#really i can't

[valerileygreen]

This is exactly how Arthur and Eames look now that they are in their 40s.

Their styles are similar to what they were during inception, you can see they're still them, but they have grown and matured and sanded their roughest edges. By now, they've been stably together for 14 years without any major drama, and they've retired from corporate espionage a few years back, if not from dreamshare altogether (currently, I like to think of them as sort of private investigators who sometimes use dreamshare to gather info, but not necessarily, just because I think they'd be bored in full retirement), and it shows in how softer and more relaxed they are.

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

How I was hoping to be after s4 announcement thinking about Bonten:

How I actually feel now that they gave us the foreshadowing of Kanto Manji what means tl0 too and all the freaking pain together:

[jeongyunho99]

hanaaaaaa our hohong i bawled so much watching the episode 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

oh my luna i had to close everything after the episode is over and just sit down aaaaaah i can't i really can't this is too much it's hurts so much 😭💔 i refuse to believe it my heart can't take anymore 💔 i lost it when thier fathers sends the message that's was it for me i cried like there's no tomorrow

[canisalbus]

✦ Pebble ✦

[lucdoodle]

thought that one Alastor scene would look cool in comic lettering, so i drew this

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[k3yreviewer25]

jack and tommy's big conversation :''''(

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[hansoeii]

I probably won't finish this piece any time soon, but I wanted to share the unfinished version with you anyways!

[etchif]

[sylvrndoodles]

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[nyctosaurid]

don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure

[evgar]

decided to redraw and improve this silly thing i did two years ago

here's the two compared like damn the colors on the first what was that 😭

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[reasonsforhope]

Literally begging anyone who can vote in US elections to vote, and to vote against Trump. Which means voting for Harris, not abstaining or voting third party.

My family actually did move here from an authoritarian country, where voting literally didn't matter, they literally did throw out your vote, and they literally did assassinate citizens who spoke out against them.

We would all very much like to keep living in a country where those things are not the case!

You know, the same things that Trump and his stooges have openly said they want to do. And two of the main propaganda lines for why people in the US shouldn't vote, which is a lie.

Voting matters. The parties are not the same.

And make sure to vote in down-ballot races!!!

And like. The fact that voting matters in the US is a very real reason for hope. It is something you should genuinely appreciate. We can make a difference.

And a lot of people risked their lives or even died to earn that right, and it's a right not everyone has.