    la    razón.    " no    te    hagas    el    inocente.    esa    sonrisa,    ese    maldito    cruce    de    miradas. "    benji    se    rió    amargamente.    " ¿ qué,    te    gusta    que    te    miren    así ?  ¿ te    gusta    jugar    conmigo ? "

sus    ojos    brillaban,    y    esa    sonrisa    burlona    volvió    a    aparecer    en    sus    labios    mientras    alzaba    una    mano    y    le    tocaba    la    mejilla,    pero    esta    vez,    su    toque    era    más    firme,    más    posesivo. "    eres    mío,    de pies a cabeza, lo    sabes,    ¿ verdad ?    "    susurró,    acercándose    aún    más    y    lo    tomó    de    la    barbilla,    obligándolo    a    mirarlo    a    los    ojos.