#tryin not to lose it

[itaug]

"can you multitask" yes actually i'm losing my mind and chilling at the same time

[shorthaltsjester]

there is something so, so devastating to me about imogen having spent the past weeks utilizing how much like her mother she appears to be as a way for the hells to gain intel and slip past different situations but how significantly her like . relvin vibes have increased in the past couple episodes. and of course we only have the one interaction with him but the temult dynamic is one of the ones that spins my brain around in knots. there is something very juicy to me about an imogen who can’t escape her mother’s fate because she looks like her spitting image and has her same powers and who can’t escape her father’s fate because she’s also powerless watching the woman she loves disappear.

like relvin in that visit is of course walled off and he’s decades down the road of having seen the woman he loves disappear into the unknown of her powers and what we got of his response to liliana and the idea of helping imogen save her wasn’t unlike imogen’s recent response to laudna. his comment that he always figured that liliana would realize gelvaan wasn’t the place for her, he just also hoped they’d go together when she left is like the domestic small town mirror of imogen’s illogical but real griefguilt about leaving laudna alone by fighting against predathos. i mean relvin specifically brings up that he doesn’t know if liliana was lying to him the whole time about her powers or if she didn’t know either, “it’s a lot to take in at once. you think you know someone, there’s a whole part of their life that they just been keeping secret from you. i was angry. i’m still angry. but you know, a little part of me wants to believe she was just doing it to protect you.“ a sentiment echoed by imogen’s responses to laudna the past few episodes.

and at the end of that gelvaan visit, relvin speaking up enough to tell imogen to “tell her…” but not having anything to say. because liliana made her choice and he knows his words didn’t mean anything before. imogen just watching as laudna shoves a dagger into her own chest, imogen telling her “i’ll always love you, laudna. i just don’t know what to do with it.”

god, in general, imogen who grew up knowing that love isn’t enough. that love is important and it’s a lot, but not enough. relvin and imogen standing with a chasm of grief and a silver locket between them and “i never want you to be afraid of me, daddy” “me neither.” and laudna’s “i don’t like people being mad at me.” and imogen’s “i know.”

because imogen is her father’s daughter. like absolutely with anger at him and complexity in that relationship but silly little cowboy jokes aside, the values imogen expresses are ones that — when not ones born of her experiences with her powers — seem very much contextualized by her upbringing. i mean the ideal life that she dreamt of and dismissed with laudna someday when the apocalypse is over is a small cottage with some horses. relvin lives in a farmhouse furnished for one.

i’ve talked before about how For Me the most fruitful lens for viewing imogen’s story is one of generational trauma, and i think the reasons for that re: liliana are obvious. but i also think that being raised by someone who isn’t privy to the intricacies of whatever haunts their spouse enough that it’s been passed down is another sort of fucked up legacy and i am truly delighted/sorrowed by how messily and interestingly imogen sits at the intersection of these dual temult legacies; one of leaving and one of being left.

[bruisedlittleangel]

bruised up.. i rly nvr knw where they come frm..! it seems like they appear jst frm bumpin into things..

[whaliiwatching]

they’ve made the papes!

[estrelladraws]

the way these two have me on chokehold rn its not even funny rn im twekin i love them so much

[uglygirlpretendingtobepretty]

it's a curse

[imjustagirl223]

Ive never felt like such an academic failer in college until this semester. Probably the worst time to be doing so bad since it's my senior year and these classes are what I need to graduate. I have no motivation, things are just hard for me to understand and my procrastination is at an all-time high. And it's not like I'm not trying to fix it I am I go to the library to focus on studying, I ask the teacher questions if I'm confused and it feels like even with me trying it's just not enough. And I feel so TIRED.

[bleue-flora]

new chapter? over a year later?... that's right bb :]

[crazylittlejester]

genuinely so sorry for anyone who followed this blog because they wanted headcanons or well thought out character analysis posts or fanfictions from me, i do all that SIGNIFICANTLY better durin’ the school year for some reason, unfortunately Summer Brain has fucking killed me and now y’all have to deal with my stupidity every fuckin day 😭

one of these days im gonna rewrite that character analysis for wars i did that died on my old laptop where i did hardcore research on war trauma and looked at real study cases, and then ill drop it and vanish forever. because what the fuck else am i gonna do with a psych degree

[of-galaxies-and-black-holes]

misc panel redraw sketches and unfinished vash sketch <3

[s0fter-sin]

god the way ghost's voice drops when he tells soap, "you'll need to improvise to survive"

before that, everything he says is steady but when he acknowledges that soap'll have to do something outside his skill set, something he intimately knows to be difficult, his voice wavers

and soap does the same thing

when he's calling out for ghost on the radio, he's tentative, testing the frequency, then he's desperate; "ghost, this is 7-1, do you copy?”

then when ghost answers, he smooths out his voice; he hides the pain, the fear

they both try to hide things from the other to reassure them that they're alright, that they'll both get out alive

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Some mild existential dread in the house today

[semotilus]

Anyone wants to go to Buffalo Wild Wings l8r? My treat. I will need to stop at an ATM first I am all out of cash and I prefer to leave cash tips because when I tip with my card and just write it on the receipt I don’t trust that the manager doesn’t take a cut or it doesn’t get split between the staff members and I just want the server to get it directly

[citrine-elephant]

hey hey, good news! unexpected funky inspo :3c

i heard wings flapping as i was falling asleep and now i am paranoid and sleepless.

[big-bad-shorty-king]

im thinkin abt stopping drinking soda pretty much fully in 2025 and possibly stop all snacking, idk yet

[plasplasplas]

You could tell me the people who wrote/drew that story had never seen a single other plastic man property and instead had him explained to them once at a party and I'd believe you.

I thought the entire book was kinda eh not just the Plas story so maybe it was more whoever 'directed' the book?? Editors and whatnot? For stories about passion, they were hollow. It felt like every single thing about plas was ignored in favour of making him some larger-than-life playboy. Oh but he's actually soooooo lonely do you care 🥺 🥺 🥺. Does booster not fill that niche enough? (I did like the booster story. That one was fun).

Like that was just. A different character altogether. Even other characters in the story felt sooo out of wack. Why is Batman drunk at a party stealin his girl. Why is wonder woman literally forgetting he even exists. Why is this cafe owner playing catty and hard to get. Who acts like that.

And oooooo that fat joke made me mad. In 2024? Really? Come on. I'm on the heavier side myself and it was pretty disappointing to see.

I hate being nitpicky but the art wasnt great. The v-neck, huge diamond, and shorts? Nah not for me.

Is her nose pointed up or down. Plz decide

I DID like the part where he's forced to confront his people-pleasing attitude and learn that it's not actually bringing him happiness. That felt real. That hit. Everything around that? Well I'm gonna forget it ever happened cuz ohhhh my god that sucked. That suuuuhhuhhhcked~