#tea toned

[artlefty]

MMMMMMMMM GOOD THINGS ARE BEING SAID.

Martin consistently stutters, consistently allows himself to build up to a point where his frustrations have nowhere to go other than an abrupt spurt of anger that can almost seem out of character to him in the beginning but are, in fact, intrinsically linked to who he is as a person. He sidesteps his own comfort in favour of others' and expresses his feelings in providing for those he cares about. Simple gestures, like a cup of tea. And later (avoiding spoilers) Bigger Gestures.

Martin has convinced himself he does not matter and attempts to make himself small as a result. Be kind, be gentle and offer comfort to those around him in an attempt to convince them to let him stay. Historically he's been an emotional punching bag for others. His mother, then Jon- you can assume later Lukas too (though in a very different manner).

It's not until much later he starts expressing himself in more honest ways (i.e. post Lonely). He admits his faults and asks for things. Allows his anger and frustration to bubble up organically. Isn't as afraid to express these things as now he's confidant he won't be left in the dirt as a result of taking up space. "I am Martin Blackwood and I am not lonely anymore."

English tea is the most inoffensive thing to offer someone as a source of comfort. The smallest and most effective way to provide in a workspace that he has very little idea to what he's doing in thanks to fudging the records to get in in the first place. The mugs may as well have "Please keep me, I'm helping, see?" written on them. So yes. Yes and Thank you.

[clottedscream]

“it’s just a warmup sketch,” i say to myself. “i’m just gonna warm up on shading and coloring. i’m just warming up on anatomy.” my spine crackles from sitting in shrimp stance for 2 hours. “just to warm up.”

[heartnosekid]

a moose stimboard w/ earth tones for anon!

🫎-🌲-🫎 / 🌲-🫎-🌲 / 🫎-🌲-🫎

[halljavalge]

Source: thenordickitchen

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Misty and Muted Colors ~

[toyastales]

A shade of brown with a cool tone is elegant and sophisticated.

[beautifulabsurdities]

🇭🇰 cha chaan teng 茶餐廳 ☕️

©️Esme Ngan

[meirimerens]

p1 yulia lyuricheva

[seasonalwonderment]

“All the Beautiful Things” ~ Photo by loretoidas on flickr

[somewhereincairparavel]

Underrated Zuko moment is him making tea for iroh after he was knocked out and tentatively goes "I hope I made it the way you like it" 🥹🥹

[fidannazimqizi]

[the-crazy-echidna-lady]

I feel like their human counterparts finally look right now-

[antiqua-lugar]

Davrin: Emmerich helped me brew a gingewort truffle tea. I thought we'd see what all the fuss is about.

you are geralt de riva and you are an antivan crow and you are on a picnic with one of your best friends and he offers you a misteryous tea that your boyfriend helped brew and you can hear viago's voice in your head what are you doing, are you insane, have you lost your mind as you drink it without a second thought because you love these people and they love you and it's safe, this is safe, you repeat it to yourself as much as you repeat it to lucanis but you believe it more than him

and then you get so high on gingewort tea that you hear assan speak

[takingontheworldtogether]

nothing better than seeing a bunch of posts on your dash about unfamiliar characters and realizing your mutual got a new obsession. like congrats bestie i'm so happy for you, i can't wait to hear what happens to your new blorbos next!!!!

[mochiikoy]

🫖 Tea Party

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….