#superb asks

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[arttsuka]

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

[boeing-787]

which plane is THE most gay in your opinion?

Google maps, copy & paste 55.161313, -1.685411 into the bar, turn on satellite view and zoom in to the Gay Plane above the Morpeth curve.

Thank you and you're welcome.

[babygirlgiles]

Things I love about this ad for the T in Boston:

The train only helps you avoid “traffic” related torment. Who’s to say what other kinds of torments you may or may not experience.

Just Take The Train. Just Take It. Don’t Worry About It. Just Take The Train. Take It.

[byjove]

its the voice of the devil in ur ear rn im sorry. no one has ever looked good in a perm. but perhaps you will be the first..?

Apologize to my beautiful mother right now!

[vladdyissues]

thinking about hurt/comfort, there's a musical that made me kinda. remember. an old AU idea i had that i keep revisiting and only keep putting off because there's some research i gotta do for allusion's sake

-Danny Phantom style Descent of Orpheus (before anyone says it, yes, the musical was Hadestown)

-Vlad dies during Phantom Planet and ends up in his ghost lair, against all expectation. rather than return to his life, which he thoroughly fucked up, he holes up there and begins making it the kind of world where he has no regrets

-meanwhile, in the living world, Danny inherited all his remaining possessions and cat. he is not impressed by this. he is even less impressed when, a few years later, he discovers the VAULT OF STOLEN ARTIFACTS that are FREAKING OUT because the will wasn't enough to actually transfer ownership to Danny and now they're triggering some Poltergeist shit in Vlad's old home. it would only work if Vlad was fully dead

-well... what the fuck? he's not fully dead?! where IS he then?!

-cue Danny tracking down Vlad's lair with Clockwork's help so he can pry the man out of there

that part is about as far as i usually got consistently (lots of ideas, nothing firm) before hearing Hadestown and realizing where i could go from there. once I did, Vlad became a combo of Eurydice and Hades, and Danny a combo of Orpheus and Persephone. at which point:

-Plasmius basically made himself an anachronistic mish mash of everything he associates with power and glory. including a lot of roman empire, because clearly he was having fun there before Danny showed up.

-lots of little indicators he's still full of regrets, familiar faces on background characters, familiar motifs, lots of sad

-Plasmius reveals he can still become human. there's just nothing left for him up there. he is a king here, there he will be the most hated man on Earth. his life is over, just like it will be for Danny one day, and he will not force himself outside of his refuge just to be discarded once again

-that actually does get to Danny. sure, it's because of Vlad's own actions but... there really isn't anything in this for Vlad. and he had been planning to just offer a simple out, in, back to being sad in his lair forever and holy shit that does not feel right

-so he... stays. until he can find something to offer Vlad on the outside

-he fails. he leaves. he returns. more than once. he has to get Vlad to finally transfer those artifacts, but his need to protect is telling him he needs to give Vlad something that's worth leaving

-still have a lot of the third act to plan, but Danny eventually becomes that thing worth leaving for after a lot of getting to know Vlad's many wounds and regrets. and Vlad decides rather than be king of his personal underworld, he'd rather be a kingmaker. it's why he stole the crown of fire and ring of rage without using them in the first place

-and he's sure he knows who he wants to have them some day

-(there would also be a lot of implications that would roll into a possible AGIT based sequel that the half-ghost status is a lot more mystically significant than just an ability to change back and forth)

-featuring a lot of hot king Vlad and a Danny who's so stubborn he doesn't even realize he's catching feelings until it sneaks up on him

I love this I love this. It's extremely cinematic and has so many great visuals (like Hot King Vlad). When do tickets go on sale? I want to book the entire theater, please. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_

Also, feel free to ignore this if you're not taking suggestions, but that third act? The impetus that finally gets Vlad to return to the human world?

Danny gets captured. And the only person who can save him is Vlad.

Maybe Danny's newly-acquired wealth attracted attention from some unsavory people (GIW, whoever), and because he was so preoccupied visiting Vlad and trying to figure out how to get him to come back to the living world, he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings. (Of course he wasn't; he's young and inexperienced and there are things he doesn't know to watch out for. Vlad obviously did, which was how he managed to be such a high-profile individual and yet keep his ghost identity a secret for 20+ years.)

And maybe Vlad began to bond with Danny through his regular visits. Nothing could get him to return to the human world, but he was beginning to enjoy Danny's company. And then suddenly Frostbite or another ghost bursts into Vlad's lair and utters three words: "They got Danny."

Oh shit.

Cue an epic rescue. King Vlad at his hottest and deadliest. Michael Bay explosions. John Williams score. Blood, fire, vengeance, the artifacts firing up at their master's presence, the boss of all boss battles, Duel of the Fates cranked to 11—

[paintedkinzy-88]

Rottmnt dragon au. Donnie being insentsitive with those fake wings of his... why is is always the twins... >_>

Fbsjfbjwn to be fair, Leo has always flaunted his swimming skills and referred to flying as inferior… Faceman through and through, can’t let anyone realize he has a dream pshhhh crazy talk.

But, yes, at the same time, as dragonets living in the same room, Leo ALSO constantly pestered Donnie about when they’d grow their wings, how long it’d take them to learn to fly, how much he loves Rio and Guardians of Ga’Hoole and HTTYD, AND whether or not Dee could literally just build them wings one day.

So like. Yeah, Dee probably should have known 😭

[wombywoo]

i'm feeling emotional tonight and have been thinking about being Vincent's friend. he looks like he'd give a nice hug

ughhh I'm with you there 😔✊ I think we could all use a vincent friend in our lives rn

[sunnys-aesthetic]

oh realllyy?

HIYA CLOUDDROP BE UPON YE (I luv them too)

hey so what if i cried really hard until my headache came bacj

[kiunlo]

Willie Wagtail! Or a Blue Fairy Wren (with his Ladies)! Or a Purple Crowned Fairy Wren (they largely survived last year's floods and are MATING)! Or Galahs! Or Magpies! Or a Wedgetail Eagle!

I like birds 🐦🦩🦤🦆🐣

sorry this took forever to actually get to your ask lol. i was initially going to draw all of the birds (because i love all those birds and i wanted to draw them all) but if i did that it would've taken too long (cries). the wings are whatever. everything else i'm proud of.

drawn on my phone w/ stylus, started it yesterday, finished it today.

[bookofmirth]

I think it’s very funny when ppl say that it’s obvious that Elain is next cause she is the last archeron and the only person who could hold a plot + Gwyn could never cause she is a secondary character WHEN:

Elain is - at this moment - more secondary than Gwyn cause what exactly we had about her? (Yeah I heard the theories that she can’t have a POV cause she is a seer and she would be a walking spoiler so her pov has to be hidden)

Lidia cervos only showed up on book 2 and baby girl stole the entire show while being secondary character? Yrene Westfall hellooo?

I was just ranting about this elsewhere so here we go haha!

"why would Gwyn or Az get a pov/book when Elain hasn't had one yet and when Cassian and Rhys never got one?" because these characters are not in line at the DMV? they didn't take a number at the deli counter?

The only thing that really matters in terms who gets a book or a pov is whether it makes sense to the story being told.

Sometimes people argue about these stories as if they are math, as if there has to be a certain order to the way things are told. But that's not how storytelling works? The characters aren't queued up, and this is not kindergarten - they don't all get equal time with the omniscient narrator. This isn't about what's perceived as "fair", but what will actually make sense for the story.

Chaol didn't get a book because he had been waiting patiently for it since ToG. Chaol got a book because his chapters were originally going to be part of EoS, but his story ended up being much bigger than originally planned. He didn't get a story because he "deserved" it for still being alive multiple books later, but because it made sense to focus on his narrative on its own. It was about what was organic within the story and what would be the best, most effective, impactful way to tell that story.

So yeah, Gwyn can become a main character, so can Vassa, so can Miryam and Drakon, so could Eris - it's literally Sarah's job to figure out what makes sense for the story and to bring us along for the ride. There is no "math" that is going to make a specific character "required" to be next. Certain things make more sense than others, but people are wayyyyy too stuck on the distinction between main character and side character and acting like the author is somehow limited. She's only limited by her imagination, my friends!

[foolishlyzephyrus]

I Saw The TV Glow / The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

[jq37]

During the lore dump, Ally speculated that Kalina was in on it the whole time because she was the one who urged Cassandra to the astral mall, but then why would Kalina even give them Ragh's name to help? Tell me i'm not crazy and they just assumed something

I could be wrong obviously but I don't think Kalina has been bad this whole time. That's not how familiars work as far as we've been shown. I think Kalina's personality is a bit acerbic no matter what but her alignment is tied to her mistress so when it's Cass she's good and when it's the NK she's bad (by our standards of good and bad).

During the Baron fight, Kalina gave them the clue again and then killed herself before she could be forced to attack the party. She knew she was switching alignments and took herself out of the fight. That doesn't say to me, "Kalina is always evil." (Also in that same episode we saw her as a baby kitten in a flashback as a wedding present or something so it would be wild if she was just secretly evil.)

So yeah, I think Ally is just always suspicious of Kalina which is understandable considering that she was introduced as a nightmare plague but I think this was more a matter of Porter waiting for the opportunity to strike than Kalina purposefully setting Cass up.

(If I was Pepe Silvia-ing and trying to come up with a reason that Kalina might want this, it would be playing 4D Chess to try and help get her girl's wife back but I ultimately think what Ally said was spur of the moment speculation and not the clear conclusion.)

[yujeong]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm gonna put it out there. I don't think the whole Great and Tyme storyline is a love story. It had the potential to be one if they weren't caught in the crosshairs of their parents' actions. Tyme sitting by Great's bedside and talking to him was just guilt talking and Great's reimagining of their relationship was just wishful thinking.

Also, who do you think was recording the video of the crime?

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to disagree with your opinion: TymeGreat is very evidently a love story, just like VegasPete was very much a love story (a very different one than TymeGreat of course). It's true that 4 Minutes as a show isn't predominantly about romance. Not in the classic sense anyway. But Tyme and Great meeting each other as kids, then meeting again as adults, making questionable decisions for themselves and each other, breaking each other's hearts again and again until it got too late, all of this accounts for a love story. Guilt and shame and regret and wishing for something else, something better, something more, doesn't negate what their story is about. And to answer your question, Title's car was recording the video of the crime. He just tossed the SD card of the camera in the mud to hide the evidence, as stupid a move as it was.

[twothpaste]

earthbound old man tier list

S Tier: Doctor Andonuts. idc what anyone says, he is a fascinating bewilderful tragic morally dubious rubiks cube of a character, and if i think about him for longer than 10 seconds i get so emo i wanna dye my hair black and run away into the woods. he is also very funny. i would squash him like putty.

A Tier: Wess. mother 3 wouldn't be mother 3 without Wess and i'm not kidding. i love how he is written as both a terrifying abusive father and also a genuinely wise antifa ally, the duality of humanity or whatever. a bunch of his lines still give me chills to this day. especially [ this one ]

Leder as well. absolute fucking real one. imagine taking a vow of silence for the rest of your life to protect your beloved community, none of whom even can remember the sacrifices you've made for them, singlehandedly bearing a lifetime of unfathomable trauma to spare them theirs. he is atlas with the planet earth on his shoulders. yet another character who turns my brains into spaghetti-os.

B Tier: George is one of the most intriguing characters in the series. Boy, I wish Itoi took the time to actually Write him!!! so many questions, so little canon material, but my imagination does drive me a bit to madness with this guy I fear.

C Tier: the fuck do you mean Geldegarde Monotoli was super wicked evil under Giygas' influence, kidnapped Paula, took over Cartoon New York with sheer capitalist ruthlessness - then as soon as you break the Mani Mani statue he's like -tiny bichon frise sneeze- "ouuugghhh goodness gracious i'm so sorry, i don't know what came over me, i am so harmless and frail and made of pudding also" -little pekingese cough- and Paula is like "don't worry ness 👧 he was just a sweet old man all along lol!!!" nvm it's pretty funny actually

Grandpa Alec goes in C Tier too. imo he's well written in chapter 1. his reaction to grief feels really off-kilter in a strangely human & believable way, like?? he is snapping at Lucas and immediately feeling remorse, cracking jokes to try and assure Flint (and himself) everything is ok when it clearly isn't, kooky silly and also unsettling at the same time. i think people forget that he's also a messy clumsy maladjusted grieving dad, just like Flint. but after chapter 1 he kinda falls off, doesn't have much interesting to say or add to the story. i find myself kinda wishing Lucas had a closer relationship to his grandpa implied post-timeskip… oh well.

is Jonel old? his sprite doesn't look ancient but considering his attitude & his adult kids I imagine him to be in his 60's probably. i like that he's a bit of an asshole, and his moment at the prayer sanctuary implies a religious aspect to the village that's super intriguing… iirc he has a line all the way in New Pork where he trash talks Flint for still holding out hope & tryin to find Claus, and it's like?? damn, Jonel, a cunt to the bitter end!! gotta love that.

likewise Mayor Pusher is one of those Tazmily villagers who really highlights how fake & callous some of these people can be. i love the part toward the end of chapter 7 where he blabbers about how much he hates this hick town and he's so eager to leave already, and when he catches Lucas eavesdropping iirc he's rude as ever to him. what a douchebag! no wonder his son is so depressed ❤️

Nippolyte is a benign real one and I like him, even though there's not much to him.

wish Scamp did or said literally anything of note before dying. oh well

D Tier: yeah fuck Mr. Carpainter though. i don't believe for a second he was solely driven to become a cult leader by alien brainwashing alone, dude's gonna be on some MLM shit within a year mark my words

??? Tier: i don't consider Mother 3 Porky an old man, i consider him Very a forever thirteen year old trapped in a sickly grotesque disproportionaltely aging body. but if you do consider him an old man, he's in the stratosphere tier blowing up the moon

[hop-a-lot]

Hi there! This question is entirely out of nowhere, forgive me, but I was wondering why that one Artemis Fowl comic you made a while back ft. Spiro’s birthday party can’t be reblogged? I love it a lot, and obviously it’s your work and can be made non-reblog if you wish, but I was just curious!

Hihi Blue! I'm sorry you found out the post can't be reblogged, for some reason I had made it private (I forgot whether I deleted it or not because I can't seem to find it in my archive). That time I wasn't in a good mood after posting it here for 8 hours and I turned it private when I looked back the post.