#actually even I'M not certain.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i am like one encouraging reply away from writing a crackfic where all the avatars go to a karaoke bar and each eyevatar gives a shockingly different yet cunt-serving performance.

#everybody else is placing bets on what each of them is gonna sing #all of them lose every single bet. because literally nobody knows these three fuckers as well as they think they do. #jon has to get just a little drunk to be actually convinced #but eventually he gives an emotional performance of up the wolves by the mountain goats #nobody's actually expecting gertrude to sing anything and yet #she gets up there and screams her lungs out to no lodging for the mad by the taxpayers #NOBODY is quite certain what to expect out of jonah. i mean this could go any way possible. #actually even I'M not certain. #can't pick between all i wanted by paramore and thermodynamic lawyer by will wood. #paramore would be funnier #and more honest to my own interpretation #but thermodynamic lawyer might be more accurate to the overall fanon interpretation #the magnus archives #tma #tma shitpost #jonathan sims #gertrude robinson #jonah magnus

[dittobooty]

Thinking a lot about how in One Piece there's a continuing theme of self sacrifice that often doesn't meet its end (I won't say always because there are some characters who have eaten shit for a cause). But I just think about how easy it would be to just accept their sacrifice but the narrative won't allow that. Robin, Zoro, Sanji, Jinbe, they've all tried to give their life for the sake of others but they can't because they really don't have to. I think about Robin's "I want to live" regularly. It's so easy to die for someone but it's so much harder to live for them. And living for them gives back so much more than dying for them does. Dying is just a moment but living lets you have more moments and more time to show how much you care and lets you do so much for others. I feel like a lot of other shonen show dying as one of the bravest things you can do but One Piece is so different because it shows you that living is actually the bravest thing.

#I was just thinking today #I didn't want to go into heavy depth because then I get too lost in what I'm trying to say #it's just really insane how deep the themes of one piece are #I even think about how things would have changed if certain characters who had to sacrifice themselves were actually given a chance #like if Corazon had lived then Law would have learned a lot sooner in life that love isn't conditional #he could have continued to feel love throughout his life instead of just through one act #much to think about #one piece #ditto rambles

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

#personally i've pictured him and his dad both looking just like saaski from eloise mcgraw's ''moorchild'' since my first read of the hobbit #(and it'll take a lot more than his silhouette against the stars to pry that image from my cold dead and re-embodied hands lol) #that's just too good a visual to give up ESPECIALLY with all the gimli ''hands shall flow with gold'' stuff that comes in later #but i was around in the 2000s for when the fandom divided into two very distinct and passionate camps on this question #with the fact that he'd been often illustrated with blonde hair and occasionally with dark getting subsumed by Movie vs Book Snobbery wars #where everybody had to be Very Certain And Concrete In Their Canon Arguments about which was his One True Haircolor #so i'm curious what the general consensus (or if there even is one) is now #but i don't expect an actual answer from the ten people following my blog who will see this poll so instead let's do something silly with i #because what else are tumblr polls for? #polls #legolas #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr polls #fandom polls

[captain-astors]

Creature. (The rendered ones are referenced from manga panels)

#mediocre art #tokyo ghoul #On some level I think I should like Kaneki more than I do but there's this weird sense of detachment #I have not only from him but being able to perceive him as a character? #I don't even dislike him it's just that I can't feel any which way about him at all. He's a catalyst for events #feels more like the conch from Lord of the Flies or something rather than a fictional person. #He doesn't suffer and learn from the consequences #he just suffers and does what got him there again. It's arguable that the lack of punishment denies him the satisfaction #but if that's the case why does he end the story with everything working out perfectly for him? #Why do his friends oblige his flaws and accept his lack of change? #Is the problem my lack of understanding or his lack of good writing? #Is he well written? #Why do I like a certain character from a different anime who's a very similar person with very similar dynamics #but with a goal and acceptance by himself and those around him that his actions really are reprehensible and cannot truly be atoned for #not only more but to the point that he's actually one of my favorites? #Am I just sitting upon a throne of entitlement #because his thought process and experiences are not catered to be applicable to and understood by myself? #GOD IF I KNOW ANYMORE #I'm not pressuring myself to like him or anything I just don't understand anything about kaneki these days and I don't know why

[chauffeurkashmir]

I cannot express how much I love this picture

Just. Wow.

#robert plant #led zeppelin #70s #ASKSKSKSKSKMSMSMSMSMSMSMSMMSAASKKKKMMKKKKK #HE'S BEAUTIFUL #such handsomeness #such poise #such a babe #such confidence #and plants #don't forget the plants that are drawing attention to a...certain...place #lol #though i think everyone would notice even if the plants weren't drawing attention #and also the pun of the plants with plant #anyway #annnd i just noticed that the bulge actually seems to be the stems and not... THE plant #THE plant I'm so funny

[adobe-outdesign]

Everyone: Pokemon is a family-friendly game for all ages!

Children, reading the Bulbapedia page on Pokemon IVs trying to figure out how they work:

#pokemon #pkmn #outdesign posts things #.gif #hot take but I loved PLA's grit system and wholeheartedly believe it should be applied to the main games #I'm an adult and even I had to watch multiple videos to learn how to train EVs and IVs #'oh there are two completely different stats that affect your pokemon's power. both are hidden from the player. #you have a certain amount of points you can sink into two EV stats but we're not going to actually show you the numbers or anything #you have to use special berries to lower these stats and items to increase the ones you want. and you have to go to an NPC to fix IVs #and none of this is mentioned or explained in the game. lol anyway good luck'

[attleboy]

the usual red sketches i do are not an option, i'm talking finished art here... i've realized i got no clue what you guys see as my usual art style. whoops

#i'm going to do what i've seen a bunch of others do and use the keep your hands off digital circus official art as a dtiys #but for that i need to know what my “style” is and tbh. i don't really think about that much anymore? #i just draw how i draw... i mean i HAD a default rendering style but i actually haven't used it in a while #anyway i know even if i don't put mental energy into keeping a strict artstyle others are still gonna associate me with a certain style #so i might as well ask

[markantonys]

also, wotseries canNOT just drop "btw we suspect luke fetherston might be gawyn" as a footnote in their article about morgase's casting!!!!! what the fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can't spring these things on me with no warning!!!!!

i remember when they first reported that luke fetherston was in s3 and i looked him up and was like "wow that is one absurdly handsome man 😳 i wonder who he'll play" and YALL IF HE ENDS UP BEING GAWYN-

but on the other hand: no fear "what if the 'galad trakand' on callum kerr's cv was actually meant to say 'gawyn trakand' rather than just meaning galad has the trakand name in showverse" one fear!!!! he has Jock Bro vibes that i don't think would suit my babygirl gawyn at all, but luke fetherston has galad vibes (at least for how i personally picture galad, though everyone surely has very different ideas of what the best-looking man in randland looks like!) and he does look a bit like josha, so what if the casting is actually flipped?

but then, i have an easier time picturing callum kerr (right) as a whitecloak and luke fetherston (left) as egwene's malewife than the reverse. and neither looks to me noticeably older than the other, so that offers us no clues. (they both kinda seem older than i would picture gawyn, though, but you never know how they might look in costume or with different hairstyles, etc.)

slight tangent but season 2's complete lack of reference to moiraine and anvaere having a brother, when they easily could have tossed in a mention to set up galad's arrival in s3, does make me wonder if maybe they'll cut out the trakand-damodred connection altogether and just make galad a full trakand sibling and morgase's biological son (and not related to rand). i do love galad and morgase having such a sweet and positive stepchild/parent relationship, but i wouldn't object to the show simplifying the family tree since galad being rand's half-brother never ends up mattering for shit; that connection is notoriously unsatisfyingly-handled in the books, so the show may have opted to cut it if they felt they couldn't do it justice. so, whether or not galad's actor resembles josha in any way might be irrelevant.

it is also very possible that luke fetherston is playing an entirely unrelated character (janduin or luc have been popular speculations for him given the josha resemblance) and that gawyn's actor is still unknown! wotseries has been wrong before. still, from what i can recall, they don't usually bother with such specific "we think X character might be played by Y actor" speculation in an official published article that isn't even ABOUT that character or actor unless they feel pretty confident about it...........especially since i have not once seen anyone posit luke as gawyn until now, so it's hardly like it's a popular fan theory they're just parroting...........

(and in even more important news, from a quick google search it appears that luke fetherston is queer, and i NEED to see a randwyn dynamic where gawyn is played by a queer man djkjfg the vibes would be IMPECCABLE)

#my mind is going a mile an hour!!!! #if i'm going this crazy over just a random nugget of gawyn casting speculation then what'll i do when the truth is actually revealed! #i'm trying not to let myself buy too much into casting spec before we have solid evidence #seeing as this is how we end up certain someone will be faile and they end up being Cousin No. 3 #but you guys KNOW how desperate i've been for even a morsel of gawyn hints!!! this article has sent me flying off the deep end!! #wot #wot show spoilers #wot book spoilers #gawyn trakand #'gawyn remains a mystery' oh he sure does

[dire-kumori]

#you know what's funny is that out of all of these #Elizabeth's sprite took the longest #even though I actually have many more versions of Michael's #(I'd actually begun with his a long time ago just for fun and I have versions without the jacket as well as with the Foxy mask) #I wasn't too sure if I was happy with the hair and ribbon bounce on Elizabeth's sprite and tbh I'm still not sure #I don't really have much experience with pixel art aside from screwing around for fun #so I looked at a bunch of sprite sheets from Undertale/Deltarune for references #like figuring out the sprite's proportions #or figuring out limb positions and how to translate certain objects and shapes into simple pixels #pixel art #my art #gifs #FNAF #Elizabeth Afton #Michael Afton #Evan Afton

[pigeonclaw]

Idk man. Not a fan of the theory / headcanon about Moonpaw hearing the voice of the sibling she absorbed in utero. That gets a little too close to "fetuses have souls" for me to feel comfortable around and I seriously hope that's not what's gonna happen. Chimerism doesn't make you into two people. It's not conjoined twins. She's just one cat made with two sets of genes. We don't have to get too weird about how bodies just naturally turn out sometimes. Idk.

#(obviously this is just my opinion and you're free to ignore it. everyone is entitled to their own opinion) #maybe I'm also a little tired of uncommon physical conditions being used in weird ways in fiction #sometimes people just look or act a certain way and it doesn't make them psychic or whatever #i should honestly just block the moonpaw tag bc i am tired of people being weird about this cat #this isn't even getting into the incest jokes or the ''UMMM ACTUALLY she's not a real chimera'' posts which i am fuuuucking sick of #and I'm not even a person looking for moonpaw posts on purpose!! they just come up in blogs i look at or my for you tab #and I'm already so so so so tired #that said i am looking forward to drawing her later. i already have ideas for her shape and made a quick sketch to come back to someday #i might delete this post later so I don't have to think about this issue when i look at my blog. idk. I'm just venting

[meirimerens]

straight up not respecting some of the alleged p2 characters' ages as they were given on the VA's papers bc you're telling me this is a 27yo man on the left & a 35(!)yo woman on the right? you jest. this woman is in her 20s at most. she doesn't have a wrinkle of age on her face. just worry. i know men age like milk this is taking the piss. i know patho 2 is the "hot blemishless 20something white(-passing) women" game but at this point own it. don't try lying to me. she doesn't look a day past 29. got friends below 25 with more winkles. in the first half of the 20th century too. where would she be getting her anti-aging serums.

you're telling me this woman who's a chronic worrier, dealing with chronic pain, who smokes like a locomotive to cope is allegedly 5 years Older than this guy who's been drinking himself to sleep for like 5 years.

(mike's mic voice) don't piss me off

#alledged(?) VA papers? would love to have a peep. might go wander VK if i can make the trek #sorry for getting heated over p2 yulia again. it's no secret i vastly prefer her design in p1 #but this is aggravating. chrewly. #i know why that is. i knooooowwww why that is. it's because people in the team (coughs) (coughs) & in Media in general cannaeeeeee stand to #create women who actually look over 25. even women who are supposed to be older. #which while a media Trope/problem across media and genre it's not helped with a certain writer's. hmmm. alleged proclivities. #i would respect her being 35 if you have her to me looking 35. her skin is as smooth as 10 yrs younger Lara with one (1) slit #between the brows that just seems to come from her being a thinker & a worrier. nuh-uh! #ah hell naw!!! #i'm profoundly a p1 ages truther except for most of the kids + rubin. i know men age like milk but that guy is Not 23. #also p2 27yo daniil vs 30yo twins They Have Naht met at first year uni with that timeline. & it is important for me that they do. #most of the kids being averaged to ~15 real to me though. we all been here. #neigh (blabbers) #some of the ages on it make no sense [not just yulia but also like. aspity. who looks like a 20something & is actually ageless/5yo] #& while i can guess it's for like The Vibes / voice acting direction i assume it would make more sense to give the actual age & then add #like context to why they would sound older because that's something you might(?) need to know... would really want to see that with my eyes

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Ok I think I’ve figured it out (probably not but I'm connecting dots !!)

Buck misunderstood the assignment right - but we never really knew what that assignment was, we had lots of theories about it being his heart - him thinking that it was his heart that needed fixing or working on etc. But he’s allergic to naproxen - he’s allergic to the drug they give to those who have heart problems (because its safer - thanks @rogerzsteven for that info in this post )

Bucks heart has never been the problem - that’s why he drew one that was full of sunshine and rainbows - his heart is there full of love and joy - but he thought that that wasn’t right or enough and so he’s spent all this time trying to understand where there is nothing to understand. No what Bucks assignment is is to trust in the love he receives from others, trust that he is valued and wanted and needed - his brain is what gets in his way, not his heart - the voices in his head that tell him he’s too much or not enough or whatever other negatives they are telling him.

Bucks assignment was never about his heart, it was always about him trusting his own voice, his own mind and actually what his heart has been and is still telling him

#I'm feeling a certain way about hthis #brain go brrr #god I'm not coherent about this at all - i make no sense #the dots are connecting #to much inforamtion is being thrown at me and I still haven't processed 6x10! #even the blot clots were not a problem with his heart - in the strictest sense of things #and actually it ties into what Oliver said about the sperm donor storyline not going as people expected #911 spoilers #911 on fox #bucks heart

[vargaslovinghours]

And never let you go ♥

Bonus without the overspill lighting:

#💟 #Digital art #Full Art #Art #Edgar #Scriabin #It's that time of year again where I get real sappy about Vargas ♥ Because yes! Once again it is my own personal Vargasversary! 🎊 Yaaaay #Seven years now - I don't know what to do with seven years it feels like a hard to define number haha #Right in the middle between five years and ten years! A while to be certain but hard to define as a Long Time either hmm #Well whatever it doesn't matter <3 The important part is that I still love Vargas and them very much ♥♪ #I actually didn't really have any specific plans for this Vargasversary :0 I haven't been drawing them much again #Other things have drawn my focus and attention hehe ♪ #So I just kinda set my hand loose - no sketches on paper no defined idea - this is just what my hand/brain came up with in the moment #I'm pleased :) I think it accurately expresses how I feel about them hehe <3 #I wrote down what ended up being the text/caption a couple months ago while I was in Big Love in their direction #I don't remember what inspired it anymore other than just - They ♥ Themst ♥ Do love them <3 #I've planned my next reread now ♪ Barring anything drastic (like an update lol) I know when I'll be rereading next #I'm looking forward to it! :D As always hehe <3 #It's still a bit a ways off which works well for recharging :) #And of course I'll be doing my usual in the meanwhile - this and the main anniversary and my sketchdumps and Requestober haha #The caption is as much me as it is Edgar after all <3 #Even quiet and sleeping I still find them as a comfort - a place I find rest and joy in ♥ #Inspiring and lovely and wonderful - pretty and tender and dear! #Oh and #Always finding a way to flip up the bottom of the shirt #Hehe <3

[fromtheseventhhell]

Personally I think it's time for Arya stans to unionize and collectively start being meaner. I'm tired of being "nice" and "fair" to other characters when she gets routinely misinterpreted and turned into a background character. We already get called bullies for pointing out what's written in the books so we might as well embrace it.

#I'm over here rewriting everything I say to sound nicer and for what? for annoying ass people who are going to downplay my faves anyways?? #from now on I'm just gonna post canon and watch them cry because they don't actually like their fave #no more giving certain characters participation points and development they don't actually have #maybe me whacking their faves will finally get the message through their thick skulls 🤷🏾‍♀️ #too many people in this fandom are just stupid and haven't read the books and we need to just start saying that more instead of pretending #that everybody's opinion is equally valid even when they aren't saying anything based in the books

[alexis-royce]

Please indicate when you're done with the Starved Event because Pages thoughts are being thought and I wanna know what your thoughts are about one particular scene later in the event.

My vote's for poison. How quickly we forget that it's been implied that Pages taxidermies authors that it really likes

#Fallen London Spoilers #Fallen London #Mr Pages #The dictionary is telling me that taxidermy isn't a verb with conjugations #Oh dear what about LEXIDERMY #OH DEAR OH MY #Anyway I expected Irons and Fires to show back up at the end #But Pages was an absolute treat #I assume Irons and Fires actually cared about protecting London #Or at least Irons was happy to have a good fight #Did Pages just want to show off??? #Make a big speech? #Pages why did you show up to fight you don't even want to stay here #I mean for The Academic's timeline this uh #This certainly means something #If I have time maybe that fic will get a second chapter #Eeeeheeheeeheee #I'll bet that Pages had to watch The Academic die #HEEHEEHEEHEEEE #I'm CERTAIN it didn't care at all #I'm CERTAIN it wasn't worried in the least that a stray photon of sunlight might've hit the exceptionally unlawful Mr Cards #Instantly wiping them out of existence #Actually EVERYONE should be writing fics with their PCs right now #You ALL have a perfect opportunity to make your loved ones SICK WITH WORRY #Have you considered the TERROR as your fav NPCs watched you soar right into the sun??? #The Ex-Disgraced Academic #Scribbles #Picshuas

[bedlamsbard]

THAT WAS TOP-NOTCH HOWARD STARK I'M THRILLED.

MCU confirmation on Howard and T'Chanda (T'Challa's grandfather) being pals and T'Chanda giving him the vibranium, and Howard still managing to be exceptionally weird about Steve and being the one to break through to Bucky while being exceptionally weird about Steve, this is the happiest What If has ever made me and probably will ever make me. (that was def AoU Thor though, sorry about...your entire planet being wiped out?)

*Captain America theme plays*

#what if spoilers #my needs are...well actually pretty high but I can be easily placated with certain things and this is two of them #bedlam watches the mcu #what's funnier is that they didn't even TRY to make howard not be a terrible father #on a scale of hank pym to ego he is smack dab in the middle I guess (the role of good dad is played by hank) #I'm also so relieved they didn't make peggy be the one to talk bucky down by talking about steve #that role SHOULD go to howard stark #(no talking for peggy when she could be shooting things) #bedlam watches marvel's what if