#thank you both 💜💜💜

[panoffrying]

Watched these two turn from friends to lovers over time in my Cult and I’m so happy for them! Happy late Valentine’s Day 🕷️💜🐜

[royalarchivist]

Pac: [Sighs] I'm trying to find someone, a person who's– a good person, a good person, a partner–

JV: No no! You only want bad people, Pac. Sorry, sorry.

Pac: No, I get it. And actually, I– I actually– I want someone to harm me, Fun. I want someone to hurt me– I want to have regrets, you know? I want it.

Fun: Wait, wait– A "she" or "he" or "whatever"? Hold on, I'll put whatever–

Pac: Whoever, whatever. ❤️💜💙

[ Full Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]

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Fun: What's this?

Pac: This is it! Let's see- let's see if I stop being single, right guys? I'm trying, right? The party brings new opportunities to appear and everything, right?

Fun: Ah, you're trying to stop being single?* What's your type? Let me– let me be Tinder, dude.

Pac: I am–

Fun: Your type.

Pac: [Sighs] I'm trying to find someone, a person who's– a good person, a good person, a partner–

JV: No no!

Pac: What?

JV: You only want bad people, Pac. Sorry, sorry.

Pac: No, I get it. And actually, I– I actually– I want someone to harm me, Fun. I want someone to hurt me– I want to have regrets, you know? I want it.

Fun: Wait, wait– A "she" or "he" or "whatever"? Hold on, I'll put whatever–

Pac: Whoever, whatever.

Fun: "Whoever," then. Freaky or crazy, a vibe like that?

Pac: Yeah, exactly. You get it?

GuhZera: I like that vibe, I like that "crazy" vibe.

Translation notes:

* Fun uses the verb "encalhar" here, which is colloquially used to mean "to stay single," especially for women.

[cupiidzbow]

thank you for so much love on my sona sheet update i am so happy you all like my funny monkey guy 😢😢 AND AUGHGHH!!!!!! HUGE THANK U TO MY ABSOLUTE SWEET AND WONDERFUL FRIENDS (@linaharutaka ) and (@qilinkisser) for the most gorgeous art you made for me today ….. I’m literally in tears oh my gosh………thank you 😢😢😢

[caliphoria17]

insp. by a scene from @simplykorra & @justawhitewall ’s SMAU, “Timing is Everything” section 172.

[monards]

"It's so rare for R to be in her right mind for a spell. Should she really be wasting the precious little lucid time she has writing this?" "Don't worry. For a witch, this is the most important thing."

you mean to be telling me that it's an explicit point that rhinedottir is rarely in the proper state to do spells and write things like this. and of all the choices she had not to. she chooses to write it and places importance (read. it's established as the MOST IMPORTANT THING too.) in spending said-precious-time to write something with her friends commemorating andersdotter. hoyo i need youto stare me in the eyes and real the implications of rhinedottir expending what the other's are describing as her "precious little lucid time" to commemorate and make an ode to her dead friend HOYOPLEAS

[blondeaxolotl]

Haiiii

Ok baiii

IM-

[stormyoceans]

I don’t want to take First Note of Love away from you but I am here to HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to watch this week’s Monster Next Door! It’s so cute and fluffy!!!! 💕💕💕

(And this week’s 4minutes was extra spicy 🌶️ but I know that’s not what really entices you lol)

CAUGHT UP WITH BOTH SHOWS TODAY AND YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT ANON THIS WEEK'S EPISODE OF MONSTER NEXT DOOR WAS SO CUTE IM STILL GIGGLING BLUSHING KICKING MY FEET LIKE A FOOL

FORGET THE MONA LISA I NEED THIS TO BE HANGING AT THE LOUVRE IN ITS PLACE

i may not be going crazy over monster next door but i need everyone to know that this is entering into my list of comfort shows. it feels exactly like this picture, like a warm loving cuddle after a hard day, a place where you can just BE without having to worry about anything else, and it really is so nice to see these two boys figure out how to love each other and build a relationship together one little step at a time. they're both so very tender and sweet and vulnerable, and there's something so very precious in that

shout out to my man diew for being stronger than i will ever be tho i would have already climbed that man like a tree (and the fact that he hasn't yet is exactly why i WILL be going insane when they finally kiss)

on the other hand im having such a weird relationship with 4 minutes and im currently so annoyed with myself about it, because on paper it seems like the kind of shows i would absolutely love and lose my mind over, and yet im not and it's SO INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING because i don't understand WHY. UGH. i still enjoyed the episode very much tho and im curious to see how things will go from here!!!!!

[midnight-rice]

@lildoodlecat answering this on my sideblog so as not to confuse the tales fans on my main 😅

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aaaaaa i'm being invited to go off about a random fixation???? thank youuuuu that's so sweet ;_;

OK SO i feel like I should preface by saying I'm probably not the prototypical fan of this show? I watched it more recently when I was older so my nostalgia isn't based off of childhood memories, I just found a really fun show during a kind of depressing time of my life (2020 lol need I say more?). Also a lot of the fans seem into the shipping scene which is fine i guess but i think they're all sleeping on the potential of the adorkable found family of superpowered teenagers who all live together unsupervised and don't even know each other's real names (seriously they're in costume 24/7 and call each other their work names 😂).

I'll guess I'll start this pitch by listing my favorite things about the show in descending order… which means starting with the animation of all things 😅 There are so many well-animated movies and shows out there but I have yet to encounter one so visually appealing to me personally than Teen Titans (2003). I'm a cartoonist at heart, I generally love exaggerated facial expressions for comedic purposes but Teen Titans really hits for me because it's deliberately styled after anime, with familiar visual language like the red blush lines of embarrassment or the large sweatdrop of anxiety. IIRC Teen Titans was produced by Warner Bros, aired on Cartoon Network, and largely outsourced the animation to Korea, but the homage to Japan is so strong that not only is there a variant of the opening theme performed in Japanese but also the one (1) movie they made is set in Tokyo.

But on top of the silliness of the visual gags the rest of the show is also super well animated, especially the fight scenes!!! Sure some sequences are a little stiff but you can tell that's because they were saving the budget for something like a 360 rotation of the entire group mid-battle (something that seriously impresses me in 2D animation) or a hand-to-hand death match that was almost certainly mo-capped of professional martial artists. Robin in particular is my favorite to watch because he is canonically skilled as an acrobat AND a martial artist and the animators Understood That!! The squash and stretch! The swipes! The smears! I'm swooning 😍 He is a skrunkly rubber band and I love him. (also random side note but i love how much their team's strategies involve yeeting each other at the enemy 😂 like "there is a problem, i'm gonna solve it by throwing my friends at it. i'm sure it's fine BeastBoy will probably turn into an elephant by the time he gets there and not go splat against the monster literally made of concrete")

Moving on from the gorgeous and creatively choreographed fight scenes, I'll try to capture the overall vibes I love about it the most. I'm someone who's always down for a story that's character-driven, balanced between comedy and angst, and above all is genuine and true to itself. In other words, I really respect the tone and way a show handles itself, and Teen Titans (2003) really delivers here. Some episodes are the wackiest nonsense you can imagine (every season has one episode I dub the "pink elephant episode" because its whole purpose is to flex the East coast animation influences in purely abstract sequences often accompanied by music). Some episodes are alarmingly dark and edgy (as an angst and whump lover, my favorite episode is S3 ep31 Haunted in which Robin has a mental breakdown and violent delusions so intense they're worried he's going to go into cardiac arrest… in a kid's show 😅) But what matters most is that both types of episodes are presented with as much gusto and geniuine effort as it is possible to cram into a 23 minute runtime.

They don't hold back with the visuals (so many unique POVs and I love the sponge-like texture in the backgrounds), or the acting (all of the voice actors are top-notch though I can't unhear Lloyd Irving as Robin 😅), or even the score (seriously this time around I was marveling at how well the music accents the emotions of the scene as well as the content, like supervillain Billy Numerous having a repeating banjo motif to represent his duplication powers and Southern US origins). I actually think the worst part of the show is the content itself 😅 this is where it becomes clear it's a kid's show, through cliched tropes, ham-fisted morals, and predictable dialogue, but as someone who's still obsessed with Tales of Graces you can probably guess that cliches aren't something that bother me too much, not when they're being performed with whole-pussy effort 😂

When I first watched the show I watched every episode (all 5 seasons, the movie, and even the lost episode) and made a list of ones that I felt like I enjoyed the most. That's what I've been using to guide my current rewatch, because there are episodes that are a little too childish or moralized or weird to me. If you want me to forward you the list I'd be happy to, but I will admit my selection is very biased toward my own tastes that you might not agree with, and that even my least favorite episodes still have decent entertainment value… with the exception of season 5 😅 idk if this is a controversial opinion in the fandom but I do not care for the last season of Teen Titans at all, you can skip it. I don't know the exact details but there were clearly some developmental and probably networking issues at this point in the series' life, and it shows in the drastic drop in quality (especially in the animation, going from glorious sakuga to powerpoint slides hurts my soul 😭). The content also suffers a bit, going from 4 seasons purely focused on the main 5 with some side characters along the way, to expanding those side characters into the main focus which, although I like them, means that none of the characters feel quite as developed since the focus is spread across too many.

Anyway I guess that's the gist of my pitch 😁 thanks for lending me a platform from which to yell from, I have no idea why I fell back into this fixation rn but it's twice as satisfying when I get to talk about it with a willing audience 💜 thanks Jay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weenietickler]

Weenie. Micah. I love you /p and all your silliness. You have many, many flaws (/silly) but the worst of them all is that you seem to never sleep, you inhuman creature. Also that you move blogs like houses. I can name 3 of your pr3viousblogs.... dignityofadog, t4tskkism and now weenietickler (which is truly fitting). You are hilarious, get in the van.

-aoibhe

@evvwenthome ummmm. are you good.............. are you dying............... thank you tho silly i love you too :3

[jestarcana]

@widdershyn-panda (from this post)

!!! Thank you so much! Lore is pretty much standard for Dark Urge background from BG3, but I'll try and expand a little 🤘

Their name is Calla, and they're a nonbinary drow druid (circle of spores) plagued by persistent migraines. They have comically low charisma, and they tend to come across as a tall, creepy guy with a "resting" stare (they also trance with their eyes open lmao). They fight like a tank/healer and have a pretty consistent self-sacrificing streak due to various reasons.

But that doesn't mean they're above mischief and bastardry! They do find joy in chaos, they'll happily instigate or go along with heists and bits, and they allow themselves to fully enjoy their insatiable bloodlust. They're just trying to keep it under control and make conscious decisions about it, which is the main thing.

[anadorablekiwi]

DOMAIN EXPANSION: Infinite blorbos

They all want you to go to bed, please <3

(Also don't mind the JJK reference I just wanted to be a little funny XD)

ACKJHFDBNOBCEJG

…finneeee

@silvercaptain24 you two win

Goodnight ladye and silver, happy skeeod and sweet dreams 💜💜💜 (ty)

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Ok I was still rly mad about the Shirt Incident earlier, so when we got home I went onto Boxlunch's website to see if they had anything else, they didn't so I instead tried Hot Topic, aND UHH.

HELLO?!?!?!? 😳💖💖💖💖💖

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Onyx Storm has characters with they/them pronouns💅

… and I’d just like to take a moment and thank Rebecca Yarros for that💛🤍💜🖤

[irritablepoe]

whatchu working on, comrade?

Hehe I'm glad you ask😌

So I thought about a small little au with portmafia!ranpo and Poe (who's mostly still the same as in canon ig, maybe not in the pm but still attached to ranpo as he should be) and they wanna bring down an enemy organisation, maybe some drug dealers that are making too much competition with the pm and refuse to work with them etc etc, plot is not so important as always, but neither ranpo nor poe are much of a fighter, except maybe Poe being a good sniper. But I think their "version" of bringing down an organisation (see skk or sth for comparison) would be the undercover thing they did in canon. Soooooo why not make Poe infiltrate the organisation, build enough trust, ranpo lets himself be captured, they kill the guy who's interrogating them, they use the computer to send a short text, the people get sucked into one of Poe's stories. Why's ranpo there? To figure out the password. Yeah idk I have to think that over still. I wanted to write such a story for a while I hope I can manage to do it finally.

I'm working on communication methods now though, just because it's the latest chapter and I wanna finish it --- just so that I can work on it further in the form of oneshots💀

[cultivating-wildflowers]

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[tarydarrington]

Ooooh!! I'm very intrigued by...

love is in the air (i just gotta figure out a window to break out)

Also Hi :)

hi!! :)

@quinn-of-aebradore

caleb spent so much time during the campaign focused on saving his parents; this one is about him grappling with the fact that he doesn't have to plan his future around that anymore, and specifically being very skittish about the fact that there's no real reason why he and essek can't be together long-term.

a lot of what i've written has been scenes that compare and contrast essek with astrid, wulf, jester, and veth, so i don't have a fun excerpt for this one, but here's something fun that did come up:

it took me so long to find a way to contrast essek and astrid/wulf properly because i kept coming up with scenarios that could work, then realizing that they already happened in canon. a fight where essek chooses caleb over trent while astrid and wulf initially back trent? that happened! essek helping caleb however he can in spite of the danger to himself while astrid and wulf want to help but are only willing to go so far? that happened! we were so spoiled by c2.

also, the title and some inspiration were taken from fake out by fall out boy.