#look at him oh my lord

[onlyzhuyilong]

#he is glowing #look at him oh my lord #zhu yilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #주일룡 #Cannes 2023 #idk if it’s because of the French air or just zhu yilong is that gorgeous but I am extra smitten with him these days respectfully smitten #my gifs

[localceilingdevil]

pools of gold (pog...)

oh to be an iterator crammed into a small box after nearly killing an ancient ... only to transfer its conscience into a slugcat and run wild like a rabid animal ....

#guau que chidooo #look at it gooo #pools of gold (pog) #any pronouns #rw yolk #rainworld #rain world #art #doodles #slugcat #slugcat oc #rw iterator #iterator oc #scug #i genuinely love him so much oh my lord??? #please appreciste this complete creature i am so amazed #iteratorsona #slugsona

[kotzwinkled]

stupid stupid hair.

#WHATEVER. I DONT EVEN LIKE THEM THAT MUCH. #his hair was cut with a fork are you kidding #i forgot his eyeliner oh good lord #adrien agreste #marinette dupen chang #emonette #emodrien #paris special #he cried his mascara off bc no one understands him #my art #miraculous ladybug #he looks so naked without it. i’m sorry all the layers are already merged

[canisalbus]

Baby Machete is everything to me, I just imagine him running to do an errand in town and clacking a stick against a wood fence and seeing this Lil baby man with his hard earned allowance wanting a treat. (I cannot draw dogs I'm sorry)

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#good lord you cannot do this to me #holding him in my palms like a baby pigeon #oh dear. oh dear. gorgeous #look at him he's having such good time #really liking the movement of his robes in the first piece by the way #very flowing and natural #and the wonky puppy ears in the second #that's so precious auh thank you! #gift art #onetiredwitch #own characters #Machete #would you sell this small bread enjoyer (1) sweet roll?

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 209

Now Jason was planning on, well, a lot of things, when he came back to Gotham. He had a lot of plans, several of which had to do with the old man and even more that had to do with cleaning up Crime Alley, making it safer and all that. 

What he was not planning on was to find some sort of lab in the basement of where he was planning on setting up a safehouse. Nor was he planning on finding several literal children in cages inside said lab. Oh and Lazarus Waters- but children! With muzzles! Being experimented on!

Now he’d like to say he had a plan in what happened next, but if he’s honest everything had gone Green and he didn’t remember what happened next, only that he’s back home with said children and covered in blood. Oh and everything smells of smoke. 

… And apparently there’s more of these things dotted around Crime Alley with the rest of these kids, er, siblings? Family? Fright does mean family? Okay kids, he’s not turning into Bruce but you can stay here while he deals with this… however long that takes. 

He better not be turning into Bruce he swears-

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Liminal Class #Ghosts are Dragons #Halfa Jason Todd #Not that he knows that #The kids are sticking with him because he registers as Safe #And look they WERE teens but they’re not anymore and they’re TINY and in an UNKNOWN space with only like half their memories #They’re taking what they can get #Jason is very concerned the first time he witnesses them going partially dragon (even if they can’t do a full transformation yet) #He is freaking out way more when he Does fully transform in one of the later labs with no warning thx to one of the scientists shooting #something at him #Now the Bats are scrambling to find out about Hood because this no longer looks like crime lord bullshit #and more like a non-human entity whose offspring has been stolen and is attacking to get them back #Well from what can be seen from the Ecto spikes messing with tech #Jason has no clue how he ended up taking care of 13+ (why do you have so many shadow clones Kwan) children #Jason: Oh god my hoard is children I can never let anyone know #His Merry Men: Okay this is the safest person to leave our kids with and work for he would very much kill for any child #New Goon: Okay but are we gonna talk about the- #Merry Men: No we don't talk about the fact that he turns into a giant dragon and if anyone asks No He Doesn't

[essektheylyss]

One thing that I feel is really interesting and often forgotten about Essek is that fundamentally, his characterization has been from the start based upon his desperation for external perspectives and connection, which, along with much of his narrative and mechanical positioning, means that he actually has an extraordinary and almost (but not actually, as I'll show) counterintuitive capacity for both growth and trust.

(Buckle in. This is a long one.)

In particular, I would argue, knowing now that many places where the plot touches Ludinus have long been marked for connecting back into the current plot, that he was quite possibly built as a prime candidate for radicalization by the Ruby Vanguard. He felt isolated from his culture, he was desperate for other connection, and he was certainly of the type to believe he was too smart to be drawn into such a thing, given his initial belief that he could control the situation and the fallout. If things had gone any other way, he easily could've been on the other side by now.

As such, he has been hallmarked by being fairly open to suggestion, perhaps for this reason, but the thing about that kind of trait is that it is both how people are radicalized and deradicalized. This is certainly true of Essek, who experienced genuine kindness and quite frankly strangeness from the Nein and was able to move from the isolation the Assembly had engendered to meaningful and genuine connection, largely propelled by his own internal reflection. By the time Nein are aware of his crimes, he's already begun to express regret to an extent and, furthermore, doubt in the Assembly, including explicitly drawing a line against Ludinus, even in a position where he was on his own and probably quite vulnerable.

Similarly, when the Nein reach the Vurmas Outpost some weeks later, he has moved from regret for the position he's ended up carrying a heavy remorse. This makes sense! He's fairly introspective, seems used to spending a lot of time in his own head, and was left with plenty to mull over. It's not some kind of retcon for him to have progressed well past where the Nein left him; it just means he's an active participant in the world who has done his own work in the meantime.

This is another interesting aspect to him. I've talked about this a bit before but I cannot find the post so I'll recap here: antagonists in D&D have significantly more agency than allied NPCs. Antagonists are active forces, against which the party is meant to struggle; allies are meant to support the PCs, which means they tend to be more passive in both their actions and their character growth. Essek was both built as an antagonist, in a position that gives him significant agency, and also was then given significant opportunity to grow specifically to act as a narrative mirror for Caleb's arc. Even when he becomes a more traditional D&D ally, he still retains much of that, though he occupies a supporting role.

I believe that this is especially true because of the nature of Caleb's arc, which I've already written on; the tl;dr of this post is that Caleb is both convinced that he is permanently ruined and also desperate to prove that change is possible. Essek is that proof, because he is simply the character in a position to do so. But this also means that his propensity for introspection and openness is accentuated! He has to do the legwork on his own, for the most part, because that's where he is in the meantime.

But he still ends the campaign necessarily constricted; he is under significant scrutiny, he's at risk from the Assembly, and he goes on the run fairly soon after the story ends. He spends most of the final arc anxious and paranoid, which is valid given the crushing reality of his situation. It would be very easy to extrapolate that seven years into this reality, he would be insular, closed off, and suspicious of strangers, even in spite of the lessons he's learned from the Nein and their long term exposure.

So seeing his openness and lightness now is surprising, but at the same time, given this combination of factors in his position in the narrative over time and his defining traits, it's not by any means unreasonable.

But one thing that I found so delightful is how much trust he exhibits, which is obviously a wild thing to say about Essek in particular, given much of what he learns is both earning and offering trust, which was something he says explicitly in 2x124 that he's never really experienced: "I've never really been trusted and so I did not trust." It makes up much of the progression of his relationship with Caleb, and the trust that he is offered by the Nein in walking off the ship is the impetus he needs to grow.

But I think it's easy to talk about trust when it comes to people who have proven themselves to you or to whom you've ingratiated yourself, and that's really the most we can say about Essek by the time he leaves the Blooming Grove. There is this sense in a lot of discussion of trust (not solely in this fandom) that it is only related to either naivete or love, but there's far more to it. Trust at its best is deliberate—cultivating an openness to the world at large is a great way to combat cynicism and beget connection instead. It allows a person to maintain curiosity and be open to experience, but it can be incredibly difficult to hold onto.

It is clear that the Essek we meet now is a very pointedly and intentionally trusting individual. He trusts Caleb and by extension Caleb's trust in Keyleth, as he shows up and picks up a group of strangers from a foreign military encampment and walks in without issue. He trusts the Hells to follow his lead moving through Zadash and to exhibit enough discretion so as to avoid bringing suspicion upon all of them. He trusts that Astrid will respond well to his entrance, but he also trusts himself and the Hells enough to execute a back-up plan in the case that she doesn't. In the end, he even trusts them enough to give them his name and identity.

He doesn't scan as someone who has spent half a dozen years living like a prey animal, afraid of any shadow he runs across in an alley, withdrawn into himself and an insular family, which would've been an easy route for him to take. He scans as someone who has learned the kind of trust borne of learned confidence and a trained eye for good will and kindness, which are crucial weapons one would need for staving off cynicism in his circumstances—as if he has survived thanks more to connection and kindness than paranoia and isolation. (If we want to be saccharine about it, he scans quite poignantly as a member of the Mighty Nein.)

So it is easy to imagine this trust and openness as a natural progression of his initial search for perspectives external to his own cultural knowledge. Though he makes those first connections with the Assembly to try to vindicate his personal hypotheses, he finds in them exposure to the deepest corruption among Exandrian mortals, which could've—and did, for a time—turned him further down that same dark path.

But it's also this same openness to exposure from the wider world that allows the Nein to influence him for the better, and in spite of the challenges he's certainly faced simply surviving over the past seven years, he seems to have held onto this openness enough to move through the world with self-assurance and a willingness to extend the kinds of trust and good will that he has been shown.

(I would be remiss not to mention that I was reminded about my thoughts on this by this lovely post from sky-scribbles and their use in the tags of 'light' to describe Essek's demeanor this episode, which is really such an apt word for it.)

#something something hope is a weapon hope is a discipline hope is a garden to cultivate!!! #HE'S SO GOOD HE IS TRULY EXEMPLAR OF THE WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF THE NEIN AND I DO NOT THINK THAT'S AN ACCIDENT #truly just like. enormous proponent of letting trust and curiosity into your heart regardless of the horrors. #it's hard and it makes you more vulnerable and sometimes it hurts so so much but it will also save your fucking life! #cr spoilers #critical role #essek thelyss #cr meta #I was gonna apologize for the length but I'm not sorry. I'm also not sorry for being insane about him but he's so special to me. #head in my hands he's so GOOD HE'S BEST BOI! GUIDING LIGHT NORTH STAR!!! LOOK AT HIM!!! #also truly if i had two nickels for a span of time with no essek sightings where I wrote a lot of fic #with deliberate personal acknowledgment that I was writing some pretty maximal arcs for him in terms of character growth #and then end up getting essek for half an episode and having to go OH WE'RE GOING THAT FAR ACTUALLY. FUCKING INCREDIBLE. #yanno. two nickels. but good lord I am thriving that it's happened twice #augh this is ONE of the pieces I need to write this week. we're not gonna talk about it

[ovaryacted]

Y’all…I can’t rn…please…somebody…send help…

#ovaryacted thoughts #leon kennedy #leon scott kennedy #re4r leon #re4 separate ways #re4 remake #I wanna fuck him so bad #oh my fucking god #lord have mercy #holy moly #I can’t #I actually can’t #I can’t shut up #PLEASE LOOK AT HIM FUCK

[eddieswh0r]

H e l p m e p l e a s e

📸: Claireguillon

#joseph quinn #dior #spring/summer 2023 #paris fashion show #joe quinn #joseph quinn smut #eddie munson smut #oh lord #fucking look at him #just fucking end me #i want him in my mouth #inside me #hahaha #please

[hooned]

nunu & his cute cap 🧢

#enhypen #enhypenet #*jelly's #kim sunoo #sunoo #i still know how to make gifs yey ! #look at him oh my god #his smile oh dear lord i'm crying

[marlenacantswim]

David Tennant Smoking in Fright Night (2011)

bonus:

get it bc he's smoking hahahaaahaha

#i've said it before and i'll say it again: it sucks that smoking is unhealthy and smells nasty #bc oh my lord does it look so attractive #delicately holding something in your mouth while curtained in roiling smoke??? #streaming from your face as you breathe??? #whatever. anyways i need peter vincent. i need him. he'd make the perfect trophy husband. #and if i can't have him then i need david tennant to take more roles where he dresses like this. and wears eyeliner. #because holy fucking shit oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god #running my mouth #made this with my hands #david tennant #fright night 2011 #fright night #peter vincent #cw smoking #cw blood

[argentphoenix11]

Ladies and jellybeans, I have found something rather... awesome.

LORD SHEN'S 3D MODELLER POSTED SOME RENDERS ON HIS ARTSTATION!!!

Look at that pretty tail!

And of course, an awesome fan-like tail. Can't beat that peacock!

For the link to Andy Harbeck's ArtStation, or rather the post that these are from, check out https://www.artstation.com/artwork/blP8Kv !

#lord shen #kung fu panda #kung fu panda 2 #peacock #kung fu panda 4 #oh my god #new renders #he looks like he wants to sneeze #adorable peacock #albinism #love him to death!!! #shen

[kateksmallcuteowl]

Thanks @helenvader for reminding me about this scene in men at arms. Needed to reread a book before I’ve drawn this, but finally it’s ready;)

Unexpectedly Havelock has a new robe-design here. Lol.

P.S. First time I did something on Discworld that is apparently NOT VetVimes content 😅 Hope you like it)

#lets talk about Leonard being an unexpectedly good ADHD representation #Moist was good but not exaxtly THAT type of a man #and the fact he also has Vetinari’s therapist-friend-priesoner energy #I honestly like Leo so much #and his scenes in jingo were iconic #And a strange-smiling Mona Lisa is also such a discworld thing #I know there was another thing at book but I couldn’t help drawing THAT #Oh and Havelock is such a kitty here #I just think of him reacting to Leonard’s new inventions as I react to new ✨bugs✨ on the street #I also hadn’t draw anything in chibi style for awhile #it’s just so relaxing #✨macht mir spaß✨ #p.s. #I’m still anxious about how my sketches look but I promised myself to talk more and post more ‘unpolished’ arts this year so here we go #eat this social anxiety! #P.P.S #discworld #havelock vetinari #fanart #lord vetinari #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #ukrart #men at arms #jingo #leonard of quirm #adhd #procreate #artists on tumblr #digital art

[mattitvdes]

guys. 😂😂😐😦

#.ೃ࿐ elle speaks #matt sturniolo #how does he always look good with a lil blue light on him #SAVE MEEEEEE OH MY LORD IM UNSTABLE

[zephyrchama]

Today I learned that Barbatos is roughly 5 and a half inches tall. Thanks, Google.

#ah yes. from the acclaimed anime “lord diavolo's loyal servant.” #wait. pilot?? someone is piloting barbatos?? OH its a gundam #obey me! #omswd #obey me barbatos #obey me #man was my headcanon WAY off. figured he'd be at least two feet tall. #[this is a joke. this is all a big jolly laugh. im 93% sure the height is referring to a doll of him on amazon.] #i wanted to look up some stuff about him for drabble ideas and found this instead

[klaotaku]

Crosshair Girlies rise in honor of the last episode

Like or reblog if you're a crosswhore

#the bad batch #crosshair #tbb crosshair #star wars #i love him #clone trooper crosshair #fandom #tbb #bad batch #crosshair tbb #crosswhore #this is everything #im in love #hes so #look at him #oh my lord #Tbb last episode #clone force 99 #star wars the bad batch

[lesbiansforboromir]

"If Tolkien were here he-" "Tolkien's intent was-" "Tolkien would be rolling in his grave if-" "You soil Tolkien's vision when-" "-which was Tolkien's whole point when he wrote-" "Tolkien would actually support x social issue-" wooooah there bucko.. buckeroono, buckyboy... was Tolkien your fucking dad? Your priest? Was your uncle a Tolkien? Was Tolkien literally without moral fault? No? Then please ask yourself #1 how the fuck you would know any of that and #2 why the hell you should even care in the first place. Love is love, stories are stories, discuss Tolkien's work without invoking him like some kind of avenging angel of literature 2023. He's literally just a guy.

#tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #text post #BEGGING you #saw someone be like 'so many people don't think of feanor as a nuanced character and I think tolkien would find that so disappointing' BRO #he's not looking over our shoulders checking our work!! we're not reading tolkien shit just to make him proud!! why are you guilting #people about making tolkien sad oh my god