#this came to me in a vision (the shower)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

real talk having the 2nd worst new years eve yet 🤢🤢🤢 (throat infection, twisted neck, banged-about-foot, ego AND the rest o' me all bruised like misjuggled peaches 🍑🍑🍑)

im bent outa shape and suspectin the universe owes me 8 buck if anyone wannsa chip in

[escapisttt]

sweetheart: yeah in this crazy alternate universe you’re together with the tyrant king imperial and his name is damien. you’ve got such a thing for mean ass motherfuckers whose name starts with ‘Da.’

david: i am not—

angel: haha right! and ‘Mi.’

sweetheart: …

david: …

milo: …?!

sweetheart: …sorry what?

angel: michael! my exes name is michael, not—!

sweetheart: oh god right okay i thought i was gonna have to beat your ass

[alexwennburgers]

and the old widow goes to the stone every day / but I don't, I just sit here and wait / grieving for the living

[gravestone-sys]

Eurylochus killing the cattle: im just a man!

--

Eury: but.. we'll die..

Odysseus, who has been staring blankly at Eury the whole time Zeus has been explaining he has to choose: ..I'm just a Man, eurylochus...

[getosugurusbangs]

currently having thoughts about satoru and suguru taking baths together….

washing each other’s hair, massages to help relax after a long day of work, basking in the comfortable silence, feeling the expanses of each other’s bodies, getting to see each other’s little rituals embedded into their routines, lingering kisses left all over each other…

[r1nb0w]

I don’t know who’s the autistic and who’s the bad bitch but it works either way

[davyjoneslockr]

jerboa giovanna

[arionater]

what if gojo died to protect all of the jujutsu kaisen universe from beyoncé???

[volo-omnia]

Pokemon Legends Arceus is about Home and what it means to create a Home, change my mind (a mini essay)

Main series titles in the Pokemon series tend to follow themes and explorations of them. With mythology and tradition from Gold/Silver, our relationship to nature in Ruby/Sapphire, truth vs ideals in Black and White, and even the reoccurring themes of treasure and past vs future in Scarlet and Violet.

While PLA is a new departure from most series titles, it still explores a bunch of themes that are central to its story. While the land of ancient Hisui is partial to old traditions, divine gods, and the endless wild, several characters in the game have a recurring theme surrounding on the idea of "Home". This could be how "home" is defined, how one creates a home, and what it means to lose one.

One of the foremost examples of this is you, the player. While we know nothing of the player character outside of what is shown in the intro sequence and possible dialogue choices, the prompt of PLA is obvious. You were taken from your home by Arceus to be dropped into Hisui. Whatever life you had before, you will never come back to. And upon waking up on the beach that Laventon finds you, you have little to no memory, no money, no pokemon, and no where to go.

You have no home.

Now for the player character while it can be interpreted or headcanon a variety of possibilities, (such as the player character being the same player character from D/P/Pt) because it's a player character and meant to be a blank slate, we essentially don't know anything about the hero canonically outside of this. For all intents and purposes the hero has no home to begin with. But there is one thing we know. By the end of the game when you finally meet and defeat Arceus, he doesn't send us back home. We remain in Hisui. Once again, we cannot return to the home we came to. Hisui is our forever home now, but the choice is ours whether we accept or reject it.

This theme occurs a lot with the other characters of the game, to which we will be going through them.

One of the first characters in this game that also hits with this theme is Commander Kamado. Throughout the game it is specifically described as to how his character game to be. His home in Kanto was destroyed by wild pokemon, to which he and the other villagers had to immigrate to Hisui. Upon landing at Prelude Beach, they build Jubilife Village, a haven with large protective gates and guards always on patrol, ensuring security. It's their home, and Kamado repeatedly tells you throughout the game how he's determined to build a home for the village and himself. Even when the skies turn blood red and he banishes you into the wilds, he's determined to fight tooth and nail to protect his home.

This is one of the more obvious examples. Kamado has no home to return to. But in doing so with perseverance, he creates a new one. Even though Hisui is quite different from his old home in Kanto, he does settle with creating a new home, one that is safe, prospering, and peaceful. But when his home is threatened, he does not go back down to protect it.

A home is something you build.

Another similar example of this is the dynamic of Adaman and Irida. Their clans too migrated from other lands to Hisui, eventually settling on the land and living with the local pokemon. From their eyes, a home is something you must share and work together with. Even though they both warred over their patron gods, both the young clan leaders are determined to create a home that is peaceful and without bloodshed between them. However since this is the age of religious folks, insulting one's household deity is also akin to insulting one's home.

To some, a god is a home.

Later in the game we also encounter Lady Cogita. She like most, has no home. While Hisui is the land she has lived in for many years, her original home is long lost to time. As one of the Celestica, all of her people and culture have long disappeared, her god gone, and her old home now reduced to ruins scattered across the land. While she does reside in the Ancient Retreat, was it ever truly her home? That given her long life, does she ever miss the home she once had, and still vividly remembers? Is a home a home if you have no one to share it with? Does she ever feel homesick for her god that no longer answers her? She is a character with many mysteries to her, but you can't help but wonder what burdens could be going through her mind. The deities of time and space may have created the land, but is it the same as creating a home?

And most of all we cannot forget Volo. Your rival, nemesis, and literary foil. Unlike the others, he has no home, but has no home to return to either. Like Cogita, he too has lost all of his Celestica roots. However unlike Cogita, it's unknown whether he actually knows what their home was like before. Since we don't know canonically if Volo was alive at the same time as Cogita, we can assume he came long after the ruin of the Celestica, as he regularly questions her on the myths and traditions of a culture he isn't familiar with. He is a character that was born without a home, and tries desperately to pick up its pieces by ancient stories and writings on ruin walls. He also desperately yearns for his household god, as Arceus has long disappeared in the eyes of the world along with the Celestica.

Volo, as a character, is defined by his homesickness.

However unlike the hero, Volo refuses to accept Hisui as his home. As we all know at the end of the game when Volo reveals his true colors, he mentions that he wishes to subjugate Arceus to create a new world. In a desperate attempt to create a home he can finally accept, his wish is to create one with the powers of his god, and have pain and suffering be long-forgotten concepts. What makes Volo the villain in this scenario however, is that in order to complete this goal, it will destroy the homes of everyone else. In a grand act of selfishness, Volo is willing to destroy the homes of others in order to create his own. A home is something he is willing to destroy.

Overall throughout the game, the theme of what makes a "home" is repeated. Whether it be characters losing their home, characters trying to build a home, or characters trying to simply find a home. And as you play the game, the world around the hero changes. As humans and pokemon start to work together, their lives and homes start to become intertwined, creating a new life for everyone around them.

All lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive. That is a home.

[lover-of-mine]

Would you hold me when we crash, or would you let me go?

[viillette]

"I'm damned whether the Pope absolves me or not. The things I've done..." Arthur, she thought numbly. She swallowed, said, "What things, Papa?" He looked at her, and for a moment she truly thought he was going to answer. But he said only, "Things God could never forgive." "That's not so, Papa. There is no sin so great that God cannot forgive it." He took her hand in his, raised it to his lips, and then he laughed, backed away. "Do not believe it, lass, not for a moment! There is no forgiveness, either in this world or the next." "You're wrong, Papa." Joanna drew a deep breath, said, "I could forgive you any sin." John gave her an odd smile, shook his head. "No, lass," he said. "You could not." He moved to the table, with an unsteady hand poured himself another cupful of wine. "If that mad old man be right, I'll have reigned for fourteen years. Passing strange, for it seems longer, much longer." He turned back to face Joanna, still with that strange smile. "There is but one lesson worth learning, one you must teach your children, Joanna. That nothing in life turns out as we thought it would, nothing..."

— Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

[detectivekirigirislays]

idk if anyone noticed this BUT

ochako never really openly admitted her true feelings for izuku with anyone else. while yes ppl have observed this, she never really explicitly stated this to anyone.

until her fight w HIMIKO is she able to admit these feelings. she says it to HIMIKO HERSELF regarding her feelings for izuku.

now post-war, ochako hasn't really told anyone that himiko's been on her mind nor does anyone notice anything about it, so maybe this time, shes going to talk about how she felt ab the fight w himiko and himiko in general with IZUKU this time.

i think i'm going insane

[p0pp3t]

erik holding his microphone to his chest to make the heartbeat sfx for that 1 hr david sleep aid

[amitykinz]

(screaming into a megaphone) WHO WANTS ME!!! (silence) I SAID WHO!!! WANTS!!! ME!!! (the silence grows louder)

[skythealmighty]

another random poll

for clarification: warm also means hot in this instance, and cool also means cold. definition of climate is up to your personal discretion

[demonforthesemen]

Unhinged Lucifer/Lilith + Alastor where they do that jealousy kink where one half of a couple will purposely flirt with someone just so the other half can come fight the rando and then the couple goes home and fucks. Except Alastor is the designated flirting person.

Once a month, either Lucifer or Lilith will take Alastor out on a "date," and inevitably the third person will come blazing in to fight Alastor. And then Lucifer and Lilith go home and fuck while Alastor does Alastor things.

Lilith greatly enjoys both roles of fighter and getting fought over, but she does have a preference for watching her husband fight someone for her.

Lucifer is a whore for watching his wife fighting for him, but he also gets off on fighting Alastor specifically, so his preferences are pretty 50/50.

Alastor will never admit it out loud but it's pretty clear this is enrichment for him given that he keeps willingly participating in these shenanigans. He also gets off on fighting Lucifer specifically, but especially loves getting a free meal, possibly a dance or three with experienced royal dancers, and getting to do his own thing once the happy couple leaves.