#they make me so ill

[miwkchii]

I can't help but wonder ☆

Obligatory outfit change for telemachus 🤺

[otaku553]

Luffy week day 4:

Emotion

[jesterjesteringjesterly]

Dadow I love thee

[leoqrz]

Fnaf has got me in a chokehold again

(Tape Girl and Vanessa designs by @chloesimaginationthings )

[moraymiso]

no no no i am never getting over this.

he sat there all day.

he sat there all day.

HE SAT THERE ALL DAY. HUGGING HIS KNEES BECAUSE HE WAS SO UPSET DAZAI JOKED ABOUT DYING. because he couldn’t cope with the thought of losing dazai. because he knows dazai’s own bad thoughts are the only thing he can’t save him from. because he just can’t imagine truly being without him.

was he sitting there, all day, thinking about what his life would be like without dazai? all evening, imagining what would happen if he really died? past dusk, feeling all the guilt and sorrow and grief of a hypothetical? a hypothetical that was just… too possible, too feasible, too awful. he sat there. by himself. ALL DAY. because of ONE JOKE. just. thinking.

I AM UNWELL.

[hood-ex]

I love when it's incredibly obvious that Damian misses Dick.

"...I'm glad you got out of stupid Bludhaven for a while. It... it's not the same without you."

[annqer]

show of admiration for the most handsome man in penacony~

[archaicden]

there is beauty in imperfections.

[sodashine]

couple of bonehead bozos <3

[myzlwow]

been a sec since i drew them :) LET THESE BOYS REST

sketch under the cut

the eepers

[sluttyhenley]

Jack Dawkins and Belle Fox THE ARTFUL DODGER

[strawberry-carpcake]

AND I MISS MY LOVER MAN 🗣️

[mizukkay]

[dailytogachako]

I don't think I've ever talked about it much, but I LOVE this scene. Ochako getting closer, their noses touching and they eyes don't look away. It was such an intimate moment between them, and despite the situation they were in, it was something so innocent. Confessing your feelings, opening up to each other, without fear or apprehension. Without judgment. There was no "villain" and there was no "hero", it was just them.

[creantzy]

Defying God - a parallel between Fyolai and Stavrovensky

The Demons brainrot is taking over, and you know what happens when I acquire a new interest: my brain WILL find a way to connect it to my other interests, whether I like it or not!! And this is essentially what it's about xD I've come here to present a parallel I found between Fyolai (Fyodor & Nikolai from BSD) and Stavrovensky (Verkhovensky & Stavrogin from "Demons" by Dostoevsky). Before I start I want to clarify a few things:

• I don't think these two pairings are similar, I just love picking up any crumbs of connections I can find between my interests, even if it'd count as reaching.

• This interpretation (in either character's case) is in no way "the only true way of looking at it". It's merely one interpretation out of many and I chose to focus on just a few aspects out of the many others there are to explore in these complex characters. 

• Feel free to add onto or disagree with anything I say! I'm interested in your thoughts :D

WARNING: There will be spoilers for Bungou Stray Dogs and Demons.

The reason Nikolai wants to kill Fyodor is because he feels affection for him. Emotions are a prison to him, and he basically seeks the opposite of what his emotions make him want to do. Thus, in the face of affection, which makes you want to be closer and wish the best for your friend, he does the opposite and decides to kill said friend, going directly against his feelings in an attempt to prove free will. But here I want to focus more on the "You want to defy God in order to lose sight of yourself" part, specifically the bit about God.

One part of my interpretation is that Nikolai associates God with control. If there is a God who controls all, how can there be a free will? He wants to go against Him and His creations (the human mind, morality, etc.) to prove that it's possible. But God is very abstract - the idea of God is influential but varies depending on cultures, etc. For this point, I'll use the example of the biblical God, or, more specifically, some attributes commonly assigned to the idea of God:

• omnipotence (all-powerful)

• omnipresence (all-present)

• omniscience (all-knowing)

What I am leading up to is the fact that these traits can, in one way or another, be applied to Fyodor. Fyodor's character represents everything Nikolai wants to defy. Nikolai hates control; he wants to fight the idea of God and prove the possibility of complete independence. Fyodor (though not in a "direct" way) could be seen as a symbol for God. He knows everything, he is always present (metaphorically and sometimes literally, the way he spawns sometimes I swear-), and he seems to control everything. Only few people actually see him, but he pulls the strings behind the scenes, and his power is felt everywhere. For Nikolai, to kill Fyodor is not just a protest against his feelings of affection, but can also be a symbolic act of defying "God", of killing "God", by killing Fyodor.

This is supposed to be very symbolic and not taken literally. I feel the need to repeat this because I personally dislike the notion of Fyodor as a literal God (and disagree with the idea of him having a God-complex), so this is merely about the God-like traits he possesses, like a "substitute" for the idea of God, and how it interacts with Nikolai's philosophy. (I've also exaggerated some points for the sake of simplification - for example, I don't actually believe Fyodor is in control of absolutely everything, etc.)

Moving onto Demons:

Pyotr Verkhovensky grew up religious and (assuming based on Stepan's description) with a fear of God.

Now he's an atheist and very anti-religious. He plans to overthrow society, and destroying religion + everything it preaches is part of that plan. But interestingly enough, he picks not himself as the official future "ruler", but someone else: Nikolai Stavrogin. He chooses Stavrogin to be the role of the leader in Verkhovensky's ideal society. But not exactly the "leader" in the traditional sense, because he wouldn't necessarily give Stavrogin all the power. He would simply use him as a "pawn" (for lack of a better word) while himself pulling the strings behind said society. With that, Verkhovensky puts someone else above himself, in a God-like position, but he wants to do it while still keeping full control over Stavrogin. By doing so, he would overcome his childhood fear of God because instead of being controlled by God, *he* will control God.

(Same case here, not the literal God, but the character who he assigns God-like traits to.)

I am undecided (with both Nikolai's and Verkhovensky's character) whether this could be read as a solely subconscious intention or if it would make sense as a conscious one as well. Given that both have a different "main" goal (Nikolai focuses on emotions and Verkhovensky on the revolution) I lean more towards thinking it's subconscious (if present at all - like I said, just interpretations!)

It doesn't help that Verkhovensky describes his vision of Stavrogin's leadership as "hidden": Everyone believes in him and his power, but only very few people are said to actually have laid their eyes upon him. When I first read this part, I was honestly reminded of Big Brother from Orwell's 1984, but eventually realised that similar things can be said about God as well.

While these are parallels, they don't come without differences. Nikolai needs Fyodor dead, Verkhovensky needs Stavrogin alive. Nikolai wants to kill Fyodor for a sense of freedom, Verkhovensky wants to keep Stavrogin for a sense of control. Yet both symbolic goals are bound to fail:

Fyodor turns out to be unkillable, and Stavrogin ends up dead.

At the end, "God" stays untouchable.

[s-wave-entertainment]

WHAM

HI. So like. Apparently GLITCH is unlisting some of the old promotional material for MD to declutter the channel, which is fair since I imagine the same must have happened to Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise once they concluded (not to mention the two new shows that are on the way alongside their ongoing one), but I was unreasonably distraught by this because something something neurodivergent queen. The trailer for Home is unironically my favorite because of how Genuinely Terrifying it is, and I was sad to see it go. Except, the channel who broke the news to me (unhelpfulcommentaryt, I believe is the name) also linked an archive of all of the old material that someone so lovingly put together. Massive W, I still have access to the trailer! So for old time's sake I decide to give it another watch, and-

Wait a second. Wait a goddamn second.

THE PICTURE IS RIPPED RIGHT BETWEEN N AND V.

THE PICTURE IS RIPPED. RIGHT BETWEEN N AND V.

"Ohhh but Myrah you're looking too far into iiiit that's just the middle of the picture calm doooowwnnn"

SHUT THE HELL YOUR MOUTH,

THE NIGHT OF THE MASSACRE WAS EXACTLY THE NIGHT WHEN THEIR RELATIONSHIP BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE STRAIN. THAT WAS EXACTLY WHERE THE RIFT BETWEEN THEM BEGAN AND EXACTLY THE NIGHT WHERE THEY STARTED TO GROW APART. And sure, maybe I am looking too far into it, but EVEN IF I AM, YOU CANNOT DENY THE FACT THAT I AM R I G H T -