#the connection they share is so powerful

[crispywizardtale]

#im a day late but i met ForceBook so i dont mind missing any of the 8 series im currently watching #but i have to talk about this #i was blown away by the chemistry this 2 give off #this was such a powerful scene #the way Phaya gasped and froze when he realizes that Tharn just kissed him is so well shown #but also the way he accepts it and just wants more wants to enjoy this moment and ge everything he can #its like a switch has been switched on inside of Phaya but also inside Tharn because its like he solber ups for a moment when their eyes met #the connection they share is so powerful #i kind of wish they kissed here of just a tiny peck which would be followed by heavy breathing and intenese eye contact #but i still love this scene a lot #i love how in the 1st ep it was Tharn who lost his cool and leaned back on Phaya while in this ep it was mostly Phaya (Tharn was drunk) #is anyone else freaking out over the forehead kiss????? #only me okay... #also after the last gif i need Phaya and Tharn to do it on the cauntertop at least once in this series #like imagine is shirtless Phaya lifts Tharn like that... #i gave myself hope now.... and if we dont get it ill be disappointed.... #i love this series so much its my all time fave airing now #the sign #the sign the series #the sign series #billybabe #billy patchanon #asian bl #bl series #thai bl

[preacherboyd]

Black Sails | XXXI

#james flint #madi #blacksailsedit #black sails #black sails 4x03 #tor gifs #the writers came for my throat with this scene #the way flint and madi are so connected... #madi quoting don quixote to him #DON!! QUIXOTE!!! #emphasizing their shared vision HELLO #so subtle but so powerful

[feluka]

been listening to refaat alareer's lectures on poetry on the subway and it's brought me to tears several times. i want to transcribe them and compile a document of all of them as soon as possible.

#there was this part where a female poet was referred to as '[name]'s sister' and he corrected it and said #to be careful not to restrict women to men's shadows even if these men are their family and #when i heard that i thought of that fuckface reporter who kept interrupting the palestinian speaker she was hosting #and she said 'you're probably not used to women speaking' #anyway. i love his words and i feel like i have more a connection to poetry than i've ever ever had through him #he said something very enlightening about resistance through poetry #and i don't want to paraphrase because i want to transcribe and share his exact words but god. god. i've never felt the power of poetry so #so strongly*

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Hero of Power my beloved punching bag ❤️

#my art #hero of power #Imprisoning war #I still can’t draw faces UGH #I’m not totally happy with this but I thought it was good enough to share #Thank you and special shout out to Oma for putting up with me constantly sharing art WIPs like an excited toddler LOL #this is the predecessor to HW Link so he had to have a scarf #Because Captain Link gets a scarf as part of the “hero garb” #Which you can either hc as Zelda adding a flourish to the traditional outfit #Or that the previous hero wore a scarf so this was their replication of it #I picked the latter option #Partly for continuity and partly because Sheikah attire in botw has a scarf too #So I thought it would be fun if our half Sheikah boy had that connection #Anyway I like his outfit ☺️ #He doesn’t like the hero hat so he usually tucks it into his belt #I just didn’t have energy to draw that lol #I’ll stop rambling now #I just realized I probably should’ve made his sleeves match his collar LOL this boy has too many layers on 🤣 #Whatever maybe I’ll fix it later #That tunic with the collar showing is too pretty and embroidered to be his sleeves as well just pretend it’s a fancy under tunic or somethi

[visceralhit]

The coolest thing about art is that you can just make it. Anyone can make it. All it has to do is be something you feel. Good, bad, Doesn’t matter. Only you can make the thing you’re making. Just do it. 

#really and truly it doesnt matter who you are or where you come from #I used to volunteer with schools and do an after school program centered on getting art to kids. but my structured activities were always #about just making art. Not caring what it looks like or if you get dirty or if your friends dont like it. Just make it #I think there's a lot of magic in that and im putting my sincerity in the tags bc maybe others dont car about my personal connection w it #but I think the thing is that everyone has experiences and thus everyone wishes to share them. art is a community. art is power! #that's so cool. You should make things. Pretty things! ugly things! anything you want things! #vpersonal

[whatudottu]

Presently going insane rn:

Anyway let me talk about the one question that I have been contemplating ever since I began rotating petrosapiens in my mind. How the fuck do babies?

If you caught the reblog before this post, you might have noticed that a post about fat in aliens brought me to think about petrosapien fat, which contradicts a lot of what I've already established for them being an exoskeletal species, let alone being a hard sell in the sci-fantasy of rock crystal people of canon. Turning to one of my two animal inspirations of petrosapiens - bugs and more specifically in this case insects - I found out that insects can't build up fat, not in the way mammals or reptiles can, BUT they store the most of it in a very significant stage;

Larvae!

Then it fucking hit me, I already made some early headcanons about child development in petrosapiens (though I can't remember if I posted them or had a post ready to send) where they were already in a metamorphosing stage, though the responsibility fell solely to the layer who would use crystallokinesis to feed an 'egg'. I didn't fully like the idea though mostly in retrospect, because it felt strange in the 'pulled out of my ass' kinda way, a method of child rearing that felt more obligated to use crystallokinesis as a primary source for feeding to sorta justify at the time the inherent power petrosapiens have towards crystallokinesis.

Instead, between then and now I fully connected the idea that crystallokinesis is less of a power and more of an extension of a petrosapien's nervous system, compression of quartz through the use of a more electrical based nerve network that happens to not distinguish between person crystals and the similar crystalline structures of Petropia. With this in mind and the new idea that petrosapiens have larvae, wouldn't it be so cool if the larvae had the typical Earth-like electrochemical nervous system of humans (or I suppose bugs here) that adapts to an electrical focused nervous system through the process of metamorphosis? Where the larvae creates it's petrosapien crystal skin by building a chrysalis and melting within it to create their new body?

Unlike my old headcanon where the layer had to remain with the egg and constantly feeding them with crystallokinesis, this larvae version can feed itself when provided and so long as the chrysalis is well protected, the moment metamorphosis stage takes place the parent(s) can have momentary reprieve from child rearing and better prepare themselves for the toddler/adolescent stage for their child. The little grub probably doesn't even eat crystals in the early stages of their larvaehood since eating crystals initially marks as the materials for chrysalis building before it becomes a nutritional food source. Instead the little grub might be feed plants and potentially animal products in order for it to inherit and develop the chemicals required to build a crystallovorous stomach and the acids used to break silica down into digestible nutrition.

That does mean that early child rearing is a little bit more functionally deadly towards the very crystalline parents, who have to legitimately watch so that their fingers aren't bitten off, but holding the little grub is easy when it's covered in silicone membrane. The larvae at this stage is a little bit more resistant to any crystallovorous plant secretions due to the polymers of it's membrane, as well as the higher diversity of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon in it's body it has in comparison to adults or adolescents who've undergone metamorphosis, their innards becoming a more uniform silicone and their skin being the crystalline silicon many crystallovorous stomachs have adapted to eat.

It also means that the shape of a grub is also considered to be cute to a petrosapien. Things from caterpillars to maggots look so much more charming to a petrosapien's eyes that back on Petropia there would be a large proportion of pet owners having what would considered on Earth to have bugs for pets. In fact, a rather common form of pet Petrosapiens might have would be a large millipede/centipede like animal that would be the size approximate of a feather boa and often held that way too, because while they do not undergo metamorphosis, they look like a larval grub well into adulthood and are considered to be very cute for it. Pet owners with these pets who are also parents love to see their little larvae and their 'dog' getting along and would love telling their adolescent all the cute stories of the little grubs curled up against each other. Petrosapiens in the age of the Surface Craze might have had the opportunity to get a few baby pictures like that, and it would be considered very cute unless you were a human afraid of bugs or not personally a fan.

Petrosapiens on Earth might see the miniature bugs and explode with cuteness overload, others might fuck around and find out that they can make human-petrosapien hybrids Makarat you chupacabra you're lucky petrosapien kids aren't born with crystals pay child support to your human wife who birthed a grub-!

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#petrosapien #ben 10 #xenobiology #at this point i only think about petrosapiens as bugs rarely as reptiles- maybe i should add more reptile stuff #like leathery eggs that the grubs eat their way out of yeah let's add that #since the larvae don't have powerful enough stomachs to eat crystals yet let alone the jaw strength #which looking at a grub you can see the vague body plan of a petrosapien #the opening face- the significantly more developed rear legs (present as 'swimmerets')- #you can (mostly) tell from even the grub stage that your kid's a guy or a girl because they even have the nubs for back spines in grub stag #even if it turns out to be an excess/lack of 'testosterone' or an intersex trait #it was their grubs that petrosapiens were even able to connect themselves to old fossil records- #an extinct shrimp or prawn type thing that shares similarities to their little grub- though already with armour or even exoskeleton #also this grub thing makes the crystal twins slightly less of a hassle at least for the still unnamed human mother because i suck at names #means lucía had a grub for a twin sister for a hot while- nor did the family have much in the way for crystal for blanca to eat #so instead of crystals blanca ate bones for her chrysalis and hey look she's bone white now which- oopsie osteokinesis #no matter all the crystallokinesis that happens is with lucía and oof ouchie it's scoliosis #well- replacing keratin AND scoliosis but woopsie #that should be in an oc post

[see-arcane]

Mina's incredible (and underrated) detective prowess would be very useful I bet. Put her on the helm Integra, Van Helsing praised her brains as being above everyone's including himself for a reason.

I honestly can't guess what the chemistry between Integra and Mina would be. Integra doesn't really click with me as a classically heroic character, for all that she does focus on saving humanity from the undead via Alucard and her forces, being the Boss Lady etc etc. She's miles away from being as insidious as an Amanda Waller, but...

The hotel. The fucking hotel will never leave me.

Yes, the order went directly against 'soldiers of the enemy,' but those soldiers had been lied to about who and what they were charging into. Which was obvious even without being a fly on the wall to know their higher-ups had fed them some BS to march them into death and win their own power grab from Millennium. She didn't tell Alucard to 'make it quick' or even just to 'neutralize.' She told him to search and destroy. Folding to Alucard's egging and negging to seem like a Worthy War Commander in the grand scheme~ of the plot

She's not heartless, exactly, but she is arctic and surprisingly quick to breeze past the loss of lives that aren't under her direct care/command. While she might respect Mina's abilities and investigative skills--I wouldn't be surprised if Mina could intuit Millennium's endgame well before the climax could happen--Integra inherited none of her ancestor's warm regard, supposing Abraham van Hel(l)sing had any of the original's tenderness in him (50/50 considering this takes place in aggro horror territory). We can't even say if this universe's Mina played any big role in cornering Dracula; she might just have been a targeted damsel.

All that said, I think Integra would see Mina as another time-displaced bleeding heart with a few useful skills, same as Jonathan. Someone to be an ally at best, a liability at worst. So I don't see her handing over any reins or offering to be co-girlbosses any time soon :c

#Integra is a good character #but not my favorite #Hirano let her look cool a lot and stand imposingly and smoke cigars #she got to shoot a few bad guys including the Major himself! #but the lion's share of development and interesting actions were all Alucard's and occasionally Seras' #I think the story kind of fumbled a lot of her potential to be more than Boss Lady who has cooler/more powerful people do stuff AROUND her #rather than let her really do anything herself without somebody else being the driving muscle/energy #Mina by contrast is ACTIVE #even working within the constraints of being a young woman in the Victorian era #she is hauling ass and making connections and paving the road to victory against Dracula himself #all while having a massively open heart that takes in so many people #like the rest of the original Drac Attack Pack it isn't just the loss of Lucy that drives them #she and Jonathan and Van Helsing and the Suitors all lock down on Thwarting Dracula #because if they just sit back and do nothing then He Wins and Humanity Loses--they became the OG Vampire Hunter Gang out of necessity #and goodwill #whereas Integra kind of just inherits Hellsing and its mission with the same vibe as someone inheriting Dad's job #maybe if we'd gotten scenes where it shows how she's handling the toll of running things; the sacrifices made in blood and its effects #I'd see more chemistry in potentia between her and someone as dynamic as Mina #but as it stands #I think Mina would just be another new accessory #anyway #integra hellsing #mina harker #dracula #hellsing

[notmoreflippingelves]

Obsessed with the dynamic (not romantic, not platonic, but a secret third thing--both and yet neither) between two characters who knew and cared about each deeply years ago when they were both younger and life was much less complicated.

But then, tragic, transformative circumstances separated them. Assuming that this separation was certainly permanent, because how could it not be?

And yet, somehow finding each other again years later, and sometimes they aren't sure whether the reunion that they once longed for with every fiber of their beings is a blessing, a curse, a joke, or a punishment.

Because they've both changed in the intervening years--largely because of the hellish circumstances that caused their separation. They've both changed completely and irrevocably, even if one of them has changed much more noticeably and dramatically than the other to the point of seeming a complete stranger. It is about leaning to see and appreciate all the things that have changed about the other and all the things that have not changed. It's about learning to reconcile beloved, often rose-tinted memories with the complex, yet-equally-compelling reality of the person those memories are about.

#it's the very particular sensation of loving someone who is both recognizably your beloved childhood partner-in-mischief #while also being someone so different (physically; mentally; and/or emotionally) that you can scarcely see their past self in them #and knowing the feeling is mutual #and also knowing that the only person who can truly understand the full extent of the change in you is each other #because their transformation is linked to your own #forged in and through the unique experiences that you shared and the way you were separated #it's the idealized adoration of youthful playmates/pseudo-siblings #transforming into a very different but no less powerful connection in adulthood #that's what really gets me #it's just #*chefs kiss* #estabalena #nahyupollo #jaydick #anyway this post is specifically about estabalena and jaydick #and to a lesser extent apollo/nahyuta #but it doesn't really matter if people tag and respond with other ships #even the narumitsus provided they recognize that not every post was made for them #it goes double for jaydick and estabalena tho since they each have two (2) shared formative and transformative experiences #that few (if any) others can possibly understand #for estabalena; it's the 41 years of suffering in the dark times and the crystal well magic flowing through ones veins #for jaydick; it's the experience of being "Robin' and feeling that the role and all it means was ripped from you too soon #and then it's the experience of dying and your family failing to welcome you back with open arms #because you didn't come back 'right' or quick enough #and that you 'chose' to stay away rather than circumstances forcing the issue #apollo/nahyuta also has the jaydick parallels in terms of bruce and dhurke #it's recognizing that your very human shared father figure failed you in many ways #even as he simultaneously saved you in others #he made you both the best version of yourself while also creating or enabling all of your worst tendencies #just

[homoerotvic]

the half of it and the beauty of quiet movies and the quietness of falling in love and the deep meaningful quiet connections that can happen between people regardless of gender and sexuality

#p #how deep and important and beutiful the connection and love can be between two people platonically #like connections between lesbians and straight men. it would usually sound stupid but speaking on my own experiences #its brotherhood but i am not really a man and not really a woman either and i feel like my connections with straight men are so unique #in the sense that there are no expectations there. like there are no expectations of sex. and when it comes to gender there are #no standards of masculinity/femininity to (even subcounsciously) compare or be compared to #there just are some guys in my life who i love so much and who i want to grow old next to and its such a blessing to be able to love them #in such a stress-free unconventional deep quiet unique way :-) #ofc i love queer friendships theyre so important in the sense of feeling understood and seen by someone without any question #without any words because of shared experiences #what im saying is that friendships with heterosexual men offer a very unique point of view of virtually no guaranteed shared experiences #and that is very powerful when getting to know someone #anyway paul and ellie <3

[gwynbleiddyn]

bg3 has truly given me a new lease of life on two of my old dnd PCs and that is a gift actually

#im being so normal about it #Dyn meeting Halsin feels like such a major catalyst event that i have to explore #from being a ranger in complete solitude because solitude is safe to relying on the shared power of other people to help is a big step #made possible by the fact that halsin understands the draw of aforementioned solitude. especially when it's nature that lures you in #i have so many thoughts #especially when dyn gets bitten by a lycan. THE NARRATIVE IS PROFOUND AND UNKNOWABLE. the wild does not stop being wild #and even when you love it it will still hurt you unexpectedly #in ways you are powerless to fix #and lyre... lyre i need to make first but i think he'll be a tiefling bard now rather than a goblin #which is irrelevant to the way he looks because he's an amorphous form at BEST #the only reason i can't make him a changeling is because i want his connection to the feywild to be more deliberate #less a bond of origin and more a bond of invitation

[catwouthats]

Okay I’m just gonna say it:

Y’all only want to vote for the lesser of two evils for your own comfort.

There is no promise for a good future for our children in any route that the USA government made.

In fact the children/young adults in America right now don’t even have a good future anyways.

Maybe just maybe if the system is so fucked that it’s impossible for a third party to win, that it’s genocide VS genocide squared, that it’s impossible for anyone in power to keep a promise…

the system shouldn’t exist in the first place, and it’s time for a new one.

#focus on building local community #focus on building connections #focus on building basic survival knowledge #if it’s in your power to formulate a plan no mater how small #do it #and share your ideas with others #I’m disabled so no matter which is chosen it will fucking suck and always has #tired of people who are ABLE to fight back NOT fighting back #radical left #anti capitalism #revolution

[lion-buddy]

i wanna finish this comic but im stuck on how im gonna draw puka/prims soul heart

#in an undertale setting btw. im still on this #i want them to be connected bc like. #i always interpreted puka as being an extension of prim. but like. still their own person #bc prim split their power between the two of them #so i like the idea that they share a single soul. bc prim gave half of themself to make puka #idk idk idk <3

[scattered-winter]

category 18 event (thinking too hard about the lions again)

#their paladins either dead or turned evil. separated from each other and scattered across the cosmos. #do you think they got lonely??? just sitting and waiting for their new paladins to come???? #do you think they could all feel red's fear when the galra captured her but without paladins couldnt do anything to help her???? #i hc that the lions are all connected emotionally to each other and they communicate w each other the same way #they communicate w their paladins. which is to say through the mindlink and shared emotions in the mindscape #but after ten thousand years of being so so so far away do you think they stopped being able to sense each other??? #of course they can tell that their brothers and sisters are there but their connection is muted like its behind a wall #they can feel each others' presence and maybe a twinge of shared emotion here and there but nothing more than that. #the connection theyve all shared for millions of years has grown weaker than ever and theyre so lonely. #and then maybe when the galra did capture red they could feel her panic and fear and anger and distress #but the connection was so muted by then that they were unable to see specifics. if she was ok. if she was in danger. #and man. just thinking about black having to deal with the fact that her pride is scattered and in danger #and there's NOTHING she can do to help them. they rely on her and look up to her but she's utterly helpless to help them. #with all this in mind its kinda poetic that the black lion can only be released from her hiding place w all the lions present tbh #because she's powerful. sure. but without her siblings she's just as helpless as anything else #IDK. IDK IF I THINK ABOUT THE LIONS TOO MUCH I START SPIRALING. #i know they were only sentient in the loosest terms in canon but FUCK ALL THAT YKW. THEYRE SENTIENT <3 #winter speaks #voltron #lions

[eorzeashan]

Eight has a lot of facets, but I'm still fascinated by his role as the shepherd to Jadus' flock--or the iteration of him where he accidentally becomes cult leader for the remnants of Jadus' followers after the war with Zakuul. In a meta context, he sees himself as the person necessary to test and guide all servants of Jadus in an effort to gather them all in one place and create a united understanding of the will of their master, though he initially is reluctant to even associate with Jadus' other underlings. Even as a retired 'Hand', he makes it his life's mission to interpret what Jadus left behind, becoming a sort of paranormal investigator for the life and works of this mysterious sith lord, as well as de facto leader of his followers who lacked guidance after Jadus' disappearance into seclusion.

One could call him the missing link to Jadus himself.

#do you ever inherit your boss' mission to change the empire while he haunts your narrative #do you also end up inheriting everything he ever owned with not even a footnote on what to make of it #do you spend your life braving the darkness of his mysteries to make use of it for the betterment of mankind #are you determined to face unimaginable terrors and questions to use the power of someone long gone and change a galaxy that has forgotten #both you and him #are you prepared to question why he left you behind #swtor #ooc #i'm just restating what i said about the bride of jadus #but his role is so important. in a way he does inherit his authority (what remains of it) to make lasting change #but not in the way he imagined #ALSO CRYPTIC INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER HANDS #when jadus leaves you high and dry and the mysterious other servant you didn't know about asks if you wanna solve jadus mysteries together #he's his lorekeeper the shepherd to his flock the caretaker of his life #he patiently waits for his return--even if that never comes #whatever. whatever #it's just. he's willing to lead others by the hand if they share something. but he's incapable of that without that connection #to this greater mystery that they all call jadus #or maybe. it's because he knows naught else in the absence of 'fear'

[blackpearlblast]

!!!

#esims for gaza #connecting gaza #this is the power of us collaborating together and sharing referral links in order to afford more esims #mogo wasn't letting me use my discounts so i had to email them -__- hopefully they will get back to me before my vouchers expire #but holafly is a lot more in demand than mogo from what i know anyway

[ledians]

ok heres what happens.

#saiki has that crush on satou throughout highschool. ok we know that. #thats one sided and it never goes anywhere #saiki and akechi go to the same university. and while im not sure if i can describe it as romance #they do end up with a Weird Gay Thing going on yk #but ultimately they don't actually end up in a long term relationship. they're besties tho #teruhashi actively chooses to try to live averagely like saiki. she definitely doesn't become an actress or that kind of famous because #she doesn't want to be heavily associated with her brother. and maybe after saiki reveals he had powers she's inspired by that idk. #she's still perfect and popular and stands out in a crowd and she gets extra angel points for trying to live normally #bc ppl go omg so humble we expect nothing less 🥺 #although aiming for average saiki likes comfort so when they eventually cross paths again as adults they get closer #neither are attracted to most people but they share an undying respect and appreciation for each other and #idk if they ever fall in love romantically. i suppose they could. but they do get married regardless because they're like #well we're both 30 and single and comfortably well off. might as well. but its not a bad marriage or anything they're both happy with this #and again maybe they do fall in love idk #this is what post canon looks like in my head and if you disagree... thats cool idc #saikechi is gay college shenanigans and a connection that doesn't die #terusai is predictable normalcy averageness. and thats fine