#target on moments

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Archery Nemesis.

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[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[taeiris]

the queer yearning squad

tender, emotional music plays…. and then-

prints, stickers and posters already up in my inprnt!!! shop here

close ups⬇️

[dysfunctionalupsidedown]

Hm. Will Byers may fear a lot of things, but lying isn't one of them.

[starry-bi-sky]

im on my hadestown bullshit again but im also still on my SVSSS bullshit too so au where Shen Yuan gets transmigrated into a nameless NPC sometime after Bingge merges the realms and becomes the demonic emperor over like, basically everyone. And Shen Yuan manages to become an immortal cultivator and has a few years to himself to explore the world he's in, conveniently avoiding Bingge the whole time. Until eventually Shen Yuan joins what is essentially a traveling theater group.

They all love the strange stories he tells, ones he claimed he learned from far away places, and eventually ask him to write one as a play so that they can share it with the world. He does one better and writes a musical and slightly xianxia-izes Hadestown so it fits with the times better.

Eventually they learn everything, the music is st up, their lines learned, and the group rents out some kind of low-class stage for a night in a town that's neither too big nor too small. One that Bingge is conveniently passing through.

The actor for Orpheus falls 'sick' the opening night, and Shen Yuan gets convinced into taking the role by his. He has the prettiest voice, and he knows Orpheus' lines and character the best! Shen Yuan agrees.

Bingge attends that night too, and sits in the far back, in a seat where nobody can see him that well.

There is nothing to prepare him for the Tale of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Not the actor, who looks distressingly, uncannily similar to Shen Qingqiu, from the sharp curve of his jaw to the sound of his voice. It's Shen Yuan's saving grace that he has just enough differences that Bingge doesn't fly to his feet immediately.

Not the character Orpheus either. Who shares a distressingly similar worldview to the one Bingge once had a long, long time ago. A young man, a boy really, with so much hope for the world around him to near the point of naivety. Who believes that there is still good in the world and the people around him.

There's nothing to prepare him for Epic III. A song the lone Orpheus sings to convince Hades to let him and Eurydice go, one that rends Bingge of his flesh and leaves him feeling raw and wanting.

Suddenly he's no longer watching the stage; he's on it, standing in Hades' place, jaded and bitter and cold and reigning over all. Having become cruel like Shen Qingqiu once was. He stands in Hades' place, tall and imposing and powerful.

And there is a shadow of the past sitting at his feet. A boy in love with the world looking up at him, stripping him down to his soul, and asking him where he's been. Bingge stands in Hades' place, and just like that, becomes a man again.

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

I’m convinced that people who hate Mabel have a) never watched the show and/or b) don’t have siblings. Because until they encountered Bill Cipher for the first time, there was nothing to suggest Dipper’s obsession with the journals was more important or valid than Mabel just wanted to have a normal summer with a whirlwind romance. And even after incident with the portal Dipper and Ford actively keep everything secret from Mabel and Stan so she has no idea of the stakes or what Bill is capable of. Add to that that her dreams of the future were all suddenly crumbling around her all at once, and it is perfectly reasonable if not expected that she would fall for an immortal chaos demon’s tricks.

Also, most of the stuff involving the journal that goes wrong is Dipper’s fault but he still pretends like he and Mabel are in it together. And those of you who are siblings know that Mabel takes it extremely well. Like if I had accidentally sold my body as a puppet to a demon and the only way I could ask my sibling for help was through a sock puppet, I would expect them to help, but only after they spent a good half hour laughing and making fun of me with the additional consequence would be that any time I ask them for a small favor in the future, they would remind me that they were the one to save me from my stupid mistake, so no, they won’t pass me the salt.

(Also, can we just take a moment to see the giant double standards when it comes to the romances that Dipper and Mabel’s have. When Mabel pursues a romantic people treat it as irrelevant and getting in the way of the plot even when it doesn’t. But when Dipper tries to win Wendy’s affection, people expect Mabel to drop everything, sacrifice her pet, mess with time travel to help set up a scenario which Dipper can win a carnival game as a flex.)

[bylrndgm]

MIDDLE CHILD CORE The "Mike Wheeler in Every Episode" Outtakes #1

[pianokantzart]

Bowser after getting defeated a second time: Darn it! I'll get you next time, Mario! >:(

King Boo after getting defeated a second time: Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate Luigi since we've met. There are 387.44 million units of ectoplasm that make up my apparition. If the word "hate" was engraved on each iota of those hundreds of millions of units it would not equal one-billionth of the hate I feel for Luigi at this micro-instant...

[zia-zee-bee]

I’m calling it right now Mike and Karen are going to hug in season 5. PLEASE LORD I NEED. they hug season 1, season 3, and season 5 would make it in all the odd numbers

[yashley]

imogen & fearne in c3e94

[fatedroses]

Two tanks without their emotional support healers.

[rubyvroom]

we can all agree this is unacceptable, right?

“I don’t care that abuse and harassment, stalking is a normal thing to do to people who are famous,” [Chappell Roan] says in the aforementioned TikTok, which has since gone viral. “I don’t care that it’s normal. I don’t care that this crazy type of behavior comes along with the career field I’ve chosen. That does not make it OK. That doesn’t make it normal. It doesn’t mean I want it. It doesn’t mean that I like it. I don’t want whatever the fuck you think you’re supposed to be entitled to whenever you see a celebrity.” [...] Roan is far from the first artist to push back on these expectations. She’s the latest in a string of young, mostly female pop stars, like Eilish, Doja Cat, and Reneé Rapp, who have expressed their discomfort at the parasocial expectations that come with being in the spotlight. It’s a risky sentiment to share in a world where one of the worst things a woman can be is rude. But at this point, it can’t possibly be shocking. In her 2022 documentary, the actor and singer Selena Gomez said, “Everything I’ve ever wished for, I’ve had and done all of it. But it has killed me.” That sums up everything that’s wrong with the current fan–artist dynamic. We are asking too much, and we are chasing a level of intimacy that simply isn’t sustainable. In the process, we reward the stars who try to give us every piece of themselves, and we find reasons to villainize the ones who make an effort to protect themselves.

We're overdue for an internet Come-To-Jesus moment about this

[ckret2]

scene i'm cutting from next chapter, but it's funny enough I'm posting it alone. In which Stan tries to tell Bill how to seduce a guy by lying about his job.

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In the living room, Stan said, "If you wanna play it safe, say you're in the house of representatives! If she says, 'You're not the guy I voted for,' you can say, 'I'm in one of the other districts!' She won't know the difference, there's like a hundred representatives—"

"435 representatives," Ford called, leaning out of the kitchen. "But Bill's target is a government agent, he might be on top of politics."

"Oh, right. So much for posing as a politician."

"Hey," Bill said, "what if I pull out the senator top hat, think that'd sell the story?"

"Bad idea," Stan said. "It'd make you look too tall. Guys hate it when their date's taller than them."

"Is that real?" Ford asked, drifting over to the living room doorway. "I've always heard that, but I've never been bothered by a date that's taller than me."

Stan gave him a baffled look, trying to figure out whether Ford had ever told him about dating someone taller than him; but Bill just rolled his eye and said, "Of course you're not bothered, considering who your first crush was!" He lowered his voice just a fraction. "Hey, do you still have dreams about pinning her against the wall?"

Ford turned beet red, muttered something noncommittal, and slunk back toward the kitchen. As he left, he heard Stan hiss, "Hey, who was his first crush? He always refused to tell me."

"Mothgar."

"Wh—the giant, radioactive moth? From the monster movies?" 

"How many other Mothgars do you know?"

Luckily, the kids in the kitchen were too caught up in their own conversation to listen in on the living room discussion. When Ford returned, Dipper was saying, "I'm not sure about this plan. I know Bill's good at tricking people, but... he's so annoying. And not in a lovable way."

"Don't undersell him!" Mabel said. "He has the potential to be a dreamboat!"

Ford muttered, "He's a manipulative, murderous monster." Who knew too many embarrassing secrets, didn't share the ones you wanted to know, and spilled all the ones you didn't want shared.

[oneshotprincess]

kind of want fics where orion doesn't resurrect as optimus prime just to see how megatron would deal with learning that choices made in anger cannot be undone...

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

We've all heard of "Barry Bluejeans was the roadrunner to Kravitz's Wile E Coyote for like ten years post-Stolen Century pre-Gerblins" (impeccable concept, always hilarious) but consider:

Kravitz has attempted to reap Merle-Fuckin-Highchurch at least 4d6 times since he first appeared on this plane. Through a series of miscommunications, lucky rolls, slapstick shenanigans, and the occasional bout of divine intervention, he has never once succeeded.

Merle is totally oblivious to both his alleged crimes and Kravitz's increasingly desperate attempts to charge him for them.