#well there’s a rant for ya

[madguth]

Is it just me, or could the animated NATM movie be better? Trust me, I’m a BIG fan of the movies but I honestly think it was a big let down compared to the last three movies. And also, I think Jed and Octy could be gayer

I had a lot of fun with the movie, but there would definitely be things I would have liked to be different in terms of creating a thematically complex and cohesive piece of cinema. But like. Also. That’s now how disney treats their properties. It was obviously a backdoor pilot so it felt like they were just spitting out a bunch of ideas and hoping one would be enough to get execs like “hey that could be a tv show”. And yes, obviously I am a fan of the natm franchise and I was going to have fun with the movie basically no matter what, and I wasn’t expecting it to be a Dogme 95 surrealist take on the franchise, but I would have liked it if Disney had given the team the resources and freedom to take creative risks and elaborate on a genuinely compelling world in a unique and intriguing way.

Also yeah. Gay people.

[princelancey]

This is what the media complaining about Lance not engaging with them looks like to me

[gwekkuu]

No new autumn piece this year 😔

So let me share some old ones I still like :0

[flynncorvus]

Who here agrees that Logico totally had a crush on Irratino

Like

His descriptions of irratino in the school version of murdle is way more descriptive and like cmon IRRATINO GETS ‘emerald green eyes’ and ‘great brown hair’ THAT IS WAY TOO ATTENTIVE MR.

I think it was the second Murdle that Irratino dies, and Logico was wayyy too devastated for it to just be a friend. Like the entire book after the death was Logico going crazy and trying to find his revenge

PLUS IN THE SCHOOL VERSION, IRRATINO LITERALLY WINKS AT LOGICO, PLUS THE TWO GET CLOSER THROUGHOUT THE BOOK

I swear to Lucifer if these two aren’t in some way gay for wach other I will write a fanfic that makes them gay

[littlecrow4]

Ya know I’m re-watching Adventure Time and I was at “Min and Marty” and was thinking

Minerva probably doesn’t even know Martin was going to come back I wonder if she thinks that Martin just took Finn and left her

I don’t know if it’s ever specified if she was aware of what happened but if she wasn’t she doesn’t know that Martin was just trying to loose track of those people that were after him and unfortunately got attacked by the Guardian. She doesn’t know that he was going to come back to her

I feel bad for her cause she comes home, her house is a wreck and her husband and son are just gone she doesn’t know where they are and she overhears the lady say that Martin got past the Guardian so all she probably thinks is given Martins history he just took Finn and abandoned her and the fact that Finn and Martin never return probably just solidifies that fear

It kinda sucks that Martin was such a deadbeat I think it would’ve been nice if he found his way back to Founders Island and him and Minerva got a second chance (even if Finn wasn’t with them for a time being)

[cherry-bomb-ships]

I think I've mentioned at one point in the past week that one of my new year's resolutions is to finally 100% Hyrule Warriors, so I've been playing it pretty consistently lately and have a pretty good game plan for finishing it!

But uh... I don't talk about him often but I do ship with Ganondorf, specifically the version of him from Hyrule Warriors, and good. LORD. GUYS HE'S SO HOT 😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖

[theautismincarnate]

Started watching DanDaDan tonight and holy shit-

My autism is EATING THIS SHIT UP.

[vhstown]

think the way to nail a romance in the context of a superhero world is for that romance to be able to exist in the normal world .. as in thinking about if these characters are convincing as real people (and compatible people) outside of their superpowered or civillian roles

which SEEMS like common sense but i think me and many other people have fallen into the trap of treating the superhero x civillain/superhero/villain as the whole dynamic of the relationship ... like people are more than their roles in society you know!!!

[tootalltech]

okay. i feel like theres still Some People who may check the land of stories tag on here the way i occasionally do i know theres some fans of the series here at least. since a while back i wrote out an entire paragraph to briefly explain why im insane about lloyd bailey to my friends who dont know tlos, i figure, WHY NOT POST IT ON HERE where people who also know the series (and therefore this character) might see it <3 its at least a little funny to see how i try to explain things in tlos like the hall of dreams briefly with little to no details. this is also kind of like a brief summation of everything we know about lloyd AND JOHNS childhood which is interesting. see below.

sits down. let me set the scene. lloyd bailey is the younger son in a set of two. his mother is a very powerful fairy (#fairygodmother) who’s kind of like the chancellor of an entire kingdom. lloyd and his older brother john both very much have magic in their blood because of this. lloyd’s father dies when he is very young. he is “not the same” afterwards. he thinks his older brother john, who handles his fathers passing arguably “better”, is the favorite child. john is happy and cheerful and everyone loves him. lloyd sits in his dark room and reads books like the iron mask all day. lloyd’s mother does not know how to get to him. she figures out how to make a potion that can bring books to life, since he likes to read so much. she offers it to him. he turns her down. she goes into this magic little hallway (infinite space) where she can see what people truly desire. lloyd the 11 year olds desire (i don’t know how old he is.) is to take over the world. hm. a bit concerning. his mother takes him out into the forest on a nice walk, chains him to a tree, and drains his magic from him. lloyd is not a fan of his mother for this. he tells her that she never would’ve done this to john. his mother considers her action stopping him before he wreaks havoc on everything. lloyd considers this having his “birthright” stripped from him for “a crime [he] never committed” (direct quote). lloyd despises his mother. he runs away from home not long after. he considers the potion his mother made his. he only comes back home to try and steal it. he fails. he is sentenced to life in prison. his mother gives him a mask to wear so no one knows he’s her son. john moves to the otherworld and starts a family. lloyd rots in prison. lloyd’s son who he doesn’t know about is born. lloyd rots in prison. john dies. lloyd rots in prison. his mother loves john’s children and starts to train one of them in being her successor. this could’ve been lloyd. lloyd rots in prison. he doesn’t escape until his niece and nephew are teenagers and his niece is about ten times more powerful than him. because she has the gift that was ripped out of his hands. lloyd hates the world he lives in and its people and seeks to destroy it as soon as he’s out. i wonder why. in conclusion. im normal about him.

[pjssometimes]

I deadass am like ‘i am Normal!!’ But then the minute I’m interested in something it’s suddenly all I can think about. Everything I watch or listen to is related to that new interest, my thoughts are related to thinking about this thing, making up aus and scenarios for it. Suddenly it’s all I’m drawing, I’m changing my hair to match my new interest and spending money on posters and merch, but it only stays until some new shiny gem comes along

All my adhd/autistic friends are like ‘you’ve got adhd and that’s a Hyperfixation’

… at least me getting obsessed and drawing like there’s no tmmr of a series has improved my art significantly!!

[themsource]

Life Update 7/13/2024

I'm alive.

There's a lot that's gone on and is going on but I'm here. There's of course a lot going on in my life and has been going on that has once again kept me away. I will not divulge or explain, because I don't wish to. It was a lot, still is a lot, and is extremely personal.

I'm not leaving the undertale fandom as a creative, however, I will be leaving the fandom as a social participant. There's too much corruption and bitterness, too much drama and judgement in the social side of the fandom that I choose not to tolerate anymore.

There are too many people that would rather lie about who they are and what they believe as well as abuse or cut off people that have done them no harm in order to be liked and to gain approval. Acting as if life is one long extended episode of black mirror where your social ranking matters more than empathy to a fellow human, where the echo chamber is god and what's logically right and wrong doesn't matter in the face of personal opinion and paranoia.

I'm too old, and too tired.

Fandom is supposed to be fun, not a nightmare of walking on broken glass and eggshells. I have my small handful of friends that have proven that they are genuine people that legitimately don't care about the nonsense that goes around and imaginary pitchforks that can make them more popular or gain them more friends if they were to follow abusive hate trends and ignorant accusation posts lacking concrete evidence. I feel safe with them and will keep to them, always.

I no longer have time to deal with the "misunderstandings" or "confusion" that happens so often in large groups playing telephone or with those that try to fit words to their own narrative and understanding without attempting to think outside their own preverbal box of preconceived notions and bias, and don't care to do so.

I will no longer attempt to clear up anything or try to be understood by those that honestly don't know me and don't wish to, and who clearly only seek a thrill in causing pain and taking their own projected hurts and frustrations out on someone.

There will be no conversations. Every single online stranger reading this now is free to think what they want about me, even the untruths if they're so inclined.

I'm done trying.

The internet is where the hateful and cruel strive behind an anonymous mask—one often disguised in kindness and supposed acceptance—and of which is the whole of their life and meaning. But it is not mine.

Them, and the internet at large, is not worth my time, health, or life.

When I joined this fandom after my mother's death a few years ago I signed up for an experience that could bring a smile to my face while I gave one in turn to others while I dealt with my grief. Not to be shoved into situations where uneducated youths and adults in their 30s-40 with the maturity of previously said youths go rampart with the need to harm others, either to get ahead or for their own benefit in manipulation to get something out of others.

I have steadily been pulling away more and more over the years because of this. Struggling with the overflow of depression and stress that it has caused me, in turn making me push away and withdraw from people who didn't deserve it in many instances because my own value and self-worth tanked due to the self-deprecating thoughts it caused me.

I am not a saint.

I've done my fair share of wrongs, some of which I will never personally feel I have accounted for properly. I stood silent out of fear of being attacked when I should have said something to help someone wrongly accused by supposed friends and mutuals, I hid in the shadows and didn't think to lend a hand to people I saw were clearly in need because I didn't feel worthy of doing so, and probably many other things that I am unfortunately not aware of because they were never brought to my attention.

Because most people online don't believe in actual conversation but rather in blocking and spreading misinformed assumptions, and in dreaded call out posts so as to earn brownie points for "exposing" (or the nicer form of saying it, but is still just as cruel because the posters know that it WILL lead to harassment regardless of evidence or truth no matter if spread in public or private, but wish to play ignorant anyways — "spreading awareness") of someone. Granted these wrongs were for the most part carried out in my early fandom days that doesn't excuse the fact that they happened.

I still did the exact same thing that was done to me. I unknowingly perpetuated a never ending cycle of hurt, both out of fear and ignorance and out of a naïve want to be loved and accepted.

But I refuse to let myself be a victim or to think of myself as one out of guilt for those wrongs and loneliness anymore, and I refuse to witness others be abused and forced to feel the same way I did over the most menial and redundant bullshit that goes around and is somehow supposed to define your character to the dumbed digital masses.

I'm done.

Plain and simple.

I will be permanently turning off asks and no longer responding to any form of DM unless it is from someone I have initiated a conversation with, have engaged with before, or shares a mutual friend with me that can assure me that they're a decent person, and that I feel comfortable with. I will still on occasion post about updates or share something for the few that may want to keep following, but my personal accounts will largely be silent.

Just because I'm silent won't mean that I'm gone though.

It just means I'm not willing to be poisoned any longer, and am content at looking in from afar, if even that.

There's a lot of good people in this space, I know that, and it saddens me the possibilities I will miss out on in getting to meet or know any of them beyond the ones I know already, but I only get one life to live before I go six feet under, and I choose to put me first.

[sassyandclassy94]

…But it’s not my business…

Some nights tumblr makes me really mad. All these takes I don’t agree with, people being mean to each other and choosing to not put aside their friends’ political affiliations, etc. etc. etc. Sometimes the only solution is to pour yourself a hot drink and mind your business while also simultaneously biting your tongue.

[potionpeddlerpatchy]

I hate that unless I'm the on initiating and planning, that no one chats or hangs out with me.

[wrathful-reptile]

Some dragons I've drawn recently! (in order of drawing them, left to right) They are Lazarus, Hurim, Zahara, and Cloud Chaser!

These dragons are from the discontinued interactive novel/game series "Riders of Abauruth" by @13leaguestories

Click the images for better quality!

[fulltransmetalgenderist]

okay I know that everyone has read Hunger Games but no one read the series she wrote before, The Underland Chronicles, but yall need to sit down and read them and then come back to this post so I can TELL YALL about this shit that Ms. Suzanne Collins was on

Okay we all remember Prim, famously saved from the hunger games by her courageous older sister only to be killed in war in the last book. Brutal, devastating, ms. Collins had us weeping. But guess what!!!!! those of us who read the Underland Chronicles already knew about the shit Suzanne is capable of! Remember Ares? The giant bat who is saved from a death sentence in the first book when Gregor pledges his own life to Ares' and they clasped hand and claw and said a vow and became brothers? That cunt of an author ended that fucking series (spoiler fucking alert) with Ares dying anyway, in a senseless brutal war, and Gregor woke up from war with his hand clasping the disembodied claw of his companion.

That bitch got her Primrose Everdeen death twist from Ares!!!!!

[fablefaye]

want to rant about Desert Duo because I’ve been thinkinggg

So I’ve been thinking about DD’s like… arc and how it has an ARC. While in Last life Grian says to Scar that nothing carries over from previous season I can’t help but feel like they do, from a character point at least.

3rd Life, The Beginning.

In 3rd life there is nothing, this is the beginning, the empty slate. In the start Grian doesn’t really seemed too bothered about finding any team mates and it looks like he’s going to be playing a little lone wolf-y.

HOWEVER he ends up killing Scar. The first death, of the first series, and it’s his fault. So he teams up with Scar and over the series they bond and grow closer, they kill their main rivals, Ren and Martyn and things are looking great.

but then things come down to the final three and Scar betrays him. Grian hadn’t thought he would actually do it. Or sit back and let it happen. But he didn’t grab the paper and Scar… killed him. After all they’d been through! After everything Grian had done for Scar!

He gets the sneak attack on them, ignoring Scar’s messages that showed he was trying to team back up. Grian ends up with his sword poised at Scar, and to his surprise, Scar doesn’t fight and instead he tells Grian to kill him. But Grian can’t do it, even after the betrayal. Everything they had been through, and the guilt on Scar’s face, and in his voice, stopped Grian in his tracks. but there can’t be two winners, so they end up fighting. But not in some random place in the woods, but instead where all their fond memories had been made, in the desert, next to Pizza, a friend who had fallen.

Grian wins, it’s an honest fight because both of them see this as a win. And in the end Grian remains, alone. So he jumps off the cliff of their mountain, of their home.

Grian caused the first death and Grian caused the last.

Last Life, The Divorce (part one)

So Last Life starts, and despite Grian saying that all ties are cut, the first person he goes to, is Scar. Maybe this is because he’s gullible and had a lot of lives. But maybe it was also because, despite what Grian had said, he still felt ties, even if they were faint.

But even if he feel ties he still doesn’t want to get close to Scar again, the blood still stains his hands. Instead he starts pushing Scar away and being almost hostile a lot of the time.

However, despite Grian’s efforts he comes back to Scar, again and again. But it’s just because Scar always has so many lives. Grian assures himself.

He steals Scar’s horse, (which was originally his) and kills it in front of Scar. Trying to show Scar that they are not in the desert anymore. Grian is not the same Grian.

They end up dying separately, completely unrelated to each other. Both feeling unfulfilled as they die.

Double Life, Divorce (part two) and the Rekindling.

In the beginning of Double Life we see everyone going around looking for each other, for their soulmates. And while Grian begs it not to be so, guess who he ends up with…? Scar. Because who else would it be? Who else COULD it be?

Grian hates this, He can’t go back to the desert, he can’t do it again. So he’s harsher to Scar, and keeps him at a distance. He tells Scar to keep his pets outside. They will not have another Pizza. They will not return to the desert.

Grian decides to defy fate and become Secret soulmates with BigB. It doesn’t take long for Scar to find out though. But why would Grian replace him like this? Scar couldn’t understand why Grian was so hostile (at least not to the full extent) and why they felt so disconnected. He couldn’t understand how Grian could replace him… betray him…

Tensions are in the air, especially after Scar reveals that he knows about Grian’s secret soulmate. Time passes and Grian and Scar end up at the box.

Now it’s interesting that Grian, during this whole heist (that goes on for a little while mind you), never once considers that the person he’s trying to kill is his Secret Soulmate??? Now maybe he genuinely didn’t realize as the thrill got to him, but maybe he was doing it because, he felt guilty for what he had done to Scar. Scar had been mostly nice and followed orders this whole time (beside the snow incidents) and hurting him like this was like kicking a puppy.

But either way he ends up killing BigB and is heart broken. He had killed another friend. So he made a grave for him and everything. (One of the few other graves in this series belonged to a certain someone now didn’t it?)

after this event Grian is still distant, but with no one else to turn to, he and Scar start warming up to each other, if just a smidge. And it stays like this for a little while. I’d like to think until the siege of the velvet keep. Because when Scar makes that bucket clutch I think this is the moment Grian realizes that this isn’t 3rd life Scar, this Scar can take care of himself and that things are different now. This idea is only strengthened when Scar manages to escape by himself. They end up hiding away in a corner surrounded by CACTI. And as the last greens on the server with no one to safely turn to. They turn to each other.

however things quickly go wrong and Grian watches helplessly as Scar causes two of their deaths. But they stays strong this time and stick together.

After this they plan to release another warden but things go wrong again and both end up dying, and Grian is apologizing profusely to Scar. At this point their relationship had been pretty mended. But I’d like to think there was a scene there, in between games. Where they talked… and they figured things out and where finally able to realize how to move on, together but apart.

Because after Double Life it feels like most things have been mended (outside of a line here or there. Things will still never be the same after all.) But things between them are friendly and lighthearted again. Grian in secret life even going to the point of asking Scar if he wanted team up (that didn’t pan out but that’s okay) because even if they’re not actually on the same team, they still know the other cares.

I think they finally left the desert…