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it's gonna be MAI (2023)

#avatar: the last airbender #atla #atla mai #prince zuko #lol #it's gonna be may #meme

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A while ago it was a trend to draw this screencap of Tamaki. I wanted to join in 🤧💖

I finally touched my busted computer again, it has been not working as well and part of the touch screen is broken. I love paint tool Sai 2 but using my computer is a hassle 😭. Where can o petition to get an app for Sai.

#ouran high school host club #host club #tamaki suoh #pretty art

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#it's gonna be may #lol #memes

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#kingdom hearts #strelitzia #lovely art

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#it's gonna be may #memes

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I know I’m a few years late to the Gravity Falls party, but I can’t get over how effectively the Ford reveal flips the switch on Stan’s character. From what little I’d seen of the show on Tumblr before I watched it, I’d always assumed Stan was a pretty one-dimensional sleazy con man. And since it was a series aimed toward kids, I kind of assumed Stan wouldn’t get that much development or story outside of Dipper and Mabel. I figured if he did have an arc, it would be the pretty common “gruff bitter loner guy who doesn’t like people gets kids and learns to love them” storyline. 

And for like the first half of the show, this kind of seemed to be the case, aside from the mystery surrounding whatever Stan was hiding in the basement.

And then the Ford reveal / backstory happens and you see Stan in a completely new light. 

Stan isn’t a con man because he wants to be. He’s a con man out of necessity - first because he was kicked out of his house and forced to make it on his own at 18, and then because it was helping him work to bring his brother back. He doesn’t just run the mystery shack because he likes to lie to people and swindle them out of their money - he does it because he needed a way to make money and keep the shack while trying to figure out a way to reopen the portal. He has a fake identity because he needed to keep people from snooping around looking for Stanford and the easiest way to do that was to take his place.

All the things that make you think he’s selfish and shady throughout the first half of the series are revealed to be because he’s a desperate, heartbroken man who wants to bring his brother back. He isn’t the traditional gruff guy who doesn’t love anyone until some rambunctious kids come into his life at all - he loves his brother so much that literally everything he does is to get him back. And he lies to the kids in an effort to protect them and keep anything bad from happening to them like it did to his brother.

Great twists / mystery reveals don’t just take the story in a new direction - they cast new light on everything that has come before. And Gravity Falls does that so well.

Just look at one of the first episodes in the series where Mabel makes a wax figure of Stan and Stan appears to fall in love with it and mourns it when it melts, going as far to host a funeral for it. Without knowing Stan’s backstory, this whole storyline just feeds into our view of Stan as a self-centered, ridiculous person. It’s ridiculous he would cherish a wax figure of himself. It’s so egotistical that he would host a funeral for it when it died and get honestly choked up about it.

But then you learn that Stan lost his twin brother and that whole storyline doesn’t really feel like the story of a selfish, egotistical man anymore. It’s the story of a man who felt like he got his brother back again momentarily and then had to lose him all over again.

That’s an effective twist. You can’t learn about Stan’s backstory and then go back and view him the same way you did before it. 

#gravity falls #pines twins #meta #well said

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Zukka!!! :)

#avatar: the last airbender #zukka #pretty art #atla

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#it's gonna be may #memes

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#captain america #stucky #patrochilles

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(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#tumblr polls #the bed obviously

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River, oh river, flow gently for me!

Such precious cargo you bear!

Do you know somewhere he can be free?

River, deliver him there

#the prince of egypt #pretty art

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you know what’s a pretty cool moment of growth for kairi that i haven’t actually thought about until now? the fact that kairi went from “sora let’s take the raft, just the two of us!” in kh1 to literally running and physically stopping riku from leaving when he tried to in kh2.

i believe that riku and kairi were jealous of each other and worried about sora leaving them for the other. they never had the chance to resolve that between kh1 and kh2 with everything that happened, so it would’ve made sense for them to feel the same way. or at least for kairi to since she had forgotten about sora and probably hadn’t processed those feelings with him gone. so it would make sense for those feelings to resurface once she was able to remember him again. riku, on the other hand, had convinced himself he couldn’t even face sora anymore so it makes sense for him to have let go of those feelings for the most part.

riku was walking away, letting kairi and sora be together. it could be like kairi wanted on the pier that day, just the two of them with riku out of the picture. he was holding that reality out to her on a silver platter and she could’ve taken it. but she didn’t. in fact, she physically grabbed him to make sure he didn’t leave and that kept him from isolating himself again. if kairi wasn’t there, riku would’ve left and maybe we would’ve never seen him again. a far cry from her attitude in kh1.

she matured and i think it was shown in a good and significant way. i wish kairi had more moments where she develops as a character that aren’t inherently tied to sora and riku and she was allowed to grow more as a character, but i like this moment a lot

#kingdom hearts #kh meta #kairi #character analysis

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"Enjoy the sodium desgraciadas"

#tikok video #glam kitchen #lol

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Portrait of Josephine Cherette Montilyet, Ambassador of the Inquisition

#dragon age #da:i #josephine montilyet #amazing art

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The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.

#kingdom hearts #sora #amazing art #wow #just wow

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Thank you for everything,

my champions 💙💜

#yuri on ice #ice adolescence #victuuri #pretty sketch

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Turtle Ducks ^^ Took my time to create a more detailed piece in the last couple of days! I recently rewatched Avatar and really enjoyed all the scenes where Zuko and Iroh were featured! It made me so nostalgic, so I decided to paint this as an homage to these awesome characters! Hope you like it :)

#avatar: the last airbender #prince zuko #uncle iroh #amazing art