#sorry these keep taking longer

[penny-the-pissed-poltergeist]

Volume 3 episode 6 rewatch thoughts, RWDE/Critical opinions ahead

.Ozpin Buttering Pyrrha up immediately

.Love Pyrrha giving credit to her friends, and how much she clearly doesn't like Qrow badmouthing them before going back to her polite mask

.I like that the character based on a greek demigod's favorite fairytales all involve the gods in some way (Salem is worshiped as a god before you ask)

.The 4 OG maidens reminded Oz of his daughters, we all know this

.The OG fall maiden telling OZ to be thankful for what he has contrasted by Cinder never being satisfied and constant hunger is a nice touch.

.Between Pyrrha reciting the Four Maidens from memory and her philosophical talk to Jaune about aura makes me think she's a giant nerd when it comes to religion and myths

.The facial animation on Pyrrha is really good this episode

.Pyrrha is really having her entire worldview shattered here

.I think Ozpin calling this "the vault" might predate the relic vaults conceptually

.This elevator is giving me Half-Life vibes

.Glynda talks about the maidens like they are a natural force and not something Oz created, maybe Oz didn't want them to know that or the FNDM is just wrong assuming their origin and they weren't made by him at all

.The way Pyrrha says "Intimate?" makes me think she was scared she'd have to bone the previous host or something

."I don't know if you'd noticed, but things are getting a lot scarier out in the world" I'm not surprised she hasn't, I the omniscient viewer have to kinda squint to notice

.With the way Qrow is acting, I don't Pyrrha likes him very much

.Pyrrha sounds like she's going to start crying, god I feel for her

.Wouldn't it just take one Maiden going rouge and showing off her power to blow the lid off this?

.Pyrrha just taking this masive burden without asking anymore questions just shows how selfless she really is

.The show going "how dare you try to quantify souls!" like they didn't already introduce Penny

.Huh, something linked to choice that changes you fundamentally but gives you great power, where do we see this later (Ascension would be so cool they just dropped the suicide shit wholesale)

.Oz is putting as much pressure as humanly possible on Pyrrha

.Shout out to the 2D characters who got all the way here and yet we know nothing about them

.Yang V Murc, Let's go

."Break a leg Sis" does she know?

.Yang knows she has trouble with kickers and still tell him not to hold back

.Don't have much to comment on for this fight outside of telling you how peak it is

.I like Murc getting sent off stage and having to use his up-B

.First Aura shimmer, this is not a good thing

.I get it's an illusion, but how does Mercury moving but Yang walked like 5.FT from her perspective, so can Emerald make you think you walked farther then you actually did?

.Yang having this happen to her must not have helped the hallucinations she gets later

[hotdogmchiggin]

Company Mandated Fancy Fits on the Tulpar 😏

Also had to include the REAL star of the show (and a bonus)

Based off of this and this. Thank you very much joetastic for being inspirational 👍

The REAL reason this is late

[buwheal]

Unexpected but fair.

How long were we disconnected?

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[inkprovised]

I was sketching when my graphic tablet died on me...

[quirkle2]

space/saturn imagery ritsu i love you

[postmortemnivis]

“it’s just a girl harmonising with her fan”

so close! it’s actually simon who has to come back to base after johnnys death, his best mates blood still on his vest and hands. hands, because he even took off his gloves, thinking it’d save him.

the barracks have never felt and sounded so silent, even the light buzzing of the led lights is quiet.

simon opens the door to johnnys room in his usual silence, but this time he’s not knocking on the door and asking johnny if he fancies a fag outside, he’s sitting down on his bed in a trance. looking down between his leather boots he notices some dark red, dry spots. his eyes immediately go somewhere else. his throat dries and his eyes start to sting. he decides to leave the room immediately.

his brain hasn’t registered yet that price will soon come and tell him to put johnnys stuff in cardboard boxes and ship them to his family. no, simon could never. he’d get on the first train and bring johnnys mother her boy’s stuff himself.

simon takes johnnys journal from under his pillow, he knows it’s there, he’s seen him hide it there so many times. flipping through the pages he finds unlinked quotes, thoughts and many, many drawings. sketches. polaroid photos and digital ones. a few flowers pressed between some pages and even ferry tickets, receipts. trinkets.

“simon.” kyle’s voice calls him from the door he left open without noticing. “simon.”

“wha’?”

“captain wants to talk to us.” the man replies. “to you.”

“tell ‘im m’busy.” simon grunts, closing the journal and holding it tightly in his hand.

“simon…”

“did i stutter?”

kyle raises his arms in defeat. before leaving the room he takes a glance around what used to be johnnys personal space, where he and him had gotten drunk in the middle of the night countless times during the years. “do as you please, lt.” he sighs.

simon looks at kyle as he quietly shuts the door.

simon sniffles, and a whiff of johnnys aftershave reaches his nostrils. he coughs it out, hoping to get it out of his system, it burns his lungs like smoke and makes him sick.

[waterfallofspace]

I had an idea for your Erasermic wav! Aizawa coming home from a patrol in the early hours of the morning, soaked to the bone from the storm raging outside but Mic is up grading papers/working on his radio show and greets his under the weather husband with open arms, tea, and tissues.

Thanks for the request!~ Sorry that it took me so long T-T I've been sitting on this waiting for a chance to edit for awhile, finally sat down and did some grinding to get it out~

Feat: sneezing, sniffling, coughing, noseblowing, sfx of door/rain briefly, and talking, scenario as requested: E/raser comes back from a long night of patrols in the rain, already sick, thankfully his loving husband M/ic is already waiting for him~

[vinelark]

wednesday wip for the hades au?

i suppose i can do that ☀️☀️

———

“No, no,” Superboy says, “I’m the taxi.” He points a thumb at his own chest; hovering like he is, his hand nearly brushes Tim’s cheek. “You ever travel by sunbeam before?”

“No,” Tim says. “It’s…not usually an option.”

Superboy wrinkles his nose. “Right.”

“You need a barge over some lava, though, I’m your guy,” Tim adds, partially to diffuse some of the strange tension lingering around them, and partially to remind Superboy that Tim isn’t so easily dazzled, thank you very much.

At least not outwardly. Because it turns out, as Superboy rolls his eyes and holds out his hand—as Tim takes it, Superboy’s palm just this side of too hot against his own—as Superboy whisks them into the sky in a way that feels less like foregoing gravity and more like gravity just ceasing to exist—that traveling by sunbeam is, in fact, pretty dazzling.

[doodledrawsthings]

Mad At Yi Why Anon - Thanks for explaining! It makes more sense now lol. I never expected them to be grateful for being "saved," I'd just think it's certainly a choice for them to Most Mad at the only guy who wasn't going to let them rot. But if it's a "we need someone to blame" then that makes sense.

Even if he wasn’t gonna let them rot, he WAS gonna take them out with him had his True Ending Sacrifice gone as it had in the game. They don’t know this, this is just extra DoobYi characterization. But he wasn’t expecting to be alive, either tbh.

That said, he takes the public opinion of him and the Sols very seriously and doesn’t blame them even if sometimes the grievances are heavy-handed. This is a Yi who will apologize many times over for the actions of the council, for the failure of the project, for the lies and the lives ruined, both apemen and solarian, and for the individual hurts he’s caused to Kuafu, Goumang, Shaunshuan and Heng. If Eigong and many of the other Sols are not here to share the responsibility, then he will shoulder the blame, as he believes he should. Even if, y’know, everyone who IS glad he didn’t die is telling him to knock it off.

[chasedeys]

not the original anon to ur recent ask but… that post just made me go crazy for joemarrtee and lsu trio. joe is absolutely obsessed with his teammates esp his wrs. thinking abt that shirt he wore with tee tb and ja’marr’s faces on it. arghhhh he makes me go insane. and that bit you put on the whole tee’s agent situation🫨😵‍💫 and joemarr and jj… yeah they’re linked together forever. sorry im just insane rn. ur post did a number on me. so many thoughts.

side note has anyone made a name for joe and tee? and also yes to the tee and jj. yeah. okay. love ur yaps.

RIGHT????

I THINK. IT'S BECAUSE. joe just. falls in love with every weapon he's ever close to. just straight up grows terrifyingly attached and just refuses to let go. it's like he really can't he's sooo attached to everything of his past it's all in his wrists and his clothes and his offseason adventures and the way he speaks to everyone even when he tries to hide it it's also in your face that kind of paradox is so fascinating to me. and he's such a giver he gives and gives and gives and that makes them fall in love right back you know. and ja'marr is just. he has this incredibly ridiculous standards that is insane and only he knows and refuses to tell literally anyone and they're honestly impossible to reach but once you do you're set for life he takes care of you period he will never be able to be chill about you ever he will say and do insane things about and for you and you can't refuse for shit. that bit of devotion is just so insane to me how did he grow into this. what made him like this. while tee is just. he's a sweetheart. have you ever seen or read a lick of his childhood i shit you not that shit moves you you will not recover and after all that tragedy he ends up as this absolutely beautiful soul with such a beautiful heart and beautiful smile and beautiful everything it's no wonder his team and the entire whodey nation falls in love with him really. and justinnn i know he's like not part of the bengals but he's so intertwined with everything because of joemarr and lsu it's kind of hilarious. and the amount of talent in him is crazyy and when you find out his lore of like. not being Noticed as a good receiver and flash forward being The receiver itl? but just the way he speaks? he's sooo humble about himself but he also knows he's leagues beyond everybody else. absolutely compelling. gorgeous.

LIKE YOU CAN WRITE SOOOO MANY NARRATIVES AROUND THESE FOURRR and i have so many. so fucking many. any possible combination of these 4. even fucking jjtee that's like basically strangers originally. any possible ship with ja'marr who is my no. 1 (guilty sorry truly coming clean here ja'marr really is that bitch to me if it isn't that obvious yet lol) i can go absolutely crazyyyyy with as you can see from all i have written in this blog god what is wrong with me 😭

I ALSO THINK this is because. i'm too in love with them?? i fear i write like i'm in love with them. do you get me. like who even knows if they're actually like this. but i write them like this. and i write like they're in love with each other so. well. there's that.

AKFLAJSLK I DONT ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT YOUR ASK IS ABOUT IM SORRY I JUST RAN WITH THIS I YAPPED ABOUT THESE 4 FOR LITERALLY NO REASON

thank you for loving my yaps 😭 i just wanna say that like. sometimes i yap with just. no thoughts. zero thoughts. please don't expect much when you ask truly i don't have much thoughts sometimes really 😭😭😭😭😭😭 but do ask anyway LMAOOO i do love getting asks

oh ship names! like generally i guess? like joemarr, joetee, teemarr, jjmarr, jjtee. what's justin and joe joejj? jjjoe? jjoe? 😭 the classic joe/justin?? the bolded ones are the ones i use personally.

oh and ja'marr ships are usually tagged with <'> too like joe'marr! but may i have a very guilt ridden confession of just tagging shit as joemarr because <'> messes up the tagging system :')) like if you search up the ja'marr chase tag link there's the 'tagged/ja’marr%20chase' and also the 'tagged/ja%27marr%20chase' :) that fills me with so much agony nobody touch me please i try not to think about it too much or i'll try to kms ahaha.

[dorkicon]

venting onthe robot blog yet again. tw death in the tags

[reds-skull]

As promised, here are Gaz and Price. You don’t wanna know how hard it was to find a picture of them looking to the side...

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Understandably So no one mentions charles when talking about the Logan movie and again Understandably So This Aint Bout Him however i do confess that as someone who had never seen Logan until like. a month ago when i was binging all the movies and without knowing a single thing about it aside from laura i cant lie i was in fact jumpscared by him being there. especially for at least like 3/4s of the movie

[twodiamondhoes]

SLAMS DOOR OPEN hello!!! I hear you're looking for lil ficlet ideas!!

I would love to see your take on jimmy and grians relationship 👀👀👀 I simply wish there was more content of them in the world (shippy or non-shippy!!)

If u would like any additional prompts maybe the aftermath of grian taking jimmy out in wildlife????

No pressure at all if the thought doesnt appeal to you, saluting you so much as a fellow traveller on the writing strugglebus right now. GOOD LUCK!!! <3

Hi Theo!! Welcome in, please have a seat! :D

as for Jimmy & (/) Grian I totally agree, I love their dynamic so much!! Time to be the change we want to see in the world XD

Take my hand, we will get through this rough patch together!! <3333

I haven't actually finished either of their WL POVs (Blasphemous as a self-proclaimed Jimmy Main, I know) so IDK how well I can touch on that one, but I did see that clip of Grian joining their phasmo thing late that's floating around and I lost my mind. Have this modern au?? Phasmo au??? IDK but here you go!

Grian sank deeper into the couch cushions, watching some rerun of an ancient Top Gear episode on the TV in front of him. The sound is so low it might as well be muted in favor of listening to Jimmy off in the kitchen, rummaging around in cupboards as they waited for Joel to arrive.

On the screen, Hammond spun out just in time for Jimmy's voice to peak, some offended crescendo about the story he was telling. Something about someone at work.

For the first time in days, Grian felt his lungs fill, untrapped by the vice of panic or stress. He made some sort of noise in response to Jimmy asking if he could believe all of that. He tried to focus on the words, knowing that Jimmy would be more offended at him not listening than he had been at the lady in his story, but relaxation was stealing over him in waves, pulling the steel and the energy from his limbs the longer he sat there.

Jimmy's voice was much closer when he snorted, placing down a mug on the table in front of Grian. He didn't remember telling him what he wanted in his tea, but the label that spun in front of them was his favorite brew. Warmth steeped through him.

"Budge up," Jimmy said, the words floating down through the syrup of Grian's mind instead of crashing through and jarring him back to consciousness. He shuffled back into a mostly upright position, "are you falling asleep on me?"

“No,”Grian scoffed, leaving Jimmy more than enough time to settle in before he slid sideways again so that he could lean heavily on Jimmy’s shoulder. He hooked a grin up at him. “Now I’m falling asleep on you.”

“You utter-I'm not that boring, am I?” Jimmy groused, reaching for the remote. Grian kicked at the coffee table with his foot, scooting it enough that the remote was out of reach.

“As boring as you always are,” Grian said, if only because he couldn’t seem to untangle the emotions caught in the warm mixture in his chest, at least not in a way where he could pull them apart and explain them to Jimmy. “Maybe I’m just tired,” he said, trying to call up a haughty tone, “maybe it’s got nothing to do with you.”

Jimmy grumbled something more under his breath, but shifted so that Grian was resting comfortably at his side, instead of just smushed against him.

"Go on, then,” Jimmy said, settling back against the armrest so they were both halfway to horizontal. “Joel can wake us up when he gets here.”

Grian hid a smile against Jimmy’s shoulder.

“Glad you see things my way.”

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

love your chronic sonic series! just wondering if you would consider putting alt text for ur comics? it’s a bit hard to read the text sometimes

I’m glad you’re liking it! Unfortunately as much as I’d like to type everything up so its easier for y’all to read, I’m trying to keep this as stress-free for me as possible so I don’t burn out. The extra effort of typing up all the text doesn’t sound like much but I know myself well enough to know that if I add one more step to posting I’d very likely end up just not drawing or doing anything at all. If i had a bit more energy I’d be so down to do it but unfortunately for now y’all might have to put up with my occasional blurry chicken scratch :’D