#this has been sitting in my drafts for a week or so now

[dovalore]

sharing literature

first panel: (left and right evbo designs by @cowboyskeletons)

second panel: rightmost evbo by conn1e_ on twt, every other (except the one holding book) by me

[nuclearanomaly]

Spite Loves...

[yellenasbelova]

i want very much to do those things. and what is it that restrains you? i do not know.

[diningwiththeasquiths]

Dining’s Cobra Kai + text posts {part 14/?}

[wavescrashtotheshore]

genuine question: why is this fandom so weirdly unforgiving to the parents of the main characters? why don’t we accept them as complex and flawed characters just like the mains? i feel like everyone hates them with no nuance allowed. obviously they don’t get enough screen time to really get into it, but the pure hatred is so bizarre.

[lazzarella]

First of all, I want to say that everyone is incredible in Ossan's Love Th, but I am SO obsessed with Earth's performance.

I knew he could do comedy because I watched Mama Gogo recently and was also obsessed with his performance there. (I also maintain he was very funny in Cupid's Last Wish in some scenes.) And I knew he's great at ~drama and emotional scenes because of everything else. But, somehow, I still wasn't prepared for how obsessed I'd be?

The way he makes himself smaller but not meek. The way Heng is constantly brimming with (often) nervous energy and so the contrast when he's not (like the rooftop scene with Mo) is so effective. His facial expressions, which range from laugh-out-loud silly and goofy to painfully sincere, but the shift is never jarring. The way you can see him falling for Mo, how drawn he is to him, even if he's not fully aware of his feelings. Not to mention the physical comedy that has me rolling every week!

And he's bringing out the kindness and sweetness that I loved about Haruta in Heng so well too! Haruta was such a lovable character because he can be selfish, but he's also incredibly kind, and Earth is treading that balance so well.

Tbh I always lowkey worry posts like this sound condescending in some way. It's not that I ever doubted he'd be great, but what I love is that I knew he'd be amazing, and I'm still blown away every week

[sisterdivinium]

Warrior Nun x Amon Amarth "Vengeance is My Name"

[campingwithmonsters]

🔥SET FIRE TO THE SKY🔥

I think this is the best scarlet and violet photo ever taken I think I win the contest

[parasocialcelebritycrush]

two tickets to oppenheimer please!!!

[crossedwiress]

the city tends to move on all the same...

[cdelphiki]

i just reread the last chapter I posted on Jason and the Three Terrors for the first time since posting. I usually reread my chapters 50+ times within the first 24 hours but this time I couldn't even look at it and I checked out entirely from the story. BUT. I just reread the chapter, and now I'm looking at my notes for the next chapter. Hopefully I'll be able to get my head back into it. I really was excited about where it was going, so I hope to get that back and get there soon!

[yellenasbelova]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

day 1: favorite adaptation + day 2: favorite tv show

jamie and claire + book to screen (in/sp)

[shirogane-oushirou]

hi hi hi :3c i'm aaaaaaalmost caught up on my dash after a couple of weeks of spotty appearances and a couple of weeks of being Straight Up Offline, and then i'll catch up on peoples' art and fics!! i miss being on here!! hi hi hi hi hi!!!!! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

(also i have been Pondering over a ren sentient a.i desktop buddy AU while i've been gone bc. i'm a sucker for that shit. dunno if it'll go anywhere but for now i'm playing touys and it's fun hehehe if you see a new tag at some point then that means i'm keeping him sjndfkn)

[queer-reader-07]

few things bother me more than people saying that it’s “dumb” or “intentional ignoring” or “impossible” to have interpreted crowley and aziraphale’s relationship platonically.

and look i could go on about all the things that do point to romance but enough people have done that so i’m gonna defend myself here and explain why i read them as platonic for so long and why i think it’s perfectly reasonable to have read them platonically.

and a disclaimer that all of this is from my perspective and my opinion. so if i make a statement as though it’s matter of fact, know that i’m speaking from my perspective and just can’t be bothered to preface every sentence with “in my opinion…”

and it mostly boils down to one thing: their love reflected the love me and my friends have for each other.

so no shit i interpreted them platonically because they looked like my real life platonic relationships!!

i’ve talked at length about how i think there’s a specificity to the way queer people love. i think there’s something special about the way queer people show love, especially platonic love.

here’s the thing. i’ve been mistaken as my best friend of 16 years’ girlfriend more than once. i’ve been mistaken as one of my other best friend’s partner so many times her friends were genuinely shocked when she got a boyfriend because they thought she was dating me.

i understand the whole “being so platonically in love that people think you’re also fucking” situation. i unironically live that situation on the regular. so naturally i assumed that’s what was happening with aziraphale and crowley.

my thought process was basically this

1) they love like i love (specifically, crowley loves like i love). therefore, they’re platonically in love.

2) weird, everyone on the internet is convinced they’re dating. something something everyone values romantic love over platonic love

3) well whatever they’re still platonic in my heart

and it stayed like that quite literally until i watched episode 6 of season 2. and you can tell me i was being oblivious all you want, but that doesn’t change the fact that i genuinely believed they were platonic. queer platonic? sure. but definitely not romantic.

i saw all the witty quips and banter between the two of them and didn’t read any sexual or romantic tension, i read friendship. i saw aziraphale damsel in distress-ing himself on the regular so crowley could save him and thought “well it’s the only way he can spend time with crowley. checks out”. and i saw the bandstand breakup and the burning bookshop and “you told my only friend to shut his mouth and die and i did. not. care. for it.” and aziraphale so desperately trying to shield crowley from the horrors of the world and obviously i saw love. a love that is deep and profound, yes. it just never read romantic to me because i would do and say all of those things for and to my friends.

one of the few things i will never cease to find joy in is my friendships. i will ALWAYS love loving the people close to me, i will ALWAYS support them, and most importantly, i ALWAYS want to protect them. even when i know what is going to happen is inevitable, i don’t want to see them hurt. i want to shield them from the cataclysmic experience of the human condition and only have to experience in the moments of joy that await them. i don’t want to see the people i love hurt or in pain or jaded by how fucked up the world is.

because i already am those things. i am jaded by the world, i’m constant falling into the pit of cynical despair that the state of the world can manage to throw you down. and i know how fucking hard it is to pull yourself out of that place, to find hope and move forward and allow yourself to even enjoy the love and support you do have in life.

and the last thing i ever want is for the people i love dearly to experience those things.

so yeah. i related hard fucking core to crowley and the way he loves aziraphale SO. FUCKING. DEEPLY. and of course i read it platonically because it’s platonic for me. so deeply platonic in the best way.

and i could go on about how a lot of this stems from how much i value platonic love. how much i don’t adhere to social norms of love and how people express love. i will loudly proclaim my love for my friends, because i love them. i’m in love with them. but that doesn’t mean i want to date them or kiss them. and that makes perfect sense to me, and if it doesn’t make sense to you. well then, idk what to tell you.

this is longer than i intended but my point is that it hurts seeing people who act like those of us who did genuinely read aziracrow as platonic the first go around are stupid or that we chose to ignore the romance.

because, to me at least, it always felt like people were calling the way i love stupid or that i’m actually ignoring my “real” feelings

[sirotras]

Wren Aldwir - Veil Jumper

[georgieluz]

skip muck: the jolly rancher | modern social media au

cowboy collab: #easy ranch #easy company cowboys