#which. is exactly what it sounds

[redhotarsenic]

Had to get creative with the bubbles in that picture cuz like. I didn’t wanna draw a fuckton of bubbles by hand and I was getting to the point where I was sick of looking at the picture

[thedreadvampy]

Losing my shit about this article in which a transphobic Tory was so busy panicking about existing in the vicinity of a Trans that she almost certainly misheard "jeans" as "penis" and decided that not only was this a problem with the other woman, but also that the world must be informed of this pressing danger.

"a trans woman! I had to stand directly behind her....I thought, 'this is going well', I'm handling The Situation fine'..."

translated: I saw a tall woman with broad shoulders. How would I get out of this alive? I thought. she has a PENIS. PENIS PENIS PENIS. through some force of PENIS I mean will I managed to PENIS behave normally towards her. My hands were PENIS PENIS PENIS shaking as I tried to dry them. summoning up all my PENIS courage I said 'dryer's crap innit'. she turned to me and said " yeah I'm just goiPENIS PENIS PENIS"

It's been a week and I'm still shaking. This proves trans women are the problem and I'm not weird. I'm fine. It's fine. If you think about it I'm the hero hePENIS!!!!!

very this

[humbuns]

a morning w/ you

[theartingace]

finally all caught up to episode 41, love this absolutely unhinged, all powerful *REDACTED* and his inability to resist a certain special little guy whomst brings all the eldritch beings to the moral yard

[vristrogen]

something about people calling vrisrezi "toxic yuri" always puts me off. i understand the lack of words to really put their dynamic but like you know theyre in a relationship thats largely good for them right. they arent dating because "it sucks but it would be worse without each other" they genuinely really love each other a lot

[invisible-brandy]

twin beds

[yonemurishiroku]

What belief did Will Solace have to be so adamant in asking a son of Hades for help in the infirmary anyway? What were you trying to do?

[krotiation]

So like. Did we know sleeper sirens were a thing before or is this a double reveal, along with Steele's background?

[astronicht]

i have been informed that the seven stars PLUS sun and moon that confused me on Aragorn's sword -- because seven stars were a common medieval theme, as they were the five visible planets plus the sun and the moon -- was in fact the seven stars of the Big Dipper (one of the only constellations for which we have a name in a spoken language -- ie not Latin -- in early medieval non-Muslim Europe*). He put Carles Wain on there I am going to riot.

*shoutout to Al-Andalus and Sicily and uhh that chunk of Muslim southern Italy, Arabic star names were going strong continue to go strong

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

[tokutaiseichan]

i really like how chapter 23 is titled in Japanese. in English, it's simply "Stargazing with A Free Spirit" but in Japanese, it's called "満天を頂に叶えるは空の願い".

i'm struggling to translate and word it beautifully in English but it's roughly around the line of: What Grants [You] a Sky [Full of Stars] at the Summit was A Wish Upon the Sky or Wish Upon the Sky Blessing You with A Sky [Full of Stars] at the Summit

(i know it's kind of a mouthful / repetitive 😅 sorry, i still have a lot to learn)

why i like it? because of how they made it into a wordplay of Towa's name. Towa's given name is written as 叶空 in Japanese and as you can see here, it's incorporated in the title. i just think it's neat! especially when it's a chapter focusing on him. c:

funfact: Towa's name is written as 叶空 (叶 = to grant / fulfill, 空 = sky) but "towa" is also another way to read the word 永遠 (eternity / everlasting / forever, etc)!

[seaofreverie]

GUUUYYUYSSSD !!!!!

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KIMONO MY HOUSE VINYL!!!!!!

Also funny story which is that when my brother took these to the cashier he said something like "oh... Sparks... they were here one year ago"

[sysig]

Hey, hey! RnR not requested! (Patreon)

[starrysharks]

the urge to make public character playlists for my little guys...

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

“Jason should get over being upset about his death” - he has, he wasn’t angry at Bruce or the world because they failed him and he ended up dying, which he made clear plain as day and that’s about the most reasonable a person who went through what he went through could be

anyway I don’t think these people realize how gory being bludgeoned to near death is, and maybe it's because of the limitations of the medium that scene was presented in

[journey-to-the-attic]

Hey. Hey what if Zhao meets Lucifer in the spider kid au. What if Ik has to deal with the fact that her secret identity and her civilian identity are clashing in the worst way possible

Sees Lucifer talking with her dad while he's in hero costume: No. This cannot be

oh that's perfect. ik sneaks back home after finishing up some hero stuff only to see fellow hero morningstar (who is SUPPOSED to be at hq filing an incident report) leaving HER house

her instinct is to go "what the hell are you doing here??" but she's not in costume, and lucifer evidently doesn't recognise her because he very awkwardly goes "sorry, am i in the way" steps to the side to let her get to the front door. he does not explain what he, government mandated hero, is doing in a random civilian's house, but he does look like he's in a very good mood

ik hopes very hard that this is a fluke. it is not a fluke. morningstar is at her house AGAIN barely a week later and this time it's while she's at home, so she has to pretend to be very surprised and mildly starstruck when she walks into the kitchen and sees the guy she saved the city with barely a day ago. her dad explains that he's a very nice hero who's just checking up in the aftermath of stopping a dude robbing their house. ik is not fooled because morningstar has brought fucking FLOWERS and he is being about as subtle as a boulder rolling down a hill

from lucifer's pov, however, zhao's daughter clearly is suspicious of/dislikes him to some degree. understandable, she's at that anti-establishment age, and he is a government mandated hero. still, he'd like to get along with the kid for.... wherever it is this is going, and she seems to be about the same age as the vigilante he works with, so....

this results in lucifer offhandedly asking ik-as-spiderkid for advice in getting along with herself, and ik doesn't know whether to be amused by mr normally-aloof-and-prideful stooping to this level, or absolutely horrified by this entire situation