#swallow speaks

[cabeswaterdrowned]

something I like about Blue Sargent is that she’s so believably seventeen years old. she misses her mom and yearns to keep her friendships and also to pursue her future and grow. she insults her cousin to her face but loves and is very protective of her. she wears fingerless gloves to cemeteries to look cool even though she knows trying to look cool will bite her in the ass, she monologues about how if she opens her pink switchblade she’s sure she’ll cut herself as a sensible teen but also monologues about how she looves the idea of herself as a badass with a switchblade, and then she does indeed open it and cut herself and connects it to her emotional hurt. she’s both self-conscious and confident, and highly pretentious. She’s a one thousand year old condescending brat who wishes she was surrounded by fellow one thousand year old condescending brats at all times. she’s impulsive and idealistic and empathetic and sensible and stubborn and judgemental and curious and compassionate and playful and fiercely loving. she’s a fanciful sensible thing, she’s good but she’s not nice, she’s brave because she’s full of fear. I love her

[callonpeevesie]

[queer-cosette]

I think the appeal of the male protagonists in things like Heathers and Labyrinth and Lisa Frankenstein is partly because... they take the female characters' emotions seriously. Like I'm not saying that they always make the best decisions about helping, but they take their girls seriously. Veronica is stuck with her image as a vapid party girl when she's slowly beginning to deeply loathe herself and those surrounding her; Sarah has her privacy dismissed by her stepmother simply because she's older than her toddler half-brother and shouldn't want to be selfish for once; Lisa is expected to just stop grieving the deeply traumatic loss of her mother because it's time for her to start playing happy families as a normal sister and daughter. And JD and Jareth and the Creature all listen. JD encourages Veronica to break free from what's expected of her and stands with her when no one else will. Jareth appears and offers to fulfill Sarah's unrealistic fantasies with magic. The Creature devotedly listens to every word Lisa says and protects her from anyone who has hurt her. Yeah, JD kills three people and has Veronica forge fake suicide notes to cover it up, and Jareth kidnaps Toby with the intention of turning him into a goblin, and the Creature goes straight to murder as his method of protection (in particular using methods that might even retraumatise Lisa), but that's all for plot reasons. There wouldn't be a story if there was no conflict. The fantasy is found in the way they listen when no one else will, and how the female protagonists have their negative emotions taken seriously when everyone else dismisses them.

[great-and-small]

Lots of discussion about which bird has the most beautiful high-contrast plumage on my other post so I say we put it to a vote. Who’s your pick?

[leafatlaw]

Im in love with how the hearts are represented by nether stars,, its just one really cool to think of, instead of it being some modded in thing.

Like do you think the lifesteal members ever look at the night sky and think its alive? The night sky so full of lives, shining and shimmering just out of reach. Do they stare at the nightsky with greed, those with less hearts, do they stare with envy?

Do they ever kill the wither and think how remarkably similar they are to hearts? Holding the nether star close, like it might give them a life back. Do they identify witht he wither, they also drop those same stars when they die after all?

And then, how does it feel to hold a star/life. Does it burn like a real star? Is it freezing cold? Does it thump in rhythms or pulse with light? We are all made of star dust after all, the lifesteal members are just more star than most.

[frayedcircus]

she swallowed a calliope and her bones look like a cartoon

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

i drew this!

[letitbehurt]

Whumpee losing their voice to screaming, unable to answer Whumper or beg them to stop. The only sounds they can make now are quiet gasps and high, broken whimpers.

[ratatatastic]

Vanha Kauppahalli date: en full, a 2 minute 50 second masterpiece...

Primetime Panthers | 11.6.24 (x)

[faaun]

what draws you back to your country what draws you back to your land when i was a kid i told myself if i ever left iran i'd never go back 2 years into living in the UK i started looking at news on iran again 10 years in and i visited it for the first time again and today i heard an iranian mother talk in farsi to her child on the train to london the way my mother used to and i wanted to cry i wanted to ask her whether they're still cutting the mountaintops whether the lakes are still drying today i showed the person i was with pictures of waterfalls and palaces and forests and snow-white north something odd pulls me back with increasing force i can't ignore it ever again

[lloydfrontera]

lloyd 'survived on one meal per day for years' frontera would absolutely see sharing food as a love language and javier 'lived in the streets for months as a child' asrahan would be fluent in it

i do believe there is a point in their lives where they both heal from the trauma of going through severe food insecurity but neither of them ever quite really forget just how important food can be. and when the other shares their food with them, they appreciate it as the show of affection it was meant to be

[taintandviolent]

oh nothing just thinking about the creature's little micro expressions and grunts and gurgles and desperate attempts at verbalization and communication.

[queer-cosette]

The entire dick-chopping sequence in Lisa Frankenstein is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life quite possibly. The Creature pausing to turn up the stupid cheesy playlist presumably so he can have background music?? The slow motion as he rips the covers off Michael?? Everyone's expressions as they get splashed with blood?? The silhouette of Michael's dick gracefully arching through the air before it lands in the wastepaper basket?? The Creature's sad little pout when he realises it will upset Lisa if he hurts Taffy?? The way he snatches the wastepaper basket and glides out of the room with an expression like the world's saddest wet cat?? Cole Sprouse's performance in that scene is everything to me.

[sparkyblizz]

random writing thing I've been doing in Kirby fics—while Meta Knight is the only character I write using more verbose words and generally more "fancy"-sounding, and Dedede is the only one who has like, a US southerner accent, there are some dialogue things I've been putting in to show the different ways characters around them speak:

King Dedede uses more shortened or "lazier" manners of speech, like the "whatcha", "whaddaya", "kinda", "sorta", etc., to showcase his sort of lackadaisical demeanour

Kirby also uses some of the more "lazier" ways of speaking mentioned above which I chose because I write him as a kid and I thought that made sense of a kid

I also like giving Bandana some of those speech patterns because he's historically been one of the king's loyal servants and I like the idea of him picking up that way of speaking from him

in contrast, Meta Knight tends to always say words in full, "what are you", "what do you", "kind of", "sort of", etc., to try and showcase his more serious and knightly manner though I do also have him use contractions so he still sounds somewhat modern lmao

I tend to have the Meta-Knights speak like him as well, saying words in full, like with Bandana and Dedede, to showcase how they pick up things from who they serve

[bigforeheadbaddie]

happy september first, here’s my running list of halloween costumes i’ve yet to do yet

[sciderman]

wade's a twink cuz i said so. i think twink should become vague like hot girl summer. a lifestyle rather. and wade gives me twink vibes

y'all seen him standing next to nathan summers?? his wholeass body is smaller than nathan's arm. that's a twink.