#*less straightforward

[lazycranberrydoodles]

i do not remember the plot of scum villain because i read it in 2020 and it feels like a fever dream now so my characterization is entirely based off of the fanon on my dash.

hualian are my favorite but i do feel that bingqiu deserve the win. tgcf is VERY yuri, but svsss has gender as a main theme and both characters keep getting compared to maidens. overall there are more explicit references to women regarding bingqiu.

#this is the first time ive ever scumposted yayyy #theyre also more toxic and weird and reserved about each other. in a good way. #to anybody else hualian is insane but compared to bingqiu its an honest and straightforward relationship #both have complex facades built off of society and trope expectations but hualian drop theirs immediately #and to this day sqq and lbh are still fighting tooth and nail #in my experience yuri can be. a horrible spiderweb of expectations and assumptions and not wanting to make assumptions #hualian have the plausible deniability right up until the end (their romance is literally SO lesbian coded) but . after like 15 minutes #they can tell when the other person is lying #and honesty is less yuri than whatever bingqiu is going through at all times #tgcf #svsss #my art #i guess lmao #art #hualian #bingqiu #guy yuri poll #mspaint #ms paint #cringetober 2023 #cringetober #lmao

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 9: So that's where the turtle came from!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #bonus comic #tulu xuanwu #lan sizhui #Thank you Stackedbirds for the inspiration behind this comic! #The original plan was that they would kill the turtle - only for it to be revealed there was little baby turtles she was protecting #and those turtles left the cave to then be chilling in a river by yi-city 20 years later. #This version has less turtle death and is way more straightforward. #But yes; A-Qing's turtle was always supposed to be linked to the tulu xuanwu. I enjoy call-backs and set-ups immensely. #What other creatures does LSZ have in his sleeve pockets? What other endangered beasts have been accidently translocated? #Will the turtle ever make an appearance again? So many questions. Which I will now answer: #1) At least one rabbit and a few songbirds have made a permanent home in there. #2) I like to think all the cultivators leaving baoshan sanren's mountain are accidently translocated endangered creatures. #3) Yes. The tulu xuanwu will be pivotal presence in the climax of the story. Dare I say - the hero of the darkest hour.

[steinwayandhissons]

arctic monkeys and every time the word ‘love’ is mentioned

whatever people say I am that’s what I’m not

tonight there’ll be some love, tonight there’ll be a ruckus yeah regardless of what’s gone before

~ view from the afternoon

oh there ain’t no love, no montagues or capulets

~ i bet you look good on the dancefloor

all that’s left is the proof that love’s not only blind but deaf… yeah I’d love to tell you all my problem

~ fake tales of san francisco

she makes a subtle proposition, I’m sorry love I’ll have to turn you down

~ when the sun goes down

lady, where has your love gone, i was looking but can’t find it anywhere, they always offer when there’s loads of love around but when you’re short of some it’s nowhere to be found

~ no buses

well how can you wake up with someone you don’t love and not feel slightly phased by it

~ leave before the lights come on

favourite worst nightmare

it’s wrong wrong wrong but we’ll do it anyway cause we love a bit of trouble

~ balaclava

and those dreams weren’t as daft as they seem, aren’t as daft as they seem my love

~ fluorescent adolescent

there’s room for the trouble and there’s lovers to be had

~ this house is a circus

it’d be a big mistake for you to wait and let me waste your time, really love it’s fine, I said really love it’s fine

~ the bad thing

old yellow bricks, love’s a risk… houdini love you don’t know what you’re running away from

~ old yellow bricks

another roll around and another push and shove, further away from the idea of love

~ da frame 2r

the more you keep on looking the more it’s hard to take, love we’re in stalemate… you’re slacking love where have you been

~ the bakery

am I too quick to assume that the love is no longer in bloom

~ too much to ask

humbug

i had a hole in the pocket of my favourite coat and my love dropped into the lining

~ i haven’t got my strange

suck it and see

i wanna feel your love brick by brick

~ brick by brick

do you still feel love is a laserquest or do you take it all more seriously… when I’m not being honest I pretend that you were just some lover

~ love is a laserquest

your love is like a studded leather headlock

~ suck it and see

jealousy in technicolour, fear by name, love by numbers… crushing up a bundle of love

~ that’s where you’re wrong

before she showed you how to shake love’s steady hand

~ the blonde o sonic shimmer trap

your love’s not what I need, so don’t give it to me

~ evil twin

am

it’s not like I’m falling in love I just want you to do me no good… the look of love, the rush of blood

~ no.1 party anthem

love buckles under the strain of those wild nights

~ mad sounds

I heard that you fell in love, or near enough

~ snap out of it

love like locked horns, love like dominoes… love like thunder, love like falling snow

~ electricity

I know you’re nothing like mine cause she’s walking on sunshine and your love would tear us apart

~ you’re so dark

tranquility base hotel and casino

love came in a bottle with a twist off cap, let’s all have a swig and do a hot lap… but it’s alright, cause you love me

~ star treatment

when true love takes a grip it leaves you without a choice

~ golden trunks

pattern language in the mood for love

~ the world’s first ever monster truck front flip

I wanna stay with you my love, the way some science fiction does

~ science fiction

the dawn won’t stop weighing a tonne, I’ve done some things that I shouldn’t have done, but I haven’t stopped loving you once

~ the ultracheese

the car

lights out on the wonder park, your saw toothed lover boy was quick off the mark

~ jet skis on the moat

put your heavy metal to the test, there might be half a love song in it all for you

~ mr schwartz

#arctic monkeys #alex turner #listen this was purely out of curiosity #there are so many poetic and imaginative ways in which alex describes love #i just wanted a tangible record of every time he just straight up uses the word #i was surprised that humbug only had one mention and even that was a b side but when i was making this i realised that it was such a #lyrically dense and innovative album and descriptions of love were more elaborate and straightforward #*less straightforward #(might make a separate post about that) #also found that the other albums were quite consistent except the car #i found it interesting that most of the songs aren’t actually about the same kind of love like the earlier albums were #the earlier ones use love as a nickname and portray the physical embodiment of being in love #and even in tbhc it describes this feeling despite there being slightly fewer mentions #but the car seems more like a goodbye album… not even about breaking up… just goodbye which is very…. #there’s no room for love in amongst the melancholia and introspection #and makes me wonder about his relationship with love at the moment #it seems very disassociated and immaterial like he has no interest in spouting poetics about love like he did before #and i hope he can rebuild that relationship #i could probably say more but im not going to bc this is getting way too long #cheers if you actually read this whole fucking essay #i spent way too long on this if you cant tell

[pluvillion]

These Barbies are GhostSoap

jumping into the train before it leaves. if everyone started making their own Barbie posters, then so will i! someone was kind enough to share their template of the poster so you bet i got into working stat.

#i had multiple poses for soap because i couldn't figure out the one that best fits his character #so i made his hand point to himself with the other doing a fistbump (like he did to ghost) #ghost was straightforward - it's inspired by that famous screenshot of him looking at the camera with nvg #but instead of his left hand he's holding his radio with his right #gotta be original here somewhat lol #i did this in less than 2 hours. my dedication into the trend got the best of me i'm afraid #sfm #sourcefilmmaker #cod #call of duty #mw #modern warfare ii #ghost #soap #ghostsoap #simon riley #johnny mactavish #3d art #fanart #barbie #barbie movie

[laundrybiscuits]

Hah, thanks @beansthekid for giving me a chance to ramble a bit more!

I think there are many different and equally valid ways to interpret Eddie’s relationship with the Corroded Coffin crew; we really do not get very much canon material at all, which means it’s all very open to interpretation. However, I personally tend to read them as friendly acquaintances more than friends, because Eddie doesn't seem to treat them with any true closeness.

In the few scenes they share, Eddie sort of treats them like undifferentiated sidekicks/minions/audience. He seems basically fond of them, and I don't think his attitude comes from any sort of disrespect or dislike. Rather, I think it’s more about Eddie’s own comfort level: in general, I read Eddie as very skittish about relationships. He likes to keep people at a certain remove, and he likes to be in control of that distance.

We don't see him confiding in anyone or being intentionally vulnerable...right up until Steve and "guess I got a little jealous." Even with Chrissy, though he was definitely trying to present himself as friendly and harmless, he was absolutely putting on a little performance the entire time. He was taking on an entertainer role. He's willing to be seen as ridiculous, because that's the class-clown side of him, but it's not the same thing as letting down his guard. People laughing at him for his antics can't hurt him, at this point. Admitting he's fond enough of Dustin to make that a weakness, and being honest about feeling inadequate—that is vulnerability.

I do think it's plausible that that little jealousy confession was prompted in part by guilt over the whole broken-bottle thing. To be clear, I don't think Eddie's boatshed reaction was wildly out of line; at that point, he had zero information/context that would lead him to conclude that anyone out looking for him was on his side, much less Steve Harrington.

He was also scared out of his mind and literally shaking with adrenaline and fear, but he still didn’t actually hurt anyone. He could have shanked Steve and made a run for it, but I read him as someone who fundamentally does not want to hurt or scare people for real. He wants to make them uncomfortable, sure—or at the very least he doesn’t really care if they’re made uncomfortable by how he looks and acts. But actually being the villain of a story? That doesn’t fit with his values or his self-image.

So it would make sense if afterwards, he felt an outsized and misplaced sense of guilt about that little encounter, and let that spur him to offer up a little bit of honesty. It’s an intimacy he doesn’t extend to anyone else in the entire show.

I mean—hell, I am fully fixated on this little exchange:

Nancy: Hey, it’s Nancy.

Eddie: Wheeler, hey!

It would be way, way more natural to mirror her intro and call her Nancy, but instead he does this weird surname thing (and continues to call her by her surname) despite the fact that he already knows another Wheeler who is presumably also potentially tuned in. Why on earth would he do this. There are so many siblings in the group. The only way I can make sense of it is as a distancing mechanism that he leans on.

By the end, he does start addressing some people by their first names, some of the time. I haven’t done a full accounting, but I’m pretty sure it’s mostly just Dustin and Steve (not counting the “this is for you, Chrissy” moment).

But back to the Corroded Coffin lads: the biggest tell, for me, is that they had band practice without him. They knew he was missing, and either they knew he’d be a suspect/in trouble or they didn’t know him well enough to recognize his trailer on the news. They’re just kids, so it’s fairly reasonable that they wouldn’t be trying to take any action to find/help Eddie, but it seems unbearably callous that they’d just be having a normal band practice. I still don’t really know how to fold that into my understanding of their dynamics, but one possible interpretation is that they aren’t used to thinking of him as someone who ever really gets hurt, so they figure it’ll all just blow over somehow.

Eddie’s obviously taken on a leadership position in their little group. He’s the DM, he runs the show. But we don’t have a sense that he’s got a second-in-command or a trusted advisor that he confides in, much less someone he sees as a true peer in a give-and-take way.

Again, I don’t think any of this means he doesn’t like the Corroded Coffin boys. On the contrary, I think he probably cares about them very much in the same way he loves Dustin. My read on Eddie is that he sees himself as a protector who is in some way responsible for them and their well-being, cultivating an interdependent community that he doesn’t really get to partake in. His sense of self-worth lies in his ability to be a shield, standing between his lost little sheep and the wolves of Hawkins. He draws fire and takes the hits, and that’s a very lonely position to be in.

And then…Steve Harrington.

#askbox #stranger things meta #this is very disorganized but hopefully the main ideas come through #general caveat as always that the most straightforward explanation is 'inadequate/inconsistent writing' #but this is the characterization/dynamic that I've more or less settled on as best fitting my understanding of the narrative #ST meta for TS

[dathen]

I feel the Correspondent suggesting the theory that the Captain of the Demeter had some kind of mania after his account was found plays into the book’s themes of madness and documentation. It definitely parallels Jonathan being found feverish and raving about demons and blood and ghosts, with only his journal to back him up.

But I feel the key here is how both were received: the town refused to accept the theory that the Captain was a deranged murderer, and instead mourned him as a hero (even if they didn’t know how to take his written account). Later, Mina will be horrorstruck by the story Jonathan’s journal tells, but she takes it seriously and immediately gets to work.

In both circumstances, Dracula’s victims are met with compassion, and each time they learn more valuable information to bring about his downfall.

#Dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #I feel mina treating renfield as human could play into this too #but renfield’s story is less straightforward

[freckliedan]

On the topic of secrets, your person that you tell everything to is entitled to YOUR secrets, not anyone else’s. If I tell my best friend something in confidence, I know she won’t tell her husband. He gets to know everything about her, not everything about me.

Dan and Phil definitely understand that distinction and don’t share other’s secrets with each other.

THANK you you get it!!!! i've been losing my fucking mind at the attitude on my dash like... pretty much everyone is out here proving dan's point. by interpreting what he said to mean the exact opposite of what he told us. are people incapable of taking dnp at their word????

#like what? #being trustworthy in my relationships means i have emotional intimacy and support with multiple people in my life which is so much safer an #more fulfilling than the isolating trap of viewing romantic relationships as seperate and above and as something that should meet every #single one of your needs. #like. i have the support and connection w my husband. but i also have 6+ other intimate significant friendships. #there's always someone to talk to and get support from. and if i privilaged my relationship w my husband over those friendships and violate #their trust i would be living a much lonelier and emptier and less supported life. #IT'S THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD THING IN TBE WORLD TO ME. WHAT #jam replies #anon

[deadgit]

My favorite advice for creating complex characters is to give them deeply ingrained contradictions.

Which explains how both Lister and Rimmer manage to be such compelling characters in such a ridiculous show lol

#they are so deeply and compellingly contradictory ❤️ #love that for them #cat and kryten and holly are a bit more straightforward which makes them less complex but more vibrant #it's a really interesting bit of character structure. and imo every character in the show is built and used extremely well #red dwarf

[branwendaughterofllyr]

I’ve always maintained that Jon is as much like Catelyn as he is like Ned. There’s a ruthless practicality they both share, and a lot of their chapters are back to back in order to highlight this, I think. Jon is willing to do the dirty, terrible thing, or the “cowardly” option, if it means at the end of the day that someone is saved, and it’s so much like Catelyn, who cares more about her family and people being safe than the honorable method. They both are “the ends justified the means” if the ends are important enough. I really do think that Jon follows the words “Family, Duty, Honor” in that order the most out of the Starklings, which is ofc ironic for obvious reasons, since Jon’s treatment is like the ultimate culmination of Catelyn’s ruthless practicality and her house words. (Since she rightly views Jon as a threat, but can’t do anything about the actual perpetrator of both her and Jon’s situation.) Thats why I think Jon’s approach where family and duty supersedes honor, is like his ultimate legacy from Catelyn, or something. And also “Family, Duty, Dishonour” sounds very cool.

#especially since Jon believes the myth that Ned Stark was the most honorable man alive #like we the audience know that Ned values his family more than his own honor but almost all the characters don’t #and that’s what matters #and Ned was still much less ruthless than pretty much anyone else #the exception being Theon and Jesus Christ does that have implications #whereas Catelyn’s pretty straightforward that she doesn’t care as long as her family is safe in the end no matter how distasteful

[thesilverlock]

pierce ➣ dynamics: "Whenever I look at you..."

While their ''miscommunication flirting'' brings some levity, it can’t distract from the greater issues for long. Jey is running from the war. He had to find a way to understand why choosing only Order made him feel like he was splitting. Needed to pursue Chaos, away from a group who kept villainizing it. He’s using 96. In a similar whatever way 96 is probably using him. Not that it should matter. The Number is Astral’s evil copy, not an individual. Just a cheap, broken replica., , ,,

>>extra zexoodle

#zexal oc #zexal #| pierceshipping ✶٭༌ | #| ultravioletshipping ✶٭༌ | #(( had this in the drafts since before christmas #and idk why they turned out looking kinda wack to me. And yassified? 😭 )) #ANYWAY WHATEVER I just wanted this o u t )) #| my oc ❦ | #| mist ✦ | #| saved ✧ | #(( Art started out a lot cuter and straightforward #but then I remembered ppl know a lot less about pierce.. and don’t know why they work #so no hand-holding this time. No blind throwing fluff out there and hoping the memo gets got like I did w/ Golden. #Pierce is gonna torture y’all in real time same as they tortured me. Prepare )) #no96 blackmist #no 96 black mist #number 96: dark mist #no. 96 black mist #no.96 black mist #number 96 (zexal)

[gloriousmonsters]

this has no basis in anything but i can't shake the idea of ganondorf just being an incredibly reticent teenager (going along with my now-stuck headcanon of him being very isolated as a kid) who spent a ton of time just sort of observing people and absorbing information, who then around the age of stepping up to more active/public kingship was like 'okay I've done that stage, time to sink all those skill points i accumulated into charisma, manipulation and theatrics' which he views as a perfectly normal progression but seemed kind of sudden and bizarre from the outside. what I'm saying is that the original form of Nabooru's 'i don't know you any more, you are not the man I knew' was 'dude what the fuck weren't you an introvert'

#he still is! it's just less obvious #joky phrasing but. i do genuinely revolve this in my head wrt the whole nabooru-ganondorf friends 2 enemies arc (also in my head) #it's a crucial story beat re: nabooru getting unnerved by ganondorf/questioning how well she actually knows him for the first time #bc nabooru is an incredibly honest person and just kind of assumed ganondorf was the same #he seemed straightforward with her! he wasn't super talkative but what he said came off as genuine! #but when he displays the *ability* to completely change the outward appearance of his personality #combined with showing that he's figured out how to manipulate people and situations to his advantage #it calls everything else into question #(which in turn kind of hurts ganondorf because he's just putting into action the kind of king he's decided to be + being Good At People #and of course he's been truthful with her (mostly) she's smart and competent and he likes her! what is the problem??) #nabooru #ganondorf #it's an old song and we're gonna sing it again

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hey, I think I missed a bit of lore or something, what���s the pit? And what’s the goop™️?

oh yeah no i haven't really talked about those Important Things yet! mostly because i'm still solidifying how they work in my mind... i try my best to adhere to canon, since to me aus are an exploration of the source / characters, so... its still tenuous. i have to think and consider and run parallel - there's a balance i'm still trying to find

like The Pit™️ (the spiral/eye void under Home) in Lights Out is gonna be different from the canon one since i started thinking about the au before the update. and the update changed my perception / theories on what the void is! but the au Pit™️ needs to remain mostly the way it originally was, or a lot of "plot" points fall apart

#and then the Goop™️ is like... the fuckin... black sludge stuff... #yk? the stuff? the stuff that makes humans sick? #its that but slightly to the left #the more i think about canon the more i realize that the au needs to diverge slightly more than i'd like lol #but thank fuck its remaining more... Smooth than canon if that makes sense. it has less facets #its more Straightforward. less wonderfully complex. shrimplicity over delicious intricacies #but im getting wildly off point! this is not what you asked! sorry! #but anyway to put it simply for the au: #the pit under home is filled with the black stuff. its the source #and the black stuff / goop is uh. well its everywhere and its Important and wally can manipulate it to a limited extent #also it chokes frank to death sorry xoxo #ok its a lil more complicated than that but yk yk #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au #but yeah the update came out and i went #Oh! I Got It Wrong! Neat! #i am honestly happy about it #i like being wrong in certain situations. this is one of them. #but for ease of the au and to keep it at a respectful distance from canon without straying too far #ill keep my Original Thoughts / Theory as au-canon!

[dr3amofagame]

You’ve heard of awesamdream Stockholm syndrome relationship now get ready for dreamity killing stalking

the main thing abt c!dreamity for me is that it's frankly p straightforward compared to awesamdream ... but you know sometimes i do think abt how the mechanics of the prison torture both means we have no idea what actually happened in specifics in that box, and that minecraft allows for really practically anything with the existence of instantaneous healing items, and how c!quackity was literally dripping with blood down that prime path, and. you know. sometimes i want to get a little silly with it (read: remind myself that the only Real thing limiting the prison torture is ur own imagination)

#my asks !! #c!dreamity #it's rather straightforward but i think there's a degree where people will turn a blind eye to some matters #such as you know. our bitch and sir and the whole sam and quackity convo that really read like an allegory #and quackity's /involvement/ in that bc we've talked abt how weirdchamp sam was there #and the confrontation about quackity /liking/ torturing dream and how what dream is explicitly bothered by is quackity's sadism #like there's stuff there. and also in general when it comes to the prison torture there's honestly a whole lot less limiting it in canon #than is commonly accepted based on more 'realistic' interpretations of the prison and all #anyway. point of the matter is that sometimes i do wanna talk abt c!dreamity even tho it's less interesting to me...bc. c!dreamity. huh

[brushstrokes-art]

don’t mind me i’m just addicted to using hair as a visual storytelling device to communicate changes in a character over time

#hollow knight #hk #hollow knight gijinka #hk gijinka #the hollow knight #thk #hk ghost #little ghost #fanart #doodle #sketch #i've explored ideas before about what ghost was up to between the birthplace cutscene and the beginning of the game #i'm not set on any one explanation but they definitely spent some amount of time wandering around like a feral child #and in gijinka terms they DEFINITELY didn't get a haircut for a looooong time #thk on the other hand was not given a haircut for various reasons #ranging from practical ones like 'their hair will grow for eternity in the black egg so they might as well be used to absurdly long hair' #to slightly more sentimental ones like the pale king also having long hair and just kinda. doing the same thing with their hair #i'd include a visual of hornet's hair over the years but it's less interesting #her hair was a little longer when she was a kid and then she cut it for practical reasons. very straightforward

[ishipmyotp]

People are gonna simp for the character partaking in an actual ethnic cleansing/genocide aren't they

#op 1095 #op spoilers #figarland garling #it's not even the cartoonish 'blows up a planet/country with a space lazer' thing #like it's a straightforward genocide #for fun no less!

[oceanwithouthermoon]

sorta relating to this i just posted, imagine kubosai LOVE LETTER CONFESSION ??? HELLOOOOO ??

#could go either way #or any way at all #kuboyasu could do a love letter confession because he thinks its traditional and cute and romantic but thats less likely #i feel like hes much more likely to do an over the top romantic in person confession BUT #but imagine how sweet and romantic he could write.. #more likely kusuo would give him a letter as a 'i really dont wanna stand there awkwardly and listen to his thoughts as i confess' #or he could give him a letter as kuriko being like 'i like u but i cant date u' and then avoiding him so he doesnt have to our himself #<-out* #kusuos letter would be more straightforward than arens but he'd prob be more open to being sweet over writing #even more as kuriko if he didnt think hed have to be confronted with it ever #that would be silly #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kuboyasu aren #kubosai #meows post