#thought this was relavant

[mipmoth]

Squidifies the subway brothers

[bleue-flora]

What's often interesting to me, is Dream spells it out in the finale and people often still don't get it, so I thought it'd be interesting to see what he was actually referencing here. To see where it all started.

[24:27] Tommy: “That first war, me and Tubbo versus you–how it should have ended–why’d you take it?” Dream: “Tommy, you ambushed me and killed me. You stole all my shit! You tried ambushing me in a little cave–you don’t remember that? I feel like you just–your memory is just–gone.”

So here is the ambush Dream is talking about, where Sapnap and Tommy basically decide to just kill Dream and then kept all of his shit. [Death 1]

He gets killed again when he tries to take back his stuff. [Death 2]

Tommy kills him for fun right after he respawns with nothing. [Death 3]

Then after Dream gets his stuff back (via our boy Punz) and he takes the discs to get Tommy to stop, he gives Tommy back his items. But unsatisfied, Tommy goes after Dream, gets one of his discs back and hides it in the little cave. Dream tries to find it, while Sapnap and Tommy try to stop him. They are unsuccessful until, Tubbo brings them axes and they sneak up and corner Dream in the little cave, ambushing and killing him. Once again, taking all of his shit, (including, yes, the other disc.) [Death 4]

[27:58] Tommy: “Think about that, we could’ve been friends but no because you have to figure out the reason you have to get–”  Dream: “Yeah we could’ve but you–you ruined the chance of that long ago. It was you.” Tommy: “I ruined it?” Dream: “You ruined it!”

And I don’t think it’s unfair for Dream to say that in the finale, because for Dream it’s this stream early on, these moments that started it all. It’s these instances of Dream getting murdered and robbed and made fun of over and over. Him, trying to not just make peace for everyone, but also reclaim respect and peace for himself. It’s Tommy chasing after Dream when he has nothing to kill him and rub it in his face. It’s Dream, even after all of that, giving back their items. It’s these instances of violence taken too far to the point they clearly pissed Dream off and didn’t care or follow his very simple request of just giving an apology and his belongings back that shape my distaste for Tommy and sympathy for Dream. It’s these moments that I feel like are gone from Tommy’s and our memory that highlight a different story.

[28:34] Dream: “Yeah, we could have been friends if you weren’t a little shit.”

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

silly headcanon that while the Aoyagi parents BELIEVE that Toya's older brothers are studying classical music abroad, they really aren't. they're having a grand old time travelling, seeing the sights, socialising and all. they do practice sometimes and enter the occasional competition as to not have their father suspicious, but they're just chilling for the most of it (though, they feel bad that Toya's left behind </3)

[skitskatdacat63]

"From triumph to failure is but one step."

+ the usual

I love when I can include paper sketches in the process gif. It's very satisfying to see it progress from a very vague imagining of what was in my head to the finished project.

+ version without text

My favorite sketch was definitely the one where I actually put in words what it's supposed to convey. I wouldn't usually write that down, cause it's all in my head, but it was useful to do so when sending it to other people. I'll go into it more but here it is just as a teaser:

Lmao first of all, I like how I was teasing "Spanish GP" art, but as per usual, it's just thinly veiled au art. IM SORRY, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING GENERAL POSTERS, THAT'S NO FUN! So instead you will get weirdly relevant matador au art. I like it a lot though, I was really shocked I was able to draw 3 different Fernandos, I mean even drawing one figure takes a lot out of me, but this was weirdly easy?? I think it's just the effect of not being burnt out anymore, and actually being able to draw with more ease makes me feel like a god.

Okay, so the text: "Fight or Flight?" I'll be honest, I don't even remember why I chose it, literally came to me in a vision 😭 But I think it's fitting with the narrative of this piece. Is it better to keep going on, keep fighting, or better to finally give up, and flee? Not that I even remotely think he should give up, but I feel like sometimes I can sense him pondering this very question. That was the big fear before he announced that he re-signed. Keep fighting and maybe, just maybe, you'll get the chance to finally go up against the bull again. Or accept it's an uphill battle and the fighting is going to keep getting more and more strenous, and maybe it's time to put down the sword. SORRY THIS IS SO ANGSTY FOR WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE "yayyyy home race!!!" Please forgive me <3

I. Renault

At some point, someone pointed out to me that I had drawn all other iterations of matador Fernando with a sword, except for Renault Fernando, and that ended up feeling very poignant to me. In a bull fighting match, they really only pull out the sword at the last minute to deliver the killing blow. So I think it's important to never draw this Fernando with a sword, because it shows the unfailing confidence and stability he has at that point. He only needs to pull out the sword at the end, as a formality almost, there's no reason for him to keep his guard up at all times.

II. Ferrari

Meanwhile this Fernando, he's considering his sword like he hasn't had to in the past. He's checking the sharpness, making sure in advance he can do what needs to be done. He's on guard, he feels like he needs to keep up his defenses at all times because he doesn't have that same amount of trust and stability anymore. He knows though he will be up against the (red) bull, at least that's never in question. At least there's the assurance he'll get the chance to fight.

III. Aston

Oh, Aston Fernando....He doesn't know whether to take up his sword or finally put it down for the last time. While at least Ferrari Fernando knows he's on constant guard against the bull, this Fernando doesn't even have that assurance anymore. He feels like he can never put down the sword, just in case he gets the chance to strike the killing blow on the bull, which feels like it's growing more and more unlikely.

Spanish flag: ? Lmao this was meant to be something to celebrate Fernando's home race and it turned very introspective whoops. Also got the Napoleon quote in there hahaha, can't escape it!! Shame though there is no French gp anymore, if so I'd probably draw an unhinged thing for it :,(

[gothamcitycentral]

I find the parallels between Vaggie/Charlie and Carmilla/Zestial to be really neat.

Vaggie and Carmilla both leapt to the defense of Charlie and Zestial. Both bite their tongue at danger and disrespect directed towards themselves, but when who they care about is the one being threatened, they react with no hesitation or composure to defend them.

In conjunction, Charlie and Zestial are both more powerful than Vaggie and Carmilla (even if this is more strongly implied in Zestial’s case). Yet they seem so much more hesitant to act on this power. Charlie explicitly hates using her royal status or fighting people, while Zestial just endures Velvette’s insults and questioning, only making small verbal defenses of his position. Not to mention how they’re both much older than Vaggie and Carmilla. Charlie is a slow aging immortal and Zestial is the oldest living Overlord and is on the regular described as ancient.

Charlie and Zestial both see themselves as someone Vaggie and Carmilla should confide in. Charlie isn’t upset that Vaggie was Exorcist, rather that she never told her. While Zestial “implores [Carmilla] to share the load.” He’s worried about this weight she’s carrying by herself, and wants to support her. I imagine Charlie felt similarly, Vaggie has been carrying her secret in silence for years, and with Charlie dedicating her life to helping others, it must her to know someone she’s so close to has been hurting this long.

“Ain’t you supposed to protect this place?”

“I’ll keep you safe, and keep this secret.”

There’s also how their ‘protector role’ seems completely self assigned. I highly doubt Charlie ever wanted Vaggie to be her personal guard, and Zestial reacts in surprise at being included with who Carmilla is ‘keeping safe.’ If you take Zestial’s reaction (or lack their of) to Velevette, you could make the point they do this because Charlie and him are unlikely to defend themselves (or at the very least hesitate to do so). Which I think speaks to the intrinsic sense of duty Vaggie and Carmilla have.

[gobstoppr]

hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.

guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there

[kumaky]

Rollers, this is the realest I’ll ever be,

I’m a listener only for jrwi, so I haven’t seen most of the new redesigns, and when I tell you Alphonze looking like THIS was a SHOCK TO ME

BUT THATS NOT THE WORST PART

I have been imagining this man from the start of him being in the series like THIS

THE FUCKING ROBOT FROM WILDCRATS IS ALL I COULD IMAGINE

OR

SOME SICK COMBINATION OF BIGWELD AND THOSE SHITS WITH COWBOY BS

Also additional note

This is what Ollie would look like on a piggy back ride from him. I will continue my Krattweld narrative but I had to share.

[athena-xox]

I actually hate when ppl comment on my post instead of reblogging. Cause you can’t like comments and like if I disagree I can just reblog my thoughts in the tags but it comes off so aggressive as a reply

[endlesslyramblingaboutblorbos]

Stuck in a glue trap smut fic (???) (bingliushen) (oh no step bro i am conveniently stuck in a glue trap whatever shall I do please help~)

[remusawoooo]

Hey?!I crave telugu james potter but the world is not ready for it z so please please do telugu james potter hcs

AHHHHH you have no idea how happy i was to see this?? i was pleasantly surprised when i first saw that there was a popular hc in the fandom that james was indian?? its fun but sometimes its just very superficial - he celebrates diwali and throws in one or two hindi words, lol.

my hc:

Honestly the strongest point i have is that he is from telangana lol (warangal bidda if you will)

he listens to telugu music (only knows what his dad listens to tho). it was hard to connect to the telugu popculture (hogwarts doesnt have technology and he's in the U.K. anyway)

James would probably be a chiranjeevi fan (he was very campy and talented!) if he cared. He would crush on sridevi, it's just natural.

He didn't care for cultural festivals, and his parents are Christian, but he devoured Ugadi pachadi. (laddoos and kaja for Christmas?? anyone?? Sirius would be so fascinated with putharekulu and remus' sweet tooth would be happy with all the sweets-his fav is peda!)

I tried to be period friendly (even looked up media in the 70s lmao), but if it's just any era: James would be a hoe for 2000s films. probably loves okkadu if I'm being real.

his cousins in the mainland definitely gave him shit for his accent, and he doesn't care enough to code switch.

if he was a muggle in India, definitely would go to hps for school (very self-indulgent, lmao)

he uses dad and amma. (Nanna feels a little awkward, okay!!!)

saying "abbaaaaa" when things don't go his way, (any chance for an ABBA telugu pun shouldn't be left out, btw) and "cheeee" when disgusted.

he used to tease his parents for their 4 p.m. chai habits and call it unhealthy but would pick it up during the first war. just a reminder of normality in the chaos and would give a moment with loved ones. he finally understood why his parents always had their chai and biscuits out in the garden, at 4 p.m.

his mum would insist on oiling his hair (to somehow manage the messy mop on his head) during holidays. he'd fight back hard but give in when she threatened to do it with magic. (he'd be super relaxed cause of the massaging but will never admit). he misses that later and cries hard into lily's shoulder one day, when she casually rubs his scalp in a way it reminds him of his mother (and how she'd never oil his head now!)

feel free to add on (or dismiss anything you don't like hahahaha)

[sxfik]

the thing that always drew me to elody and gerard was the idea of the story continuing, beyond what was written, and the continuing comparison of story vs. people.

stories are meant to hit certain notes, have a fixed structure that cannot be changed. even if all the actions in between the plot-moving points were interchanged, even if all the minute details were still changed, they are still trapped within that shell of what the story is.

to a certain extent, their lives, their decisions, their choices have no real meaning when the story is ongoing and the story itself is a shield to the reality of the character.

when you take away that structure or that narrative shield, there is nothing protecting them because that part of the story just doesn't exist. their characters up until that 'happily ever after' is two dimensional, forced to meet a pre-written destiny. suddenly, after the happily ever after, they are three dimensional and allowed their own choices.

when we look at both gerard and elody from that perspective, what else could they have done but fall apart? elody was trapped after that happily every after when gerard was freed.

for gerard, he was the 'main character', the dynamic character. he was meant to start as 'spoiled'/'arrogrant' and transition into a better version of himself. yet, even though he reached the 'correct ending', of marrying the princess and achieving that happily ever after, he never grew because no matter what choices he made, he would have gotten that happy ending. in a way, it enforced that the only thing that essential to his existence was survival more than being brave or standing up for what is right.

elody on the other hand was the side character, the instrument with which he would achieve a happily ever after. when she was within the story, she was protected in a way that gerard wasn't. she was allowed a freedom because the only real 'fixed' point was getting married to gerard.

she was allowed to make her own choices because she was not part of a main narrative until she met gerard in the lake, something that gerard was never allowed until after his happily ever after. gerard was always in the narrative, he was always part of the story, forced into these fixed points in his story.

their marriage, the happily ever after, pulled elody firmly into the story and into the narrative, forced to fit into the happily ever after whereas gerard was freed, but with no real character development or tools to enjoy that freedom.

side thing i realized while writing this that is beside the point, but the froggyness was never a curse, it was the story that he lived within that was the curse.

[osamusbigtits]

not now daddy, your kitten has shitty posture and I have to use a heating pad on my sore back

[winepresswrath]

whenever i try to explain the trinity i wind up saying "you know, kind of like in animorphs" and am then confronted with how not everyone has read the specials where the god-alien decides to have a sabbatical as a deer-centaur alien so he builds himself a mortal body to inhabit but then not all of him can fit in the body & he does not have access to his full self (which is kind of the point) and he must thus suffer some slings and arrows.

[angel-atelier]

can you list what characters are in your AU?

Of course ! There maybe more additions down the line but for now I have my hands full lol

Nina the killer

Jeff the killer

Eyeless jack

Jane the killer

Judge Angels

Clockwork

Kate the chaser

Ticci Toby

Tim/Masky

Brian/Hoodie

Lazari

Stripes

Zero

Nurse Ann

Liu

Korbyn

Robin (oc)

Background characters:

Ben

Sally

Bloody Painter

Sadie

Lulu

LJ technically exists but he's not mentioned or relevant

Debating on adding rouge

There's also more monstery pastas who roam the forest, but they aren't characters, more so animals or cryptids

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

The DID is getting worse

[anthenasikes]

goodngight gay people on my phone