#;;mean spirited.....

[steampunkforever]

Fascinated by this one Instagram account run by a girl who got divorced young and decided to make a career as a cottagecore divorce influencer out of it apparently

#not mean spirited it’s just fascinating to watch #idmbm

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

#analysis #meta #miscellaneous #fandom #shipping #media discussion #amatonormativity #lgbtq #I feel like tagging any of the fandoms I was thinking of when writing this would be a little mean-spirited potentially #Disclaimer: no one has actually been telling me personally that I don't understand any story in particular #It's just that the way people tend to phrase their analyses feels unnecessarily targeted at the reader and that's just. not great #even if I agree with every other point they make

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

#ofmd #blackbonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd season 2 #my draws #ofmd au #I rushed the first one to hammer it out bc last drawing of the year babyyyyy #one of Ed’s old bands was called ‘here comes the kraken’ #anyway he’s burned out on The Grind and all the bad bs in punk spaces overall #he’s not too cool to get flowers now in fact he welcomes the occasion okay #and uh. happy new year #oh and the venue is queen Anne’s revenge bc he’s a pirate history nerd maybe idk #punks and pirates seem like they are kindred spirits #for vastly different goals but… you know

[u3pxx]

KIM KITSURAGI - “Is that. My kineema.”

COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Something in him is about to break, *big time*.

EMPATHY - And it’s not going to be pretty, do something!

- DRAMA [Formidable] - Everything is fine!

- “Sure is.”

DRAMA [Formidable: Failure] - Surely he’s aware that he’s not the *only* person in the world who owns a Kineema?

YOU - “Is it really *yours*? I mean, plenty of people have their own Kineemas, right? Like working men, government offices, uh, firefighters I guess, maybe even animal control people? Exactly! A million different people who could’ve driven it into the uh…”

DRAMA - Pause, my liege! Ixnay on the Ineemakay!

YOU - “It could even be our *mysterious* joyrider!”

KIM KITSURAGI - Your frenzied babbling falls deaf to the lieutenant's ears. Instead, he approaches the broken vehicle, sunken in the ice. He moves with a caution and gentleness you haven’t seen him display before.

INLAND EMPIRE - It must be cold and lonely down there, in the icy water. Maybe he could sense its sorrow, calling to him…

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - His hands, which are always stiffly placed behind his back, are trembling.

ENDURANCE - This is the shuffle of a tired, tired man.

HALF LIGHT - He’s going to do something drastic because of you. Oh god, terrible! You’re a terrible liar! You can’t look at this, you just can’t!

VOLITION [Formidable: Success] - It's not *you* who drove his kineema into the sea. You have plenty of faults, but this one is decidedly not yours.

KIM KITSURAGI - He kneels down with his head bowed, casting his face in shadow. He plants a hand on the ice to stabilize himself, squinting to get a better view of the motor carriage. “Detective, it says ‘57’ on it.”

YOU - Sweat drips down your brow, and you feel a terrible headache coming. “Maybe our joyrider has an affinity for that number?”

LOGIC - He's not stupid, he knows that it's not that.

KIM KITSURAGI - “57.”

YOU - “What about 57?”, you brace yourself.

KIM KITSURAGI - “Precinct 57.”

YOU - You wince. “Kim, look-”

KIM KITSURAGI - “When I woke up in the Whirling-in-Rags with no memory of what happened during the days before, I've taken note that something of mine has gone missing.” He grits his teeth. "A very. Important. Something."

He runs his hands over his face, messing his already unkempt hair in the process. Regret creeps up on his features. “God. Fuck. They’re going to fire me over this, they’re not going to hear me out.”

EMPATHY - Desperation settles in the lieutenant's tone. Sadly, you find yourself in agreement, even if you don’t want it to be the truth.

YOU - “People are more valuable than machines, Kim.”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Not people like me.” He rasps.

YOU - “…”

KIM KITSURAGI - Before you can say anything more, you fail to notice the lieutenant carefully walking onto the edge of the ice. He looks over the frigid water, a dizzying blue that mirrors and distorts his exhausted face back to him.

YOU - “Kim?”

KIM KITSURAGI - Seconds pass as he looks to be contemplating something. Out of nowhere, he casually takes another step where the ice ends and the sea begins. It happens all too quick for the lieutenant to even voice a call for help— if he even wanted to — his body plunging into the cold water before your eyes.

YOU - “KIM!!!!”

uhhh bonus stuff? sorry i have swap au brainworms pfttt

(im not sure what skills kim has at the moment so rn he only has narration as his inner monologue ok whoops, i would like to keep harry as the guy who thinks in dialogue trees so im still figuring it out pfttt)

also, this was done bc i wanted to expand on these old scribbles of mine, just like an idea, i just think that he'd be having an even worse time wheezes

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #den's disco swap #disco elysium role swap #HI nobody look at the fact that. i am a novice writer at best DFGHJFGH #i had idea for some comic dialogue but it ended up being this instead whoops. i mean i could still draw this as a comic #anyways. i was like. trying to reverse engineer my idea of how kim can change into his bomber jacket instead of his uniform. #which. i dont think you can do with just simple convincing bc that thing is fused to him in spirit so there has to be like a good reason wh #oh it gets ruined! how? it gets like wet or smth! how'd that happened? he threw himself into the sea #also isnt it fitting that my memory problems is making me not remember the things that happen in disco elysium very well wheezes #so whoops if the characterization is a lil off lmaoooooo #but i have been trying to figure out how i want harry to be in this swap au #i dont think he's as well as he wants you to believe he is. and just the image of him pushing this 'youre allowed to be in denial about + #this' to kim about the kineema was so vivid in my head and idk if that tracks but hell. its in there now dfghdjfg #starry don't look #sunnysidedraws #sunnysidedisco

[flutesolo]

the really fun thing about making suki zuko’s personal guard is that she absolutely would figure out he’s the blue spirit. it’s literally her job to be on top of him, she would figure it out in under a month. and she would know that asking zuko to stop is a lost cause so she would follow him out. i need you to stop and picture the look on zuko’s face when he finds out suki knows he’s the blue spirit.

#goose.txt #this is his best kept secret!! not even uncle knows!!!! #he’d probably be so unnerved by the idea of suki watching him because that means she’s knows him #because nobody ever knows him. only bits and pieces and projections #it would be jarring!! #also imagine how fucking pissed sokka is going to be when he finds out that not only is zuko the blue spirit #but suki figured it out first #atla #avatar #avatar the last airbender #zukki #zukka #zuko #sokka #atla suki #vengeance!verse

[raviollies]

What if Gith had tail

#Lae'zel #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #my art #AN IGUANA TAIL....I THINK IT WOULD BE UTE #i love her spots #anyway im trying to counteract all the bad faith and mean spirited lae art #the fandom really does hate her lol.

[ohmyglobwhatthefrickamievendoing]

Love that Izzy got in one last shot at Stede in a situation where Stede could under no circumstances retaliate and won their two season long bitch-off by then immediately and permanently peacing out

#EDIT: reblogged a slightly longer version of this because they were friends when izzy died! - #- they'd both showed they cared about each other in some form by the time izzy died & he STILL had to be a lil bitch to stede one last time #the real reason izzy died: to get the last word over stede #izzy & stede were actually a comedy duo and i'm so sad we got so little of them #whether they were enemies or friends they were always bitch4bitch and that dynamic will be /deeply/ missed #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means death season 2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #our flag means death s2 #in spirit this post is: #stizzy #gentlehands #izzy hands #stede bonnet #ofmd izzy #ofmd stede

[mumblesplash]

mean gills + nosy neighbors = gossip squad

#my art #llsmp #limited life #bigbst4tz2 #pearlescentmoon #smajor95 #martyn/inthelittlewood #nosy neighbors #mean gills #now i don’t actually Know cleo’s gender identity (just that she uses she/they) but to be fair. neither does martyn in this comic #he’s a little (very) confused but he’s got the spirit

[bet-on-me-13]

"Fright" Knight

So! You know how in some parts of this Phantom, people call Danny's Ghostly family his Fright?

Well what if that is the official term for Ghost Families/Ghost Groups in the Realms? And if so, that has some implications for Fright Knight

Fright Knight is a Spirit of Familial and Interpersonal Protection, the representation of the Guardianship of Families, Friends, and Homes

Or

Fright Knight was a Knight in his life who died protecting his Family and Friends. When he formed, he kept fighting to protect other Families and Friends.

The Halloween thing was just a fun little Hobby for him.

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Fright Knight #Ghost Zone #Fright means Family and Friends #Fright Knight is the Spirit of Family and Friends #Or #Fright Knight is a Ghost who values protecting Family and Friends #Either way this makes him a fun character #At least in the Phandom

[adriengraye]

Okay …

Fair enough

OH COME ON.

#ITS THE EXACT SAME SCENE TOO WTF #ineffable trio? #tragic trio? #god what do we call these poor poor queers #mobius is blonde in spirit #he probably was at some point. #Lokius #Gentlebeard #Aziracrow #ineffable husbands #loki show #loki laufeyson #mobius m mobius #Aziraphale #good omens #Our flag means death #ofmd #Loki

[loz-the-noob]

Every day I think about the fact that she said these words and she . She said them. Out loud in a court of law.

#look widget’s happy that means she’s pleased with herself as well #every time she says something like this I want to kiss her stupid fucking face #I don’t understand my brain sometimes </3 #Athena Cykes #ace attorney #Spirit of Justice #aa6 #PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY ONE ON THIS SITE WHO’S DOWN BAD FOR THE THEENA

[nortsauce]

WATCH OUT FOR THAT CONVENIENTLY PLACED UNSTABLE HANGING PIANO, STEDE!!!!!

#ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means forever #stede bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #everyone is in here in spirit #don bluth style #don bluth #fake screenshot #fake screencap #avenge ofmd #rhys darby #rhys darby faction

[grimark]

i do think somebody made up oingo boingo just so that the 19 year old tumblr transmascs with herbert west reanimator icons who listen to nothing except talking heads and lemon demon would also have a third band to listen to.

#also since this is getting a few notes i feel like i need to clarify. this is gentle teasing and not meant to be mean-spirited lol #i am also trans and listen to two out of three of these bands on a regular basis. love u all.

[cokoweee]

💪Grown but not by much💪

OKAY no more color cause I died doing that. I’m giving myself some leeway to be a lil messy or whatever AND IM NOT UPDATING AT 3AM AHAHBBFUNUANAHZ

Tiny very small time skip. Junior bean here is a salted barely 15. Also I can’t snow lol

#Spirits Reborn #Cassandra #Casey jr #Calimari #oc #comic #wait what? #coko doodles #tmnt iteration #tmnt #drawing #doodle #sketch #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #I have two other updates sketched out.. #I need a nap #I’ll find something wrong in the morning #or #in a few hours I mean

[g1ngerbeer]

created by love & unmade by it

#id in alt text #my art #dw #doctor who #tenth doctor #dr who hanahaki #this is barely hanahaki-like anymore but i dont care. it is to me. in spirit. god FUCKING bless. #tenth doctor platonic hanahaki concept has me in a chokehold btw. dont ask me about it i couldnt explain if i tried #u see the vision though. right. #i consulted one (1) flower meanings site and decided that was enough sorry if somebody disagrees lol #cw blood #<- tiiny bit #flower list is in reblogs now!! if anybody is curious :D

[vigilskeep]

one of my absolute favourite tiny details is cousland’s nan insisting the warden start the telling of a childhood story, and instead of, i don’t know, “once upon a time”, cousland’s cultural go-to is before our fathers’ fathers came down from the moutains. cousland has chantry tutors but at their nanny’s knee it was alamarri folk tales, not andraste and the wyvern. i think that’s so interesting and it’s one of the jumping-off points for my take that highever let andrastianism colour its culture and traditions more so than change them, in contrast to a centre of pilgrimage and of royalty like denerim, which is more closely interlinked with, and perceived by, andrastians outside ferelden’s borders. cousland to me is always saying some slightly off brand stuff they don’t realise is weird (read: heresy) while alistair and wynne raise eyebrows at each other

#cousland: let’s pay respects to the spirit inside connor before we try anything #alistair: the demon?? #cousland: it’s still one of the maker’s first children isn’t it? #alistair: well i mean yes but— #cousland: you lay a space for the spirits on feast days you don’t ask what kind of spirit takes it #alistair: what are you TALKING about #warden cousland