#but i had SO MANY thoughts

[pstelwitchcraft]

I see some of ya'll failing so horribly to understand C3 and it's driving me INSANE. This isn't about Gods Good/Predathos Bad, it is entirely not the intention of this narrative to say that the Gods are perfect, and while we can all agree whatever is locked up in the moon is most likely evil as fuck, it doesn't mean the Gods themselves and those who align with them haven't caused a shit ton of suffering.

It's not black and white, the story Matt has been weaving since episode one is a lot more complicated than that, and while seeing the characters grapple with making the right decisions amongst all the chaos can be taxing to some, it's incredibly realistic. Because at the end of the day, they are fighting for the world, they're fighting to save Exandria, and if that happens to mean they're also saving the Gods, then so be it, but that is not and has never been their goal.

Being upset at the characters or saying they are going Ruidus or that they're on the bad side now because they decided to help take down the temple that they know is literally oppressing a town into some weird catholization experiment is a terrible take. Because guess what?! Religion and the Gods in Exandria aren't perfect. They literally oppress and kill people.

Of course these characters are questioning whether or not they should be loyal to the Gods. Of course they're gonna try to grapple with what to do, literally over and over, as they're shown different facets of the relationship between mankind and the divine when the Gods lives literally lays in their hands. Because they aren't loyal to the Gods, they are honestly not even that knowledgeable about them, so we're watching them try to figure out what is right, what is moral, literally every step of the way. Like every goddamned adventure party does. But because their narrative is about so many important things, like religion, power, politics and quite literally what could be Calamity 2.0, people take every single thing they do as stance one way or another when it simply isn't.

They will always choose Exandria, the people, their friends, in the end, because that is the only unwavering truth about them. As Ashton puts it, they don't leave people the fuck behind. That doesn't mean the decisions they make or saving the world is going to be easy or simple at all. And it absolutely does not mean they have to like or support the Gods.

I wish more people would trust the process and remind themselves that this is an 100+ episode series, it's not supposed to go at Netflix mini-series pace.

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr3 #critical role spoilers #bells hells #critical role c3 #idk if i made sense bc im sleepy #but i had SO MANY thoughts

[serpentide]

doing that dash meme earlier made me reflect on serpent's anger and on whether or not she does hold grudges against those who have hurt and abused her and honestly the saddest realization is that she does not hold grudges, she does not even resent them for the way they've treated her.

↳ a prime example is the "pet snake accident" in which serpent ultimately ends up killing everyone with the aid of her python. but she does not kill every member of the family because they had used and abused her after buying her in the black marker as if she was nothing more than an object, she does not kill every member of the family because they had forced her to take part in snuff movies for years, she does not kill every member of the family because they had kept her imprisoned in their garden in a cage much too tiny for her growing body ... she ultimately kills them because her "owner" has made the unforgivable mistake of disregarding and making fun of her desperate pursuit of happiness which was the only thing that had kept her alive through all this pain and agony. serpent does not despise the family for what they have done to her, she loses control to her thirst for blood simply because they dare to wound what mattered the most to her: her hope to one day be happy.

↳ the same kind of explanation can be given for the "disappearance of phantom entertainment guests case", in which she ends up feeding unpleasant guests and customers to her now giant python. once more, she does not kill them because she resents their treatment, nor because she is wounded by the fact that they see her as nothing more than a circus freak, a pleasant yet grotesque diversion from the tedium of their every day lives. serpent ends up killing them because they cruelly laugh at her unhappiness and because they have the audacity to tell her that someone like her will never find happiness in this world. again, it is the sentimental wound of having her dream sneered at that makes her become violent and vengeful.

the truly heart - breaking point of this brief analysis is the realization that serpent does not resent the abuse that she has gone through for the entirety of her life because she has simply started to believe that she deserves all this pain and suffering due to the fact that she's not a human, she is a monster ... even less than a monster, merely a venomous snake. in order to unhealthily cope with the horrors that she was forced to face, she finds the fault in herself rather than in those who have indeed hurt and exploited her: by doing so, she retains the ability of reaching out to others, which is why she does not hesitate to offer her miraculous but treacherous ambrosia to them as a means to help every single person to reach eternal happiness, whilst accepting that someone like her cannot find happiness in this world.

serpent cannot hold grudges because she has deceived herself into believing that the ones who have hurt her had no other plausible choice. after all, who would treat a monster with kindness or tenderness ? who would allow a monster to sleep within their house, in a room beside their own ? who would want a monster to sit at their own table ? who would ever want to love and care for a monster ? although the most logical and impartial part of her does know that all the people that she has met in her life were indeed terrible and undeserving of forgiveness, the more sentimental and instinctive part of her cannot actively resent or hate them. in the end, i believe that she does not recognize abuse from love, they've always been one and the same for her.

#• ⸺ ﹙ `♡´ ﹚ › out of character . #i ... #made myself sad #there is so much depth in her character #and it's terrible ... #because yes she is indeed capable of killing #she is quite cold blooded in most occasions #but while she could have become a killing machine #her goal is still that of making people happy #( in the wrong way ) #so it breaks my heart to realize that she blames herself for this #she does not blame those who have hurt her #she blames herself and the fact that she has always been ... #different #different from everyone #SOIDJOWDJW #I'M SAD #I MADE MYSELF TOO SAD SOBS #idk this is very rambly #but i had so many thoughts #until i realized that it was becoming too long sobs

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

#sorry this was funnier in my head #but after i read that post I COULD NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT #gen z batkids is the most Cursed thing i've read today and i love it #at first i had so many Thoughts about how my brain CANNOT reconcile tim as anything but a 90s kid but then i read that line about damian and #i feel like they'd mess with him sometimes by randomly quoting memes in unison #almost started to overthink how in This Particular Timeline jason might have missed out on this meme because he was Not Alive #but for the purposes of this silly joke i choose to believe dates are irrelevant #that is all thank you #clarisse doodles #batfam #damian wayne #dick grayson #jason todd

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

#happy new year. it's been about a decade since dressrosa arc first aired #i thought i was well and truly done with that last edit but this struck me like a bolt of lightning #one last go at it to wrap up the year #also. to be fair to doflamingo: how the fuck do you predict or prepare for this shit #(small aside: dressrosa arc is so badly paced you would not believe how many eps i had to download to pull four minutes together) #one piece #op #CJ's op watch-through #CJ's edits #dressrosa #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #amv #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #lawlu #roronoa zoro #zoro #donquixote rosinante #lulaw

[ssalballoon]

Mystra showed him the secrets beneath the veils. The gossamer veils first, draped across the Weave. The delicate veils next, draped across her body. 'Chosen One' she whispered, as she slipped them off completely.

poor gale :'(

- the dialogue is from ea gale's explanation about his folly

- i kinda like that she ended up looking like a mother-of-pearl inlay lacquerware!

- oh this was a subconscious choice, but Gale is sitting in seiza which is a posture for showing respect especially to elders. it's also known to be a painful position to sit in for extended periods of time, which is why it was sometimes used as a method of (morally dubious) punishment. however, experienced people can maintain this posture for much longer. food for thought :-)

- (edit: deleted this point bcs it didn't really make sense + detracted from the art a little;;)

#also had other companion drawings w gale and mystra planned for this but none of them are complete... perhaps another day #mystra #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #my art #hm i dont have many opportunities to share my mystra thoughts so! #mystra is incredibly difficult to redesign and draw! I want to give her a fantastical element to her while retaining her austere aloofness #(her unassuming design is actually surprisingly effective in making her seem so effortlessly powerful) #I love spiderweb imagery and braids(weave) for her but braids make her seem so... kind? very soft? i'll try again another day... #is this seriously my last post of 2023. goddamn

[druid-for-hire]

[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]

a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury

#comic art #comics #original comic #chronic pain #carpal tunnel #tendonitis #my art #original #edit: what a delightful surprise to see this take off #this was made for class on very low fuel and very few thoughts and late at night and exhausted #the prompt was just a wordless narrative essay. three pages. and i had nothing and no ideas #and my head hurt and i was too tired to think about doing any of the like. research and mind mapping and ideating i'd do otherwise #but my arm hurt #so i decided to do a thing about arm hurty #i'm surprised to see so many people finding it resonating with them #but then again i shouldn't be. the universal lies in the specific #i should make more things about smaller stuff

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers #coming in well after the fact but that's what happens when the art doesn't cooperate #and i just HAD to draw something for vil's ob (re-ob?) because i loved it so much #legit put my hand over my mouth and went “oh!” when i realized what was happening #i thought it was just going to be an idia thing because. y'know. closing out his character arc from episode 6 and all #so this was like. oh! oh we're going to get ALL the inky boys!!!!! #i wonder if this is why we got a malleus flashback so early... #not to mention everyone's dreams?! #i am braced for 90% of the dreams to be kind of jokey/inconsequential because we have SO many characters to get through #and most of the time will probably be spent on our lads (literally) dropkicking their emotional problems #but i am excited to see everyone regardless! #and also kind of terrified! what on EARTH will floyd be dreaming about. do i want to know. #i do but do i want to. #man. they're probably not going to get back to it but i do wonder what silver's dream was #what was he doing when he was like 'wait a minute' and noped right out of there #lilia: here silver i made dinner :) #silver: oh boy this looks great! ...YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD #ouuuagh i'm still deep in the blotsauce guys and i'm loving it #come make snowangels in the ink with me it's great

[bicheetopuff]

I guess it’s this kids birthday so I’m gonna remind you what character development can do to a mf

He deserves to be happy

#bakudeku #bnha #bkdk #bakugou katsuki #bnha spoilers #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #I had so many other examples #I literally spent an hour trying to narrow down all the panels to just ten #I’m also posting a fic later but I still have to edit so I thought I’d post something incase I don’t get the fic done today oops

[tarvalian]

XII - The Hanged Man, Upright: surrender, sacrifice, faith, perspective

#hsr aventurine #Penacony #2.1 spoilers #honkai star rail #fanart #everyone's new favorite sad boy #i am no exception #i haven't had the fanart bug this bad since Zhongli #what is it with hoyoverse and creating men perfectly tailored to my tastes?? #i can't #i had no plans on drawing him or his intricately complex outfit #but then i had a thought #on how well this card fit him #and then i was doomed... #tarot cards #tarot #the hanged man #(no he's not dead. i really dont get why so many people think he's dead) #my art

[cappycodeart]

"The dead one! Yeah I haven't thought about her in a long time!"

A little theory I've had about Winter King's original motives based on his heartless comment about Betty and Ice King's original motives for kidnapping princesses in the first place...... clearly she gave off Bad Ex Vibes…

#adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #winter king #candy queen #princess bubblegum #ice king #betty grof #fionna and cake spoilers #adventure time spoilers #at spoilers #spoilers #fan art #digital art #sketch #2023 #SORRY THIS IS SKETCHY I NEEDED TO GET IT OUT OF MY SYSTEM. I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS JERKWAD #SO MANY QUESTIONS SO MANY THOUGHTS AND NONE OF THEM WILL EVER BE ANSWERED LOL #I say bad-ex in quotes I feel like I hc that this Simon definitely had some ego issues to begin with... #and whether betty left him or died in the apocalypse he held that against her and became resentful instead #after he became Winter King he grew out of it and stopped caring because he's having a fantastic time now #but PB has always been a subconscious reminder of Betty. Why else would he target her specifically.

[sadmages]

In my mind palace my tav and Astarion are playing the exact same game of 5D chess and they don't realize it yet

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 tav #my art #gabby plays bg3 #shadowheart #and #lae'zel #are also here #anyway tag ramble time just got the romance scene where you can hug him and on my knees.....this guy..... #astarion: hey i was kinda sleeping with you to save my ass but turns out im feeling real emotions now #matt marja: wtf. me too. this is so embarrassing for both of us we're idiots [tenderly hold hands] #i thought up matt for a campaign we may or may not play last year and deciding to play him in bg3 because i thought it would be funny #to put him against this guy who seemingly has many of his same issues. Best idea i've ever had. the emotional catharsis im experiencing #matt marja

[isjasz]

☀️⭐🌙👁️👑

This is the way you are supposed to play this game.

#dddaily4sherin #day 172!! #grian #smajor1995 #pearlescentmoon #itlwart #goodtimeswithscar #trafficblr #traffic smp #secret life #secret life smp #secret life spoilers #life series #my art #cw blood #i had so many thoughts about this but itll be too complicated to explain it #so ill let u guys analyze it and take it how u want💥💥💥💥 #(maybe ill change my mind and ramble about it later maybeeeeee idk BHASDAHW) #explodes. cant believe we can draw scar with all the winners now it still feels like a fucking hallucination

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

what a year the past seven months have been

#random thoughts with grace #my edits #taylor swift #tayvis #joever #funny #guys.....this may be my best ever post #i have spent so many hours making this #i started last week and then had to keep adding shit to the end flsjkdsklf #also shoutout to everyone who is in this as well as everyone who isnt #you're all the funniest people i've ever met #thank you for the wackiest year in all of swiftdom #i genuinely cant wait for next year

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The indescribable tension between an overworked and underpaid smut writer, and his biggest fan hater.

(for @frummpets)

#SVSSS #Shen yuan #shang qinghua #cumplane #Normally I don't tag with ship names but this one is a special case. #Confession time: When I first had SVSSS described to me I 100% thought the main pairing was between these two. #The dynamic is impeccable! Even if its 'just a fan ship' I stand by it. #Sorry to the people who like to think of them as handsome pretty boys. I don't. #These guys sit in their rooms and use the computer for 90% of waking hours. They are not looking after themselves well enough for good skin #They can be cute in their own way. People with acne and missed shaving spots deserve to have their romances too. #And sloppy hate makeouts <3 #Hi Sol! I truly did whoop and holler when drawing your name for the raffle! #You've been so kind and generous towards me and I'd happy to finally have the opportunity to give back some of that joy! #Thank you so much for all your support and the incredible fanart <3 You've made my day so many times! #I hope this silly mini comic is to your liking! #Playing around with colours for this one was a blast!

[cleric4vampire]

wyll.y.am ravengard, I love you so

everyone loves to put him in gold (rightly so) but my personal style is lots of silver jewelry + heavy eyeliner so that's what I gave him. also roses because he's so damn venusian

#wyll #wyll ravengard #bg3 fanart #bg3 #three color versions because I'm so damn indecisive. I'm experimenting with a more sketchy style and had a lot of fun with it #I have so many thoughts about wyll and his venusian qualities; how he embodies some of the truest and starkest aspects of venus #as well as its most painful and burdensome weaknesses #I could write an essay on it but I don't know how many people live in the intersection between bg3 and classical astrology. so I won't #also - I've had this sitting in my drafts for way too long and it was in danger of entering the ''I changed my mind I don't want this to #see the light of day'' phase so Im pressing the damn button #my art

[hannikin-grahamkin]

He's not my enemy. He is my homoerotic rival and if anybody but me ever tries to hurt him I will promptly kill them.

#hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #hannibal #this is applicable to many pairings so pls feel free to blorbo tag #this is just a thought i had while making up witty banter for a fanfic #nbc hannibal #hannibal nbc #hannibal the cannibal #i hate to say it but #drarry #draco malfoy #harry Potter #listen i hate her just as much as most trans people but the fanfiction is fair game #enemies to lovers #enemies with benefits #enemies to friends trope #nygmobblepot #idk how i didn't think of them #my loves #edward nygma #oswald copplepot #batjokes #bruce wayne #joker