#straight holt meme

[disgracefulthings]

There is a popular headcanon that Shang Qinghua knew that he was gay long before he died and that is why his papapa scenes were so shitty

I agree, and now every time I imagine him writing PIDW I think of straight Holt

[chloreen]

Captain Holt answering the call //if nobody is doing JCS/B99 then by God I will

[tacticalhimbo]

— OC INTERVIEW

ANTONIA "NOMAD" PERRYMAN

the ghost recon brainrot is consuming my brain, so naturally have to fill this out for her

NICKNAME: nomad (callsign), toni by close friends/team kingslayer (re: holt, weaver, and midas)

GENDER: unlabeled transmasc; she/him pronouns

ORIENTATION: alloromantic questioning (only experiences attraction to men)

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: white american, born in boston (and yes, the accent does come out when she's riled up. yes midas and holt have playfully mocked her for it-)

HEIGHT: 5'9 / 175cm

STAR SIGN: gemini sun, sagittarius moon, leo rising (and suddenly her brazen stubbornness makes so much sense skdjdkdkdk)

FAVE FRUIT: grapes. particularly sweet jubilees

FAVE SEASON: late summer / early autumn

FAVE FLOWER: morning glories

FAVE SCENT: not sure of a specific scent, but categorically... she really likes vibrant, citrus-y scents.

COFFEE, TEA, HOT CHOCOLATE: Coffee, 100%. she likes that shit dark and bitter. hell, she's definitely just straight up snacked on the beans before, if she didn't have the means to brew 'em on the field.

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: anywhere from 2 to 8. tends to fall on the average range, but there have been plenty of times she's gone running on low fumes. it's especially apparent in breakpoint, where she's working entirely alone and in open territory (since walker uh. dispatched. team kingslayer. and wants her dead, too. skjdkdkdkdkd 🥲)

DOG PERSON OR CAT PERSON: definitely a dog person, but not in the "i hate cats they're so mean wah wah wah" way. she just prefers dogs because it's easier to take them places and such. if she weren't being pulled all over the place, i could see her having a malinois, honestly.

DREAM TRIP: route 66 round trip. starting in chicago and ending out in california, then heading back the same way. really taking time with the trip, too, and stopping at each major location (plus some of the smaller ones).

NUMBER OF BLANKETS THEY SLEEP WITH: ideally two; one comforter and one throw blanket. more often than not, though, it's whatever thin blanket she has on hand (or can get her hands on). and if she doesn't have them, she's tucked in a nice padded sleeping bag.

RANDOM FACT: despite being a military brat, she was not, in fact, a j-rotc kid. at least by technicality. her family had a bunch of connects as is, so they didn't feel the need to make her go through their program on top of her academics (plus, what more could they possibly have taught her that her mom and dad couldn't have?). that said, she's done her fair share of volunteering and misc. favors for the instructors on her high school campus. they were all buddy buddy.

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got tagged by the incredible ✨️ @pinkyjulien to fill this meme out! tyvm again for the tag (and the comic recommendation 👀 i bookmarked it and will be checking it out asap)

i'll tag @perpetuagf , @vendettavalor (figured this one could be good for your rp blog), @alexxmason , aaand anybody else who feels like hopping on board!

i've seen so many of these on my dash it's hard to remember who has/hasn't done it ^^;

[therossgarden]

Hi, I’m Ross! <3

(I will link my Ao3 account here when I’ll start posting there.)

A little more about me

I’m 19

I’m Italian

I’m a straight demisexual

I dream of being a published fantasy author

My tags

Ross rants — my tag for rants of all sorts

Ross writes — my little drabbles of writing

Ross writing — all the author memes/considerations I’ve ever reposted and commented on

Asks — asks of all sorts

Ross reading — book recs or reviews, fic recs or “advertisement” (I don’t like to call that, but I don’t know how else to say it😭)

Ross’ personal life ig — the tag where things end up in when I’m over sharing about my life

​tgfgwtw4palestine — stands for TheGirlFromGoneWithTheWind4Palestine. Every request for aid by Palestinian families in need of money and all fundraisers are there, if you wish to donate or spread the posts and boost them. I try to always verify if the accounts are shams or not, but if you want to be sure before donating or sharing, it’s at your own discretion. If you find out any of the accounts I’ve shared is a fake, contact me immediately and I will remove it.

Some fandoms I’m part of (I mostly post about ATLA and Marvel tho)

Marvel

ATLA

Interview with the vampire

Bridgerton

Percy Jackson

Disney classics

Brooklyn 99

Jane Austen verse (mostly Pride and Prejudice)

Mamma Mia, Hamilton, Heathers (yes I’m a theatre kid)

Taylor Swift

Barbie

And more!

My fav characters

Steve Rogers (MCU)

Bucky Barnes (MCU)

Mai (ATLA)

Zuko (ATLA)

Azula (ATLA)

Lestat de Lioncourt (IWTV)

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Raymond Holt (B99)

Kate Sharma (Bridgerton)

My OTPs/ships I like

Stucky (MCU) {number one OTP of all time, OTP of MCU}

Maiko (ATLA) {number two OTP of all time, OTP of ATLA}

Loustat (IWTV) {number three OTP of all time, OTP of IWTV}

Kataang (ATLA)

Kanthony (Bridgerton) {OTP of Bridgerton}

Rapunzel x Flynn Rider (Disney)

Mulan x Li Shang (Disney)

Percabeth (PJO)

Sokkla (ATLA) {yes it is a crackship. I am a Sukka fan but Sokkla has completely taken over my brain so there it is}

Bonus: Tayvis {I like the couple itself, but I’m not actively shipping them because I do not feel comfortable with shipping real people farther than commenting on how cute they look}

Characters/ships I don’t like

Tony Stark (MCU)

Peggy Carter (MCU)

Kei lo (ATLA)

Steggy (MCU, Steve x Peggy)

Stony (MCU, Steve x Tony)

Zutara (ATLA, Zuko x Katara)

Jinko (ATLA, Jin x Zuko)

Mai Lo (ATLA, Mai x Kei lo)

Any incest ship from any fandom

Please DNI if

You are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, promote animal cruelty and genocide, a pedophile, a rapist, a TERF, an Andrew Tate fan, a bully or overall a shitty person

You are under 18. While I do not post overly sexual stuff, I occasionally use colorful language, and advise you to not interact with me if you can’t handle it. If you still choose to visit my profile, it might be at your own risk.

You can’t ignore the difference in taste regarding characters or ships. If you like Tony or Zutara, that I do not like, or any other thing I listed above you are still welcome here, just know that I am not responsible of your contempt if you choose to stick around and end up stumbling upon a negative rant about your favs. If you are conscious to lack the needed restraint, please feel free to block me. I’d rather not have hostility under my posts.

You support genocide. I already said this, but I feel like repeating it is important.

You don’t like Multi fandom blogs

You are a troll of any kind

You don’t like rants/long posts, I tend to write a lot of those

A little warning about my boundaries

Although I try to be polite with everyone I interact with, I do not take any form of disrespect towards my posts, my time or my analysis lightly.

I will not be nice in any way if you are hostile or rude towards me unprovoked, If I don’t like your attitude, I will block you.

I am very open in regards of my takes. Im not afraid of sharing them or discuss them when it’s appropriate. But if you are arrogant in your analysis or rant, I will block you. Your argument isn’t with me just because I posted someone else’s take. It’s not that deep either.

I will NOT be kind or polite when the precise general public I am addressing is fundamentally an asshole with no morals, and the reason to address them is to criticize them. If you are a group of ignorant fat shamers (example), I will treat you with the same courtesy you gave to those you fiercely insult, because you do not deserve my respect. I AM petty and I believe in treating people how they deserve to be treated. If you don’t like my take on this, I kindly ask you to get out of my blog and block me.

If you don’t like what I say or how I say it, feel free to block me. If whatever bothers you is not directed to you, then feel free to ignore or block me. I am not willing to put up with your agendas and tantrums because you don’t like a choice of words I’ve used.

If these terms aren’t ok with you then I’m sorry to see you go, if not, stick around on this blog of crazy girlies <3

[updated: 2/4/2024]

[honorhearted]

♙,♟, ♡ , or ♠ for baura. you pick!

This meme / @retrograderesemblance ♙: Getting a n.ude pic of your muse that was meant for someone else

Ben wanted to d.ie. Or more aptly put, he wanted to grab his fork and stab it into his ear canal, twist it around a few times, and finally end his unmitigated suffering.

Sighing through his nose, his eyes briefly rolled beneath the lids while Laura gave yet another fake laugh. Sour and annoyed, he lifted his gaze just in time to see her lean into Mr. C.utestory’s side, playfully nudging him as he continued regaling them with some ridiculous story about...well, Ben wasn’t listening, to be frank.

“The case?” he irritably reminded them. “That is the point of this dinner, isn’t it?”

“Oh, right,” C.hareth said with a laugh. His perfect, punchably straight teeth shone brightly within the dim lighting. “I think Laura was just about to send me the finalized details via t.ext.”

Ben bristled with annoyance. “Miss Holt didn’t tell me everything was finalized. Despite her chatter, this is my company now.”

“But she’s got the perfect face for it,” C.hareth said with a grin.

Oh, for the love of...

Laura reached inside her purse and pulled out her phone, then assured Tall, Dark and Stupid that she would be sending along the specifics. Though to Ben’s surprise, the moment she visibly pressed “send,” his own phone buzzed on his hip.

Deciding that she must finally be cluing him in, he pulled his phone out from his pocket, glanced down at the screen, and then visibly jerked once he caught sight of Laura’s...well...her face wasn’t in the picture, but he’d torn her out of her b.ra enough times to know just what -- or rather, whose -- b.reasts he was gaping at.

Incredulous, Ben looked up at her again with visible disbelief. 

“I didn’t get the t.ext yet,” C.hareth announced. “Can you maybe try again?”

Gritting his teeth, Ben rose from the table and coolly said, “Excuse us, Mr. C.utestory, but I believe I need a word with my associate.” When he met with Laura’s gaze, he irritably lifted his phone and waggled it by his head to give her a clue.

[chibi-pix]

I couldn’t resist.  I just couldn’t. When I looked back at Pidge perched up on Rover, I kept imagining that meme with the hallway, someone running away, and someone else levitating. And in the end, I couldn’t resist and had to do it. I had to draw it.  Originally I had considered Lance, the two goofing off after he introduces Pidge to memes, but then a thought crossed my mind. “I’ve not drawn Haxus in a while, let’s use him since in canon and probably this AU he and Sendak take over the castle.” So. This is what happened. Now we have Pidge chasing after Haxus and I have zero regrets. 

Anyway, I hope y’all enjoy this one. Now I’m gonna go die of laughter.  Until next time.

[reactionimagesdaily]

[endermaz]

me saying everyone at the 99 is queer™️ vs me reading the comments from angry hets

[hey-haven]

Yes, my sons! Let’s do this!!!

Jackson Jekyll

- I don’t want a soft UwU boy! No! Jackson is a morally grey mad scientist who can, has, and will use his classmates for his experiments! (As long as they’re not fatal. He’s not THAT cruel)

-However, everyone else thinks he’s just a shy nerd and get massive whiplash when they actually hang out with him

- He’s kinda a bitch honestly (affectionate). Like will verbally bully you with love, will roast your looks, will tell you point blank that he’d much rather get shoved in a locker than hang out with you. Really he’s just brutally honest.

- This dumbass canonically learned how to drive through racing games. You can’t tell me he drives safely. This guy is speeding down roads, going full 90 on a 20. The only way he passed is because the instructor was too scared to drive with him again.

-He and Holt currently live with Heath. Considering how Jackson is treated, it’s safe to say that normies aren’t always treated well in the monster world, so for safety reasons his parents stay in the human world.

-They do constantly visit though. They still want to take care of their sons after all.

Holt Hyde.

- Now Holt is different from Jackson. While Jackson is straight laced yet lowkey mean, Holt is rowdy yet a sweetheart.

- He actually is the better drive of the two. Yes he’s reckless, but he doesn’t want to die (and Jackson lowkey does but don’t worry about it :))))

- After what happened with Frankie, he just takes a break from dating. Like sure he’s 100% the type of friend to platonically flirt with everyone, but that doesn’t mean he actually wants to date people.

- He speaks in cringy online meme dialogue all the time to purposely make people angry.

- Sometimes he feels like he’s not truly his own person. Not just because he and Jackson share the same body, no. For the longest time it was always Jackson in charge while he was merely a voice in the normie’s head. Even now he’s not out as much as the other. Is he even real? Can he really be considered alive? Sure he’s popular in school, but at the end of the day he feels like a shadow, no one, not human nor monster. Holt looks in the mirror and he truly believes that he is nothing….

-Unironcially likes pineapple on pizza AND dips it in ranch. Lmao cringe :))))

@yellowbirdbluetoo

[calligraphist-artemisia]

Field of Flowers

Written for the Kidge Spring Event! 

Prompt 7: Daffodil | Unequaled Love, New Beginnings

Summary: It was just another normal day for Youtuber Katie "Pidge" Holt. She and her boyfriend were going to spend a few hours recording some stuff in Minecraft for their channels and then probably wrangle their friends into a few rounds of Among Us. Except Keith has a question designed to derail all of those plans. 

Also posted on AO3 under the username Kishirokitsune

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Pidge settled in at her desk and took a look around to make sure there was nothing odd in the background of her webcam. There was only her cat, Tesla, who was relaxing in his carpeted tree, which was sure to thrill her viewers. On the desk in front of her were two monitors, one which displayed all of her recording details, as well as the service she and her boyfriend were using to communicate while they played. The bigger monitor was showing the main screen of Minecraft.

She put on her headphones and adjusted her mic. “Keith, can you hear me?”

“Yeah, I hear you. Everything all set up?” he asked.

Pidge glanced up at her webcam as she nodded. “Yup! I'm just going to put you on mute to run through my intro and then we can get started. You can hop in if you want and I'll join once I'm ready.”

“Sounds good. I'll see you in a few.”

She quickly muted the audio for his channel and gave it a few seconds to make sure she couldn't hear him as he loaded up their game. Then she sat up straight and began recording. “Hey, everyone! I'm TechOwl and today we'll be jumping back into Minecraft with the always handsome KHawkins. As always, there will be a link to his channel in the description and I encourage you to check out his stuff as well.”

Pidge hit join and easily found their usual world, typing in the password so she could join. She waited to unmute until the world had loaded in and caught Keith in mid-sentence when she did.

“...tower and arming it with bows and arrows, so I'll need to expand the chicken farm. Pidge will probably – hi, Pidge – probably help with harvesting flint,” Keith said.

“I'll see what I can gather up while I'm mining,” Pidge said as she opened her inventory to try and remember where she left off. She had a whole row of iron pickaxes and plenty of wood and coal, so she had probably come up to drop off everything in the vault beneath their house and to grab some food. “Actually, let me see what's in the Vault first.”

“You're back at the house?”

“Yeah, I think I was getting food. My bar's pretty low,” Pidge responded. She directed her character through the trapdoor in the corner and rode the ladder down 25 blocks to a room she'd carved out during their first few videos together. Double chests lined the walls and also had signs to go along with them. She went to the section for stones and took a peek into the box labeled 'gravel'. “We only have a stack of it. I'll go find more once I get some food. There's probably a vein of it somewhere in my tunnels that I haven't bothered collecting yet.”

“It'll be a while before I need it, so there's no real rush,” Keith told her. “I still have to build the watchtower and I won't get to that until I'm finished with the gardens.”

Pidge frowned as she went back up the ladder to get into the food chest in their house. “I thought we had way more gravel than that. Have you used any?”

“I used a few stacks of that and the sand to make some concrete a while back,” Keith said.

Pidge guessed that meant they were nearly out of sand as well. It was a bit of a venture to get to the desert biome where she'd harvested most of it, but that could wait for a while. “Anything else I can mine for you, oh-masterful-builder-of-the-world-above?”

“No, I think that's about it,” Keith responded, his tone light. “I thank you for your service, oh-lady-of-the-deep-earth.”

Pidge snorted with amusement as she grabbed a stack of food and ate until her hunger bar was full. She kept a few cooked pork chops in her inventory and put the rest back before turning to go back down into the complex labyrinth of her mine. She got halfway down the ladder before she swore and turned to go back up and fetch more wood, filling up the empty slots in her inventory so she could drop off the extras into the Vault. She kept one full stack of 64 wood blocks on her and then ventured through the double doors leading into the mine.

Pidge spent the next hour combing over her tunnels and collecting any gravel she came across using the iron shovels she specifically built for that purpose. She also collected a decent number of chunks of flint and took all of it back up to the surface with her once she was through.

All the while, she and Keith carried on a conversation for the sake of entertaining their audiences – their banter was often something that was most talked about between their fanbases, with numerous jokes gaining meme-like status. Their friends were fond of quoting those memes back at them whenever they played games together.

“Hey, where do you want all of this gravel and flint?” Pidge asked once she was back in the house. Once again, she had to pause to grab a snack from their food chest as she started taking hunger damage.

“Gravel can stay down there. I have a double chest at the bottom of the watchtower. The flint... yeah, go ahead and bring the flint up to me. I'm at the top. You should look over the edge and check out the garden from up here too. I'll stand on the side you should look over,” Keith said, sounding as though he was leaning away from his microphone. “Hang on, I've gotta run and get something. Go ahead and come up.”

“On my way,” Pidge responded.

She left the house and then looked up, spotting the watchtower immediately. It was a massive wooden structure that stretched high into the sky, though it didn't look like it was all the way up to the build height. She stopped at the base to drop off the stacks of gravel and then hopped on the ladder and rode it all the way to the top. It was there that she found Keith's character standing motionless to one side.

“I'll just drop these off here first,” Pidge said, cracking open the single chest that was next to the ladder. She dropped off the 24 flints and then backed out of the inventory so she could enjoy the sky-high view of the gardens that Keith had spent several sessions working on.

She hopped up on the side where he was standing and looked down. She could see the food garden off to one side, stretching down along the plot of land they took the time to flatten out. To the left of them was a field of flowers and as she looked at them, she realized they spelled something out.

“Wait...” she breathed as her mind caught up with what she was seeing.

Spelled out with red flowers was the question: “Will you marry me?”

Pidge tugged off her headphones and turned in her chair, ready to run downstairs and confront her boyfriend, but he was already there in her office, waiting for her with that soft smile on his face. “Keith?”

He walked into the room and knelt down in front of her, taking her hand with his own. “I've been in love with you from the first day we met. I didn't know it at the time. It took a few people pointing it out to me. Or, well, a lot of people,” he chuckled, “but eventually I figured it out. I never thought I would have the opportunity to find such happiness in my life and it's thanks to you that I have. I can't imagine spending the rest of my life without you in it.”

Pidge hiccuped as she tried to breathe in, reaching up to cover her mouth even as tears of happiness began to spill from her eyes. “Keith...”

Keith cracked open a tiny black box and held it out for Pidge to see the slender silver ring inside. It was inset with three green jewels – not the traditional diamond, but she'd never been fond of those anyway. “Katie Holt, will you marry me?”

She nodded, swallowing thickly so she could try and get the words out. “Yes! Yes, I will.” She slid out of her chair with a breathless laugh and into his arms, unable to wait until he could slip the ring onto her finger. She pressed a kiss to his cheek and then another and another until Keith was shaking from laughter and had to ask if she even wanted the ring.

Pidge pulled away from him, a great big smile on her face as she held out her hand in response, allowing him to put the ring on her finger. And then she dove right back in, kissing him with all that she had to make up for her lack of words.

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Bonus Scene

“Coran! Coran, you have to come see this!” Allura shouted in excitement.

She could hear him running down the hall from his office, where he was working on editing their newest video together, and was soon striding over to her side while asking if everything was alright. Allura responded with a smile and by hitting play on what she had been watching.

“...-ver the edge and check out the garden from up here too. I'll stand on the side you should look over,” Keith's voice came through the speakers.

Allura eagerly watched Coran and knew the exact moment when Keith's proposal was revealed by the way Coran suddenly squealed in delight. She glanced back at the screen in time to watch it fade away from the flowers and then fade back in with a photo of Pidge and Keith, who were smiling at the camera. Pidge held up her left hand so a beautiful ring could be seen. It was also accompanied by the words: “She said yes!”

“How exciting!” Coran said, grinning broadly. “We must do something to celebrate! Dinner, perhaps? I'll call Hunk and begin preparations!”

Before Allura could agree or disagree with his idea, Coran was gone. She laughed softly and took out her phone to send out a warning to the rest of the group so they wouldn't be too blindsided.

It was certainly an event worth celebrating.

[twelvemonkeyswere]

Random Character Meme

1. Go to https://www.random.org/lists/ and type in 15 different characters from any fandom (they can be in the same fandom) into the empty box

2. Click Randomize under the box and answer the following prompts:

Your rival:

Played 7 Minutes in Heaven with:

Your significant other:

Parent:

The random person you meet at the bar:

Your boss:

Haunts you:

Drunk singing karaoke with:

Gave you your fave dessert:

Your sibling:

Gave you your first kiss:

Your best friend:

Grandparent:

Proposed to you:

Ex:

Got tagged by @samirant to do this one and I was trying to strategically choose my characters and I had fun xD Thank you and I hope you have a good day.

Your rival: Gideon the Ninth

If anyone had to compete with me for anything, I'm glad it's Gideon. We can be friends *and* rivals.

Played 7 Minutes in Heaven with: Saitama (One Punch Man)

Good lord. Neither of us had a good time, probably.

Your significant other: Caitlyn (Arcane)

She's reliable, she has money, she has connections, she learns and has a good heart. This is good.

Parent: Rosa Diaz

As her child, if anything bad happened to me she would kill everyone in the room and then save me. Most protected ever.

The random person you meet at the bar: Harrohawrk the Ninth

I'm tryina have a mojito and this child is just straight up having an existential crisis next to me and waxing poetical about my rival so we strike up a conversation.

Your boss: Miles Morales

This will be FUN. I'll follow Miles through and through.

Haunts you: Haruhi (Ouran High School Host Club)

I'm bad at deadlines and I feel like she would haunt me for it. Great person to have around tho.

Drunk singing karaoke with: Kyoya (Ouran High School Host Club)

He's singing "Get Cha Head in the Game" because he's also crying about the people he's in love with

Gave you your fave dessert: Jaime Lannister

That tracks. He does make sure people are well fed.

Your sibling: Brienne of Tarth

This is really good! She's strong and kind and with Rosa as our mother we would be trained in various combat techniques in no time.

Gave you your first kiss: Vi (Arcane)

This probably went miles better than with Saitama but The Bagagge.

Your best friend: Jotaro Kujo

*montage of me just saying "JOOOOTARO" in Dio's voice over and over*

Grandparent: Captain Holt

YASSSSSSSS.

Proposed to you: Matt Murdock

This guy has a lot going for him and he's even Catholic! But alas, The Baggage.

Ex: Ron Swanson

Neither he nor I comment on it.

I'll tag @thewasabipea @broadlybrazen @theplasticmailman @scoundrels-in-love

[animebw]

Binge-Watching: Pokemon Master Quest, Episodes 51-54

In which we stand on the precipice of the end, and a trip inside Larvitar’s mind results in one of the best episodes yet.

On the Verge

It’s been a long road to get here. And I mean, a long road. The journey from the start of Johto to the very edge of the Johto League has taken us on so many sidetracks and detours and unexpected pit stops that I can’t even remember them all. But there’s no denying the smell in the air now; the end is right around the corner. In a matter of episodes, Ash will face his final challenge in the Silver League and bring Pokemon’s original run to a close. That can’t help but feel at least a little momentous. It’s taken over 250 episodes to reach this point. That’s almost as long as it took for Gintama to grow from a scrappy sci-fi meta comedy to the thundering powerhouse performance of the Courtesan of a Nation arc. That’s almost the length of Naruto before its Shippuden upgrade. Most anime are lucky to run even half as long as Pokemon’s initial run. And those 250 episodes weren’t just episodes of a show; they were the start of a full-blown cultural phenomenon. For years on end, Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, and Team Rocket took the world by storm, redefining children’s entertainment and smashing the boundaries between anime and Western audiences like never before. For such a simple, often shallow show, Pokemon meant something. And now that first spurt of energy is finally coming to an end.

There’s a lot I could expand upon there. About the magnitude of Pokemon as a show, how it’s changed over time, how it’s stayed the same, what it means to see its first form wrap up. But right now, I’m focused right where Ash is: the immediate challenge ahead. With the improvements to the show’s action setpieces, the Johto League might deliver the kind of shonen catharsis that the Indigo League was sorely lacking. Even just the brief fight against a friendly Magby trainer was well realized with lots of interesting moves and quick strategy. Certainly, Ash is feeling the excitement; as strong as his Pokemon are, he knows he can’t slack off if he wants to have a shot at winning. The road’s only going to get steeper and steeper now that it’s nearing its end. Even a brief catch-up with our old friend Casey only drives home how close things are getting to the climax, now that her little Chikorita has fully evolved into Meganium. These are no longer the kids they started out as; these are trainers ready to stand among the best of the best. And I, for one, am really interested to see how their final battle goes. One way or another, it’s gonna be an ending to remember.

Head Trip

And speaking of endings to remember, imagine my surprise when a run-in with the Unown resulted in one of the show’s most shockingly excellent episodes yet. Yes, I know me complaining about the legendary Pokemon not being as cool in the show is kind of a meme at this point, and really, the Unown going from “ancient unknowable alien force of nature” to “cute smol bean who misses his friends” should’ve been just as lame as everyone else’s downgrades. But then, the show makes the smart choice not to focus on the Unown and instead use it as a vessel to dive into some straight-up surreal mindspace fuckery. I love the idea that it’s creating a pocket dimension inside Larvitar’s head that’s reliving all its memories backwards, and the way it careens wildly from one trippy symbolic location to another makes for a really entertaining ride. It’s also interesting to see the show start using the kind of CG integration that the movies have been getting more comfortable with over time. But when we dive into the nightmare shard lodged in Larvitar’s mental egg, and that’s where things get great. Holt shit, I love how intense these nightmares get! We see images of Larvitar’s egg being stolen by poachers and his mama Tyrannitar getting absolutely wrecked with explosives, and it feels just as overwhelming and upsetting as it must have been for poor Larvitar. The shadows, the lighting, the raw, overwhelming soundscape, the evil black shards that cascade like crystal to form these twisted images... this isn’t just unique imagery, this is genuinely affective nightmare symbolism that sells how traumatized Larvitar is thanks to those bad experiences. Even the image of the shard stuck in the egg works as a symbol for how deeply this pain’s been embedded in Larvitar’s subconscious. This trauma’s stuck in the deepest part of Larvitar’s being, and it continues to prick and prod at the poor Pokemon like a splinter you just can’t pull out. And the brutality of the imagery within that shard makes it perfectly clear why Larvitar’s default response is to freeze up when faced with people he doesn’t know. After such awful experiences with humans at a foundational level, how could it not shrink away from them?

But then we get the single most powerful image in the entire episode. Larvitar’s soul is trapped in a tower of angry black shards, jutting out like thorns to protect it from outside threats while ensuring it can never escape either. But Ash sees it struggling against its self made prison. And he realizes that despite all the sadness and hurt it’s experienced, it still wants to break free. It still wants to live a happy, open life, no matter how terrifying it might be to step outside its shell. So he rolls up his sleeves and races forward through the black thorns, stopping at nothing to free Larvitar from his cage and pull him into a world where he can smile free of fear. That’s good. That’s really good. I got emotional in ways I genuinely didn’t expect. Ash pounding his fists against the metaphorical ice cage until it shatters just hits you, man. Yeah, it’s a simple enough metaphor, but the fact that this show was able to pull off a metaphorical representation of trauma and overcoming fear that kids can understand without losing any of its emotional weight is an achievement to be proud of. For as simple as this show is, I forget that every once in a while, it can pull off something that truly resonates on a deeper level. As long as Pokemon’s able to reach these heights, it’ll remain a show worth sticking with. I don’t know if Johto has any more of those waiting in the wings, but I can’t wait to find out.

Best of Team Rocket

-”We chose a playing card theme to royally annoy you!”

-”He could just plug them in.”

-Poor James. Give him his carnivorous buddy back!

-AND WE JUST COME FULL CIRCLE ASKDJHASKJDHAS

-Why are the Victreebell getting married WHAT IS THIS EPISODE

-”Look over yonder!” “Which way is yonder?”

-”They say failing to plan is planning to fail!” Okay, that’s actually good advice, though.

-”Hey, wait, our plan was supposed to work this time!”

-”Weezing, do anything!”

-”Prepare for trouble in slo-mo.” “Make that a cup of latte with joe.” the fucking music aksjdhakjsdhksad

Odds and Ends

-OH GOD BROCK OPENED HIS EYES BROCK ACTUALLY OPENED HIS EYES IT’S THE SIGN OF THE END TIMES RED ALERT RED ALERT

-Wait, don’t you know a Shellder biting his head will turn him into a Slowking? Why are you scared like you don’t know what’s happening all of a sudden?

-”But they can’t see what they’re doing either!” askjdhasdh congrats you played yourself

-Something’s different about the color grading in these episode. Everything’s a couple shades darker and less vibrant.

-”You bet your ponytail on it!” I really missed Casey, didn’t I?

-So is the crooked Magikarp salesman just the cabbage guy of the Pokemon world or

-Wouldn’t be a Casey episode without a corny chant to wrap things up. Miss ya, girl.

-”Some kind of fluffy, mushy, squishy, Wow Wow kind of thing!” ”She got hit hard.” Nah, that’s just Misty being Misty.

Next up: League time. See you then!

[concealeddarkness13]

WHG 13 Memes Part 1!

I got nostalgic for the previous WHG, so I decided to make some memes! I hope you enjoy them! Tagging the gang: @ratracechronicler​, @nightskywriter​, @maple-writes​, and @onmywaytobe​!

[Image Description: Two frames. The first frame shows a woman with a gray shirt staring to the right at someone off screen. She is labelled: Jaden, and she is saying: I have done everything wrong, ever, in my life. The second frame shows an older man in a suit staring to the left at someone off screen, and he is holding out his right hand, palm facing the ground. He is labelled: Sol, and he is saying: I disagree with this, and I love you. End Description]

[Image Description: There are words over a picture of a Simpson’s character sitting on an orange bus seat staring straight ahead with a smile. The words above the picture say: When Sol calls out the Capitol, and then his mentor eats his food and ends up in the hospital and he’s supposed to go into the arena soon. The Simpsons character is labelled: Sol, and he is saying: (chuckles) I’m in danger. End Description]

[Image Description: Two frames. The first one shows someone holding up an Uno card that says: Kill Margot/Logan to win -or- Draw 25 cards. The second frame shows a man in a black shirt holding more than 25 cards in his hand, and he is labelled: Logan/Margot. End Description]

[Image Description: A picture of a woman in a blue shirt staring at a woman in a yellow shirt who is holding a man in a multi-colored shirt. The woman in the yellow shirt is pointing her index and middle finger of her right hand at the woman in the blue shirt. The woman in the blue shirt is labelled: The rest of the tributes. The woman in the yellow shirt is labelled: Margot. The man in the multi-colored shirt is labelled: Logan. End Description]

[Image Description: Two frames. The first frame shows Ant-man sitting on a bench to the right of the frame, while the Hulk is standing next to him, holding something. Ant-man is labelled: Jaden. The Hulk is labelled: Skyler. The second frame shows the Hulk handing two tacos to someone off screen. The Hulk is labelled: Skyler. The tacos are labelled: A bug. End Description]

[Image Description: Three pictures, one on top and two on the bottom. The top picture is white, and it says on the left: Sol explaining that his hair couldn’t have grown back so quickly without magic. It says on the right: Jaden already coming up with a scientific reason why that could have happened. The bottom left picture shows a younger person talking to the bottom right picture. They are holding up their hands and pressing their fingers together, and they have a serious expression. The bottom right picture shows a woman staring at the bottom left picture with a blank expression. She has pulled a Dallas Cowboys blanket up to her chin. End Description]

[Image Description: Four frames with text above them. The text above them says: Jaden trying to come up with scientific explanations for all the magical stuff. The four frames show the same woman progressively looking around while white math symbols float around her head. End Description]

[Image Description: A three-by-three table. On top of the top left box, it says: ok so basically. On top of the top middle box, it says: for some reason. On top of the top right box, it says: people say that_____, they are wrong. To the left of the top left box, it says: I’m baby. To the left of the middle left box, it says: I’m mom. To the left of the bottom left box, it says: I could kill you. In the top left box, it says: Logan. In the top middle box, it says: Jaden. In the top right box, it says: Margot. In the middle left box, it says: Sol. In the middle middle box, it says: Holt. In the middle right box, it says: Rat. In the bottom left box, it says: Clovis. In the bottom middle box, it says: Skyler. In the bottom right box, it says: Skylar. End Description]

[Image Description:  Four pictures. The top left picture is white, and it says: Skylar and Holt kiss like a couple in a movie. The top right picture shows a finger pressing a blue computer key that says: Upgrade. The bottom left picture is white, and it says: Skylar pushes Holt out of the arena and takes away the door, but they stay inside. The bottom right picture shows a finger pressing a blue computer key that says: fuck go back. End Description]

[Image Description: Four pictures. The top right picture is white and says: Escaping the arena together. The top left picture shows a man in a white shirt smiling, and he is labelled: The Heist Gang. The bottom left picture is white and says: Skylar stays behind to protect the gang. The bottom right picture shows the man in the white shirt staring with horror off screen, and he is labelled: The Heist Gang (minus Skylar). End Description]

[elsaclack]

for the writing asks: different pov on a scene that's already happened!!!!!!!

phil phIL PHIL UR A HERO AND A SCHOLAR AND I LOVE U

JUST FOR U I REWROTE A SCENE FROM THAT NEW FIC I TOLD U ABOUT

I HOPE U LIKE IT

i’m still obviously in the process of writing this whole fic so this scene is still very much subject to change but this is the general idea,,,,,,,We Shall See

She comes to him shortly before eight o’clock in the evening, wild and unbidden as the blustering summer breeze outside his window.

“I need to talk to you,” she tells him, breathless, when he opens his front door.  She shoulders past him without any further preamble, leaving him open mouthed at the threshold of his own apartment; he turns his head and she’s there, pacing the length of his living room, manic energy rolling off of her in prickling waves.  All quips disintegrate on his tongue; her teary gaze pierces something soft and vital within his soul.

He swallows hard, and her eyes dart down to his throat for a split-second.  “Okay,” he says uncertainly, “what’s up?”

She blinks, and the first crystal tear streaks down her face.  “I just - I was just at the precinct and - and I - heard something.  Or - I - overheard something, and - I didn’t know who else to talk to -”

Her breathing is shallow, and only seems to be growing more shallow with each passing second - he’s beside her in an instant, his grip on her upper arms firm.  “Whoa, whoa, hey - Amy, Amy,” he says quickly at the same time, and her babbling cuts off with a choked sound from the pit of her throat.  “It’s okay - it’s okay, just - what’s going on?”

Amy’s still breathing heavily, tears still carving tracks down her face, but the faint twitch of a smile that flickers across her face is unmistakable.  She inhales through her nose - a slow and steady thing - and nods as her gaze flicks down between them.  “I was at the precinct,” she says again, “and I overheard Holt talking to - to Kelly.”

Jake blinks.  “Commissioner Kelly?”

She nods.  “I didn’t hear the entire conversation, but - I heard - the end.”  She pauses to swallow, taking another steadying breath in through trembling lips.  “Kelly’s forcing Holt out.”

He feels his brow furrow.  “Out of what?  The - the Nine-Nine?”

She shakes her head, and he’s certain if he furrows his brow any harder he’ll give himself a headache.  “Out of the NYPD,” she murmurs.

He skips the headache; he goes straight to migraine instead.

send me a no excuses writing meme!!!

[patientfocusly]

+ illness?

[      meme      forever accepting tbh !      ]

~I just want to forewarn everyone that I am no medical expert and this headcanon is based purely on what the show has given us, and my own research. I also could never claim to know what it’s like living with a chronic illness. If this headcanon (or anything in my writing ever) disrespects or falsely portrays how chronic illness is felt and impacts life, please reach out to me and correct me~

Shiro is six months into his first year at the Galaxy Garrison, fresh faced, eager as all hell when he first starts noticing pain during drills and training. He bites through the pain in his hips and lower back and keeps going, pushing harder when he notices that he’s starting to fall behind in the class. It’s his bunkmate who rats him out to his father and sister two months later when they’re visiting in town. It’s four months after that that his doctor diagnoses him with Becker muscular dystrophy, and a week later that he’s sitting in Commander Iverson’s office, medical reports spread across the desk, on his feet spewing out reason after reason for why he needs to stay in the program despite the report concluding an eventual decline of his physical fitness that would render him Earth-bound. Iverson tells him he’ll think about it, the way adults say maybe because they don’t want to crash your hopes by telling you no while you’re still emotional.

That night, Commander Holt comes to see him. They’re close, outside of class, too and Sam likes Shiro not because he’s besotted with Shiro’s simulator scores like the other instructors are, pushing him to succeed because if Shiro succeeds, then the Garrison succeeds. Sam likes Shiro because he sees something special in Shiro and knows that it can’t be held back. Something almost as special as he sees in his own two kids. The next time Shiro is called into Iverson’s office, Sam, Shiro’s father, and Toshiko*1 are all there. Iverson hands him a new uniform, with two stripes each on the shoulders. “You made your case, cadet Shirogane. And you have some friends in high places who believe in you. Don’t let them down.” Shiro looks at Sam with tears in his eyes, and nods back at Iverson. “I won’t,” he promises. ( ~flash forward 6 years, Shiro watching Sam getting taken away by Galra soldiers and knows that he’s failed him, aNYWAY………………. )

When he’s 18, the Garrison fit him with wrist and ankle bracelets that administer a set of steroids and inhibitors that work to prevent overworking of muscles (which is the main cause of muscle weakening in MD patients)*2. This technology negates the need for Shiro to make trips into town every two months to see his doctor. When he launches for Kerberos, Shiro has enough medicine with him to the last the trip, plus a buffer. When he’s taken by the Galra, his bracelets are stripped from him. The only way Shiro knows to manage his disease without them is to go back to the first piece of advice his doctor gave him when he was 16, “Stay active.” Eventually, he loses the ability to tell the difference between pain in his muscles and pain from the gladiator trials. He has to accept that, one way or another he’s going to die on this Galra entertainment hub of a cruiser – either through a strike straight through the heart, or his own body finally giving up on him.  

~flash forward a couple and I know all hints from the show point towards Shiro’s disease going away either because Galra/Altean science is so advanced that it surely would’ve cured him (re: Haggar declaring that she made Shiro strong, also re: Shiro claiming “I feel great,” after Allura embeds the Altean crystal in his arm) HOWEVER, I’m not a huge of fan of magic fixes and so prompts the following: The clones of Shiro are exactly that – clones. BMD is an x-linked recessive genetic disease and since the clones’ bodies are an exact genetic copy of Shiro’s, they also contain the mutation in their DNA. Haggar’s plan for Operation Kuron is not planned to go on long enough for her to be concerned that Shiro’s disease would interfere – and so she doesn’t bother with the painstaking task of literally re-writing a human genetic code to cure Shiro. The clone’s body is identical to Shiro’s body at the time of gene extraction*3. Time in the Altean healing pods slows down the workings of BMD, but does not heal damage already done. To be fully cured, Shiro would need to pretty much exist in a healing pod, which --- wouldn’t be a life at all. His disease still exists, and will noticeably catch up to him within five to ten years after the end of Voltron season 8. Heart failure is still in his projected future.

*1 Shiro’s sister is a carrier of the BMD gene (like Shiro’s mother) and suffers very mild symptoms into her late 20s-30. *2 reference 1 and 2 *3 Please see Operation Kuron headcanon ( tba ! )

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

the warmth of a brother's soul

read it on the AO3 at the warmth of a brother's soul

by Winterrs_child

It hurts. It hurts so much worse than any physical pain could, because it goes straight to his heart and everything is twisting around itself and his mind is short-circuiting. He can’t breathe. “I’m sorry,” he whispers, because he is, and they need to hear it. “I’m so sorry. I—I put everyone in danger, the mission, the captives, and I didn’t think—I didn’t think twice about you guys and that was awful of me and I’m so sorry.”

Words: 1078, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Allura (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Shiro (Voltron)

Relationships: Allura & Hunk & Keith & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt & Shiro

Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, but not really - it's just referenced, dude it's one in the morning i'm literally that ///no think/// tiktok meme, Shiro (Voltron) Needs a Break, Shiro (Voltron) Needs a Hug, keith is a protective brother, broganes, Gentron Week 2020, I love all of them, they're all my children, also coran is missing in this, i just kinda...... forgot to write him in, sorry - Freeform, love him tho, also they don't really cuddle in this even though that was the fuCKING PROMPT, dammit, i'm fine i'm fine i'm cool i'm fine, i'm so bad at tagging lmao, uh they all have feelings, because don't we all, okay uh i hope you enjoy this

read it on the AO3 at the warmth of a brother's soul