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NUCLEAR BOMb IM ALL CHOKED UP
#IM SORRY I START CRYING EVERYTIME WHEN SOMEBODU IS NICE TO ME#MY HYPERSENSITIVITY IS TERRIBLE#these are so incredibly special to me#all i’ve done today is cry and sit there Oh not too great at all#Today as been so ass. thank you to my dear friends for helping me out without even knowing what’s going on#ii don’t really Want to share what it’s about because i just don’t want to think about it period (failing miserably)#but. thank you. i don’t know how many times i can say that but i swear i mean that so so much every single time. i love you all#mailbox
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Must be a Sugondese joke.
#dungeon meshi#chilchuck tims#laios touden#senshi#Looks like I won't be able to post this on dungeon meshi thursday so instead I will have a fun past/future conversation#This is wednesday me who has not seen the episode yet but I have such a strong feeling that it is going to be extremely special.#*This* fight is what the first arc has been building up to and it has *so* many incredible moments.#We're going to see the chilchuck knife throw! The leg sacrifice! The bones!#Watch them ramp up the quality this episode and go wild with the frantic action of 'oh god our plan is going to shit'.#Hello. Me of the future who just watched the episode.#I knew it was going to be good but that...that blew my mind completely. My high expectations were beyond met. My god.#I'm just speechless at how well they handled everything. The leg. The tension. That ENDING.#If you have not already: PLEASE watch Dungeon Meshi.
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them!!!
#witch hat atelier is so incredibly special to me!! my favorite manga and one of the few I collect! the art and writing are so beautiful!!#witch hat atelier#qifrey#coco#wha#Δ帽子#tongari boushi no atelier#can’t wait for this story to reach even more people!!#my art
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i've been completely charmed by witch hat atelier♡
(art prints)
#witch hat atelier#guys... i had been meaning to read this for so long and i'm so mad that it took me forever to start#but omg i'm SO glad to be finally here now😭😭😭💖💖💖#this story is so special😭😭🥺🥺 i love everything about it so much#found family+queer+fantasy are my top 3 story themes ever it's like this manga was made for me... plus the old fairytale art style omg#every page is stunning... genuinely some of the most beautiful art i've seen in my life#consistently spectacular composition & gorgeous character design throughout the entire thing it's so amazing#shirahama kamome is incredible the work she's doing here is seriously amazing on every level#the story is so good and deep and heartfelt and the bond between the 6 main characters is my favorite thing ever😭 that's a family!!!!!!#it's a masterpiece i'm so serious please go buy it and read it. if you like the same things as me you're going to love it#i'm so excited to see where the story goes next and to watch the anime next year🥹🥹#witch hat atelier fanart#qifrey#coco#qifrey witch hat atelier#coco witch hat atelier#wha#wha fanart#illo#illustration#artists on tumblr#green#blue#atelier of witch hat
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One thing that I feel is really interesting and often forgotten about Essek is that fundamentally, his characterization has been from the start based upon his desperation for external perspectives and connection, which, along with much of his narrative and mechanical positioning, means that he actually has an extraordinary and almost (but not actually, as I'll show) counterintuitive capacity for both growth and trust.
(Buckle in. This is a long one.)
In particular, I would argue, knowing now that many places where the plot touches Ludinus have long been marked for connecting back into the current plot, that he was quite possibly built as a prime candidate for radicalization by the Ruby Vanguard. He felt isolated from his culture, he was desperate for other connection, and he was certainly of the type to believe he was too smart to be drawn into such a thing, given his initial belief that he could control the situation and the fallout. If things had gone any other way, he easily could've been on the other side by now.
As such, he has been hallmarked by being fairly open to suggestion, perhaps for this reason, but the thing about that kind of trait is that it is both how people are radicalized and deradicalized. This is certainly true of Essek, who experienced genuine kindness and quite frankly strangeness from the Nein and was able to move from the isolation the Assembly had engendered to meaningful and genuine connection, largely propelled by his own internal reflection. By the time Nein are aware of his crimes, he's already begun to express regret to an extent and, furthermore, doubt in the Assembly, including explicitly drawing a line against Ludinus, even in a position where he was on his own and probably quite vulnerable.
Similarly, when the Nein reach the Vurmas Outpost some weeks later, he has moved from regret for the position he's ended up carrying a heavy remorse. This makes sense! He's fairly introspective, seems used to spending a lot of time in his own head, and was left with plenty to mull over. It's not some kind of retcon for him to have progressed well past where the Nein left him; it just means he's an active participant in the world who has done his own work in the meantime.
This is another interesting aspect to him. I've talked about this a bit before but I cannot find the post so I'll recap here: antagonists in D&D have significantly more agency than allied NPCs. Antagonists are active forces, against which the party is meant to struggle; allies are meant to support the PCs, which means they tend to be more passive in both their actions and their character growth. Essek was both built as an antagonist, in a position that gives him significant agency, and also was then given significant opportunity to grow specifically to act as a narrative mirror for Caleb's arc. Even when he becomes a more traditional D&D ally, he still retains much of that, though he occupies a supporting role.
I believe that this is especially true because of the nature of Caleb's arc, which I've already written on; the tl;dr of this post is that Caleb is both convinced that he is permanently ruined and also desperate to prove that change is possible. Essek is that proof, because he is simply the character in a position to do so. But this also means that his propensity for introspection and openness is accentuated! He has to do the legwork on his own, for the most part, because that's where he is in the meantime.
But he still ends the campaign necessarily constricted; he is under significant scrutiny, he's at risk from the Assembly, and he goes on the run fairly soon after the story ends. He spends most of the final arc anxious and paranoid, which is valid given the crushing reality of his situation. It would be very easy to extrapolate that seven years into this reality, he would be insular, closed off, and suspicious of strangers, even in spite of the lessons he's learned from the Nein and their long term exposure.
So seeing his openness and lightness now is surprising, but at the same time, given this combination of factors in his position in the narrative over time and his defining traits, it's not by any means unreasonable.
But one thing that I found so delightful is how much trust he exhibits, which is obviously a wild thing to say about Essek in particular, given much of what he learns is both earning and offering trust, which was something he says explicitly in 2x124 that he's never really experienced: "I've never really been trusted and so I did not trust." It makes up much of the progression of his relationship with Caleb, and the trust that he is offered by the Nein in walking off the ship is the impetus he needs to grow.
But I think it's easy to talk about trust when it comes to people who have proven themselves to you or to whom you've ingratiated yourself, and that's really the most we can say about Essek by the time he leaves the Blooming Grove. There is this sense in a lot of discussion of trust (not solely in this fandom) that it is only related to either naivete or love, but there's far more to it. Trust at its best is deliberate—cultivating an openness to the world at large is a great way to combat cynicism and beget connection instead. It allows a person to maintain curiosity and be open to experience, but it can be incredibly difficult to hold onto.
It is clear that the Essek we meet now is a very pointedly and intentionally trusting individual. He trusts Caleb and by extension Caleb's trust in Keyleth, as he shows up and picks up a group of strangers from a foreign military encampment and walks in without issue. He trusts the Hells to follow his lead moving through Zadash and to exhibit enough discretion so as to avoid bringing suspicion upon all of them. He trusts that Astrid will respond well to his entrance, but he also trusts himself and the Hells enough to execute a back-up plan in the case that she doesn't. In the end, he even trusts them enough to give them his name and identity.
He doesn't scan as someone who has spent half a dozen years living like a prey animal, afraid of any shadow he runs across in an alley, withdrawn into himself and an insular family, which would've been an easy route for him to take. He scans as someone who has learned the kind of trust borne of learned confidence and a trained eye for good will and kindness, which are crucial weapons one would need for staving off cynicism in his circumstances—as if he has survived thanks more to connection and kindness than paranoia and isolation. (If we want to be saccharine about it, he scans quite poignantly as a member of the Mighty Nein.)
So it is easy to imagine this trust and openness as a natural progression of his initial search for perspectives external to his own cultural knowledge. Though he makes those first connections with the Assembly to try to vindicate his personal hypotheses, he finds in them exposure to the deepest corruption among Exandrian mortals, which could've—and did, for a time—turned him further down that same dark path.
But it's also this same openness to exposure from the wider world that allows the Nein to influence him for the better, and in spite of the challenges he's certainly faced simply surviving over the past seven years, he seems to have held onto this openness enough to move through the world with self-assurance and a willingness to extend the kinds of trust and good will that he has been shown.
(I would be remiss not to mention that I was reminded about my thoughts on this by this lovely post from sky-scribbles and their use in the tags of 'light' to describe Essek's demeanor this episode, which is really such an apt word for it.)
#something something hope is a weapon hope is a discipline hope is a garden to cultivate!!!#HE'S SO GOOD HE IS TRULY EXEMPLAR OF THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEIN AND I DO NOT THINK THAT'S AN ACCIDENT#truly just like. enormous proponent of letting trust and curiosity into your heart regardless of the horrors.#it's hard and it makes you more vulnerable and sometimes it hurts so so much but it will also save your fucking life!#cr spoilers#critical role#essek thelyss#cr meta#I was gonna apologize for the length but I'm not sorry. I'm also not sorry for being insane about him but he's so special to me.#head in my hands he's so GOOD HE'S BEST BOI! GUIDING LIGHT NORTH STAR!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!#also truly if i had two nickels for a span of time with no essek sightings where I wrote a lot of fic#with deliberate personal acknowledgment that I was writing some pretty maximal arcs for him in terms of character growth#and then end up getting essek for half an episode and having to go OH WE'RE GOING THAT FAR ACTUALLY. FUCKING INCREDIBLE.#yanno. two nickels. but good lord I am thriving that it's happened twice#augh this is ONE of the pieces I need to write this week. we're not gonna talk about it
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happy birthday to my favourite stranger things character since 2016!!
(companion post to)
#mike wheeler#byler#artovna#stranger things#its just so incredible that hes the only character ive been consistently drawing for over half a decade#no other character has ever gotten this much love from me and my short attention span#mike wheeler ur so special#i hope you're being treated like a king rn#happy 52nd birthday!!!!
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kim daengdaeng my little puppy ㅋㅋ thank you for always teasing me and thank you for taking care of me ㅋㅋ gukbap ㅋ
#if u ever find urself thinking 'chan takes care of everyone but who takes care of chan' the answer will always be seungmin#stray kids#seungchan#bang chan#kim seungmin#stray kids gifs#skz#skz gifs#my gifs#cbbc2023#i rewatched their 2kr while making this and ended up crying ksdjgsg ough they're so special to me. ik ive said this about every chan duo#meant it everytime!#but seungchan...dogboy4dogboy....ksm who will always always offer food to chan first bc he knows chan wont eat until everyone else does..#ksm who knows him so well and knows just what he needs and will let him cry all he wants and stay with him while he does ksm who when#chan said he wants to be their pillar and someone they can depend on went 'whatever sides u show us hyung will always be hyung'#hhh i just think. seungmin is incredibly emotinally intelligent and chan is someone who will hide his emotions like they're his best kept#secret and that's why they work so well. seungmin just gets it even if chan doesn't say anything and he knows how to comfort him whether#that takes the form of letting him cry without saying anything or going limp in his arms and not resisting his hugs#anw. normal abt them. if u even care
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Moominvalley and Snufmin
S4 Spoilers Under Cut
I’m so disappointed in how they handled Snufkin and Moomintroll this season. I had my worries, but I also had a lot of hope. They did deliberately put in those interactions. The team also kept reacting to mentions of Snufmin with winks and nudges in interviews and videos they put out. It makes me wonder what the point was. I genuinely feel like this was queerbaiting. And I don’t want to use that term because it doesn’t feel like one to use lightly. Even more so since I had such a great love for Moominvalley’s other seasons. Especially 1 and 2. It was genuinely really beautiful and soft and had such lovely queer undertones and moments. But I think it’s more than fair to say that the team knew about the reactions and how many people were introduced to it via Snufkin x Moomin. And they seemingly used that. They gave us build up but didn’t follow through. When it came down to it, they shrugged it off and didn’t address it at all. It felt so removed from Season 4. And I think that that, in essence, is queerbaiting. Because if you keep nodding to something throughout a series, using it to keep your audience waiting for the ‘inevitable’ conclusion to it that’ll certainly play out by the time the story ends only to snatch it away once you’ve secured your viewers and money, that is what that is. And I honestly expected better from the studio. If they weren’t going to commit, then they shouldn’t have kept bringing hopes up and making it seem like the direction it would go in.
(forgive the essay in the tags- I was thinking so many things)
#moominvalley season 4#snufmin#moominvalley#snufkin#Moomin#thoughts#I don’t feel fully great talking about it#because I’m so used to the ‘well why does it have to be gay’ comments with other media#and I worry that it sounds entitled#but they really incredibly HEAVILY leaned into the potential for snufmin#as early as season 1#there are so many shows where I think ‘wow I like [pairing]’ and smile when they interact#and I think ‘haha they’re so in love’ lightheartedly#but I know with those shows that it isn’t endgame or even the direction they’re going in#it’s just a nice thing to enjoy as a fan#but Snufkin and Moomin in Moominvalley weren’t like that#there was reason to believe it could happen#and that’s not just me imagining#there were so many decisions that deliberately framed it as possible#that many people really believed it could#they’ve had a very special dynamic since the original series#I don’t know#I’m having trouble putting further thoughts into words here#but yeah#it’s one of those shows that had so much reason to believe it
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Sakir Khader, Palestine, 2021-2023
Sakir Khader is a Palestinian photojournalist and documentary film maker. His work focuses on war and everyday sorrow in conflict zones. In 2024 Sakir Khader became the first Palestinian photographer to join Magnum Photos.
#sakir khader#photojournalism#palestine#so excited for his new book#special thanks to 27moremoons for introducing me to his incredible work
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crowley is for the gifted students who were told they were smart and special, only later to be cast aside and punished for “straying” from their expectations.
crowley is for the ones who were treated horribly so they became harsher on the outside to protect themselves.
crowley is for the people who worked so hard to change, only for others to say they miss the old version of them.
crowley is for the children who’s parents payed no mind to their creations and hung their crayon drawings on the fridge themselves, only for them to be taken down.
#*taps the head of a demon*#this bad boy can fit so much projection in him#crowley is so incredibly special to me u have NO idea#the love i have for them is INSANE#good omens 2#good omens#good omens crowley#crowley#anthony j crowley#go2#david tennant
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this OPENING man. THIS OPENING. GOES SO INCREDIBLY HARD. FOR NO REASON. it should be illegal to have a song this good in a funny haha silly little comedy anime. I'm going crazy why is it so good. kaidou why r u going so hard on the vocals for NO!! REASON !!!
the fact that it's kaidou singing keeps me up at night. you go lil chuuni boy. eat that up like a full course meal and leave no crumbs not even the plate
#saiki kusuo no ψ nan#saiki k#saiki kusou no psi nan#saiki no psi nan#saikik#saiki kusuo no psi nan#kaidou shun#nendou riki#riki nendou#shun kaidou#saiki kusuo#kusuo saiki#GOES SO HARD#I LOVE THIS OP SO MUXH#its both so incredibly funny snd perfectly in character how kaidou sings more than the damn protag#i love this song bc saiki js has a little yap session in the middle of it#ljke you go guy! go yap!#and then kaidou js comes in goes crazy on the vocals refuses to elaborate#the animation is oddly good too i think even the animators give kaidou special treatment#bc this whole thing is kaidou's fantasy#props to kaidou's va here . absolutely cracked#THE FULL VERSION. SHAKES YOU THE FULL VERSION#If i could share it without the chance of getting sniped i would#but honestly i'm scared out of my mind that i'd get striked lol#pls dont copyright strike me for this#HOLY BANGER!#kaidou ATE that up i'm not taking any other opinions
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the thing about me is that… I love seeing yuuji going through so many unimaginable horrors. I love seeing him all bloody and scarred trying to crawl his way out of them cause enduring, gritting his teeth and bearing them is what he does best. every single time he’s on the verge of giving up and succumbing to grief and despair, he just doesn’t. he’s too stubborn, too determined and too burdened with an overwhelming guilt that keeps telling him to keep going and make things right because in the end yuuji doesn't want to regret the way he lived. he wants to survive for long enough to not have regrets. it's that innate ability of his to just endure and fucking survive that makes me love him and appreciate him so damn much.
#my boy you should be dead and you know damn well you should be dead and yet you fucking REFUSE to be dead#yuuji's ability to survive is just so#special to me#I find his journey through unimaginable horrors to be incredibly cathartic <3#put him through more horrors cause I know this boy won't break.#he'll crawl his way through them and make you eat his suffering in exchange <3#itadori yuuji
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The indescribable tension between an overworked and underpaid smut writer, and his biggest fan hater.
(for @frummpets)
#SVSSS#Shen yuan#shang qinghua#cumplane#Normally I don't tag with ship names but this one is a special case.#Confession time: When I first had SVSSS described to me I 100% thought the main pairing was between these two.#The dynamic is impeccable! Even if its 'just a fan ship' I stand by it.#Sorry to the people who like to think of them as handsome pretty boys. I don't.#These guys sit in their rooms and use the computer for 90% of waking hours. They are not looking after themselves well enough for good skin#They can be cute in their own way. People with acne and missed shaving spots deserve to have their romances too.#And sloppy hate makeouts <3#Hi Sol! I truly did whoop and holler when drawing your name for the raffle!#You've been so kind and generous towards me and I'd happy to finally have the opportunity to give back some of that joy!#Thank you so much for all your support and the incredible fanart <3 You've made my day so many times!#I hope this silly mini comic is to your liking!#Playing around with colours for this one was a blast!
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did you know you can just make your favorite little guys hang out and be friends and no one can stop you
#akane kurashiki#kaname date#phoenix wright#zero escape#aitsf#ace attorney#ai the somnium files#999#my art#fan art#undescribed#genuinely filled me with incredible amounts of joy to draw this#something about seeing my favorite characters that im insane about all in the same image is so special
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when i was a kid i used to think i really understood beatlemania and why everyone was so crazy about them, but it turns out i’m just autistic
#the beatles were my entire life and i did not shut up about them i was a very strange child#id spend entire days just sat in my room listening to them#when i visited liverpool for the first time i cried so hard#my dad was incredibly successful at passing his special interests onto me#i also had their entire discography memorised in chronological order when i was 9#and i could recognise any song from less than a second of the intro#the beatles#john lennon#paul mccartney#george harrison#ringo starr#beatlemania
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Batman: Urban Legends #22 (The Murder Club Part 3)
Damian is such a fantastic character and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong actually.
#damian wayne#damian going from making me laugh to saying something that makes me incredibly sad is a special talent of his i think#comic panels#comic reading tag#a mutual and i were talking about this last night so of course that's what i've been reading today
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