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Thinking about the fact that, to pull Gale from the stone and get him in the game at all, you have to decide to try to touch an extremely dangerous looking swirling mass of unstable magic. Something that is, objectively, a terrible idea
Like, the options it gives you are to either touch the sigil or leave, and if you leave you just... don't get Gale in the party
You have to take the risk. You have to let your curiosity override your common sense. You have to look at this unstable, possibly dangerous malfunctioning magic sigil and go "...Ok, but what if I poke it?"
In short, to get Gale in your party, you have to do exactly what he would in that situation, and indulge in a moment of reckless curiosity. And I just think that's delightful
#meta#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#i'm positive this has all been said before but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#on a meta-gaming level of course it's just a matter of committing to the bit#the equivalent of that time in an actual dnd game when i said ''idk guys this sounds like a plot hook. we should probably go check it out''#but on a watsonian/character level? objectively not a great choice safety-wise#my husband for instance completely missed gale at first because he went ''...i'm not touching that thing it seems dangerous''#and idk. i just kinda love that for him. perfect introduction. nice little litmus test for if you can handle his chaos lol
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Vasher I know you miss your wife but I feel like there's better ways to keep her memory alive than continuing to invent new and exciting WMDs.
#wind and truth#wind and truth prologue#wind and truth spoilers#the stormlight archive#the stormlight archive spoilers#cosmere#cosmere spoilers#Vasher#Zahel#in retrospect OF COURSE he's where Gavilar got anti-Light years before anyone else knew how to make it#I said at the end of RoW ''you know with perfect pitch I bet Nalthians are gonna be great at making anti-Investiture'' it was RIGHT THERE#he's like if J Robert Oppenheimer was a sad wet cat and also a pagan deity
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Here's Howdy! Now Barnaby won't be alone. (I will NEVER separate the two)
#who said it can't be done#there will be more characters i will have to make but#these two are my FAVORITE!!#Howdy and Barnaby are so funny and very enjoyable characters#They were able to have me interested in smoking for a quick second until I realized#No no no#Don't. Smoke!#It's big no no#making howdy was a pain to do but I still managed.#nobody's perfect#everyone has their own flaws#I am still a bit new to making clay charms#but I'm still learning as time goes on#it's all part of life afterall#anyways#rambles#artists on tumblr#welcome home#cute#barnaby b beagle#welcome home barnaby#howdy pillar#welcome home howdy#barnaby x howdy#laughingstock#Of course I'm putting the shipname in the tags. I have FREEWILL!!
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Maybe "The Picture of Dorian Gray" 2009 wasn't so good (because some parts of the editing were dizzying and the ending, with all that about Henry and his daughter, was pretty meh) BUT we have gay sex scenes and two kisses between Basil and Dorian. And I believe that is what Sir Oscar Wilde would have wanted.
#the picture of dorian gray#oscar wilde#Like a wise person said before: Oscar Wide died for our sins#I don't really like the final#like you know#In the book was perfect that Dorian kill himself#Cause his paranoia of course#but yeah#dorian gray#basil hallward#dorian x basil
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i stand by that a better, more sensible, and more intriguing plot for TSATS would have been, instead of retconning literally everything:
Bob is dead (because he was very explicitly absorbed/killed by Tartarus Himself in House of Hades, alongside Damasen), and nobody is going into Tartarus to save him. He made his sacrifice and is gone. However. Remember how the Titans, including Bob, were just kind of kicking around for several years? Particularly. On a cruise ship full of mortals. And Bob happened to be kicking around in general for an extra year versus all the other Titans. And he mythologically sometimes has a mortal demigod son who partook in the Calydonian Boar Hunt (Dryas of Calydon). Yeah.
So turns out, Bob/Iapetus leaves behind a demigod (demititan?) child. And because Nico was pretty much his only friend, he named Nico his child's godfather. And while he's not being left in charge of the child, as a son of Hades and godfather to this kid, Nico is duty-bound to fulfill Bob's last will and go find this like 2 year old to make sure they're safe. So Nico has to undertake this very unusual quest (that raises many questions, such as "demititans are a thing?" and "DOES THIS MEAN THERE'S POTENTIALLY MORE-?!" and "SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS?") and is kind of freaking out because. He's the son of Hades! He's notoriously bad with living things, and animals, and definitely small children! Even if he does find this kid and assure they're safe, he is the last person who should be undergoing any kind of quest involving even potentially having to babysit. Fortunately, his boyfriend is the human embodiment of sunshine and calmness and good vibes, and also once helped a nymph give birth, so he feels Marginally More Confident in theoretical demititan babysitting and offers to come along on this Epic Journey of Figuring Out What In Hades' Name Is Up With This Demititan Baby Business.
Proceed with wholesome epic shenanigans quest of Nico and Will scurrying around trying to locate this random OP baby while Nico has an existential crisis about the nature of his powers because he doesn't want to let Bob down! Both for Hades Kid Honor Reasons and because Bob was his friend! But what if he's destined to fail this quest just because of who he is? Because he's simply not built for hanging out with the living/mortals? And Will reassuring him that He Will Probably Not Traumatize The Weird OP Titan Baby And It'll Be Fine, and simultaneously getting a peek into the weird other life Nico leads hanging out with immortals much more than the average demigod, which Nico considers his norm. Bonus shenanigans of both of them getting caught off-guard and culture shocked from where each other's respective worlds (Nico's mostly-immortal versus Will's mostly-mortal) cross over and learning to navigate those for each other - Nico finally starting to make some mortal connections and get glimpses at modern mortal American life, and Will trying not to get his brain literally incinerated while Nico's happily casually catching up with some of his old friends who happen to be literal gods.
#pjo#riordanverse#nico di angelo#will solace#solangelo#long post //#LISTEN I JUST THINK WE DONT NEED TO BE RETCONNING THINGS WHEN THERE IS A HIGHLY INTRIGUING MYTH RIGHT THERE#listen. *listen.* Iapetus in myth has a demigod child? and we're in the series? that's all about demigods?#and had titans running around for 4 years? some primarily on a giant ship mostly full of mortals?#and Iapetus himself was running around for closer to like 5 years?#I AM JUST SAYING. that is enough time. and the right conditions. that there are perhaps demititans now.#that alone is a fascinating plot set-up that ties in basically all previous series inherently and has a reasonable starting point#of *course* Nico would be named Bob's child's godfather!#of *course* Nico would consider it a very important personal duty to see out Bob's final will and go on some quest about it!#and under those conditions it makes *perfect sense* for Nico to want to bring Will along! and that he would be very helpful on said quest!#bringing along a lot of skills and abilities in areas that Nico lacks! that are crucial for a quest like that!#also then immediately the plot becomes Will reassuring Nico about his powers being cool and not evil and him being spooky is okay#while Will is also trying to not literally have his brain melt cause Nico's casually introducing him to a trio of death gods or something#forgetting that Will cannot look upon a god's true form#and Will's dragging Nico across the US while Nico is struggling to keep up cause Will forgot that Nico's not American and not from that era#its cute! it's interesting! it immediately begs the question of a next-gen series focusing on a main cast of demititan kids#dont go back to Tartarus that's lame and overdone and ruins a ton of stuff. dont retcon everything that also ruins a ton#give us the fluffy roadtrip comedy that they clearly wanted to write instead anyways#you can even keep the elements of Nico feeling out of his depth and Will constantly on the verge of death. except it makes sense this time.#and it's kind of funny cause Nico's just freaking out over babysitting and it highlights how much tankier Nico is vs Will#even just in casual interactions. yeah Nico can casually look upon a god's true form. dont worry about it#meanwhile Will is slowly collecting sunglasses the entire trip and layering them up for whenever Nico introduces him to another deity
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I'm gonna say something so controversial yet so brave: Neither the Buckley parents or Diaz parents are as bad as fandom makes them out to be.
#911#evan buckley#eddie diaz#maddie han#of course they're nowhere near perfect#but before i watched the show and only knew about them from what people said on here#i thought they were evil incarnate
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I suddenly had the urge to draw Cell :D
#call it a CRAVING if you will#call it an ADDICTION if you must#cell#perfect cell#dbz#dragon ball z#sketch#db#dragon ball#i said i wouldnt draw much this month but of course i gotta squeeze in a drawing on the weekend#also i live life on the edge...i tend not to save a drawing until I'm almost done LMAO#because I do them in one sitting
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proper reupload in the high quality this fantastic segment so deserves; eagle pig and duck bias notwithstanding, this will forever be my favorite variant of the fabled switcheroo (and a reminder that Daffy was first at his own game!) the committal on behalf of both characters--especially the sincerity of Daffy's feigned sincerity--really sets it apart
#that delivery of “don't you believe i'm a fish?” sounds so hurt and it's perfect#likewise i think there are few one-liners/toppers that make me laugh as much as 'i told ya i was a pig'#and that all knowing glance at the audience from Daffy doesn't feel obnoxiously smarmy or self aware#there's a friendly nonchalance to it. a very clear amusement and not in a way that undermines anything this segment is setting out to achie#again. my favorite buzzword: that sincerity! a sincere investment and amusement in watching Porky obliviously and endearingly make an ass#out of himself#and of course the cross dissolve and setup of the composition implying a story/sequence of events taking place within that time...#this short isn't my favorite P+D short--i still LOVE IT A TON but there are so many i revere--but i think it's one of the most definitive#if someone was looking to get a good understanding on their character dynamic this would be one of my immediate recommendations#i haven't had the bandwidth to spread my pig and duck gospel but please#watch Porky and Daffy cartoons#tangential but i've always loved the sound effect Treg Brown uses for Porky dropping the gun#good exaggeration/whimsy while also connoting Porky's stubbornness and that this stupid petty argument is enough for him to lose sight of#his motives and discard his murder weapon. all because of this joyously stupid argument. so i like the self awareness there with how obtuse#the sound effects are#because anyone who is not Porky Pig would have just shot him point blank#and that is everything i love about their dynamic and how Daffy's intoxicating charisma and ability to get people invested even affects the#very characters on screen#gee d'you think i ought to have said more about this scene#lt#duck soup to nuts#freleng#vid
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my life is so beautiful lately idek what to do like i am truly living my every single dream come true. like tonight my friend and i went to the ballet and before the show we went to this little wine bar and got buzzed off wine and we got an extra free glass of wine at the end just before we went over to the theater and then we watched the ballet and then we all hurried home with the crowd under umbrellas in the drizzle and still tipsy from the wine at intermission and it felt so cinematic. and earlier today all i did was a workout class in the morning and then went grocery shopping and then when i got home my roommate and i spent all afternoon just lying in my bed gossiping and laughing while it was gloomy and raining outside. and next week i start my brand new big corporate girlboss job and im actually excited bc i feel so ready to be a new version of myself at work and to have my Second Job and not be known as the #freshgrad anymore but to get to be the real adult who knows things and is cool and young and hip but still smart and competent and im just !!!! ah. im twenty five and i love my life and i love my friends and things just feel. GOOD!
#caroline speaks#and the funny thing is like#i have all these crushes and prospects but at the end of the day it’s like#well of course i do! im 25 and hot and smart and cool#likeeeee!!! EEK!#i said to my friend during our wine dinner like. my life is just in perfect flow#and it rly feels so trueeeeee ❤️❤️❤️#OK WINE DRUNK! go off me. but that’s all for now
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Hey, do you use your physical sketches to draw? If so how do you render them, I’m relearning to do so but yeah
First off, sorry taking so long to answer this! But yes! A lot of the art I'm posting here is drawn traditionally and then I'm coloring them in digitally. Here's a quick step-by-step of what I mean for anyone who's curious:
Here's what the art initially looks like before any editing. All my drawings are usually relatively small, I'm doing all of these out of an office notebook with some office pens
First thing I do is adjust the image in my phone's photo settings. The only three things I usually do are increase the brightness, the contrast, and get rid of all the saturation
Then I go into IbisPaint X, usually touch up the image a bit to get rid of any errors or shadows that weren't already covered with the initial adjustments, and then I duplicate the photo, set the duplicate to multiply, and start a new layer in between both like so:
It's pretty simple! I'm not the biggest fan of making digital art (just too tricky) but there's no denying that if you just want some plain colors on the picture, there's no easier way to do so.
#thanks for the ask!!#anyones free to talk to me btw#also small kinda unrelated thing but yeah i think a fun thing about doing art this way is that its all kinds fast and simple#and i never really let myself do that when i was younger#i always said Id only post QUALITY art if i was going to post any and nothing less#but im really glad i changed my mind about that because this summers been really fun just thinking of ideas and getting them out there#course im excited for art classes to start back up again! ill be making stuff that looks way nicer for that#but its been fun to forget about striving for perfection
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Ejem, dear macaque...DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?!!
Baihe, dear, what do You think of your first training session? And Your new mentor, they are not the best but they aren't the worst, right? :D
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#lego monkie kid#lego monkie kid fanart#monkie kid#monkie kid fanart#lmk#lmk fanart#monkie kid macaque#lmk macaque#lmk mayor#monkie kid mayor#lmk baihe#lmk hostess#lmk little girl#monkie kid baihe#monkie kid little girl#monkie kid hostess#blue and violet#Macaque is a dumbass#I like to think he is a firm believer in the fact that immortality is a 'good thing'#because he himself hss died and DOES NOT want to go through that again#so of course he thinks immortality is the perfect solution#Mayor is... there#Baihe is so low-key creeped out by the Mayor don't listen to what she said#the sad squishy potato#also Macaque is so passive agressive lmao#I just realised that I had assumed the 'idea' you were talking about was the immortal peach thing oops#i am so sorry if you were actually talking about Macaque getting Mayor to train Baihe#if that was what you were referring to then omg Macaque definitely knew that it was a horrible idea#but he had no choice
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me incoherently yapping about how the revival should be a prodigal son type of thing between jack and dean to pick up from how season 14 frames them as Abraham and Isaac and have actual reconciliation between them since we never fully got it by the end of s15
#and yes of course it’s about rescuing cas but everybody’s already talked about that#I’m the jack ambassador here#cal.txt#spn#supernatural#spn season 16#spn revival#jack kline#dean winchester#dean and jack#spn fandom#rescue cas and then rescue jack from his lobotmized godhood#which is almost indefinitely a result of his guilt and grief still being too much to deal with#and cas being taken away by the deal he made specifically for jack. yea. totally unrelated to Jack deciding to leave hall#yall*#I ain’t changing all that#it’s totally unrelated and he is totally not still suffering#he’s totally just a one dimensional sunshine baby whose trauma has no actual hold on him in the narrative or whatever#he’s normal and sane and being god makes perfect sense for a guy who said he was done being special when he was dying#sigh#I need to go to bed I have an appointment tomorrow#I just had to get it out okay#Jack as the prodigal son …. … save me#save me spn revival wish fulfillment fantasies
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ok so like i’ve seen a few posts blaming mira and ephraim for what happened to ezra and i think that is. a weird take. anyway my personally belief is that tzeebo wasn’t their only plan for ezra if they were taken because they feel like the kind of people to have a network of allies if the goddamn governer of lothal was their friend. i also imagine that they weren’t the only people taken by the empire that night or afterwards, because i feel like it’s implied that they weren’t the only people speaking out against the empire? so like, they probably had a network of people to take care of ezra if something happened but that network dissolved due to arrests, people fleeing, etc etc until there was no way for anyone to find ezra or for ezra to find anyone else and then he was on his own and it was no one’s fault but the empire.
#star wars rebels#star wars#ezra bridger#people villainizing mira and ephraim are so weird 2 me#i don’t really know how to explain why i hate it so much but it’s just. something#maybe because it’s kind of victim blaming i guess? or saying like ‘speaking out is only okay if you’re the perfect voice for it’#which is funny because that is. exactly the opposite of what their broadcasts were about#anyway#also irl i think a lot of activists ARE parents. from what my own parents have said. having kids does change your perspective on the future#like yeah of course they spoke out. their kid was born on the day the empire took over and they watched the galaxy fall to even more shit.#they spoke out because they wanted things to be better for him and it’s not their fault that things went wrong
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god you know this whole show has been building up to the trial. in episode 6 we briefly see Claudia and Madeleine being happy and then the trial starts and you can't help but think 'Claudia had barely left the nest, she deserved to have more time'. but of course that's the tragedy. the parent burying the child, a perversion of natural order. Claudia was inspired (at least in part) by Anne Rice's daughter who died at 5 from leukemia. there is no version of this story where Claudia lives.
#interview with the vampire#this is not deep analysis i'm just very sad.#claudia's been dead from the start. from the moment louis started telling his story#and it's so unfair and tragic but of course it is. every child death is.#altho it's interesting to me that anne rice wrote a story abt a little girl who didn't actually die. she got turned into a vampire!#she could be alive forever! it could be the perfect escapist story to deal with your real daughter's death#but instead even this immortal powerful vampire has to die. there is no version of this story in which she lives.#i'm not saying it's a bad way to cope or anything i just think it's interesting from like the psychological point of view#a little bit of armchair psychoanalysis as a treat#btw does this count as book spoilers?? i think the show has been pretty clear that claudia doesn't make it to modern day#but idk if they've ever explicitly said she's dead?#so i guess i'll tag it just in case#book spoilers#s2#2x06#iwtv spoilers
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Small dream that the supposed popularity poll movie about the most popular character(bakugou)was coming out and there was a literal trailer
I think it was after UA and after Bakugou starts professional work. Pretty sure he was working with Jeanist maybe as a sidekick. Or maybe he's about to debut as an independent hero so the world is watching him, so to speak.
The villain looked like a literal shape-shifting type, and had taken to shifting specifically as Bakugou(Dynamight), and causing trouble.
So now Bakugou has to deal with someone who is trying to tear down his status, who's committing crimes in his name, and has to reclaim his image, maybe?
I think, bc 1, there can be no Katsuki Bakugou arc without Izuku, 2, I would like to see Izuku do some cool things while he is Quirkless, and 3, Izuku would take SPECIAL offense to someone imitating/slandering/framing Katsuki and his image, Izuku would become involved in this somehow.
If it's Pre-support suit, he could be kind of an undercover or spy to help Katsuki fight back, get info, and catch the villain...if it's after that 8 yr reveal of the support suit... well, we could see him back in full action. Even his debut.
I'm thinking of this super cool shot of him grinning as he shifts into the suit, ready to go.
(Though I gotta say I like the idea of him not having the suit yet and doing some cool stuff anyway, using more of his brains than powers!!)
#bakudeku#about that movie they said there would be about the winner of the most popular character#ANYWAY#it looked pretty cool in my dream#how ingenius would it be to have the enemy in the popularity poll try to destroy the winners poplarity tho#wow so meta#bakugou katsuki#if they actually do a kacchan movie thatll be so cool#but like i said how can you have a post UA kacchan story that DOESNT feature izuku#so i feel like bkdk is only fitting#lmao#ooh and what if everyone involved trying to help katsuki get his name back was skeptical abt if Izuku could do anything Quirkless#but Katsuki would be like NO hes perfect he is my ace#so he and kacchan like MASTERMIND this operation#with pitfalls of course bc you gotta have conflict and stakes#izuku probably gets threatened and katsuki starts getting afraid of izuku getting hurt#but in the end it all works out somehow#horikoshi hire me#ooh and if it it pre-suit at the very end kacchan just marvels at how much he loves working with deku#and how badly he wants it to be permanent#and as izuku walks away waving bc hes got classes to teach#KACCHAN GETS A PHONE CALL#its mellissa and she is haply and says ITS READY#katsuki gasps#CUT TO CREDITS#the next movie is def bkdk being pros together for real#and izuku in his suit lmao#horikoshi i am outside your window
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it’s so scary and so freeing to just be a person.
#the discovery and fulfillment of my curiosity as I go#trying to scientific observational field researcher my way through discovering#What Existence Includes#while I’m in this state to experience it#it’s like being back to my very youngest days before I started learning the major rules#when I was just sensation and experience and curiosity#making sense / making an ongoing story of the world and time itself as it flies past#personal#cult escapee#katie.txt#past me: thank you thank you thank you for holding on through the nightmare. thank you for riding out the huge world-ending pain. thank you#it was worth it it was worth it#of course it isn’t perfect but I SAID it’d be better within a few years didn’t I?#you signed up for this you made the commitment when you knew.#you tried allowing yourself to trust yourself again for the first time since age 7 or so.#you knew you couldn’t hold it all up front for that long if you were gonna survive transplanting yourself like an organ.#you knew you’d be giving up a lot. and you did it anyway because you were brave and you cared that much about how very very little you#deserved better for her world#and here you are. and here we are.#you told the therapist ‘of course not!!!’ so instantaneously and so full of belief. so dead sure on deep reflex that you could NEVER#trust yourself in a million years because even if the supernatural surveillance state wasn’t real and you didn’t have innate evilness#just from the Doctrine Is Saying So#where was I going with this. I’m typing tags on mobile and it’s religious for me but it’s also impossible as a ui#anyway my POINT WAS: it is so hard and so scary but it’s like walking into the world of Sesame Street for real.#you were right. it IS good to be alive. the whole thing all the way through is a bewildering baffling marvel. you’re ok to be delighted#about it and marvel at how wild it is that there’s so much about it all and so many things to see and think and meet and feel and do during#our spans of time#no matter what came before or what might come next#what a goddam marvel of it all. ain’t it just the strangest thing of all that we’re alive. what a marvel. what an absolutely magnificent hit#existence is an absolute absurdity
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