#which I went to a lot growing up

[egophiliac]

ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU

I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.

like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --

[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[murdockhawkeye]

this is *maybe* a bit of a stretch but i still find interesting to think about? don't know if i have everything right

but

i feel like with the elemental opposite duos - emma & rikki, cleo & bella - you could reasonably say their arcs'd mirror each other in a way

like

emma and rikki have issues with responsibility/expectations but on opposite ends of the spectrum

emma was a gifted child, everyone had high expectations for her and she tried to meet those expectations the best she could. she’s responsible emma, who makes sure everyone is looked after, and everyone “knew” was going to become a top athlete, because look at all those trophies on her shelf

and then rikki on the other hand, was alone for “her own good.” she admitted to elliot that no one really liked her growing up, so when somebody did, it made her feel weird and she pushed them away. she stayed away from other people, made sure they never had any expectations of her

they both avoided disappointing others, by going to opposite extreme lengths

and then they overcame these issues, with emma facing a sudden change in her life (becoming a mermaid) that meant she had to give up her swimming dreams and disappoint the people in her life (that had to suck for her, honestly.) she had to come to terms with that - but then, she also found a whole new world that she’d never have been a part of, if things had gone the way she planned

and as for rikki - her biggest change wasn't the tail, but becoming friends with emma and rikki. had she'd her way and zane’d never gotten cleo stuck on that boat, she’d never become friends with them. rikki had to learn the hurdles of friendship and of keeping them, like when she mistook the different kinds of fish, when cleo and emma didn't support her relationship with zane, etc. they had their issues - but in the end, they were there for rikki, and rikki was there for them back. she'd have never gotten that kind of solidarity, had things gone the way she thought it would

and then there’s cleo and bella

bella - unfortunately, didn’t have much in terms of development, since the writers prioritized will’s relationship with her over expanding her character background+ for some reason ??

so i'm just mostly going to talk about cleo here first - but i'll get to bella in a second

cleo by s3 is a very confident and self-assured person; but she didn't start out that way. she was insecure, somewhat naive. she grew up overshadowed by her two best friends, the both of them being gifted in their own rights - emma, the young up and rising athlete, and lewis the science genius, they were sure to go places. cleo, on the other hand, was overlooked. she didn't have much going for her - except for adequate grades and a love of the marine life that was hindered by her fear of water

and then cleo became a *literal* mermaid. either she was going to avoid it or overcome it. in the end, she didn't just overcome her fear of water, but she also took a risk by taking that job at the marine park, where she'd be working right by the marine animals. she let her fear control her before, and she wasn't going to let it stop her from wanting to pursue things anymore

(funny, she started out with a fear of water, then became a mermaid. she struggled with her grades, then became a science genius)

bella, much like cleo - had her own issues when it came to the kind of attention she got, but the other way around. her first appearance, she was being catcalled. same ep, nate is drooling over her. they've made her beauty a point throughout s3. even cleo and rikki's brought it up. it. could not have been easy for her to deal with that, especially with her secret in mind

seeing that, even with the different issues when it came to attention, i think they'd still have had the same feelings about it. a younger bella, probably would've been similarly insecure/anxious as cleo had been - until she learned to be more sure about herself and grew into the bella we know and love today

(we should've gotten way more lore and background about bella, agh)

tldr; emma and rikki have same feelings but opposite reactions (people pleasing and people avoiding.) cleo and bella opposite situations but same feelings (overshadowed and center of attention)

yk, rikki was right in a way i think about the "universal law," but like, more about keeping in balance and not about trios. emma and rikki balance each other out, cleo and bella were *meant* to balance each other out. but in s2, bella wasn't there - charlotte was

do i blame the antagonizing of charlotte and cleo's out of characterness on the writers, or do i blame it on some magical semi-canon mermaid universal law about balance

blaming it on a mermaid universal law sounds more fun, and could have interesting implications. (though the writing grates me, still)

[toomuchdivergentformyneuro]

probably the most constant thing of my life has been the social isolation and loneliness i experience

since i was a young child, i’ve always struggled to make and find friends, and often was left alone

for a long time, nothing could defeat my spirits and will to make friends, and even the loneliness wasn’t enough to make me stop

nowadays, it gets to me, the loneliness, and i often wonder if i’ll have all the friends i’ve deserved all along

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

[faepunkprince]

Feelings are so strange, like why do I feel like I'm going to get in trouble for talking about things that happened to me even still? Paranoid little goblin in my head

[iheartbookbran]

I feel like with this whole Liam Payne situation and the resurgence of 1D content (which I’ll be lying if I said I haven’t been enjoying) it’s easy to forget what a real tragedy this is—because obviously I don’t know any of these men personally nor will I ever, but the 5 of them where still incredibly important to me in a very dark and yet very formative period of my life, and they deserve that recognition on my part at least. Growing up I very rarely thought about how the 1D members were very close in age with me, only a couple of years older, yet while I was living the last years of my childhood protected by my parents, they were literally plucked from their homes, overworked to the bone and thrown to the wolves.

Liam became an abuser and an addict, there’s no denying that, but it’s very hard for me to think that the boy I used to eagerly watch videos of everyday when I was a teen started off that way—and this isn’t me trying to put my nostalgia above the pain of his victims at all, I’m just pointing out how the cycle of abuse perpetuated by the industry can only end up ruining lives. Liam’s life absolutely did not have to end the way it did. Ultimately Maya Henry and the rest of his victims don’t deserve to be blamed for this, they should receive nothing but compassion and empathy from us, and so should Liam’s family, especially his son.

I think I will, bearing that in mind, allow myself to mourn Liam, and the girl I used to be and that he was such a huge part of. I can never be that girl again, I’ve lost and gained too much over the years to ever be her again.

I will also allow myself to mourn the rest of the 1D boys too, because while I don’t want anything bad to ever happen to them, they aren’t those boys anymore, the pedestal they used to occupy no longer exists in my heart, but a part of my love for them will always be there.

[gloombeaches]

A bunch of StarSue's Monster High dress game games have been added to the Internet Archive. Here is part one of a list of the games that currently work. These are all playable in browser and you do not need to download them in order to play them.

Clawvenus Dress Up

Catrine DeMew Purr-fect Style

Chibi Grimmily Anne Dress Up

Power Ghouls Clawdeen Dress Up

Cleo de Nile Gloom Beach Style

Cleo de Nile Scaris Style

Boo York Cleo de Nile Dress Up

Dot Dead Gorgeous Spectra Dress Up

13 Wishes Draculaura Dress Up

Love's not Dead Ghoulia Yelps Dress Up

Glowsome Ghoulfish Frankie Dress Up

Glowsome Ghoulfish Lagoona Dress Up

13 Wishes Lagoona Dress Up

Amanita Nightshade Dress Up

Electrified Draculaura Dress Up

Gooliope Jellington Dress Up

How Do You Boo? Draculaura

Jane Boolittle Dress Up

How Do You Boo? Lagoona

Sweet Screams Abbey Bominable

Zombie Shake Rochelle Goyle Dress Up

13 Wishes Abbey Dress Up

Black Carpet Cleo Dress Up

Chibi Nefera de Nile Dress Up

Dracubecca Dress Up

Zombie Shake Venus McFlytrap Dress Up

Art Class Draculaura Dress Up

Art Class Skelita Calaveras Dress Up

Black Carpet Lagoona Dress Up

Catty Noir Dress Up

Chibi Spectra Vondergeist Dress Up

Cleolei Dress Up

Coffin Bean Venus McFlytrap Dress Up

Electrified Frankie Dress Up

Frightseers Draculaura Dress Up

Frightseers Operetta Dress Up

Ghoul Sports Spectra Vondergeist Dress Up

Glowsome Ghoulfish Clawdeen Dress Up

How Do You Boo? Frankie

Geek Shriek Howleen Wolf Dress Up

Freak du Chic Honey Swamp Dress Up

Avea Trotter Dress Up

Bonita Femur Dress Up

How Do You Boo? Clawdeen

Dance Class Operetta Dress Up

Dance Class Robecca Steam Dress Up

Sweet Screams Ghoulia Yelps

Power Ghouls Toralei Dress Up

Haunted Rochelle Goyle Dress Up

Home Ick Abbey Bominable

Casta Fierce Dress Up

Chibi Robecca Steam Dress Up

Sirena Von Boo Dress Up

Scarily Ever After Clawdeen Dress Up

I Love Accessories Operetta Dress Up

Rochelle Goyle Scaris Style

Art Class Abbey Bominable Dress Up

Coffin Bean Robecca Dress Up

Creepateria Howleen Dress Up

Ghoul Sports Toralei Stripe Dress Up

Freaky Field Trip Gigi Grant Dress Up

Gil Webber Dress Up

Gloom and Bloom Jane Boolittle

[legogender]

caught up finallyyyy. that shit was FIRE

[franeridan]

I understand why everyone who read dunmeshi instantly shipped marci and falin but tbh the fact that it's just treated as canon by the fandom cuts on a lot of interesting analysis that could be done on their relationship outside of the romantic reading, which is kind of a shame

[buzzheadchick]

I suppose I never shared on here but I actually have a second Bully OC, in addition to Lorein "Loopy" Stimson. His name is Atticus, and he's a prep, but he's not a local Bullworth heritage family. Instead, he fancies himself a southern dandy... (He's from Virginia. In true prep fashion, he does not need to talk Like That.)

[thedreadvampy]

I tried listening to Olivia Rodrigo and I'm sure this is really good for its target audience of Teen Girls Going Through A Breakup but has she actually ever put out a song that isn't about a guy cheating, breaking up with her and moving on to someone else?

like babe he's not coming back it's been 2 years you gotta find something else in your life

[funkylittlebats]

I've been writing more again recently and I've been rereading some of my old stuff and I kinda wanna share some of it. But first,

I'd also have to come up with a tag for them so they're all searchable (to the extent that you can search tags on tumblr)

Here's a cute bat for your time

[donnatroyyyy]

Batman has/had some kind of miscommunication going on with every single one of his kids. The bat family is just one big miscommunication trope after the other.

[beheadable]

I have three episodes left in my rewatch </3

[vaugarde]

terribly sorry for progressively getting more and more annoyed and tired with jn. this show kinda gets a lot more exhausting on a rewatch when you know its not going to get better