#but especially his magic man ;; —

[undertheredhood]

jason todd is much like a typical dad in the sense he will share something extremely outrageous that had happened to him/he did out of nowhere and will never speak of it ever again no matter how many times he’s asked to elaborate.

#batman #jason todd #jason peter todd #jason wayne #jason peter todd wayne #jason todd wayne #the rest of the batfam: what do you mean you digged yourself out of your grave? #do you think they know about his birth mom selling him out to the joker? #jason todd was never the angry robin #most of the time it happens by accident but sometimes jason will say something just to stir the pot #jason todd is the biggest instigator alive and i stand by it #batfamily #batfam #batfamily shenanigans #just wait until they find out he’s dated slade wilson’s daughter because i think dck especially would be appalled by that one #dick grayson is so done #jason todd is one a one-man mission to stress everyone out #i don’t think they know about the all-caste either or about jason’s magic swords either #the rest of the batfam: what do you mean you have up your most treasured memory? #everything i learn about this man is wild #they call up zatanna or constatine for help one time and they’re like “’why don’t you ask hood for help?’ and the batfam collectively goes 🤯 #jason is the main reason why bruce has so much gray hair #jason goes from being this normal kid to being super overpowered within the span of 3-5 years and i love that for him #jason is the family cryptid #jason will share something about his past thinking nothing of it while everyone who’s listening to him talk is staring at him in horror #i don’t think anyone knows that jason has gone to heaven when he died #though jason’s memory isn’t quite reliable until he’s dunked in a lazarus pit #jason todd shenanigans #jason was never the angry robin

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking thoughts about Abuela being back and with this backstory about her being taken in by charlatans and Eddies whole catholic guilt thing and how the two things kind of play into one another as an exploration of faith and being taken in by something.

Abuela giving all her money to the tarot card readers etc because she was searching for something - for connection (with Abuelo) - trying to recapture what she had lost, and How Eddie has spoken about trying to re-find the magic he had with Shannon - how Eddie hasn't actually fully reconciled the Shannon of it all when it comes to relationships and how his Catholic guilt connects into that.

How Marisol as a physical representation of Catholicism is part of that narrative - how Eddie is entering a place where he has to chose his path - in order to move on from Shannon he needs to fully square the hole - catholic or non catholic. And how that needs to happen first - before he can begin his queer journey!

#this is so incoherant #I'm also thinking about how Marisol fits into this narrative and how this idea of being taken in or fooled by a person plays into what we #know of her - how she wasn't upfront with Eddie (not saying she had to be right from the off but before moving in!!!) - how she is kind of #representative of secrets - especially around faith and ones connection with faith because she is essentially a stand in for catholicism #which (sorry to all the catholics out there) peddles in magic and secrets in order to keep the mystery of faith alive and therefore keep #people believing. How Eddie's reckoning with himself and the ghost of Shannon ultimately means choosing either to follow the path of #catholicism or non catholicism #How Marisol is a tie to religion and therefore his reasons for not having successful relationships after her (or even with her) and how #Eddie letting go will ultimately mean letting go of Marisol - how he can never fully move forward while catholicism still lingers #how I don't' think we'll be seeing the queer aspect of this narrative this season - that dealing with this first part is key and only once #he has figured it out can he then be free to know himself - is true self better - and accept and move into his full self as a queer man #so yeah - catholic guilt arc 7b and 8a - as its really a two parter - finally dealing with the remnants of Shannon - and its connection wit #his faith and then when truly free of that exploring his queerness! #So yeah - Marisol will possibly be here until towards the end of the season because she is meant to be the trigger point for Eddie in #relation to Shannon - its why they made the difference (and similarities) between S and M very obvious in 7x01 #they have the time to build this story arc more fully now with the s8 renewal - to do it justice and unfortunately as part of that it means #she'll probably be around longer than any of us would like! #I don't know if I even make sense at this point #but I do want to reitterate that the show is goig out of its way to contrast her with Buck as well #to really show how close and right for each other Buck and Eddie are so no one needs to panic - she's here for the narrative not forever! #911 abc #911 spoilers #eddie diaz

[kateis-cakeis]

You know, something something Arthur desperately wanted to see the good in magic at any opportunity he was given.

When Gwen was first accused, when he first met Morgause, when he wanted to save Uther using magic, when he saved the woman from being burnt in that small village, when he was given a choice by the Disir, when he was determined to save Gwen from Morgana's dark magic...

(Honourable mentions include when he saved Mordred and argued with Uther about the Druids being peaceful (they are magic adjacent after all) - and well, given the second honourable mention being his remorse for the raid on the Druid camp when he was young, it's understandable that it comes from some sort of trauma. And of course, the result of that remorse was the promise that he would do everything to prevent it ever happening again, and that he would treat the Druids with respect. Hell, even with Kara he was respectful, even though she committed actual literal treason in the form of an attempted assassination of Camelot's king)

Of course, at every opportunity, Arthur's view that there is good in magic, that not all sorcerers are evil, that perhaps his father was wrong, or that his father had lied, ends up being proven wrong, at least in his eyes.

Time and time again Arthur is shown to consider magic as a more neutral force, like almost as if he's desperate for it to be true. It isn't even necessarily his fault that the opinions about magic and sorcerers that Uther taught him becomes reinforced once again.

The fact that he can even think critically about magic at all is a miracle alone. Like this man who has only ever known sorcerers to use magic for evil purposes, to destroy Camelot, attempt to assassinate him, attempt to assassinate his father, to harm those he cares about - and yet he still he still falls back on, what if magic can be good, what if we're wrong, what if, what if, what if--

And it's only when magic itself reveals himself to Arthur that he can finally see that yes, magic can be good.

Because if Merlin is good, if Merlin is the same person even with magic, then magic is neutral, and sorcerers aren't inherently evil.

Arthur was always going to accept magic, that's the thing, that's hardcoded into his character, he just needed the right push, and that push was always going to be Merlin.

Because as Arthur dies in Merlin's arms, blanketed by magic itself, he accepts that even with all of Merlin's magic, his life cannot be saved, magic cannot save him.

But he accepts it, and accepts Merlin, and he dies having brought about all that Merlin ever dreamt of, truly dreamt of, that Arthur would see him for him, and accept him and his magic. And more than that, what Arthur truly ends up doing is embracing it.

Arthur for whatever reason, perhaps because he was born of magic, perhaps because his soulmate is magic itself, perhaps because he has a heart of gold, wanted to see the good in magic at any given opportunity that presented itself, even though with all that Uther taught him, he never should have seen it that way.

It's just, it's so fascinating, and it's so heartbreaking that when he finally knew, he died. But he'll return, and I'm sure then he can build something better with Merlin, really bring magic back to a time that needs it :)

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #i tried so hard to make this into a short post #but essay mode activated and i tried to stop it i swear :P #i try not to make every post about Arthur a straight up character study but i fail every time #just be glad this post is this short #i had to stop myself about halfway through from going to far into analysis mode #anyway i was thinking about writing this while trying to sleep last night #and i just had to get it down i love Arthur so much and i feel like he deserves more credit for thinking so critically despite there being #no evidence or reason for him to ever do that with magic #i love him the man fascinates me #and I really just wanna wrap him in a blanket - especially as like idk once he returns and finally gets to process all that he did #believing in his father's lies

[precautionarypeapod]

Does anyone else lay awake at night, thinking of the beautiful and horribly terrible tragedy of Shinji Hirako, leaving you in tears every time?

The amount I cry over this man is ridiculous.

#bleach #shinji hirako #I love him #the betrayal he faced breaks me #he lost everything #ya'll might think im exaggerating but I'm not #I sob over this man multiple times a week #especially when I take my medical magic mushrooms #for depression funnily enough #and I don't want to stop crying over him either #he deserves to been seen even the pain beyond his smile #i know im obsessed and thankfully my wife is cool with it

[snowshinobi]

nothing gets me like a character with overt flower symbolism ESPECIALLY self-inflicted

#this post is about #lyney #choosing to use rainbow roses instead of lumi bells for his magic tricks from now on #bc he finds out lumis represent farewells. and rainbow roses represent passion. and he wants to hold onto his connection with #the main character who he's hopelessly gay for (either in the homosexual way or the bisexual way depending on the gender of mc) #but pla tag other characters and ocs and tell me their flower symbolism so i can be unwell about them too #snowswords #Genshin Impact #flower symbolism #i will tag my ocs now #onphora #gets daffodil bc ofc. they are lethal to everyone who isn't (found) family. even then they are stingy w trust/affection ... #tam #tammy #choses lilies bc she holds them at the funeral for a man she hated. flower of fuck you. flower of i do whatever i want especially now #flower of ... doing the right thing. i will mourn you but not bc you deserve it. alsooo lilies can be speckled (: like tam's freckles #elis #hmm i would give elis carnations. white ones w purple dye (: fun n cheap n accommodating n kinda tryhard flowers. but you love em for it <3 #i should assign more flowers to more OCs. i'll add them as i come up w them #OH i assigned #relin #who belongs to #cosmic #magnolias. ancient plants (relin's lineage is important) that represent endurance. that man sure endures ... #OMG I FORGOT I ASSIGNED #senjuro #SUNFLOWERS BC HE IS A SUNFLOWER. HIS LOVE WOULD BE TOO MUCH! HE WAS LEFT IN THE DUST ... and bc he's a sunshiny kid. my poor boy ...

[illiana-mystery]

Anyone remember Strange Magic?

Well, for those who don't or have never seen it, it's a jukebox musical fantasy movie from 2015 that was produced by Lucasfilm.

Previously, I mentioned Alfred's opening narration which you can listen to here.

But did you know he also played the Fairy King, who is the father to the two main characters?

#i wish he had a name #i'm sure i could come up with something though #if i was to give him the fic treatment #where his storyline would kinda be like hotel transylvania 3 #but until then #the moniker fairy king will suffice #his dialogue is a bit cringe #and very outdated #but i still like this character #especially the design #i'm so glad they gave him chubb #and they made him an adorable old man #so that was a plus #fairy king #strange magic #animated alfredo #video edits #alfred molina #videos

[dent-de-leon]

every day I am in Agony over the fact that widomauk is the first kiss of the campaign, Caleb kissed Molly back in the very end, the literal last scene between King and Caleb is them flirting and King is still so utterly enamored with his Magician, and I just wish...there was any mention of those feelings in the wrap up or a q and a or anything. Absolutely begging Taliesin to tell us what Molly/King feels for Caleb--why he chose to make King's last moments on screen him being explicitly attracted to Caleb, and whether we will ever get to see him revisit those feelings one day...

#widomauk #it just. makes me so sad #i want to hear taliesin talk about king's feelings so bad. what caleb meant to him. why he went with That as his final scene in the campaig #and i feel like we've gotten to hear liam talk so much about caleb's unrequited feelings for jes and things like that and I just...wish #we got some sort of conversation like that from tal or liam #also the 'CALEB. SOFTNESS AND LIGHT' COMMENT THAT MOLLY HAS ABOUT HIM IN THE NOVEL. OR THE FACT LUCIEN #AND KING AND MOLLY HAVE ALL FLIRTED WITH CALEB AT SOME POINT-- #caleb being the person who fought the hardest to get molly back in that final fight. how he kept reaching for him and breaking through #lucien's control #and what that means-- #i dont know if i should feel silly or ridiculous for hoping we get to see taliesin address those feelings one day #but like...maybe this ship just hits different from someone who watched early c2 live and the way this ship was treated then #the episode right before molly died being so full of little adorable moments between the two. all the potential #seeing them get the first kiss of the campaign #matt even making their little minis kiss-- #all the missed potential and loose ends and the feelings they never got to share #would give anything to hear taliesin talk about everything king still feels for the nein #but especially his magic man ;; —

[active-mind-15]

One last headcanon before I leave this app alone for the night, but I bet Akashi feels so alive in stationary shops. He seems like the type to walk into one just to look at the pretty stuff. He also seems like the type to swear he doesn't need anything from the shop but somehow walk out with at least one pen to add to his collection.

#and he'll still tell you he doesnt know how it happened the pen just somehow appeared in his hand like magic its the only explanation #but i dont blame him because japanese stationary goes CRAZY #if i had $1000 to spend on stationary id levitate out of happiness #akashi is probably the same #especially with the way he studies i bet he blows through stationary like no mans business #all the more excuse to walk into a stationary shop i suppose #kuroko no basket #knb headcanons #akashi seijuro

[kavennnn]

coil ch

edit: tumblr stole half of my tags so i put a bad version of the second half of what i was trying to say in my notes :( sorry

#magic and mystery #m&m coil #this one was actually sweet tho #kinda mad that lockhart's getting any credit at all but what can ya do #i think i would be more destroyed if blaise actually killed him #hhow tf did he actually find the chamber tho??? #like what could make you guess there??? #i hope that gets answered #cant remember how he found out in the hp books either #think he followed them????? maybe??? #but he took too long to have followed them in coil i think.. so idk #but it was an incredibly sweet ending #and i like that we got to see ginny's love for chaos form #if allegory writes another year then that year will be insane #especially w/ percy and pansy now in the gang too ??!! #man the gang is going #and again i predicted since early coil that by the end of coil pansy would join the gang #i believed in her #dad snape is back again and thank god too #obviously the pm is gonna mess w/ their relationship #but yk #him getting his name cleared and not being able to do anything abt it im happy but worried abt him going home #how are they even gonna end the year off??? will snape pomfrey and mcgonagall rlly let him go home #theyre gonna have too right?? #also the diary is still in play and im concerned #but for now we have a ch ending on a nice note #ALSO I FINALLY GOT MY BLAISE POV ID BEEN CALLING FOR AWHILE NOW #surprised it took this long and that it didnt address things i thought it would #it was good and it made since for him to be thinking like that in the moment #but i rlly want him to atleast address pansy's arm getting broken eventually

[rayjayoo]

here be my lmk sona/oc, based off of the black handed spider monkey!

currently, he goes by “ray” :))

#ray art #lmk sona #lmk oc #lmk oc art #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #i’ll go more in depth with future art but gist of him is that he was born from a very strong storm and the fallen branch of a maple tree #which resulted in a little baby monkey demon with immensely powerful wind magic :D #the wind magic is important to take note of #especially with his backstory :))) #he’s also known for his shapeshifting abilities #mans likes shapeshifting a lot :P #got a few more monke ocs i need to design so look forward to those hopefully >:] #ive oh so hilariously nicknamed this group the “atla squad” and you’ll see why despite them not being related to atla in any way KEKW

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway prohibitedwish dark medieval mystery drama au. The story is interjected every so often by prismo and scarab arguing over what should happen next

#random thoughts #adventure time #over time scarab learns to accept when things dont go his way (especially when prismo has a very good idea) #and prismo gets help working through his depression through the beauty of creating with another person (euphamism for gay sex lol) #hey prismo why do you want to collab with scarab hmm? to create life with another man? pretty gay it does seem #anyway in the beginning they argue because scarab wants stuff to go his way #and prismo keeps bringing up bad ideas and wanting to put jake-esque characters in everything #prismo is. not very creative #anyway their universe ends up following a sheriff and a self-declared wizard in the late-12th century (so around robin hood times) #as the sheriff hunts down a group of bandits #(prismo ends up really liking the bandits and thinking the sheriff sucks balls for hunting them down and scarab's like you just dont get it) #the self-declared wizard is very much a conman hawking snake oil (i do NOT sound like that is. very commonly interjected by prismo) #there is no magic. prismo keeps trying to put magic in there. scarab keeps shutting him down #scarab ends up trying to kill off the wizard for a dramatic moment and prismo gets upset about it #'it's a tragedy! it's supposed to be sad!' 'but WHAT IS THE POINT??? it's just tragedy for the sake of tragedy!' #'if your plan this whole time was to make me upset then congrats!!! you made everyone's friend prismo upset. im gonna do something else now' #prismo disappears and scarab feels. bad. it doesn't feel good. #eventually prismo comes back in to apologize for getting too into the story and leaving in a huff and shit and surprise!!! #the wizard is still alive! scarab LISTENED and he CONCEDED and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BABEY!!! #now the ending of the story they were trying to tell is more bittersweet instead of a full-on 'everyone's dead or sad' thing #btw the sheriff and the wizard end up kissing and prismo and scarab are both VERY awkward about it #scarab still likes dark edgy stuff but he recognizes the universe he created with prismo is a SHARED project and he's been kind of a pill

[pippuns]

xuanwu's dumb paper mask is so funny. i want to shove him into a locker

bonus:

#tai sui #太岁 #tai sui spoilers #ts xuanwu #xuanwu #xi ping #hello im back from finishing the storm beings #pippart #xuanwu is literally so funny #he shows up as this ethereal all powerful being #but he is just so lame #he wears a dumb paper mask he enchants to make expressions for him because he hates that he looks identical to his brother #nevermind the fact that his brother has been in seclusion for centuries and centuries #no one is going to recognize you king #he literally goes out of his way to magic his paper mask into making expressions because he needs people to know when he's feeling bitchy #local man has the worst brother issues anywhere and decides to make it everyone else's problem. especially zhuoming. #amazing #obsessed with his visit to tao. guy doesnt know how to exist. i want to push him into a mud puddle #im gonna keep on posting ts until i convert all of you guys. please. please. please.

[dreamyprinx]

I bring to you, actual art but it’s me trying to replicate my friend @spaceshmuck’s art style

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#whimsy whispers #crystalart.png #others ocs #strand von zarovich #curse of strand #space tag #GOD this was so difficult and I don’t even feel like I did that good a job but it was also fun #also hi I’m not gonna shut up about my art program crashing and this corrupting right as I was almost finished with it I need people to know #that the universe tried to stop this from existing >:| I did not spend hours going ‘is this how it would draw hands’ and cursing myself for #the damn art to not see the light of day #anyways please look at my friends art it’s SO good like god I’m jealous of its art style and character designs >:’) #like literally such lovely art y’all will check it out because I said so and my word is like law or whatever #I’m like writing these at 4:25zm on a Monday and like this won’t even be posted for another week or so but like #sorry if I’m especially stupid rn I didn’t wanna go to sleep yet so I’m saving drafts and listening to off the wall magical! on loop #y’all should also check out junie & thehutfriends because I find their music fun #just listen to me when I tell you to look at ppls art because I have good taste okay? you can trust me I’m holding your hand and we’re going #to have fun I prommy #also please do not talk about the background it was one of the things I was gonna work on when the art program crashed #the only thing I fixed after that was minor mistakes like not colouring in buttons #anyways ily pretty vampire man and ily my dear friend who’s art style vexes me 💖

[talentforlying]

me wobbling constantine llike laminated paper: ooooo you are so starved for approval and too proud to ever voice it and too afraid you'll never get it so you throw yourself full-body at the worst problems humanity and hell can conjure up and make yourself look at the things that you know will haunt you because you think if you manage to win on a dramatic enough scale then maybe you'll at least earn some approval after you're dead, oooooo

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #i've cracked the fucking code i've figured it out #john: i did not ask to be the problem-solver but while i'm already HERE let me burn myself down at both ends to fix it. no reason why #thinking about how even when he knew & accepted his dad was shitty & abusive he still tried desperately to earn his love #even After his father was killed he still tried to appease the old fucker and still felt awful leaving him in hell (where he BELONGED) #thinking about how he is always trying to solve his friends' problems for them as quickly & easily as possible #or placing himself in a leadership role when working with members of the magic community. especially the rich ones #like he needs to prove that he does belong with them and is worthy of being listened to #he is so Starved for validation for all he has done and gone through and sacrificed and he will always be trying to fill that void #i'm still so busy don't perceive me. but do perceive This bc i'm thinking about it Endlessly #( character study. ) A WALKING PLAGUE OF A MAN. #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.

[arttrampbelle]

Plz as a shang tsung tsimp.

Plz don't treat my mans completely soft. Dont declaw him.

I mean shang tsung can be fluffy,even a sad wet cat. But.....for the love of god people dont forget he's a villain.

Don't wimpify him to add nuance.

He can be sympathetic and you feel bad for him without destroying his whole point of his character.

I hc and it's practically shown even in canon too tho not as well defined that. Shang tsung is liu kang's opposition. He is the yin to lius yang. The darkness to the light. Liu is everything that shang could have had or been. And liu is everything that he could become.

God! I could go on forever about this.

But please if you are gonna like shang tsung. Love him at his bastardness or dont fucking love him at all!

Like we can add a sweet side but dont forget that the snake bites. And is venomous af. And this is ONE DANGEROUS SOB!

Shang tsung tsimps. simp responsibly plz.

#mortal kombat #shang tsung #self ship #shang tsung mortal kombat #self shipping #not really a vent more so just my thoughts lately #dont fucking tumblr brand uwufy my sneky husband!!! 🔪🚫🔫🔥💀 #like shang tsung can be soft even respectful honorable and sweet but dont forget he's a villain and a dark sorcerer who steals souls #shang tsung is one badass mofo and he can love his beloved and be sweet with one hand and steal the souls of his enemies with the other #the man has two hands ffs #but yeah i mean we can have a sweet side without declawing the sneky magic man ok?! #villains having nuance and depth doesn't mean getting rid of what makes them well them and why we love them as a villain in the first place #especially shang tsung #long tags

[goatpaste]

"Wrote a transgender man as being in a woman's prison and misgendered him" This is such a stupid take lmao that was the point. Its 2011 Florida. The asshole prison doctor misgenders a trans person who was being put in the wrong prison. The main character didn't react past seeming confused then positive. It's not framed as a good situation. It still happens. What a westerner moment of media literacy lmao. Guess araki is a transphobe. Never read other shonens you'll get a heart attack lol.

I'm literally about to start charging 50 bucks for you guys to send me ask like this to my inbox

#ok buddy and the rest? #the racism #the misogyny #the inaccuracy to his characters and fashion and behaviors despite whatever time period their in #and their magic ghost #did araki NEED to write a scene where a trans man is misgendered in a womans prison and suprising jolyne for the punch line #was that super important to the plot #is the joke of trans ppl especially trans woman being shocking and the butt of the joke in a large part of shonen manga #making it ok? #does that fix the fact that araki probably just shouldnt have written it #that i a trans man who lives in america may not love seeing i t #or how jolyne was goin around call ppl queers? #are you getting your araki good boy poinrs defending him from critiques of his shit writing hm?