#well I don't feel the same tbh

[statementlou]

why do you talk about Louis using blue and green signalling as if it isn't about Harry, that what the blue and green are- do you not believe in larrie?

short answer for the reading challenged trolls to cut down on asks yes I am a larrie, not that anything is wrong with not being one. But longer (much more interesting imo) answer: We know H and L were together, but no one really knows if they are still or again- I personally mostly believe that they are, but I get why people don't think so and can't see any reason to get pressed about it. But you make a solid point- blue and green and certainly things like Louis wearing the H shirt don't potentially signify anything other than larry right? Well that's what makes it so interesting to me- I kind of don't think Louis IS using those things that way! As my recent anon pointed out (and I agree) he wants people to think he is Freddie's dad, he is not presently trying to be perceived as gay in the face of people trying to force him in the closet- he is in charge of his image and is choosing to publicly put forward that he is a guy who got someone pregnant and dates women. And I do think him and H are together, but I don't think he particularly wants to talk to us about that, if that makes sense? But I believe he does want to connect with his beloved fans on a more personal level, to revel in the acceptance and love and shared wink, I know you know I know, me and you until the end, our eyes meet, together we're the greatest- and I think he uses the larry imagery to do that, rather than to talk about his relationship. I could do this for days he gives us SO MANY examples to choose from but just to pick one: the all blue and green lighting for All This Time. Think about it- if he actually had images of a rainbow flag on the screens at his shows or waved one or something, it would make the articles and press and be a whole thing and revive every rumor ever about him in every tabloid! But if he makes the entire lighting and screens for a song blue and green (or wears a shirt with a giant H on it or any of the other one million coded things he does), well so what? No journalist would think a thing of it, nothing to see here- but the larrie majority of his fanbase hears him saying "you were right about everything and yes I am gay and I love you for seeing it" and go completely bananas! It's fucking ingenious tbh, SBB at his finest! And the fact that the song he chose for his current unhinged bluegreener fest was All This Time was for me the thing that really cemented this theory for me; I know some people disagree, but to me that song reads as being about him being closeted and his public life and the fans and choosing this lighting for that rather than for like We Made It or something really feeds my conviction that he is bluegreening on main as a way to tell us that he is gay rather than to tell us anything about his personal relationship. TLDR yeah I DO think he is signaling, a lot, but I don't think it tells us anything about the status of his relationship with Harry or anyone else and the reasons I think they are together don't have anything to do with Louis' stage lighting choices, but also that means I don't think it makes sense to say he's not signaling anything ever because you don't think they're together; both can coexist and I think it's just weird to act like he's not making pretty clear choices

[ididntthinkiwould]

An Apollo design I did lol

The first thing I've read that had Apollo in was the Iliad, so I know most people think about him as the sun; but personally I've always thought about him as the God of the plague. I tried to show that here

He only has one eye, he uses his sun mark to see the future. Now I have a new idea for my Cassandra design where she has a sun scar on top of her eye after rejecting Apollo

[bacchuschucklefuck]

species medley ft. gorgug and riz

[shepscapades]

shep I was talking to my brother about dbhc xisuma as one does and mentioned that ask about not being able to puzzle xisuma's face together mentally and my brother joked that the reason you put the spoiler bars and such on his face is cause you cant draw his whole face yet 😂

anyway I might have talked his ear off about dbhc idk tho lmao

LMAOO NOOOO!!! MY SECRET FINALLY IS OUT!!! /silly

[sukibenders]

"Rhaenyra isn't the stepmother, she's the mother who stepped up!"

The HOTD writers themselves are hardly doing anything to support that narrative, so I take this rhetoric with a grain of salt. While I think, in some way, Rhaenyra does care for Baela and Rhaena....if I had to point out a motherly figure for them that could pose as someone stepping in Laena's place, Rhaenyra would not be it.

[covington-shenanigans]

christ alive I love my parents and I'm glad I got to see them but they are just. so fucking exhausting

[uncanny-tranny]

Crochet/knit life hack: If you crochet or knit a big, fluffy blanket, you can cuddle under it when you finish while you make other projects

[triglycercule]

sometimes i like to think that horror comes to dust's room late at night just to talk to phantom papyrus. no he doesn't wanna talk to dust. horror probably doesn't even CARE if dust's awake at the asscrack of dawn or rambling off to the hallucination too loudly this late at night because he just wants to talk to phantom papyrus

horror's not delusional enough to believe that phantom paps is actually real and his own papyrus like dust does but sometimes he really wants to,,,, so just for these short moments between them he wants to pretend that the hallucination is his papyrus. that he gets to talk to his own brother before everything went to shit and before he ruined his brother's life. yeah sure phantom paps kinda says some crazy stuff that horror's papyrus never would back then but so what?? dust's papyrus is the closest thing he's got and at least he doesn't have to deal with the guilt at even LOOKING at his brother's face (the sunken eyesockets,,,, the uneven teeth,,,,, yeah no) because there's nothing there. horror doesn't have to do anything but keep his back turned to dust and just talk to papyrus through him

they both keep their backs turned to eachother when they do this because neither of them can stand looking at eachother. dust especially because hearing horror sound so much like how he was before. horror sounds so lighthearted and relaxed and just,,,,, normal that it almost reminds dust of himself. maybe if he closed his eyes and tuned out his own voice he could just imagine the moment being a conversation between himself and paps back then before he had to kill him over and over. dust doesn't want to have to look back and see horror's mutilated skull and his permanently replaced eye. he doesn't want the fake scenario he's choosing to indulge in right now to be broken

and then i think they talk like that for a long time; because horror has a lot to say to paps about himself and what he regrets and dust has a lot of reminiscing to do on the good old days before he lost himself :3

[lith-myathar]

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[sskk-manifesto]

Next time we should just skip over ep 3 and do a chapters 84-87 reread

[blightoath]

my hot take for datv is that the lore for the lords of fortune and the crows is fine, actually, it's just poorly explored because they crammed too many factions into one game and didn't give each the depth of exploration necessary to actually make those changes make sense.

like, treasure hunters who want to also do some good in the world and return artifacts to different cultures? ok, neat twist on an old trope! i can buy it, especially from isabela--she's seen first hand the fallout a treasure hunter can suffer from stealing something incredibly culturally important (qunari chasing you) and also seen how that stolen culture impacts those left bereft (friendship with merrill). but there needs to be more engagement than just explaining in one line how it's supposed to work--because usually, theory and practice vary wildly (and i don't think it's problematic for a solution to raise more questions, it's just the nature of problem solving). so, the lords say they have cultural advisors who're supposed to tell you when something's important to a culture. ok, but to which part of that culture? you might be able to argue that the qunari are unified, but the dwarves aren't. elves are highly fragmented, and don't even look at humans like jfc. and to what aspect of a culture? smithing? literature? daily life? religion? also, how are you finding these experts? what's the vetting process? what if they lie for profit? or, backing it up even further to an organizational level, how do the lords of fortune enforce this philosophy of treasure hunting for good at a larger scale? how do you make people give up things they worked hard for when your cultural advisor says it's gotta go? is everyone satisfied? what enemies have you made along the way? and there's a thousand other questions all wrapped up in twisting the treasure hunter trope. but rather than fleshing it out and engaging in any number of those questions, even a little, it's left at the very surface level.

it's almost the same for the crows. like ok, i can buy that when zevran was talking about his childhood, the practices (buying children, abusive training, etc) were mainly done by house arainai, as that was what he had experience with. but perhaps not every single crow house and associated talon acts that way. or perhaps more have, but in the 20 years having the black shadow hunt the worst offenders for sport, some finally got the hint and have started to shape up. fine, variation between the houses and some learning curves. and i can even understand that an antaam occupation may unite the crows in such a way that they become a rebellious, freedom fighting rallying point when city governments and royalties don't do shit. but "freedom" is a very nebulous term and even when an organization agrees to a goal, rarely do they all agree on how to execute it. it's fine that teia and viago agree, but what about the rest of the talons? what does free mean to them? how many want to go back to the usual ways of doing business? who wants to use this as a chance to change? who's using the chaos as a power grab? who's saying the right things at one meeting but taking contracts against the effort on the other side? and how is all this funded? historically, crow contracts come from the rich and powerful--is that still the case? is that how some aspects of antivan royalty are fighting back? are they open to taking contracts from the poorer folk? if so, are they losing money? is there only so much they can do to help the city due to funding? there's a lot of questions here, just like with the lof, lots of juicy things to dig into when you present these factions with new twists... that's just kinda untouched.

there's some shallow writing in datv when it comes to the factions, and i think it's due to having too many of them. truth be told, the veil jumpers and wardens seem to be the big movers and shakers with the most thought and depth in their writing and quest lines. the the crows and shadow dragons seem second best, but the shadow dragons succeed in ways because their organization is intentionally without a formalized structure--most of the interaction, then, just feels like you're talking to a bunch of individuals rather than an organization meant to last and profit off it's ventures. lords of fortune and mournwatch then kind of hit third and suffer from not having the same level of depth and care given to them as the other two groups.

[floral-comet-whump]

If you're still in the mood for writing smol things! A teeny weeny peek into Walwal being punished?? Just a lil bit? :3

-Chi 🐱

hiiiiii

I felt like sketching so drawn it is! heads up they're like 12 in this so if child whump is a no for you, you've been warned

taglist: @lordcatwich @chiswhumpcorner @paingoes

contents: minor/child (12) whump, institutionalized whump, electrocution/shock earring, drawn whump?? technically magic whump but it's hard to discern here

they were bad :( bad child!!!

mmm shock earrings mmmm. post about said earrings may be coming or not idk

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.

[steakout-05]

i miss her everyday

[yoiku]

October is such a weird mix for me. It's my favorite month weather wise, and even though I don't do halloween in any manner, its the vibes that I really enjoy. and somehow it feels like something that brings out a bit of the whimsy in people which is great. And at the same time it's the birthday month, which is really rough on me most of the time. Its the mark of another year passing by and it tends to make me feel worthless and still stuck in the same muck as the previous year(s). and that tends to suck out the joy and whimsy in me enough that I don't feel like celebrating getting older in any way either. Part of me wants to hang out with people like a kid on their birthday, doing some fun stuff and overeating cake or something. I don't care for receiving material gifts at any given time but some sort of camaraderie would be nice to experience. alas i lack the components needed to do that. I think i'm mostly at fault about it though, I feel like maybe i should be asking around for people to spend the time with me? I dunno, I can't bring myself to do that. feels weird man. Last year was an anomaly in the best kind of way with a friend visiting me for a week, and I wish I would have the funds to go visit in return. But now it's back to the usual again and it feels heavy.

I'd just need to keep myself busy enough with something that I wouldn't just exist to marinate in the same sulky sauce all day. Maybe I could reopen my ask box and request people to send questions about my ocs or something?

[xiaohuayaos]

Honestly the reason the "love triangle" in lbfad works so well for me is easily because it's not completely lazy?

So many love triangles in romances are very clear cut and you can typically tell who is going to "win". Usually one pairing is written with far more care than the other, and for sure we get that with Dongfang Qingcang and Xiao Lanhua. They get the meat of the story, but regardless Changheng and Xiao Lanhua do have a really nice chemistry. When you watch them together you can easily see the alternate universe where this is a story about /their love/ There's just this genuine sweetness that aches from their early scenes together that makes it a little bit painful to watch- like I love.... the love between The Fairy and The Devil, I do. They have such great chemistry and they're so, so fun together-The difference of this cold and dark and brooding entity and the little flower spirit that charmed him is everything I could ask. It was never a question that I wanted to see them together in the end but there was still moments with Changheng that just made me go Oh, maybe it really will be him and her in the end...

then of course it doesnt happen. And I'm so happy to see my favourite duo together in the end, because they are just so good together, but its a little sad, too. I don't want Changheng to sit around with his heartbroken, I feel kind of terrible for him... and god if that isn't a better love triangle than I ever anticipated.