#the queue is upon us

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

Raoulstine Week, Day 3: Wedding

Raoul x Christine + “Wedding/If Dreams Came True” (A Tale of Two Cities the Musical)

I’m so happy I learned how to easily gif youtube videos and make them pretty. I feel so accomplished!

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

"... love me, that's all I ask of you...."

I will go down with this ship → a canon ship that I adore ↳ Christine Daae + Raoul de Chagny

[incorrect-upon-a-witchlight]

Twig: Wait. Where's Frost? He loves Dungeons and Dragons.

Kremy: I thought you invited him.

Gricko: Uh, I thought Torbek invited him.

Torbek: Torbek thought Gideon invited him

Gideon: I never invite him.

[14dayswithyou]

I am really confused about this game. Is it like "Doki doki literature club" ? the game seems to break the fourth wall after getting bad endings and someone speaks in red text. Is it Ren and is he stuck in the game like Monica?Or is he and Redacted separate people, with him being a game character,but Redacted being some sort of entity who's stuck in the void of the game,or in it's code,and acknowledges that it's a game and someone's playing it and they speak to the player, not the game's protag?

✦゜ANSWERED: 14 Days With You is like 14 Days With You. It's not meant to be similar to DDLC in any way, and Ren isn't supposed to be like Monika or any other self-aware character.

Please don't associate 14DWY with other games just because they share similar tropes. /lh

But!! To answer your question: Ren isn't aware that Angel and the player are separate people. As of right now, he considers Angel and you as the same entity, and speaks to you as though you're part of his universe.

Ren is aware that his entire existence only comes into fruition whenever you play the game — but to him, that's considered normal — the same way getting wifi from trees and not discovering 80% of the ocean is considered normal for us. Nothing is out of place for him, and the way he interacts with his environment doesn't seem weird or out of place for him.

The Dead Ends are the only time Ren breaks the fourth wall, but it's still a massive WIP and there's not enough content for it to make much sense yet. But once more Days get released, this will be further explained!!

[daily-xisuma]

[025] I memorized the enochian characters for use as a cipher :-)

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

I have found a new musical and I LOVE it 💙

favorite lighting/projection cues in the outsiders part 6/?

🎥: bikinibottomday

[lenasai]

happy blorbo violence day everyone 🔥🪙🔥

ID: Blaseball Feed event that reads "Rogue Teams Incinerated the Coin!" End ID.

[doctormage]

I am allowing myself to get excited abt veilguard

[limboneto]

Eidal | She/They

Here's my main OC for Fate's Game, Eidal!

They've certainly changed a whole lot over the years, but I've loved playing around with their design and story since like 7th grade!

Definitely started off as a self insert/sona of sorts, but now here we are!

Eidal just wants to explore the world and be with friends who genuinely care about them. But seems they have a job to do before they can relax....

[cherubispunk]

Update: he is still in a silly goofy mood.

[ducktracy]

One of the best parts of your “Mel blanc screaming” polls is watching these clips and instantly remembering all these cartoons I watched growing up, like seeing an old friend I haven’t seen in years

THIS IS SOOOOO SWEET THANK YOU I AGREE!! that was one of my biggest intents in doing this. it gives me an opportunity to post about cartoons i don’t tend to talk about as much, simply because they aren’t my regular default to watch or i don’t know their history as well, and i hope it either inspires people to check out old favorites or indulge in something entirely new! let this be your sign, if you see a clip and you’re like “…huh, i should watch that” DO IT!! act on your cartoon impulse!! you might discover something amazing that way

again, i’m very grateful for the support this has gotten! especially since i know its become all consuming HAHA. i’m just glad people are enjoying it as much as i am. it makes my archivist brain happy and i get a kick out of knowing other people are getting a kick out of it!!

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

In case you were wondering, yes, I still love them very much.

[mischiefmodig]

Unpopular Opinion \ / @fellstcr \ / not accepting

🔥 (their parents) 🔥 (loki, character) 🔥 (mcu fandom??) 🔥 freebie!!

I have a lot of ground to cover, but here we go!! (apologies in advance, the last one gets p long)

Frigga is not as good of a mom as everyone wants to say.

Now with that being said, Frigga is a good mom... but that's pretty much only regulated to Loki rather than both Thor AND Loki |D I have a lot of headcanons about Frigga being his main caretaker especially when he was a baby. And as Loki grew up he just had more of her temperament and obviously, his being magically inclined helped a lot in them becoming so close as well since she was able to able to teach him her own gifts with sorcery, essentially passing down her teachings to him.

But it's so clear in the films just how much she struggles to connect to Thor in the same way. She does her best but considering even she believes that Thor + Odin cast big shadows and that Loki learning her magic was his light, indicates pretty clearly to me that she never properly bothered to connect to Thor on his side of things. That and she can't comfort Thor properly when they are together, but she is literally able to read Loki like an open book.

Now I do think that of course, she loved both of her kids. Thor is actually her child, and I don't think she ever fully meant to favor Loki over him. It's just kind of how it happens when it feels like one child needs more attention than the other - That and I'm sure at some point Odin was taking a much greater role in Thor's life (which Loki was clearly envious of to a degree) and I think she absolutely would have been the biggest advocate for both of their well beings. (and ofc in terms of Thor she was his biggest support with Jane and I think that's very good of her to do too)

But let's not forget here. Frigga was just as complicit in lying to Loki about his heritage as Odin was. And I think personally if Odin did not love Loki at all he would not have hesitated to make it clear that Loki isn't his son at all times. I just think it's too easy to make Frigga out to be the better parent when she played favorites as much as Odin is perceived to. (lbr Odin of course was going to train Thor more than Loki. Thor is literally the oldest who was always going to become king. That's just how the system works and Loki knows that. I do think Odin neglected to give Loki enough affirmation, but people act like Odin was a fantastic father to Thor too when he really just wasn't.)

Loki would not be as interesting as a character without Thor.

They are the sun and moon. Hot and cold. Darkness and Light. Chaos and Order. At their best, they are an unstoppable team, and at their worst they are enemies. But no matter what, by blood or by oath they are brothers. B R O T H E R S.

Speaking strictly to Loki: he has never known his life without Thor in it. He was saved from death (NOT TAKEN) from Jotunheim and has spent his entire life since as a son of Odin. Where Thor struggles, Loki fills in his weaknesses, and vice versa. I see people get caught up in "Loki being weaker" and thus tearing down Thor in the process, but that couldn't be further from the truth. (also tearing down other characters to raise another up is actually lowering the bar for the second character to succeed and doesn't make them look better at all. In fact, it makes them look worse because the standard is now so low :))

Where Thor is very easily heated, Loki can help him focus. While Thor is a tank in combat, Loki is swift and able to take out enemies with precision and speed. Thor is intelligent particularly when it comes to people and he is very compassionate, while Loki focuses on being book smarts and being keen in debates and negotiations. It's SO obvious they really were meant to rule together, with Loki as an advisor to Thor as king. They have a dynamic with each other that is so neat and a bond that spans hundreds to a thousand years. You can't just tear that apart just because you like one character over another. Their stories are tied to each other, and in Tom's words "You can't have Loki without Thor, or Thor without Loki."

Has Thor done Loki wrong? Yes, absolutely. But Loki has equally done wrong by Thor, he is not innocent in that either. Being a shadow is not a bad thing, it's really not, in fact, I could absolutely argue that it is where Loki thrives tbch. But ultimately his origins are found in Thor, and trying to erase that is doing Loki a huge disservice.

Thorki is incestual in nature.

I'm not going to lie to ya, the fact that you ever have to say "Well technically they're not brothers" to ship them, I think makes it pretty clear that it's actually not a good ship LOL

Every time I mention that this is a thing to people not in fandom or in the Thor fandom, they are consistently appalled by it. And as they should be! I've actually seen fan-made comics of when the boys were kids crushing BEFORE THEY EVEN KNEW and that is just //gags

I really also need people to tag Thorki properly so that my filters can block those posts. I don't want nothin to do with that and I don't want it on my dash anymore <v< but that's kind of a whole other thing. I cccccan see why people do it, and I personally think Loki is attracted to people who are similar to Thor (i.e good hearts, heroes, sunshine personality, hopeful, kind, etc.) which is also why I don't think Sylki works as a ship either outside of the selfcest - but I could go on a whole other tangent about them tbh.

Gimme my good wholesome brothers who are just doing sibling things. Not every single pairing of people needs to have romantic inclinations, they can just be very close as friends or family. The boys grew up together for a thousand years, and you're seriously trying to tell me that suddenly both of them abandon their roots to be romantic?? Buddy that is not how that works and don't make no sense at aaaaaall.

Platonic soulmates are just as valid as Romantic ones.

TVA Loki and MCU Loki are not the same, and I won't be gaslit into thinking otherwise by directors who don't care about Loki in general.

I don't know why this is a trend at all, but it seems like the character of Loki keeps getting handled by people who don't care for him in the slightest. Waititi completely sidelined him in gagnarok (in favor of totally misunderstanding Thor and Odin's dynamics) when that film needed to be about the boys properly recovering from the past decades worth of issues. And then in the Loki show that director stopped making him the main character AT ALL as soon as Sylvie showed up.

Anyways, the whole entire point of the Loki show, is that there are multiple dimensions (which they call timelines stupidly) in which multiple variations of every exist. The people in them are supposed to be similar but clearly have slightly different characteristics (see Boastful Loki or Croc Loki) while they all have the same events. And in the show, he straight up does not act the same as he does in the Thor films.

And with that said, we go back to the main topic which is "these two Loki's are actually not the same person."

- First of all, Loki is not a narcissist. A narcissist is defined as "a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves." which Loki has NEVER had. Ever. In any of his film appearances. Being ambitious (and occasionally selfish) is entirely different, but Loki does not admire himself to an unhealthy degree. The only thing the show gets right is that Loki is deeply fearful and insecure, but the fact that he says it outright is just bad writing. - Second of all, Loki is not flighty or talkative. Loki is famous for having a silver tongue, but that does not mean he rambles on and on about a point or uses big words just use them. Actually intelligent people do not need to fake it to prove that they are smart. Loki uses his words exactly when he means to, and doesn't use metaphors/hyperbole at every given opportunity. ( do not confuse Fanon Loki with what Loki is actually like in the films. ) Loki can quip but he never does it excessively. In the show, Loki is constantly moving and fidgeting something fierce when he is typically very still and planted. - THIRD of all, Loki has never been someone who relies on magic as much as TVA does in the second season. Loki is an Asgardian warrior, trained by the best of the best to be an absolute master at combat. Loki primarily relies on daggers using the Ice pick technique (which is actually extremely difficult to master btw), which allows him to be swift in a fight and take out his opponents with deadly precision. Of course, Loki uses his cleverness and magic in battle too, but he isn't out throwing balls of magic fire willy-nilly or making a big scene. Loki has never needed his magic to be good at fighting or keep up with Thor. Frankly, that is an impressive feat in itself that too many people put down for no reason. I'm all in favor of magic characters doing their magical thing, but high key Loki is so much cooler because he is strong enough to rely on magic that he has already mastered too. But this is not true for tva!loki who uses magic literally all of the time.

Now we could call all of this him being out of character, however, I think in the scope of the show it would make more sense to just have him be a different Loki entirely. Which would be fine, if they didn't try to constantly make him out to be exactly like mcu!Loki. They give him the memories of Avengers onward and then speed-run his development in like first episodes to make him have the same emotions WITHOUT actually any development.

Even if we are led to believe that tva!Loki and mcu!Loki started off the same, then they sTILL could never become the same as the Loki we know from 10 years' worth of films. mcu!Loki got to mourn for Frigga in the moment, sacrifice himself for Thor+Jane, lie about it again and take the throne from Odin, pretend to be Odin for several years, see him die, fight his crazy half-adopted sister, watch Asgard be destroyed, and then ultimately sacrifice himself AGAIN to save Thor ending his life.

tva!Loki watched it on a screen... and clearly was emotional about it, as one would be. But none of that is the same as Loki actually being able to experience it. I think I would like tva!Loki SO much more if they treated him like he was legitimately still in Avengers and still in the mindset that he wants to be king to prove to his brother/father that he could do it and is good enough to be a part of the family. And that he was a different Loki entirely.

Instead, the show completely erases his history and his character in favor of an annoying mix of taika!loki and fandom!loki and it's just cringy to watch honestly. The Loki show is just so bad in terms of writing, lore, characterization, humor, and continuity, and now that they're getting rid of Kang the Conqueror, the whole show is completely obsolete! :D

[deiscension]

﹄ ◇ ; @audienceled / s.c.

      ⌜◈⌟    ▌ ── "𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞! 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭--" Shi Qingxuan cuts herself off with a grunt as she, for what feels like the millionth time within the last five minutes, extricates a layer of her skirt from the undergrowth's grasp. "--I promise it'll be worth it. I can take some pics of you too, if you want." She had been meaning to make use of this particular spot ever since she'd noticed it: a spill of nature washing over the edge of town, various hues of green all the more vivid against rust and cracked asphalt. Her trekking pole clangs against the low stone wall as she hoists herself up, careful not to bend her compressed knee too much.

      𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐠, she clicks the camera on to inspect her makeup (ugh, of course her mascara had smudged!) before angling the lens away from her face. Riku's profile fills the screen, slightly out of focus and haloed by scattered light. "Ohmygosh." It all comes out in one slightly breathless word, her lungs still aching from the long walk. "You're a natural. What would I caption this... effortlessly cool?" Her face scrunches up. "Ew, no, way too generic. Hmm... how would you describe yourself?"

[apllsauc]

and with that I have run out of presaved moomin posts for the queue-

which means. time to queue up all my favorite sam and max art as well

[andi-o-geyser]

clutching my head in my hands sobbing in confusion etc etc