#present event

[juiche]

a moment of peace before the whole world shatters 😇

get your own print here ❤️

[starcurtain]

Please someone redraw this with Dr. Ratio and Aventurine because this is the exact vibe they have in my head post-Penacony.

[aalghul]

once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.

and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots

[moodyvoid]

Younger Dabi, pick-pocketing people for cash.

Dabi swipes a man’s wallet and slips into a nearby alleyway.

He opens it, pausing and seeing a picture of some guy labeled “Shouta” with hearts around it.

He takes out the cash and a Subway gift card, then throws the wallet on the ground.

—

Yamada: “I can’t find my wallet!!!”

Aizawa: “I’ll help you look for it—“

Yamada: “NO- I mean- uh… don’t worry about it, I’m sure I’ll find it somewhere.”

—

Younger Shigaraki, walking down the alleyway, pausing as he sees a wallet on the ground.

He opens it up, seeing a picture of underground hero Eraserhead labeled “Shouta” and covered in hearts.

He takes the picture and shoves it in his pocket.

—

Kurogiri, doing Shigaraki’s laundry.

He pulls out the small picture of Aizawa. He stares at it for a moment, an odd feeling of recognition growing in him.

He places it on the top shelf of the bar.

—

Years later, heroes ambush the League of Villains hideout.

Aizawa, spotting the picture: “Why the hell is this here?”

Yamada, staring at the photo: “Hey, that’s mine!”

Aizawa: “Huh?”

Yamada: “I mean… how bizarre… I should take that in for evidence.”

Aizawa, handing him the photo: “Do whatever you want with it. Can we go get coffee now?”

—

Aizawa, getting out his wallet to pay for the coffee. Him pausing to look at the photo of Yamada he keeps in there.

[otaku553]

Found out this Saturday that if you make a PowerPoint to summarize one piece in over 24 hours on not-very-good-wifi, you can only summarize up to the end of Marineford and it will take about 2.5 hours

Also apparently if you speak nonstop for 2.5 hours your voice Will Go Hoarse. Who knew

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[marzipanandminutiae]

so wait

the green energy parts of the Inflation Reduction Act have brought tons of jobs and money to mostly Republican districts?

and as a result, Republicans will pressure Trump not to gut those aspects of the law?

I am. cackling.

(I mean the man's a loose cannon, so god knows if he'll actually listen. but climate is my biggest worry with this administration, so this gives me a sliver of hope)

(that and him having made Mr. Electric Car Magnate his crony, so he's had to walk back negative statements about those, too)

[firstfullmoon]

claire schwartz (poetry editor at jewish currents) shared info about a virtual gathering of poets to raise medical aid to help palestine tomorrow (oct 18th) at 5pm PT / 8pm ET / 2am CET (register here). other poets present include danez smith, george abraham (author of the ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine poem), solmaz sharif, lena khalif tuffaha (author of the running orders poem), wendy xu, summer farah (author of the PORTRAIT OF ME AS BREAD BAKING IN JERUSALEM poem)

[ova-kakyoin]

the evolution of mizuki events is fucking insane

[galacticjonah]

I'm gonna make them fools into stickers~!!!

so hyped for MCM London and have been enjoying all the merch making~

[stealingpotatoes]

I feel like sw as a whole puts a decent amount of effort into making sure charecters are out of the picture for major events (Ahsoka being presumed dead during tot, Ezra vanishing into wild space, all of rouge one, etc) it mostly happens with force users for obous reasons but...

Idk I feel like they don't nessacarally need to do that? Like there's an easy answer to "if x was alive why didn't they show up during y event" and it's "they were busy" they don't need to be dead or presumed dead to be otherwise preoccupied. We didn't even see all that much of the rebelion in tot (at least as far as named characters go) and there was other stuff to do even with the death star.

"Where were all thease people during tot why didn't they help?"

Maybe they were doing other stuff off screen, or running other mishions? I really don't get why this question is such a big deal?

this is a lowkey insane take i love it, like "why weren't you helping destroy the planet-killer?" "oh you know, my hamster needed a haircut"

[engurishu]

late happy bday to tsunotarou woohoo !!

+ baby malleus i painted in gouache that was raffled out wahahahuhue

[wolfjustdraws]

...gravity falls au where lucy and george are living-working in this old house in london where this charismatic and mysterious guy named Lockwood runs a semi successful curio shop

shenanigans happen, they become friends before Lockwood reveals the shop is nothing more than a cover up for him to build back a strange portal in a hidden room in the house, one that took his sister and his parents many years ago

[dat1angel]

When Ra's needed an heir, Talia impregnated herself with The Detective's DNA to give him the perfect offspring. When she delived fraternal twins the boy was raised to one day take over the League and the girl was kept around so that she might one day provide the LoA with new recruits. When she came of age and learned that the only reason she was kept around was the idea of her future children, she fled. They never found her.

Years later, Duke Thomas introduces his family to his new boyfriend, Danny Fenton.

[mmelolabelle]

Helaena didn’t fight back or try to stop Blood and Cheese because she knew it wouldn’t make a difference, the same way you or I know that the sky is ‘up’ and that if you let go of an object from a great height it’s going to fall to the ground and break. Not because they were two men and Helaena’s a young woman with no weapon and no fighting experience, but because she’s a Dreamer.

This poor girl has been seeing cryptic visions of terrible futures and hearing prophetic riddles in her head her whole life — whatever specific knowledge she may or may not have had about what “the rats” were going to do, she knew it was going to happen (because what she knows always happens) and that she couldn’t stop it (because she has never been able to stop it).

“They killed the boy.” Not “They killed my son.” Not “They killed Jaehaerys.” It might not even register as something personal that those two men have done to her and her baby. Helaena experiences her son’s murder as a horrific forgone conclusion; ‘the boy’ was always going to be killed.

[thechekhov]

Alright I know the gag of people asking for spoilers has been run into the ground by this point but I think it’s still funny so here goes:

Hey can you describe the upcoming plot in very specific detail? Actually maybe you could draw it so it’s easier to follow the action. Although drawing and writing all of that at once might be a lot to handle, so you could release it in batches every once in a while instead of all at once. It would be like some sort of webcomic! Then we could read the updates and learn the plot as we get new pages! What a neat concept, am I right?

idk man, that seems like a great concept, but I'm afraid it's a bit far-fetched.

Do you really think anyone would read that? Like, pay attention to the dialogue and understand what the characters are saying? Figure out small bits of foreshadowing in order to theorize effectively about what could happen next? Consider larger themes and put them together with how the characters act to understand the author's intended meaning beyond just the surface-level, at-face-value reading and shallow interpretation of only what is immediately apparent on the page?

It feels like it could be something... but I just don't know.