#we love a positive king

[umeboshi--bones]

dont imagine ink? :)

Don't imagine Ink popping half his head out of a puddle of paint that spilled in your art space, eyesockets big and blinking his mismatched eyes up at you, eyebrows are raised.

'Hey!' He would exclaim, seeing a clenched fist of frustration in one hand, a drawing implement in the other.

'Oh...oh oh!' In one fluid movement he leaps out of the paint, Broomie strapped loyally to his back, and peers onto your canvas, tilting his head to and from, seemingly in thought. No thoughts head empty

Don't imagine his sudden exclamations of praise for how far you've gotten, look at your color choice! The shading! THE PERSPECTIVE AAAAAAA LOOK AT YOU GO!

Don't imagine his eye lights match up suddenly with bright yellow stars and he grabs you into a hug and spins you around.

'See what you can do, when you try? Even just putting pen to paper, when you create, a new unique beauty enters the world. YOU did that! Don't beat yourself down, I'd miss your talent, your emotion that rises from your creations!!'

Don't imagine he gathers you into a hug and peppers your face with little kisses until you Starr to giggle. Perfect! Goal achieved!

Oh, please don't imagine him sitting himself on the ground near you, to chatter away brightly as you find the resolve to keep drawing, putting your words together, creating. Because some people just need company. He'll keep quiet or try to if need be, drawing on some paper he pulled from seemingly nowhere, concentrating with a rainbow colored tongue poking from his mouth.

Don't imagine that he stays there and stays there with you, until the piece is finished. He takes it in, eyesockets widening and a grin splitting his ink splattered face.

'YOU DID IT! See it was in you the whole time! What else is in there you think? Hey let's draw together! Whaddaya say?'

[wispforever]

original quote under the cut

[helenofblackthorns]

thought about the livvy & jace/janus parallels again 378 dead 2992 injured... like wdym they were killed by the exact same sword, with jace being stabbed in the back & livvy stabbed in the front. wdym they were raised on the shores of the exact same lake almost exactly five years apart. wdym they were both came back wrong. the way livvy and janus share the common goal of just wanting to get what they lost too, and they both spend their gotsm stories watching their loved ones with no way to properly interact with them despite how badly they want to.

it's arguably one of the things that terrifies me the most going into twp like literally what does it all mean... what does this mean for livvy...

[uncanny-tranny]

There's something so insane to me about being able to create and recreate vintage or even ancient music, clothes, fabrics, building architecture, anything, really.

I watched this video about a lady who knit a WWII-era vest, and it was really unique, because the cable work would eat up yarn, when there were shortages of fibers. This pattern would have likely been used by people to send overseas to soldiers, and now it's being created in a time where this war has been over for generations. What were the people making this pattern thinking of? What about the people making the vest? Could they fathom a world where world wars didn't happen back to back? Could they imagine what peace felt like, or did it fade like a distant memory, a faint friend? All we have now are the remnants of their efforts, a "simple" vest that would warm the bodies of countless people the knitter would never have imagined were here on earth with them.

We're reaching across time to learn about other people - we're reaching our hands out just to grasp anything tangible. And when we've take hold of something, all we can do is say I love you I love you I love you

[rubiatinctorum]

I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.

Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.

Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)

[teatime-at-4]

lmk s5 spoilers

I did the faces from the end of the s5 trailer!

close ups

[captainsolocide]

sherlock and co. spoilers below the cut

SHERLOCK AND CO. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM STOP PUTTING MY BOY IN DANGER AS A CLIFFHANGER BECAUSE ONE OF THESE TIMES SOMETHING REALLY BAD IS ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN AND IM NOT READY FOR IT

[unholyhelsing]

met the pirate king (I'm assuming) & literally screamed. I did not expect that to happen.

[wonder-worker]

"Hannes Kleineke cites Dean and Canons of Windsor MS XI.B.6, rot. 2, for evidence of a deathbed codicil by Edward IV concerning a dispute between the knights and canons of Windsor"

remember when I said that we don't know what Edward IV's deathbed codicils were as they haven't survived? that there is no reason to automatically assume they were relevant to his son's minority? that it's entirely possible that they weren't very important at all considering how dismissively Croyland spoke of them ("some codicils thereto", with no emphasis or elaboration whatsoever)? I LOVE being proven right <3

[incorrectplanet]

[k-group vs g-group battle practice]

keita: team, we need to have a serious talk. kuanjui, close the door.

kuanjui: what? it’s already closed

keita: close it more.

[lordliing]

The thing that entertains me the most about Gortash lore though Karlach is she makes it sound like up until the betrayal, he was a good boss who was paying her pretty fucking well. Like he had people spreading the positions through word of mouth which, while not guaranteed good, is a good sign. She put her parents into a nicer home and could build a fund for her future, like I imagine he treated his employees very well (EMPLOYEES, not 'employees' he had under duress) because he wanted loyalty, dedication and submission, and he was willing to pay for it. He may have also been adding some hush money in there.

[mobius-m-mobius]

Bruh Tom said in this interview the last "for you, for all of us" bit was from him... youtube.com/watch?v=7JhnYlbtxmY If that's not the most roundabout way to say "that was just for Loki and Mobius" because they'd be the two characters in that scene who KNOW what the hell Loki is referencing? Is Tom also a Lokius believer because he was the one who talked to Natalie Holt extensively to craft the OST and she weaved so much of it into the music? Eric Martin referencing Spirk to Lokius. Michael Waldron being the one who wrote E5 aka the romcom episode. How much of that was Owen and Tom doing whatever and how much of it was in the script? And the show's editor insisting that she keeps the Lokius chat scenes as much as she could? Like what was in the water on that set 🤔🤔

Honestly getting whiplash from all the recent interviews coming out, lol, but that detail about Tom coming up with Loki's final line is definitely one of the best (and possibly only 😅) I'm taking to heart because what a beautiful callback and way to confirm that even if Mobius didn't get the chance to fully put the pieces together about Loki's attempts at fixing the loom he would instantly recognize those words and what they represent.

That plus the Lokius track playing constantly throughout the season as well as pretty notably when Loki becomes the God of Stories and then Tom previously mentioning he and Owen would recite poetry together (👀👀) before filming to set the tone for their scenes all definitely adds a lot to the theory of Tom's pov when discussing the OST with Natalie Holt who we all know is a champion of Lokius in her own right 😂💖

Speaking of what was in the water I'm still obsessed with finding out ep 5 was a last minute rewrite only for them to come up with the Cleveland based rom com of anyone's dreams and if anyone's listening a spin off of Don trying to woo whatever Loki inevitably ends up in his timeline would be a welcome balm to the soul because I can't rest without seeing him again 🥺

[arundolyn]

Why do you think Blazblue made Celica both the Sister who raised the siblings, AND some weird time travel love interest for Ragna? Did they just shoehorn Ragna into phase shift and that dynamic just got so popular they shoved it into Chronophantasma? Did they think Ragna’s development needed to be with his family but they have their own plots so they make Celica into the Sister, but NEVER have the characters piece it together ON SCREEN in a way that changes their dynamic?

i kept meaning to answer this and forgetting bc my brain has been soup for the past like WEEK but oh my god its so weird. its very blatantly both trying to give him relevance in a side material and also tie the side material into the main story better and make it plot relevant in chronophantasma all at the same time and it just falls flat horribly and comes off severely contrived. that entire scene in cp would be so extremely improved if rather than sending ragna back in time via the cauldron he just like. idk the boundary can do a lot of shit we dont even know about. it'd be a hell of a lot better if bloodedge was a completely separate guy so that negates the weirdness of celica's attraction to him then vs now and solves the like... what. 5 separate goddamn paradoxes the existence of bloodedge as a character separate from ragna causes? the LEAST of which is where his jacket and sword come from. blazblue loves its recursive paradoxical time loops so much.

making celica the sister is such a weird can of worms that honestly would be fine IF they didnt make her also have a crush on him in her chronophantasma body. thats the fuckin odd part. sure she doesnt have the memories of the now-dead nun that raised ragna and his siblings BUT it still feels weird because don't he AND jin during the whole takemikazuchi disaster at the climax of chronophantasma look at her and recognize that it's the sister and then just like.. its left at that. ragna never acted particularly romantically toward her in the first place thank god but her lack of awareness of the situation is the weirdest part. hes his usual trying-to-be-aloof-on-purpose self about it and when kokonoe blackmails him into celica tagging along with him its literally just. "you cant fight dumbass stay behind me" thats it. yeah she doesnt know and all and remembers him-as-bloodedge from her time that she had a crush on but like. she doesnt.. have to be unaware. its a really weird plot contrivance that doesnt sit right to just have another love interest that comes off really weirdly not only for the story but for the fuckin guy writing it

[unproduciblesmackdown]

and i draw parallels solely on the cinematographic basis of “when my man is no more than a millimeter away from perturbation at all times but you give the Whole Right Half Of The Screen 3/4 Closeup of Harrowing Recontextualizations” like that’s right. we’re living it up

[toushindai]

10 for the fic ask even though I don't go here asjdjhf

10: what do [each of the relevant characters] currently need?

Ganondorf--although I've started chapter three and am no longer in his POV--is edging towards the time he needs to stop watching and waiting and take clear action. When he and the Gerudo delegation came to Hyrule, the intention was for him to secure an invitation to stay so that he could work his dark and evil schemes in person while the rest of his retinue (minus perhaps a handful of servants and guards) returned home. Instead, the whole delegation was "~invited~" to stay, and it's been nearly a month at this point. So some of the Gerudo who have traveled with him are starting to grow impatient in the face of Hyrule's haughty treatment of them, and they're frustrated with how much of Ganondorf's plan seems to involve just letting Rauru think he is superior. They're starting to wonder how much of this is for the good of the Gerudo tribe and how much is for Ganondorf's own personal gain--especially given that it's an open secret he and Rauru are having an affair. If Ganondorf wants to keep the unflinching loyalty of any of them, he needs to act very soon.

Rauru, on the other hand... kinda needs to grow a pair? If I'm going to be blunt about it. The early years of his kingship were very easy for him, with most of the races of Hyrule disposed towards accepting his rule; that changed when Ganondorf became the chief of the Gerudo and stopped taking Rauru's calls. And now, more recently, a faction of the Gerudo are engaging in open hostilities with Hyrule. Rauru knows that this is the official Gerudo army itself--everyone involved knows this--but Ganondorf has appeared at the court of Hyrule with an obvious lie of a cover story and Rauru is pulled into playing along with it because he's not built for, he's not accustomed to dealing with this kind of malicious dishonesty. He wanted to build this kingdom out of friendship with Hyrule's peoples, genuinely he wanted this (at least the way I'm writing him), but that's not how kingdoms work. And now he's faced with Ganondorf's open hostilities--Ganondorf's own thirst for power and willingness to do some atrocities to get it--and he needs to stop wallowing in his wish for things to be simple and friendly.

The fic is going to end before either of them really get to where they "need" to be, as that sort of comes to a head in one of the canon cutscenes. So it's going to be an interesting exercise to try to end the fic on a note that's uneasy and unresolved but still conclusive. Wish me luck.

[hildorien]

The whole “Elrond and Elros didn’t actually change when they made their choices,” always feels like people are just looking at Elrond but completely ignore Elros completely shifting his whole personality (at least publicly) to being a king of men. Like, when you choose the gift of men that’s it. Your mortal and your whole line is now mortal. It seems that Elros took that very literally. And frankly, I think that is so much interesting because 1) makes the later numenoreans even more dumb stupid looking 2) actually acknowledges that being mannish is like a thing like Elros comes from very defined cultures and it shows that he loved that side of himself so much that he defined himself by it in return.