#they're gripping

[artist-issues]

sometimes in this world of trash remakes and sequels and soulless original stuff you just get excited to see another monkey movie

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

tw: blood

[seventeendeer]

ppl are too quick to point to laios' disability as the reason his friends think he's a freak sometimes. so many instances of laios getting yelled at are, in my eyes, a case of "this guy had to emotionally mature very early in order to be there for his little sister" combined with "much older friends who never had to learn to manage their own emotions to the same degree"

a lot of the time he's right about needing to be more direct/deal with things in a way that may seem scary/needing to put your gut reaction aside. he tries not to make his friends uncomfortable and he puts up with a lot because he's trying to keep the peace, but he also pushes the others out of their comfort zones purposefully to try to get them to think more constructively. everyone else in the party is prone to acting on their gut instincts and avoiding uncomfortable situations even when facing them head-on is very much necessary. part of what makes laios such a great leader is the fact that he knows from experience how to put his own feelings aside to help someone else grow.

yes, he does make a lot of social blunders by accident and he does struggle to connect with others, but not all of his positive influence on others is accidental or "despite" making people uncomfortable. a lot of the time, I think it's clear he knows exactly what he's doing and he's trying to help the people around him process emotions in a healthy way as they all go through some truly harrowing shit. all the main characters support each other as well as they can with their unique emotional skillsets. laios' skillset just happens to be "gently talk child into eating her vegetables"

[taccoman]

Merry Christmas to my fellow Fiddlestan shippers. I am still not over em ;u;

[ilovelouie8]

Look at that vice grip

HE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE KABRU

[carlyraejepsans]

asgore saw a bee gently land on a flower petal and cried at the beauty of nature, like, the other day. toriel had a breakdown so bad she passed out on the floor the moment her children's deaths fully caught up with her and then she got back up and hasn't shed a tear since in 700 years

[rwrbsource]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource’s rwrbweek: Day 4 | Little Detail ↳ Henry's Little Smile Waking Up

[horsechestnut]

Anyway, if you're a fan of Bruce and Steph having a father/daughter relationship you should probably go read about Oliver and Mia.

[starry-bi-sky]

*points at bruce and danny in 'late at night when the nightingale sings'* THESE TWO MFERS MEAN SO MUCH TO MEEEE

no thoughts head empty just these two socially inept fools finding family in one another. like yes you go you funky little death omens stole that one from a comment on the fic, so if you see this you know who you are, discover that family isn't only tied in blood.

bUT onto less mushy stuff: these two being shenaniganizers; tomfools. Bruce realized that Danny didn't actually know he was Bruce Wayne and instead of going "oh actually im bruce wayne" he went; "hrm... how long can i keep this going until he realizes...."

like. i think they deserve to be the sillies. just utter goobers the both of them. like, danny makes the wittiest side comments, dry quips, under his breath towards Bruce while they're out in public (Danny covering his face with a face mask) and Bruce is trying not to laugh. Meanwhile if Bruce makes one sly comment about someone to Danny, Danny's gonna collapse with laughter.

Bruce plays straightman in most of their bits, he has the best fucking poker face. But also I firmly believe he does actually enjoy Danny's puns. Look me in the eyes- look me in the eyes. Try and tell me that a man that willingly agrees to call a car "the batmobile" even after his eight year old ward grows up (thus negating the need to go along with his antics) doesn't enjoy a good, well-placed pun. Look me in the eyes and try to tell me that. That's right you can't.

He's gonna spit out a well-placed pun in the driest, most boring Batman Voice Ever one day while he's getting ready for patrol, and Danny's gonna fucking die of laughter. He's gonna lose his mind. Bruce is going to have a half-dead sickly teenager laughing his lungs out in the chair. That's a new core memory right there, every time Danny thinks about that he's gonna start giggling.

just!!! these two making each other laugh! That's so important to me. So so much. I nEED Danny to get Bruce to smile and laugh and I need Bruce to make Danny do the same. Danny's all snark and sass and Bruce is all deadpan and dry quips. Do you all see my vision.

[majimasleftasscheek]

eeljima for MerMay 👀

[cherubchoirs]

v1's old mechanics giving it a last little tune-up (and maybe refreshing its paint job)

[worddevourer]

Thinking back on the dinner with Ikithon, and just... imagine being this man. One of the most powerful mages alive, with a set of skills perfectly tailored to manipulation and being impossible to lie to. You're passively reading the thoughts of everyone you interact with, and you're feeling satisfied with how things are going.

Your old student is extremely uncomfortable, and its obvious that he still hasn't recovered from how you broke him, which is good. The others are making conversation, trying to needle you, but every word out of their mouths is transparent, because you hear what they're thinking behind it.

And then, just as you're ready to finish things up, one of them stands up, and says "I'm sorry for you." And you've had people try that, but it always rings hollow, because right behind it, unconcealed because you can read their mind, is 'I'm scared of you,' or 'I want to make you angry.'

But this man says it completely without malice, and every word out of his mouth is a perfect reflection of the words inside his head. He means it. And he means it when he tells you that you are a fool. That you're utterly, unequivocally wrong about how you view the world. That he can't bring himself even to feel sorry for you, but that he hopes you find someone who can.

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Anyway, I have a very strong mental image of the rest of the party saying things to him, and the background is muddled with all the things they're not saying, and then, in the center of a perfectly clean background, with his words drop-shadowing themselves, Caduceus saying 'I hope you will find someone to mourn you when you are gone.'

[batbabydamian]

🕊️/ why do you think you like damian?

i can write a whole essay but i think one lil factor is that he lines up with my holy trinity of character defining blorbos

i will not elaborate...simply because it will turn into another essay LOL

[violetscanfly]

I did it I redrew the besties!!

[worldsokayestbabysitter]

thinking about steve harrington and eddie munson both growing up in homes where they were alone most of the time. but steve's parents leave him in a sterile home because they can't be bothered to stay, and eddie's uncle leaves him in a home full of life because he cares so much.

[arsonistmoth]

Yeaaa I might have been possessed by the devil's mischief when @circuscountdowns showed me their pretty new au >u> I AM NOT IMMUNE TO THIS STUFF. ....i wanna flick the lil tufts on nari's ears so bad. make em go floppa floppa