#pulling threads

[hauntingblue]

FUCK!!! Ace's bead necklace makes sense as a Buddhist symbol when you put it along with the Buddhist symbol for temple that was THE SYMBOL OF THE WHITEBEARD PIRATES!!!

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[puddii-ng]

some tica4 deicy & hansel.. as a treat

[carolinanadeau]

"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

[devastatinglygreen]

it really was very heavy handedly eros and psyche the whole time

eros falls in love with psyche after being sent to find her a husband

eros leaves psyche alone after she betrays his trust even tho he still loves her

and, in some of the stories, psyche's trials are made worse by eros in his effort to help her

psyche intends to sacrifice herself at the last trial

psyche is depicted with butterfly wings after being made immortal and granted forgiveness.

so then she and eros can live on in a happy marriage of equals

[kedreeva]

Okay if you haven't yet, and you have Netflix/Paramount+, consider giving "School Spirits" a chance.

It looks like a silly little cheesy teenage ghosts show, I put it on for background noise, and then got totally engrossed in the mystery. It's VERY well written, very well filmed, the mystery was GREAT and the payoff at the end is also great.

One of the things majorly lacking in shows I've recently tried to watch is that they try to do a twist/reveal at the end that comes out of nowhere. They don't want you to guess what they're doing. This show doesn't do that. This show wants you to guess. They give you seven different mysteries and enough clues to guess (most of) what is going on, so that when you get the final puzzle piece to any given mystery, it feels GREAT.

The story premise is this: a teenager in hs wakes up as a ghost in the hs, and doesn't remember how she died, and with the help of the other ghosts, tries to solve the mystery of her own death.

Simple premise. BEAUTIFULLY executed. Not all of the questions that arise get answered, but the main one (what she doesn't remember) gets solved by the end of the season, leaving the "why/how and what comes next" to be carried to the next season. It does a cliffhanger RIGHT. But now I desperately want to see the second season (which I believe has been approved, so it's a matter of waiting).

So pretty please, if you're looking for something to do and a great, engaging lil mystery to watch, consider! School Spirits!!

[ganondoodle]

there goes my favorite drawing software ...

i defended their plans for the version2 and all, bc i didnt see much wrong with it and liked csp alot, but i guess i should have become a hater back then already

after that one big mistake that sparked so much outrage they really said but how can we actually lose EVERYONE, they saw deviantart doing it and thought BET I CAN DO IT FASTER

(they say they dont use user data but are basing it on stable diffusion of all things, they literally only ask people to think morally/ethically when using it to not use stolen stuff like thats ever worked with anything ever, plus "we cant guarantee that there will be no copyright infringement" OH YOU DONT SAY)

[ingravinoveritas]

The grey in his beard is so sexy here...

[axoqiii]

ive been thinking of an au !! so i made a nitw-like screenshot of it as a little test :D

[hamable]

It’s really interesting to me how elusive Kipperlily Copperkettle has been throughout what is now the first half of the season.

She’s the closest thing we have to an identifiable Big Bad. She gets established in episode 3 to be constantly vigilant, capable of eavesdropping on anything and everything.

And then she’s physically MIA (iirc) for seven episodes, barring her scene with the food trucks at the start of episode 7. I think she’s said to be present at the assembly this most recent episode (ep 10) but she doesn’t appear to be an active participant in anything. That inaction is eating away at me… bc I know she’s doing something.

Talk about haunting a narrative… I’m constantly aware of her nonexistence. I’m paranoid. With every episode that we don’t hear from or interact with KLCK, she grows more terrifying to me. Brennan made sure to establish right away that she could be listening at literally any point. Riz tried to keep that at the forefront of his mind initially, but even he let that idea fall to the wayside as stress built up and time passed.

I think we’ve settled into a false sense of security in this respect. I think that at any point Brennan can and will drop a KLCK bomb on us and oh boy it’s gonna be deliciously messy.

[pop-punklouis]

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[hauntingblue]

I am rewatching episode 1015 and ace accidentally says luffy's dream but it might be the forreal one not the pirate king.... so yamato knows

[vinelark]

oh hey it's wip wednesday 🫡 [cw for biphobia from some NPCs]

It’s an image post; there’s an article linked underneath, but the poster has presumably pulled the pictures from the webpage and dropped them here directly. The first one shows Tim on a curb, clearly outside a hospital—tham General visible in the top of the frame—looking exhausted and calm and wholly uncaring of the fact that he’s being photographed, even though Kon knows there’s no way Tim isn’t aware. Not on the ground, not in his city. Kon notices the cast next, encasing Tim’s whole lower leg. Crutches tucked under his arms. The brief flash of a white wristband below his jacket sleeve. There’s a sleek car idling in the first image, and in the subsequent photos a girl leaps out of the back seat to embrace Tim. She’s turned away from the camera the whole time, but she’s tall and blonde and her lipstick leaves a mark on the side of Tim’s mouth in the last picture. The linked article speculates that Tim Drake must be taking pointers from his foster father when it comes to cycling through flings; the comments seem to agree, along with unsuccessfully trying to guess who the girl is.

damn, talk about a short attention span, the top comment says.

Good for him ig but wow can we get one bi celebrity who’s not a total stereotype in this city? says another.

dr4per: Lol he’s barely a celebrity, people only care bc of the wayne connection.

hc1942: he’s probably not even really gay anyway. bet he was just drunk off his ass last weekend

33lolnotmyrealname: three-beer queer, tale as old as time

PippinWasFramed: Dude, he’s sixteen.

Ovalcaterpillar1403: Everyone’s just using queerness for clout before going straight again and I’m truly sick of it.

bg_04: wow can we get one reddit user who’s not totally biphobic too?

[coffeegnomee]

I can't resist. holy shit. I was skimming the kab vod (so... what do I do now???***) because I missed context after my last post and all that and I stumbled on this: (lifesteal spoilers below)

23:00 “‘you betrayed princezam’ I didn't do shit I didn't do nothing. ‘Betrayed princezam’ I didn't do shit you want to see a fucking betrayal of princezam I can fucking betray princezam. If you think that, if you think me killing planet was a betrayal then you have clearly never watched any of my videos. My betrayals are always so much cooler than that. I would never let that be a fucking betrayal. Don't even. Don't even”

Like FUCK man. I'm dying crying laughing. like what do you even do with that. The disconnect. The threat. The thinking it was a chatter pov and not a stream snipe. She has no idea.

Like Zam is way too in his feels to have a confrontation with her about how it 100% was a betrayal in his eyes but I want that conversation SO BAD. Especially after such a direct quote like this.

also she does say in the next stream "hurting zam would be cruel" because he's never hurt her. So like, empty threat for sure. (Unless Zam does something first :eyes: he won't.) And she talks about how it's harder to be evil on lifesteal because she knows the people too well and she feels bad about it. Going back to that duality within her about caring too much about people but also doing evil shit.

also (omg here I go analyzing) the conceptual difference in the definition of "betrayal" between her and *lifesteal* is fascinating.

For Kab evidently a betrayal is only something that you plan and execute: it can never be something impulsive or accidental.

But last season we saw Mapicc (and Clown) say Zam giving Minute the blessing was a betrayal. Zam didn't intend to betray. He was doing it because it made sense for the joker to be so obsessed with Minute to the point of giving him a blessing, and a useless blessing at that.

And yet it was a betrayal. And Zam had to face that. And he accepted it immediately when Mapicc explained how if they are teammates he should have thought of the team first.

But he also didn't understand it at first. Just so interesting.

[tubapun]

Hello All!! As you might have seen, I have spent this last week compiling all the monsters listed in the Scooby-Doo Encyclopedia (which covers every series from Where Are You through 13 Ghosts) into a spreadsheet, categorizing them by type, realness, and series. This is an ongoing project, but I wanted to be able to share what I have so far in terms of data!! Let's begin with a breakdown of Monster Types!!

This first pie chart details the breakdown by pure monster type, meaning monsters that are only one sort of monster. This may seem arbitrary, but as you can see, a whopping 25.98% of all monsters across the series included are some sort of combination monster. That's the largest category overall, but the largest specific category is Ghosts, with 19.61% of the 204 listed monsters being just a pure ghost. Some are sheets and some are just glowing translucent dudes, but either way they're haunting the gang intensely.

The only sort of monster that never appears outside of a combination is the Pirate. I almost excluded that category for this reason, but enough pirates existed in combination (always with ghostliness) that i didn't feel right dropping them.

This chart is much like the first one, but counts the combination monsters in with each type they contain. Because of this overlap, the percentages technically add up to 138.92%. but that's fine, cause they're still taken out of the 204 monsters. Now we can see that 37.44% of these monsters are some sort of Ghost, with Magic Users and non-anthro Animals being the next largest categories. For those counting, that's 76 instances of a Ghost type monster, most of which are combined with some other monster type!! Speaking of which...

These two charts detail the combinations, with the first one being about the sort of combos we get and how often they occur, and the second being about the instances of each type in the totality of the "multiple" category (total of 53 monsters for those of you who want the numbers from the percentages).

Notably, 69% of combination monsters are Ghosts. Nice.

Some monster types never get combined, however, with Skeletons, Robots, Cavemen, Greek Myths, Mummies, European Legends, Dragons, and Evil Humans always occurring as just themselves with no extra modifiers. But now you get to imagine a Dragon Skeleton Mummy, or any such combination and boom. Scooby-Doo Monster OC. You're welcome.

This concludes the data I currently have analyzed/available. I hope to have more soon, either a dive into which sort of monster is most often real or a dive into type percentages per Series (most of the real ones seems to be the ones from the Scrappy series, so I bet that will overlap the two categories). If you have any requests on data or even just want to see the actual main sheet these charts are pulling data from, please let me know, this has become a passion project in a very real sense.

Edit on 9/8: Here is the Breakdown of Monster Definitions with bonus stats on common Motives and Realness

Edit on 9/7: Fixed the first two charts to reflect an update in the data. I had initially placed Greek onster in the general European section, which caused their percentages to be flipped.

Another Edit on 9/7: Somehow missed that a character named "Ghost of" was in fact a ghost/magic user and not just a ghost. this has been fixed and the charts updated (thankfully the % of combos that are ghosts is still 69. nice)

Edit 9/8: I missed a monster somehow. This has been fixed in the charts and percents and numbers listed.

[burstingatseams]

IS THIS PERHAPS ABT A CERTAIN PLSUH FRIEND..?

NO BUT IT SURE IS NOW!

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

STUPID COTTON-BRAINED BEHAVIOR!!!THIS IS THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL! MY HAND-STITCHED HEART IS FRAYING!!! FRAYING AT THE EDGES!!!1!1!!!!1!1!

I LET YOU SEE, TOUCH, GRIP THE STRINGS, THE WIRES, THAT CONTROL ME, AND YOU TOY WITH THEM—FOR WHAT?

FOR WHAT?

I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRUST SUCH AN AUDACIOUS, ENGINEERED SMILE! WOE IS ME, FOOL IS I. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU F̷̡̢̛̳́̾̃̆̍͗͛̌͆̽̈́̌͝͠U̵͉͕̯͓͕͖̔͂͝C̸̀̕ͅĶ̸̢͚̳̻͖͇̫̪̜̭͙̮͊̐̉̊̊̍̊͒̍̒ ̸̼̘̩͗̎̀̓̀̔̀́̃͐̂̈Y̶̨̳̞̯̠͖̰̯̐̇͆͛͗̓͂́̽̂͝͝ͅƠ̴̢̪̩̤̣̖̻͔̟̓͆̊͛̕͜͝͝Ū̸̱̭̺̣̣͖̬ FUC̷̨̨̦̼͔̲̗̻̈́̒͊K̸̨̛̥̮̖̘̖͍̞̹̗̳͚̯̾̑̆̏̏̊̍̅̉͆̎͋͜͝͝ ̸̧̬̺͇̪͖̄̃̽̑̈́̅̇͑͛̊̑͐̀̆̆͜Y̶̡̟̯̣̯̓O̵̩̩͎͂̿̐̋̄̇̓͑̋̃͘͠U̴͒̂͛͛̓̈́́͜ F̵̨̡̜̳͎͎͙̦̲͓̱̞̹͐͊͊͂̉̌̑̆̚͘ͅƯ̸̗̮̲͉̙̖̻̂̓͐͛̈́͑̄͝C̴̡̢̛̘̭̦̣͈̳̻̲̃̒̅̂̈̍̃͘K̷̡̛̥̲͈̘̱̗̫͙͙̍̐̀̂̎̀͋̄̓̈́͌̕̚ ̶̡̳̼̲̼̦͔͍̮̺̃̊͐̓̄̃̀͛́͌͝͝͠Y̶̧̡̜͓̙̮̥̬͎̺̱͎̙̽̈́̌̈͗̒̑̚̚ͅÒ̷̠̹̬̝̗͚̠͓̥̲͍̗̆̃͂̊̎̏͒̐̀̚͝ͅƯ̶̖̝͉̯̙̥̱̻͙̭̹͕̐̀̍͌̅̋̾̕͘ F̷̡̢̛̳́̾̃̆̍͗͛̌͆̽̈́̌͝͠U̵͉͕̯͓͕͖̔͂͝C̸̀̕ͅĶ̸̢͚̳̻͖͇̫̪̜̭͙̮͊̐̉̊̊̍̊͒̍̒ ̸̼̘̩͗̎̀̓̀̔̀́̃͐̂̈Y̶̨̳̞̯̠͖̰̯̐̇͆͛͗̓͂́̽̂͝͝ͅƠ̴̢̪̩̤̣̖̻͔̟̓͆̊͛̕͜͝͝Ū̸̱̭̺̣̣͖̬ F̵̨̡̜̳͎͎͙̦̲͓̱̞̹͐͊͊͂̉̌̑̆̚͘ͅƯ̸̗̮̲͉̙̖̻̂̓͐͛̈́͑̄͝C̴̡̢̛̘̭̦̣͈̳̻̲̃̒̅̂̈̍̃͘K̷̡̛̥̲͈̘̱̗̫͙͙̍̐̀̂̎̀͋̄̓̈́͌̕̚ ̶̡̳̼̲̼̦͔͍̮̺̃̊͐̓̄̃̀͛́͌͝͝͠Y̶̧̡̜͓̙̮̥̬͎̺̱͎̙̽̈́̌̈͗̒̑̚̚ͅÒ̷̠̹̬̝̗͚̠͓̥̲͍̗̆̃͂̊̎̏͒̐̀̚͝ͅƯ̶̖̝͉̯̙̥̱̻͙̭̹͕̐̀̍͌̅̋̾̕͘ F̷̡̢̛̳́̾̃̆̍͗͛̌͆̽̈́̌͝͠U̵͉͕̯͓͕͖̔͂͝C̸̀̕ͅĶ̸̢͚̳̻͖͇̫̪̜̭͙̮͊̐̉̊̊̍̊͒̍̒ ̸̼̘̩͗̎̀̓̀̔̀́̃͐̂̈Y̶̨̳̞̯̠͖̰̯̐̇͆͛͗̓͂́̽̂͝͝ͅƠ̴̢̪̩̤̣̖̻͔̟̓͆̊͛̕͜͝͝Ū̸̱̭̺̣̣͖̬ F̷̡̢̛̳́̾̃̆̍͗͛̌͆̽̈́̌͝͠U̵͉͕̯͓͕͖̔͂͝C̸̀̕ͅĶ̸̢͚̳̻͖͇̫̪̜̭͙̮͊̐̉̊̊̍̊͒̍̒ ̸̼̘̩͗̎̀̓̀̔̀́̃͐̂̈Y̶̨̳̞̯̠͖̰̯̐̇͆͛͗̓͂́̽̂͝͝ͅ0Ū̸̱̭̺̣̣͖̬ F̷̡̢̛̳́̾̃̆̍͗͛̌͆̽̈́̌͝͠00Ķ̸̢͚̳̻͖͇̫̪̜̭͙̮͊̐̉̊̊̍̊͒̍̒1Y̶̨̳̞̯̠͖̰̯̐̇͆͛͗̓͂́̽̂͝͝ͅ00 F̶̡̝̍̏0̴̫̲͓͉͍̫͉͈̝͔̪͉͍́1̶̡̬̥̙͍̰̟̟͍̙͙͕̟̋́͛̓̍̆̍͐0̶̢̢̠͇̮̰̝̱̩̥̲̺̭̺̳͗̑̏̀1̸̲̼͉̫̩̓͐̽̑͒̕0̷̡̡̟̝̱̪̯͚̮̈́̆͊1̴̞̲̫̪̘̠͇͍͋0̸̡̛̱̗͈͉͚̭͒̇̋̀̈́̊̏̌͗͛̚͝͝͠1̸̧̨̧̛͈̠̼̠̖̟̮̙͈͖̤͗̇͑́̋͂̇́͊͋͑̃̀̈́̅ͅĆ̴̢͔̪̮̙͚͈̬̖͈̺͆̌͑̓̔̾͘̚͜͝͝1 ̷̜̱̣̰̪̝̱̖̬̘͈̰͔̘́̽̔Y̷̧̛̞͎͍͍̞͓̹̮̱̺̔̇͆̑̓̂̔̊͌̈́͒̈́͐͊͜͝ͅ00 0̸̹̗̝̥͊̇1̷̰̉̈́̌0̵̟̥͎̱͙̌͛̏̚0̵̺̃̉͐0̶̫̀̆1̵̱̞͍̜̐̂́1̷͓̪͕̂0̷̧̧͍͂ ̸͍̈́̉͌0̵̲̬͍̋̓͊̒1̵̰̞̹͔̂̀̏̂0̸̤̽͛͗1̶̬̒͜͠0̴̖͚͇̈́͂̄͝1̸̧̻̬͂̓̚0̶̙͊̕1̴̰̳͈͛̀̈́͘͜͠ ̶̪͚̃́̇̈́͂0̸̱͎̳͔̮̓̔1̵̢̨̼̮̮͂0̵̛̩̈́̆̽0̷͙͓̯́̅͒͝0̵̗̤͠0̶̗́̽̋̓1̵͔̜̇͛͘͝1̴͖̽̈͘ ̸̺̟̭̥͆0̷̱͈̅1̵̯̮̉̉́͒͐0̶͙̈̀̉͊͝0̵̗̫̞̜̩̀͋́̊1̴̝̌̏̂̄0̸̜̻̹̹̎1̷͔͆1̶̤͖̹͛̚ ̷͍͍͖͈̚0̴̛͚̫͒͋̓̚0̵̛̫̜̞̟͜1̶̨̜̣̈́0̶̝̫͚̤͇͛͆͊̀͗0̷̰̉0̷̥̗̬͎̒́̿0̵̨͖̎͒0̶̟͙̠̠̱͛̈͊ ̵͔̫̄͆0̵̮̮̦͋͌̑̄1̴̼̖͇̽̅ͅ0̶̡̝̭̰͖̐͑̀1̶̹̼̝̻̞́̑1̷̹̈́̋̕0̸͎̅̕̕͘0̷̨̈́͜1̶̻͔͎͍̈́̆͂͂ ̶̦̘͍̺͒̌͒͐0̶̦͔̓̇1̸̗̳́0̷̡̦̗̩̕0̶͖̦̄̚1̴̮̹̬̀̊͑ͅ1̶̧̩͍̝̳̋̀̆̎̕1̵̣̯͆̿̏̈́̒1̷̟͉̻̈̄̌́̚ ̴̢̞̬̟̣́̽̆̈̾0̷̢̘̐͛̕͜͝1̶̤͔̉0̵̪̒̂͗1̸̰͂͂̌͛̂0̶͙͖̍̏1̷̙̫̎̽̍̏0̴̨̭̗̲̙̿̃1̴̨̱̙̥̏́͒͛̍ 0̸̹̗̝̥͊̇1̷̰̉̈́̌0̵̟̥͎̱͙̌͛̏̚0̵̺̃̉͐0̶̫̀̆1̵̱̞͍̜̐̂́1̷͓̪͕̂0̷̧̧͍͂ ̸͍̈́̉͌0̵̲̬͍̋̓͊̒1̵̰̞̹͔̂̀̏̂0̸̤̽͛͗1̶̬̒͜͠0̴̖͚͇̈́͂̄͝1̸̧̻̬͂̓̚0̶̙͊̕1̴̰̳͈͛̀̈́͘͜͠ ̶̪͚̃́̇̈́͂0̸̱͎̳͔̮̓̔1̵̢̨̼̮̮͂0̵̛̩̈́̆̽0̷͙͓̯́̅͒͝0̵̗̤͠0̶̗́̽̋̓1̵͔̜̇͛͘͝1̴͖̽̈͘ ̸̺̟̭̥͆0̷̱͈̅1̵̯̮̉̉́͒͐0̶͙̈̀̉͊͝0̵̗̫̞̜̩̀͋́̊1̴̝̌̏̂̄0̸̜̻̹̹̎1̷͔͆1̶̤͖̹͛̚ ̷͍͍͖͈̚0̴̛͚̫͒͋̓̚0̵̛̫̜̞̟͜1̶̨̜̣̈́0̶̝̫͚̤͇͛͆͊̀͗0̷̰̉0̷̥̗̬͎̒́̿0̵̨͖̎͒0̶̟͙̠̠̱͛̈͊ ̵͔̫̄͆0̵̮̮̦͋͌̑̄1̴̼̖͇̽̅ͅ0̶̡̝̭̰͖̐͑̀1̶̹̼̝̻̞́̑1̷̹̈́̋̕0̸͎̅̕̕͘0̷̨̈́͜1̶̻͔͎͍̈́̆͂͂ ̶̦̘͍̺͒̌͒͐0̶̦͔̓̇1̸̗̳́0̷̡̦̗̩̕0̶͖̦̄̚1̴̮̹̬̀̊͑ͅ1̶̧̩͍̝̳̋̀̆̎̕1̵̣̯͆̿̏̈́̒1̷̟͉̻̈̄̌́̚ ̴̢̞̬̟̣́̽̆̈̾0̷̢̘̐͛̕͜͝1̶̤͔̉0̵̪̒̂͗1̸̰͂͂̌͛̂0̶͙͖̍̏1̷̙̫̎̽̍̏0̴̨̭̗̲̙̿̃1̴̨̱̙̥̏́͒͛̍