#rattling about in my brain

[saints-who-never-existed]

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

[mothflyy]

he's slowly becoming the only character I draw...

[orphanagebills]

My new goal in life is to become the random professor in a movie who just tells the main character all the lord they need to go fight demons or witches or whatever. I will also have a part time job stating ominous warnings to any travelers in town.

[captaincalamity]

the thing that pisses me off about the minecraft movie is how boring it is (or will be). people have consistently proven that complex stories and ideas can be conveyed through minecraft, with it not just acting as a backdrop- instead we get jumanji: block edition and it’s so annoying. minecraft is a beautiful game that has brought so many people together, that influenced countless childhoods, and this is what we get? i’m pretty sure it’s going to be the same plot as fucking angry birds.

this movie is taking all the momentum that countless creatives have provided to minecraft for 15 years and acknowledging NONE of it. you can have your opinions of mcyters but at least they have the guts to tell a story.

fuck, maybe my expectations were too high- but it’s hard to not expect more when we consistently got more from way weirder sources. things like stampys lovely world, the fallen kingdom saga, dantdms lab, hermitcraft, the dsmp and qsmp, genuinely every minecraft let’s play has SOME form of story- it’s just disappointing to see mojang fail to create a better story when they’ve had so many examples.

the world has MUCH bigger problems right now, but it’s still upsetting- i was born right in time to grow up with minecraft. and while im not surprised, i am disappointed.

[canisalbus]

idk if anyone has said this yet but I was thinking about that unicorn machete you drew a while back at the same time as I was thinking of the new wind ancient in FR (as opposed to…doing class work. Anywho) and realized that machete would make for such a great cirrus. imo at least

Oh, yeah I can see that! Something along these lines maybe?

[fecofish]

@ani-is-my-username

I wanted to make it a meadow but then forgot and defaulted back to a body of water HELP 😭😭😭

The usual bonus :)

In my brain, Snufkin is really ticklish and sensitive, but most people don't realize because he doesn't let them get physically close enough.

Moomin, on the other hand, used to being around warm and touchy feely people, approaches Snufkin like he would approach his friends or family. On the rare occasion Snufkin lets his guard down, Moomin finds out it's not quite the same sensation... There grows a mysterious craving that forces him to steal all the light touches he can get. But, as if they've just burnt themselves by touching a hot surface, they promptly pull away, and, just as quickly, begins to swell a feeling of cold and itching, of distant lingering.

[nenoname]

[stillgotscars]

the bomb - florence + the machine // the smallest man who ever lived - taylor swift

[cryptcoop]

Happy New Year ‼️🎉

[hopefulmuffins]

Wind Breaker's themes about self love, self worth, and self acceptance are just as important as it's messaging about community and coming together to support each other. You can be surrounded by people you care for, with people who uplift and love and support you in kind, but it all accounts to nothing if we can't see that same worth in ourselves.

And it's not just 'this thing about me is great and so I have to accept that it makes me good' or 'this difference I have makes me stronger for having it' but it also attempts to tackle how even if you did something wrong or something deemed bad you can be forgiven. But you need to also forgive yourself and that's hard!!

Sakura's journey feels a little more grounded to me because he struggles to understand these concepts, he knows how to utilize what others have told him to help the people around him, but it really feels like he struggles to internalize these messages for himself. And the way he has to keep relearning/struggling to maintain these lessons just feels more realistic.

I can spout all kinds of platitudes and truly believe them... but it only applies to others. I can hold myself apart from the whole because if I don't believe my core is as worthy as everyone around me then I don't deserve the same level of understanding and must hold myself to a higher standard. And Sakura's ability to tackle these things head on, despite how hard it is for him, is something we can all aspire to.

Accept others Warts and all, including yourself.

[louferrignojrofficial]

Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your work and how much I admire you for being such an integral part of the fandom - I don't know how you find the energy but I very much appreciate it!

I was just wondering, in these Missing Lou Hours spent staring longingly out the window as we wait for him to come back from the war (the busy life he leads out of the public eye), if you had any fun facts about LFJ you wanted to infodump. No pressure, you just seem to be an incredible font of knowledge!

for some reason when i read this i forget every single thing i know about him…. but i gave it some long thought.

he tore his acl when he was 15

he tore his other acl in college and was smoking weed to cope but turned to painting instead, which is how he started. also his college friends would come over and watch him paint just to hang out with him

he’s an atheist

he cries whenever he sees a 3 legged dog

he went to therapy for years

he graduated high school at 16

he’s hyper flexible and loves yoga. the resisting roots movie where his character learns to do yoga and falls for the girl, he had to pretend like he didn’t know any of the moves because his character didn’t.

he likes rice cakes

he dyed his hair when he was young

he absolutely HATES mayonnaise

he almost died from an appendectomy when he was 15

the way he booked the role of rocker in swat - the pilot script read that rocker did a “wingman laugh,” and he tried to be natural by thinking back to laughs he got when he told a funny comment.

he loves jersey shore

he likes to host dinner parties with a few close friends and family

he worked at treatment centre for teens for 10 years

[seraphimankh]

“I think about that day a lot.”

[sp0ckism]

You can't join. You can't love. You may keep him here forever, but you will always be separate — apart from him.

Star Trek, "Metamorphosis" [2.09]; "The Ultimate Computer" [2.24]; "Amok Time" [2.01]; "Turnabout Intruder" [3.24]; "This Side of Paradise" [1.24]; "The Naked Time" [1.04]; "City on the Edge of Forever" [1.28]

[madbard]

Thinking about how the narrative of The Magnus Archives can be traced in the pattern of Jon’s scars, the way the apocalypse was triggered by the marks that had been carved into his skin, a legacy of violence and trauma.

Thinking about how Gerry was torn from death and kept as a tool long after his heart stopped beating.

Thinking about how Daisy tried to cut ties with the Hunt, only to experience withdrawal and starve half to death.

Thinking about how Melanie was forced to mutilate herself to escape the Eye’s ownership.

Thinking about TMA as a story about ancient and omnipresent concepts; embodiments of fears and uncertainties that both directly and indirectly enact violence against and exert ownership over (primarily queer) bodies.

Thinking about how, despite all of this, there are moments of joy. The characters laugh and talk and smile and fall in love. And if some die alone, even more die together.

Thinking about how, against all odds, against incomprehensible forces of violence and terror, against the end of the world, some of these characters do the unthinkable.

They survive.

[yourlocalbug]

No one wants to be the one to bite the hand that feeds, but when that hand beats, well, someone will have to take that mantle.

I have so many feelings about syo and toko. More art and a closeup under cut

In love with these two and all the trauma they slog along with them. It's something about how syo's sole aim is to protect toko, and if that means taking the pain, taking the hate, and taking the jobs that need doing, then that is what syo will do. It's something about how toko hates syo, blames syo, hides syo. It's something about how syo accepts it because it's his job after all. I think they both need therapy.

Id like to think that when all is said and done syo gets to experience a life that isn't just brutal erm, "task management" (yk. murder.), and toko gets to live a life that's not just hiding in fear of yourself. They should both get to be happy, I think.

[ups3tti]

Hey whatever you do don't think abt the fact that if Morro had succeeded in killing all the ninja in the caves of despair like he planned, Cole would be the sole "survivor" since he's a ghost and the blast wouldn't kill him. So he'd just have to watch everyone else die.