#secondary relationships

[theaccidentaloutlaw]

Wait…

You mean to tell me that Rumi and Jinu’s rooftop date helped green light this film?!

OMFG One of the very first thing they ever thought of for this film is Rumi and Jinu’s relationship!

[andstuffsketches]

Maybe not Impulse, But I think she would date Cissie

a glimpse into a possible future....

[aflockofravens]

Also, Jinshi in "How to Buy Out a Contract" was hilarious.

Do you think he's prettier than me

I was contemplating your murder but my future wife cat thinks you'll make a good brother in law so I'll let you live

My future wife cat trusts you, so I trust you. Don't fuck it up.

Have some money to leave my future wife alone forever go marry her sister

Did you see that Gaoshun? I did a socializing. Do you think Maomao will be proud of me?

Also Lihaku is precious. What an adorable golden retriever of a man. He went from absolute disdain at Maomao when she approached him for an escort to being like "help me little sister, I'm in love".

[cynicalmusings]

anaxa is actually such an incredibly deeply passionate lover (both in a romantic sense and his general care for others). he just doesn’t let himself ruminate on it for very long at all and deludes himself into thinking he is acting 100% out of reason whereas he’s actually such an emotionally motivated person; and when he cares about somebody, he cares with his whole heart and body and soul and whatever. he’s just very good at performing, so he fools everyone about that fact, including himself; he’s caught up in his own facade.

[mxtxfanatic]

That bitch took 4 hours to pack his shit, and not o n c e did it occur to him to speak to Xie Lian again. He said goodbye to Xie Lian’s parents, but not to the man himself that was ““““““““allegedly””””””” the only person he cared about in life. I’m never with Mu Qing on anything, but this? I, too, would be reminding Feng Xin at every chance I get that he’s nothing more than a sanctimonious hypocrite who should look in the mirror before talking shit. At least Mu Qing said he was leaving before he left.

[lollyposp]

can't get over how at its core, deltarune is about a group of kids who are so profoundly lonely they quite literally know nothing else. and about how the horrors persist but they're finally breaking out of that loneliness and that first taste of friendship is all the hope they could ever need. it hits especially hard as someone who was a weird undiagnosed autism kid at school and felt lonely all the time too.

Kris being so profoundly alone as the only human in hometown, loving their brother so dearly and living in the shadow of his absence. grown apart from noelle even though the two of them want nothing more than to be close again. presumably isolated by carol and dess(?) and unable to tell anyone about their possession. but despite it all they care so deeply about susie and value her friendship so much. and they act outside of the soul's influence for HER sake. they save her in chapter 1 and they're constantly in cutscenes acting without our influence to have the sweetest interactions with her. she is their hope 😭😭😭😭

susie being constantly perceived as the new kid or the bad kid all because people profiled her with no actual tells to her behaviour. internalising that she was bad because people told her she must be and acting bad so that she pushed people away instead of accepting that people just DIDN'T like her. but the SECOND her and kris made friends with each other (and ralsei and lancer) she drops the facade so quickly because it was harming her self esteem so badly to keep acting that way. and she's just so unapologetically weird and loyal and kind, and when she's finally given the chance to SHOW someone that side of herself she DEFINES herself by the hope it's given her. "the girl with hope crossed on her heart" like an OATH to keep on hoping, because of her friends alongside her that trust her and see past her exterior

ralsei most visibly embodies it with his whole "literally never spoken to a person in his life" backstory. he's just so visibly isolated from everyone even when he's trying not to be: he's a darkner so he's immediately excluded from any social hangouts in the light world, he's a darkner so other lightners (specifically noelle) tune him out because they're unsure of how to respond to his existence, he's so burdened being the only person who knows the entire extent of the prophecy, probably doomed to either die or lose contact with kris and susie to save the world... the prophecy characterises him by how alone he is - it's literally baked into his entire existence. he says his purpose as a darkner is to make kris and susie happy but the prophecy pointing out his loneliness also makes it seem essential to his role in the prophecy. he's designed to be so incredibly lonely he would do ANYTHING to keep friends. and he has those friends now. and he wants to fight for them. he's been so brainwashed by the prophecy and his darkner status to think he isn't even a person but susie and kris are reminding him he IS. they're dragging him out of this pit of low self esteem that prolonged isolation has granted him and are validating his desire to find an alternate ending to the prophecy. he's realising friendship isn't just him endlessly sacrificing his sense of self for others, because his friends are so keen on seeing the real him that they are weirded out by his subservience and insist on HELPING him become a person separate from their influence. AND IT'S WORKING. ralsei is feeling true hope for the first time because of susie and kris.

noelle is also so lonely. she's probably the least obvious alone character because she's popular and has friends like catti and berdly, but like. her relationship with her mum is strained and her dad is dying and her sister has been missing for years, and she has nobody to turn to about it. a lot of her friendships are too superficial for her to confide in her friends. she can't really complain to her dad about her mum because he's dying and can't help her. she can't talk to kris because her sister's disappearance burned almost all the bridges between the holidays and the dreemurrs, and she misses kris so deeply. god she misses them so deeply. the weird kid to her weird kid, she misses hanging out with kris and dess and asriel and she can never have that back. the way she's so scared all the time because of all the tragedy haunting her family but she chooses to seek out Susie's friendship (and romance) in spite of her fear...the way the dark world helped her remember how to assert her needs and how even though she thinks it's all a dream susie is in the light world reinforcing that lesson for her and taking Noelle's desire for friendship further. how Noelle is finally starting to reignite that old friendship with kris and how she knows them SO well she's the only person who knows something is off with kris in BOTH routes. she's the only person who knows something bad is happening to kris with their possession (besides probably ralsei but he doesn't know that out of familiarity with kris). GOD. she's finally coming back to SOME semblance of her childhood happiness and it's having such a profound influence on her.

okay so i was originally going to add berdly to this too but i accidentally wrote such a comedically huge amount about how lonely he is that I COULDN'T justify it lmao. i think it was quite literally as long as everyone else combined. like and subscribe if you want my berdly autism rant guys (joke)

[blujayonthewing]

if they weren't cowards. dwarves would exhibit zero sexual dimorphism

[hockeytwittereats]

Because of my rant? lol to @stuckinthistaydream: I really think there is so much to explore AROUND love and a relationship for Taylor she has never gotten to before. The idea of having someone there as your soft place to land when you need it and getting to be the same to that person. The idea that someone doesn't look at your past as a warning label, but loves the idea that you will write about him (Travis was just itching to claim any song about him on TTPD). It's the idea of love without feeling used or having to hide. Love while being given space to heal and support to do so. Love with security, belonging, and frankly being welcomed. Travis made sure Taylor was welcomed and felt safe in KC which is why every time one of his teammates is asked about her, they can actually answer: she is welcomed into team gatherings like every other partner.

People have boiled down the idea of love songs to like "omg I love this person so much" when there are so many other feelings around it that Taylor hasn't gotten to exploring. And they started in some of her mashups like her big-brained YAIL/FOTS one that is actually one I think might be a big theme-hint for TS12. It's the idea of coming home to your person and knowing that you're wanted there.

And I think she's been feeling like she was only with men because they tolerated parts of her and embraced other parts. And for the first time in her adult like, she is fully embraced for who she is and all she is without being made to feel bad for it. Her ambition is encouraged. Her love of taking care of people is also encouraged. All of her is embraced and it has made her life safer than ever emotionally.

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I just read that it’s established in general Superman lore (like from the comics) that Superman/Clark hears and recognizes Lois’ specific heartbeat. I don’t think they’ve ever mentioned this in Lois & Clark, which is surprising because imo it’s a very romantic detail. But it makes sense because a lot of times he just seems to know where she is.

it seems like his superhearing works in a way that he can always hear every sound around the world, but he has trained himself to pick up certain phrases (like “Superman, help.” For example). We’ve also seen that he can consciously hone in on a conversations that are too far away for anyone else to hear. Otherwise, everything is part of the background noise. So maybe Lois’ heartbeat is normally just in the background noise that he’s always hearing, but he’s also able to consciously hone in on it when he thinks of her, and then he can pinpoint where she is. And it might also stick out to him from the background noise if it’s abnormal, so he knows something is wrong and he can find her.

[scribefindegil]

I love love love when there are two characters who have nothing in common except their shared undying devotion to a different character. Working together not because they care about each other but because they both care about this other character SO MUCH. Relationship defined by intense devotion but not to each other. It's sooooo tasty give me one million versions of this please.

[coline7373]

[sysig]

Sims 2 has played Clinical Trial, it all went by the exact same beats

[fabiansociety]

nothing will fix majima because he isn’t the way he is because he’s lacking something, but because he LOST something so profoundly and so long ago that he grew around that absence like a tree around a nail. nothing will undo that growth, or fill that foundational hollow.

but he could still be happy. not fixed, because the damage is part of him, but fully who he has become because of it. dude will always have depression, but he need not have despair

[exlimix1a]

Quick piece of @luluyamofficial 's character Lucelia + a 30 second speedpaint!

[toribookworm22]

Does anyone else go feral over almost obsessively devoted platonic relationships?

No? Just me?

[mirensiart]

YOURE A CARDCAPTOR SAKURA KID???

THAT SJOE WAS MY CHILDHOOD

I LOVE CARD CAPTOR SAKURA SO MUCH YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That show was my childhood too!!! The dumb rivals to lovers dynamic between syaoran and sakura shaped my entire taste in ships lmao

I recently bought the manga too!!!!! I'm missing like 2 tomes, but the drawings are just so magical ooough really love the magical girl genre sm

Did you watch the new show? Card Captor Sakura Clear Card??? It's SO CUTE !!!!!