#Detours to happiness

[transmechanicus]

My off the cuff cosplay selfies from the way home bc i was too busy Doing Things yesterday to take anything more professional😅

#my stuff #my face #i only got one person who could even tell what character i was but it’s ok it was my friend and it made me happy🥰 #denji csm #denji chainsaw man #csm #chainsaw man #anime detour #anime detour 2024 #tdov #trans

[vanivanvanilla]

hello! Vitalasy and 7 for the request if youre still looking for them

violet!, waterparks

#vitalasy #princezam #starfox #vitalazam #lifesteal smp #lssmp #asks #happy-mountain-goats #vans art #i prommy i didn't forget abt the music asks i j took some detours (got fixated on like 3 games in the meantime)

[kokokulto]

Preparations for Squidmas! 🎄🌟

#cuttletavio #dj octavio #captain cuttlefish #marie cuttlefish #callie cuttlefish #marie splatoon #callie splatoon #splatoon #splatoon fanart #splatoon comic #there was a longer comic but im still at the inking stage #this is a detour! #also merry christmas and happy holidays #and if you don't celebrate any event have a good december #also! this is a repost #for some reason the tags in the original one is broken

[mangatxt]

title: entanglements (11k words, 1/1 chapters, complete)

fandom: mob psycho 100

relationship: serirei (serizawa katsuya/reigen arataka)

details: rated e (please read all AO3 tags & author’s note before engaging), reigen pov, trans reigen, established relationship - dating, anxiety, humor, roleplay, it's not omegaverse and it's not werewolves, it's a secret third thing, (worse)

summary:

Despite his piqued curiosity, Reigen doesn’t want to make a habit of going through Serizawa’s desk. Even if finding it was an accident, relationships are built on mutual trust! If Serizawa wanted him to read the book, he would have mentioned it. Reigen should put it back. It’s the moral choice. He should pretend he never saw it. He definitely shouldn’t read it. He flips to a random page in the middle.

In a sincere effort at connection, Reigen gets a little stuck.

written for the legendary @kreauxlighe <3

#serirei #suggestive #fic updates #took a short detour from sad android to write the world's worst potato sack race #happy birthday jace!!!

[arschbiene]

Who do you ship prussia with?

Everyone ✌️

#hetalia #I just have certain preferences on how gilbert is written and what the dynamic is. #I will say I've never really been a ship based artist #I will get into certain moods and draw to make folks happy or feed the fandom or friends #truly i think i may just be heavily in my g/ermania mood for a while with occasional detours

[mihai-florescu]

Looking up from my notes on happiness as the pursuit of purpose vs utilitarianism and im confronted by them... i could just cry

#in the ex fine uniforms too... #anyway #the happiness notes were a bit of a detour from the main topic that was about archiving as a creative practice

[sophiainspace]

Oh for pity’s sake Len just shut up with the endless internal monologue and listen to your boyfriend

#why yes I am trying to wrestle ‘someone you can trust’ towards an ending #if a certain thief-turned-supervillain-turned-morally-grey-hero would just get back on the train towards happiness #and stop detouring at Backsliding Station #that would be really great #as Buffy once said ‘I’m tired of defensiveness and weird mixed signals - I have Faith for that’ #I’m about to steal that line for Barry out of sheer desperation #someone you can trust #coldflash #my fic

[peony-pearl]

Hi there, happy new year! I was wondering if i could get your insight on something. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Iroh sending Zuko to fight Azula & insisting it would be wrong for him to fight Ozai & also pushing the throne on Zuko. BUT it really rubs me the wrong way when I see anti Iroh takes that make him out to be so awful for this. I feel like everything Iroh does throughout the series comes from a place of love for Zuko even if he is flawed & can be messy & lazy & imperfect as a father figure - that’s what makes him interesting. But so much of what Iroh says in Sozin’s Comet Part 2 (to me at least, as I re watch the show) almost feels like…, not Iroh the Character speaking but almost just the writers using Iroh as a narrator if that makes any sense?

What I’m getting at is - do you have a take on Iroh’s motivations & what was going through his head during Sozin’s Comet part 2? I want to know what you think his perspective was because I feel like you always have good takes about what was going on in Iroh’s head & I have trouble reading him during a lot of this episode.

If you don’t have time, no worries. Thanks for often sharing your insights on this show as well as your beautiful fan art & writing. Hope you’re having a good start to 2023!

Ahhh thank you for this ask!! And I totally get where you're coming from.

I feel like Iroh insisting Zuko take the throne is a continuation of their discussion from The Avatar and the Fire Lord. While there are so many things left unsaid/not dealt with when it comes to Iroh, he probably doesn't at all feel like he's worth the crown. That and he's already stepped aside for so long, he could be realizing his complacency, his inaction, they've all piled up and now look at the mess they're in. He is not ruler material. Maybe he once was, but that's long past - and yet that's silly bc Iroh seems to already have the vibe that it's never too late to correct your wrongs.

I think Iroh is just... done with his home nation. The connection is gone. Iroh is loathed in the Fire Nation and has not had his name cleared in the rest of the world since before defecting. What would it look like politically for him to pop back up, fight/kill his brother who had been ruling for 6 years and had imprisoned Iroh, and then just plop on the throne? Even with the Avatar's blessing?

Ozai had to fall from the Avatar himself (granted I would have liked it if Iroh showed up to help Aang or something)

Now, going onto him sending Zuko to fight Azula, this is indeed where things get messy. One would think it's just as bad for Zuko to fight Azula when Iroh won't fight his brother - but I don't think Iroh intended for Zuko to KILL Azula. But Azula was going to continue her father's regime when crowned; even if he fell. There are a lot of things going on as well that they may or may not know, such as her mental state, what's going on with her banishing people at the palace; the hardest pill is that Azula is following through with plans set by her father to actively hurt an entire world.

The Fire Nation royal family is at the helm of the entire war.

Azula is a tragic product of it, as much as her brother, as much as her uncle, and yes, as much as Ozai. She has to be neutralized (not killed, just stopped) before she can keep following her father. This is it, this is endgame.

If Ozai has to be killed it's because he's LEADING everything; he's THE Fire Lord. Azula just needs to be stopped.

But I do agree that there's some really weird choice of words and plots. Iroh tends to get a lot of lines that sound great on paper, but in context it's like 'wait this doesn't sound helpful at all'.

ULTIMATELY though, Zuko becoming the Fire Lord, imo, is the best in the framing; although it would have been nice to see him question it more before suddenly wondering before speaking to Iroh. Let him question his desire for the crown, for the weight of it; let him reminisce on life in Ba Sing Se as a normal teenager. The royal family is in such shambles, there's almost nothing left of them. Honestly, neither Zuko nor Iroh nor anyone from the current family should have taken power over the Fire Nation - but that doesn't fit the bookends/Zuko's written story. Again, if there had been more self-awareness of the absolute fractured nature of the family, Zuko could have grown from his desire for the crown and found himself and I think with some newfound wisdom he could teach Iroh a few new things and that would be a great fresh start for their relationship and they could both go helm the Jasmine Dragon and Zuko gets, you know, a LIFE.

I think Iroh had good intentions naming Zuko, the next generation, someone who broke out of the chains of their family, the next Fire Lord, the one to lead the Fire Nation out of the war... but we don't even know what the Fire Nation itself thinks of Zuko, or the war for that matter. I mean, the prison guard Ming was pretty favorable of Iroh - but I have a notion it's shorthand for the viewer bc Iroh is supposed to be 'a good guy' by that time and having someone be genuine with him softens the blows of his time at the prison; but it would have been neat to learn that maybe Ming came from a family that favored from his time as a general and she was kind of blinded by that bias. Maybe the 'mean' prison guard had beef with Iroh because of Ba Sing Se.

I'm sorry I keep getting sidetracked (kinda like Iroh's writing ayoooo) but like yeah; I feel like Iroh's come to terms with the fact that he would make a poor leader (and yet the comics shove him into the interim Fire Lord position); but it would have been nice if he'd stuck around for a while; at least for Zuko's coronation and to make sure he had a good staff/council/updated the Fire Sages. There's a lot of stuff in S3 that breaks my heart with Iroh; some of it is on a good plane, but the execution is, admittedly very weak. I don't think Iroh meant to put more divides in the family that weren't already there, but I can see how it's interpreted that way. There's a war and he's picking the side that he feels is just.

It's the same when Azula shot Aang down with lightning - she's fighting on her side of the war.

Iroh knows she and Ozai must be defeated. He's fighting on his side of the war.

When Zuko asks Katara 'want to help me put my sister in her place?'

it's a heartbreaking echo of 'I'm about to become an only child'

The only reason Iroh and Zuko 'win' at the end is because they come out on the same side as the Avatar after they help defeat their own family. Iroh and Zuko are alive and well. But their family is not; and I think no matter what they did, it was going to end up that way.

#Thank you again for the ask! #EDIT: Happy new year to you too!!! #Sorry I always end up going on these rides bc my brain likes to take every single detour and trust me there could have been more lmao #Iroh

[ducktracy]

masterful direction as always from Tex Avery. amazing how much potential this has to dive into an unfocused, busy, cacophonous mess but nevertheless remains perfectly coherent, controlled and rhythmic (and funny!)

#and a happy birthday to Rod Scribner who animated this! #lt #cross country detours #avery #vid

[the-innefable-idiot]

i blame capitalism for people complaining about kinnporsche not having a plot

no i won't elaborate

#kinnporsche #yes i will elaborate in the tags #not everything must have a purpose not everything must be Created to be Consumed and Analyzed #not everything must have an endgoal and not everything must be a crescent unfold of events #we must detour we must take breaks we must stop and look at some trees before keeping the journey #looking at a tree won't physically help you get to the final destination but it will help you connect to reality #and give you new perspectives in life #there's no point in grinding and not enjoying life. you will work and work and work and then die without enjoying a single thing in life #and i mean ENJOY like. being genuinely invested and happy about things #why am i going fake deep in the kp tags? because episode 8 was given to us not as a plot device but as a break to enjoy the trees #a moment to breath and enjoy things for enjoyment sake before everything goes to shit and the plot moves forward #this is a mafia show. kinn and porsche have to literally detach themselves from their reality to enjoy each other as dates #because their reality is all about doging bullets (literally and figuratively!) and they can't afford a moment of stillness in it #so yeah stop wanting everything to have an Outcome and Serve a Purpose and enjoy things in life in a more hedonistic way #in this house we love and indulge in hedonism #kp #and this is connect to capitalism because not everything has to be Optimized for a Profit

[sunsetbandwagon]

fuck you *colours your bandori panels*

#bandori #⚡|| a quick detour #bandori edits #bandori manga #bang dream girls band party #bang dream #roselia #morfonica #hello happy world #kokoro tsurumaki #mashiro kurata #ako udagawa #lisa imai #sayo hikawa #yukina minato

[airesgay]

Are we…… are we actually getting sapphic keeley ??????

#Jodi !!!!!!! #the service she is providing #I know Roy and keeley are endgame and I’m happy for that but omg…… never expected this little detour #ted lasso

[kits-shrine]

“It’s lovely to meet you both,” Alyssum grinned as she took his offered hand.

Tamashii easily pulled her up on her feet as the others gave her a smile. Seishin picked up Touma for a cuddle as Kagu spoke in a warm tone "Pardon our intrusion. We were on our way to Hotland when Seishin happened to catch sight of you and thought we should say hello."

#aizawasluckylady #he saw their Souls about to cross their path #so took a small detour #he's happy they did #haha

[arthur-r]

song of the week or something like that

#dw i’m actively walking to the bus stop for class i’m not procrastinating just being a weirdo walking with my phone #guys i haven’t even written my new declension chart ONCE. i have never written it on a piece of paper #we get to pick one test per semester that doesn’t count so this will probably be my one #which sucks cause i had a 31/40 that i wanted to use that for. but i think this one is gonna be significantly worse #not my fault that i’m failing my other classes and neglected this one. except for it literally is my fault #anyway growing up was never part of the plan (/ly) what the heck do i do now!!!! #chase petra has been single-handedly pushing me through this week #also — i was supposed to go to the happy fits this week but i said no no no i have to go to school #here i am skipping school anyway!!!! out of town anyway!!!! i could have made a detour on the way #but whatever. they aren’t even the same band anymore. it’s like when casey shea was in tally hall but 2/3 of the band is replaced #so it would be a very strange experience. anyway i’m at the bus stop now and waiting #okay the bus is here. i have to learn my stupid demonstrative pronouns and i just. never got around to it #idk. wish me luck. maybe i’ll ace it or something. at least we’re also conjugating facere…. #hope everyone has a good morning and i’ll be back at 12pm central once i’ve safely boarded the bus home #me. my post. mine. #delete later (probably)

[thebeautifulfantastic]

mulder and scully look so sad in season 5. i am diagnosing them as being in need of a good night's sleep and a kiss

#there’s like. several main emotional beats throughout the season and they kind of become more unhappy as the season goes on #cause we start out with redux which is of course intense and mulder is being very affectionate with scully who thinks she’s dying #and then to wrap up the cancer arc we have detour where they’re just happy to be alive and working together again #and scully makes a few attempt at starting a more serious romantic relationship with mulder too but he doesn’t exactly respond in kind #(that’s a whole other post to unpack) #but in the post-modern prometheus they seem pretty happy still AND THEY DANCE #but then the emily arc drops (devastating) and scully pulls away a bit afterwards #then there’s a series of cases where they’re a little bit distant #mulder’s in his own slightly dark headspace during patient x/the red and the black #like. okay #they’re not unfriendly or cold with each other #but there is this sobering realization #this ‘i am in love with you and you are the most important thing to me but you have also cost me everything’ #they know they’re in deep and there’s no going back #but what adds to the angst and underlying sadness is that all this goes unsaid #they’re masters at dancing are the truth (in the words of maisie peters) #which now that i say it is ironic because so much of their mission is to reveal the truth #season 5 is peak repressed feelings #the x files #meta finding tag #msr #belle speaks #txf liveblog #belle liveblogs #txf s5

[pauls1967moustache]

one of the funnier things about me succumbing to beatlemania after already being a lifelong fan of their music as well, is that I moved to London three years ago and still haven’t gone to abbey road. I did a whole trip to liverpool—a place I have been to before!!!—but not abbey road, which is a £5 Uber from my house.

#I had to go to a client meeting with my boss in St. John’s wood like a month ago #and considered asking him if we could detour #but I can’t think of anyone I’d rather experience beatle derangement with less than my boss whom I hate #anyway. I’ll get to it. #happy abbey road day!