#yes i am so normal about him :>

[redwayfarers]

(currently playing: heavensward patches, no spoilers please)

okay, i think im ready to close the minfilia chapter of nika's love life. see, theirs was a love that could never happen; not only was it (probably) one-sided, but also nika seems to be romantically interested in people that are distant and therefore he has less chances with them (seems kinda sus to me but to each their own i guess? also does eorzea have the concept of therapy) so he himself never really envisioned it working out. dude's basically been pining for her ever since he joined the scions in his early 20s. that's uhhh.... literal years. anyway.

adding to that is the fact that theirs is a relationship that follows the knight and the lady model, in a more chivalrous and courtly sense (side note: nika as a knight is an image that keeps sending me. he is so knight-coded, in a strange way) which was a setup that worked for them but had one major flaw: it gave minfilia the ability to use his skills to the scions' ends, over and over again, and while i'm sure she didn't do so with a harmful intent, she did end up harming him. she did end up pushing him into a role he doesn't like and doesn't want, but keeps accepting because he can't stop.

so all those factors mixing together ensure that while not intentionally so, nika and minfilia's relationship is... as hurtful as it is beneficial. and the romance actualized would make this dynamic so much worse.

and when she joins hydaelyn, she basically softly lets him know to give up on any hope, for his own sake, because she's... she's gone now. she's not a human anymore. he feels torn up about it (esp when he starts catching feelings for artoirel) and feels like he's betraying her, but then when they meet later for the last time she's just like. hey it's fine to move on and find love again, forget about me.

and it's a final no that hopefully allows him to start moving forward, but another good thing is that it finally makes him feel so shitty that he's like, 'well talking to my moms who i haven't really spoken to since i was 19 years old might not feel as shitty as this' so maybe he spends the few weeks between that whole warrior of darkness thingie and tidings from gyr abania quest in limsa, in his moms' shop, helping out and trying to repair those relationships!!

and to think it's taken him years... years pre-game + arr, arr patches, heavensward AND heavensward patches to just. beat his own nerves. he beats being ten times his size but can't beat his own head. smdh. (joking obviously nika really needs therapy and this isn't funny at all.)

maybe he'll even kiss artoirel at some point!!! who knows!!!

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[averytirednerd]

[nouverx]

I love when he does the :3 mouth who gave this murderous deer man the right to be so adorable

[rakkuntoast]

someday, somewhere, somehow

i'm gonna feel found

[koszmarnybudyn]

So this took longer than expected, was planing on just listening to the episode and doing doodles like usual but then this came over me and here we are. Vaguely historical clothing is fun to draw, backrounds are not.

[fizzzyz]

I do not regret anything, I plead guilty.

[rockpaperscissuhs]

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH + BAND OF BROTHERS:

JOSEPH "JOE" RAMIREZ

Born October 5th, 1921, in Nebraska

Died April 8th, 1988 (age 66), in Martinez, California

Joe Ramirez enlisted in September 1942 (age 20) in San Francisco, CA, and he trained with Easy Company at Toccoa. Holding the rank of Private, he served in Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne. He was hospitalized in January 1945, and discharged in July 1945. After the war, he was married for many years, and had children and grandchildren. When he passed away he was buried with his wife, who had passed away 11 years earlier. Further information about him is scarce, but the brief character profile in the Band of Brothers series bible describes him as Mexican-American, and his personality as "sensitive and nervous."

Appears in Episodes 1, 3-8, and 10; portrayed by actor Rene L. Moreno

Sources below

A million thanks to @bleedingcoffee42 for tracking down this info for me!

[s2pdoktopus]

I gave him a girlfriend.

(this scene starts with them kissing, actually. I just didn't want to draw people kissing. Jiang Cheng pulls back because he doesn't want to ruin their friendship, nevermind that she initiated. He apologizes for how inappropriate that was. Meihua, undeterred, asks him if it's inappropriate because they aren't exactly courting each other. Jiang Cheng doesn't answer so she took that as a yes and then the comic happens.)

[littlebigmouse]

Edward Elric actually perfectly average size (164 cm / 5.3 ft) for a fifteen year old child in 1914.

It's just that he's usually compared to his brother, Alphonse Elric, who appears way over 6 ft tall at the age of 14.

Alphonse is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[charmre]

Salt in my lungs, Holding my breath Making peace with my inevitable death I guess I did alright considering Tried to be a halfway decent friend Wound up a bad comedian An honest fool with more bad habits Than you can count

[ecxlipse]

Happy Girlfriends Day to my gorgeous angel babygirl Matt.

yes he is the love of my life.

this is your sign to wish the love of your lives' (gender/age/based in reality-ness literally do not matter) a very happy girlfriends day, bcs they deserve to hear it!! 🐟

[borealwrites]

Whenever there was a storm, Iruka remembers his parents hiding him away. The barrier seals that cover his windows dull the thunder into a low rumble, like how he remembers the sea, and all he can see through the glass is an inky darkness. Those seals are the first ones they teach him, and they tell him to always have them on hand.

When he’s a little older, he asks why he can’t watch the storm like his friends. They tell him that around when he was born, there was a terrible storm that lasted for weeks. In desperation, his grandfather prayed to the storm gods, offering up his newly born grandson as a sacrifice if they would make them stop. And the storms stopped. Unwilling to let such a fate befall their child, his parents took him and fled to Konoha.

Iruka isn’t sure he believes in storm gods, but he loves his parents. Then the kyuubi comes, and suddenly gods don’t seem so fake anymore. So he covers his room at the orphanage and then his apartment with wards, and bites back the defensiveness when Mizuki makes fun of him. It isn’t the thunder and lightning he’s afraid of, it’s what they could bring.

When storms are coming, he can feel his skin crawl, like someone is watching him. Iruka strengthens the wards on his apartment and doesn’t take missions, instead hiding away in the Hokage Tower, where nobody can touch him. Some storms make it feel like someone if pounding at his barriers. On those nights he tucks himself into the corner of his apartment, as far from his windows as he can, and huddles under a blanket, wishing he weren’t so alone.

But Iruka cannot outrun and avoid storms forever. There’s a stillness in the air when he’s assigned a mission with Hatake Kakashi that he cannot refuse. Overhead the clouds are full and heavy with rain, and there’s a tinge of ozone that sets Iruka’s nerves on edge. Thunder rumbles in the distant sky when they find the enemy’s trail, and the clouds burst upon first clash.

It takes every bit of Iruka’s skill to keep from being overwhelmed. The enemy is too strong, and his heart too soft. All the warnings his parents repeated tug at him, and he’s too distracted.

Lightning strikes the tree that Iruka’s opponent is crouched in, close enough he can feel the heat. The air is saturated with enough chakra that Iruka feels drunk off it, even as it makes his hair stand on end. Blinking to clear the searing light from his eyes, Iruka chokes on a gasp.

Before him stands Kakashi, his arm buried in the chest of the now very crispy enemy ninja, sparks of electricity arcing almost lazily across his body. With a flick of his wrist Kakashi’s arm is free, and he glares down at the corpse. Something feels wrong, and while Iruka’s common sense screams at him to move, he feels rooted to the spot. Two eyes, one storm cloud grey and the other heat lightning red, lock onto his.

Kakashi’s hand, the one that had just killed a man, cups Iruka’s cheek. Once, while experimenting with seals, Iruka had shocked himself with a raiton based seal. It had hurt, and left his arm numb for two days. The merest brush of Kakashi’s fingers brings the same feelings for half a second before subsiding into a strange tingling sensation.

“I can finally touch you, my Iruka, my bride,” Kakashi’s voice was a low growl, an almost predatory sound that made Iruka jerk back. As soon as he broke contact with Kakashi, it seemed like all of Iruka’s strength left him. Like a puppet with cut strings he collapsed, and was only saved by Kakashi gathering him into his arms.

“Rest, Iruka. I’ll take care of everything else,” Kakashi cooed, and Iruka found himself helpless to resist. His last thought before he sank into unconsciousness was if his parents would be disappointed he didn’t fight harder.

This can now be found, in an expanded version, on Ao3

[hplonesomeart]

Hey. Sorry about the inactivity, but pretty sure no one cared that much anyways lol. Been a looooong time since I kept that distant from Tumblr…at least now I know I’m able to survive without checking posts every day/being chronically online! I’ve got an intense love-hate relationship with this lifestyle I’ve dug myself into. Think I’m getting a little bit better with the balance even if school isn’t really giving me an option. Got a load of work I need to keep catching up on if I don’t want to disappoint my professors. We’ll survive somehow. Here take a quick batch of Puzzle doodles k bye

[hollow-grave-diggs]

Day four of drawing one or both submas boys until i get shiny treeko on omega ruby and like how i draw them

Today: Western AU

Attempt counter: 1610

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy