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#I'd go down with this ship
mortellanarts · 5 months
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Hm.... Do you hear something?
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Look at the details I put into this thang
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astragatwo · 8 months
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This is the delusion I'm going to choose to live in for the foreseeable future, I think. (Bonus doodle under the cut)
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strawberry-cowmilk · 3 months
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orchideae · 2 months
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1) Opens up drafts with my head empty, ready to be flooded, not knowing where I'll go. 2) 30 seconds later: Okay but I will go feral any day of my life over Perilous Trail, and the fierce dichotomy of Xiao and Yelan. While they're far from being 'the same', they both view themselves as soldiers in one way or another (it's a very difficult word to use for Yelan, so I'm using it very liberally and very loosely), they have both suffered losses on the 'battlefield' and carry the burden thereof in their own ways. And yet they stand so firmly in opposition throughout the entirety of that questline up until the very end of the 'the end of the line' conclusion of the quest. Yes, I know that she offers him her gratitude in its aftermath and it is genuine, but she still never agrees with him and the decision that he made moments earlier. It simply 'worked out' because of Zhongli's interference, he's the only reason it worked out. And it's because of that, that she doesn't give him a hell of a hard time (obviously she can't go down there, but imagine the inner frustration of severe extents; when you condemn someone who you can't even see anymore). In the same way that she would do to anyone who would sacrifice themselves for others, but in this case, I think it's 'beautiful' that it's to Xiao; the one who seems most adamant to do so (which honestly, fits into the contract that the Yakshas chose to sign with Morax; 'the ultimate sacrifice' to protect for Liyue; 'for Liyue', and Liyue has always centered itself around its people), the one who everyone reveres (and so does she, as she notes in her voiceline, 'if I ever have the honor to fight alongside') and respects for good reason, she stands against him, because in that moment, regardless of his status, he makes a call that she considers wrong. And he doesn't even... fight her on it very fiercely, and that's what actually hurts me the most, it's as if the following line hit the nail directly on the head?
"Besides, if you were really so determined to end it all, you wouldn't have given us the opportunity to share our opinions."
#[ mini study. ] that which hides inside her… that constant calling; it is the blood of heroes which has been howling for 500 years.#[ and then shortly after 'the point is: it's not time for drastic measures yet.' ]#[ /shakes ven into another dimension. ]#[ i thought the ost at the end of perilous ruined me enough. but tale of the yakshas may actually ruin me more. ]#[ also i love how i typed up the bit of the contract and 'for liyue' and zhongli in my head isn't rattling at bars but-- ]#[ he's sipping his tea (the equivalent). one day ven. i /promise/ you. one day you'll get him from me. ]#[ he'll likely be the 2nd genshin blog to run alongside yelan if/when i get to being able to run two again. ]#[ but until then. can we talk about the dynamic of xiao and yelan until we're blue in the face? i'd like to do that too. ]#[ i type this as if i'm perfectly chill but i'm not. i'm really not. the concept of self sacrifice and sacrifice as a whole. ]#[ BETWEEN THESE TWO. drives me /insane/. and part of me sits here and goes-- ]#[ god. what happened with yelan and her team down there? we know that despite every plan she ever made and prepared-- ]#[ their enemies (WHAT WERE YOU FIGHTING??) were too powerful and more specifically-- too smart. too calculating. ]#[ ... and too strong (okay literally what on earth were you fighting? are we talking the khaenri'ah soldiers? like what? or abyss mages?) ]#[ (but abyss mages don't exactly entirely fit the description in her story. ugh. UGH). ]#[ any way-- it was her and her team. /they/ all died and she didn't. yanfei describes it as... ]#[ 'knowing that your life was saved when others weren't'. surely the millilith didn't intervene or happen to arrive. yelan must've... ]#[ gotten away? or something? but that doesn't feel quite right. but i'm just sitting here left with the idea of... when you lead a team. ]#[ you bear the responsibility of even their lives. and yet despite bearing that responsibility; she's exactly the one who lived. ]#[ the only one who did. that has to be a /stupid/ burden. it's like the captain who has to go down with the ship but is the only one... ]#[ who gets to live. only one who gets to survive. i just. ]#[ i didn't think i'd love a character as much as this one. where did she come from; jesus christ. ]
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot - S12E01 “Three Act Tragedy”
Egg and Charles on their little sailboat.
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stellerssong · 4 months
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had a dream last night about a post-canon hadestown au where orpheus, deranged with grief, begs hades to eternal sunshine of the spotless mind him because he can't live with the guilt of his twofold betrayal of eurydice (he let her go. he failed to bring her back.) so hades strips him of his memory and transforms him into a black dog—one of his personal hunting pack, his errand-dogs and message-runners and border patrol. obviously a bad fit for orpheus, but without love or memory or anywhere else to go he has no choice but to fall in line and do his worst
meanwhile, eurydice is making ends meet as best she can in a hadestown struggling to return to the status quo after her failed escape—working during the day, plotting a rebellion at night on the sly with her fellow workers, and fighting to retain her memory and her selfhood and her very name as they all slip away under the underground's influence
scene opens on a workers' bar after hours, eurydice gathered with a few compatriots sharing drinks and talking strategy, when the door opens and a small crowd of silent, black-uniformed men and women with amber eyes and too-sharp teeth file in—
(does eurydice recognize the last man in line, his eyes too bright in his thin, gentle face and his hands awkward on his glass as he turns it around and around on the bar but doesn't drink? does he recognize her?)
(is it too late?)
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deoidesign · 5 months
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Hiya, I wanted to share a kinda weird story and ask a question. Just wanted to say you’re a very talented storyteller and I’ve been thinking of your work a lot. I ended up having a dream about time & time again last night where Steve tries to steal the American flag for a bunch of children. It was a pretty angsty dream but I still found it kinda funny because it seems on brand for Steve lol. Also, for those who can’t afford to buy the books on kickstarter, will there be other options to help fund? If the kickstarter succeeds will you list the books on your website or are they one and done? I hope you’re having a lovely day!
I love how the way you've approached this makes me unable to ignore the first part to be able to answer the second.
To start with the questions though, I'll be making a PDF people can get to help support (that will be included in all tiers)! It should be a fun item for any fan of the series... You'll also be able to get just one book instead of all 4 from season 1. I'm trying to plan some other things, but it's all still very much in development so I'm wary of committing too openly to it!
And I am planning to have the Kickstarter goal fund extra copies for me to put on my site and take to conventions, yes! So if someone can't support when it comes out, if it funds then they can order the books later, or find me at a convention with some copies!
I'm planning to be incredibly up front about the costs and processes by which I came to all my decisions, because I've made quite a few strange choices but I assure you they're all just in service of getting books out as soon as (and as fun as) possible!
And for the first bit, it's incredibly flattering to hear that you think about my work... And to the extent that it's invaded your subconscious! Wow! Depending on the context it's definitely something he'd do, complete with angst in a silly situation. Thank you for sharing this with me, I hope your day is kind to you.
#the pdf is going to be an activity book you can print out at home!#it's designed to be activities that line up with each arc#so youre meant to 'play along' as you read!#which of course is something that can be done without the books ^^#but im planning on paper dolls#maybe some crosswords#mazes#stuff like that!#no promises i haven't made too much of it yet... ive been uhh#busy with making the comics and prepping the books for print#its all been nearly a month of work so far#and ive nearly a month of work more to go#but im right about halfway and i think things are settling down!#as for the books... im planning to ship them out one at a time.#so its a bit more expensive for this...#but my reason for doing so is that I'd have to either do a Kickstarter for each book#which is WAY WAY WAY too many kickstarters theres gonna be like 10 books or something by the end of this comic#OR id have to wait a year to do them all at once.#so im going to put the shipping costs for one at a time#and then explain 'if you wait a year to get them all at once shipping will be approx this much'#again trying to be very very transparent about the costs of things#cause im trying to make it as inexpensive as it possibly can be...#but 4 books is like $100 pretty much any way you slice it :(#so im very nervous about it all succeeding#so im trying to add in as much as i can to hopefully help ease it towards success#cause also 4 books... thats like a 10k goal minimum.#very big project and incredibly scary!!!#anon#asks#Kickstarter stuff
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dollsome-does-tumblr · 10 months
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as a recent tedbecca shipper who was introduced to the show via your tedlassoposting, i feel i must offer you my condolences
i am so sorryyyyyyyy!!! forgive meeeeeee!!!!!
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scroldie · 1 year
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baby's first time f/oing a tragic character who dies without getting enough closure
(don't reblog)
#ugh its my 2nd time typing this post out bc my clumsy ass deleted the first one so it's not as Authentic with the feelings sorry#but i was just thinking... i'm kind of too embarry to say this cz i feel like i am being too cheesy sentimental again but#apropos ''which fav are u connected to with a red threat of fate'' i want it to be him#for the simple fact that maybe my presence and love can be so powerful enough to change the course of the narrative etc etc 😔😔#i was thinking abt this and how most of my f/os actually get good endings and then i remembered shinоbu#so technically he's not the first? i was pretty upset by her death from what i remember.#but i haven't talked abt her in a long while and she never rly became like my main focus bc it was at a time that i had a very long f/o#list and would hop from character to character between posts. which i still kind of do rn but i stopped doing that and would only#focus mostly on one at a time bc otherwise i'd feel overwhelmed#anyway that aside i also just think i outgrew shinоbu too quickly. she still means a lot to me and i'm still keeping my ocship with her#but i dunno if i'll ever feel comfortable enough to go back to self shipping w/her 😔😔#cheesiness aside now i want to do a meme edit where it goes like. sаyid: hello shinоbu from kny // shinоbu: hello sаyid from LOST //#[panel of them losing the people they lost that sent them down the spiral they went down and of the ultimate self sacrifice they had made]#op#💘.txt#sаyιd#<- no other fictional character has made me more upset and sad abt what happens to them i think. but also that's because i love him <33
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evilishei · 5 days
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Eeep!
I just realized after entertaining an ask that there are some others in my inbox that I haven't gotten into or even replied. I'm so sorry! My old brain must've forgotten them! I'm currently at the point in life where you actually have to use a planner so you can schedule the things you have to do or they'll eventually disappear into oblivion. The only activity I can actually do in tumblr as of late is just post a quick ZoNa something then off I go. I haven't written anything for them as well. To be honest I've been a bit busy so I can't get to them the soonest. But I promise I will answer them one by one.
Thanks for being patient with me!
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musical-chick-13 · 8 days
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What do you think is up with the male protagonist of Apothecary's Diaries???
Prefacing this by saying that I'm about two-thirds of the way through the show, so I don't really, completely know all of what Jinshi's deal is. Nonetheless, I shall try and collect my thoughts so far!
Spoilers through episode 16 of The Apothecary Diaries under the cut.
Jinshi is an odd character for me to try to define. Because I do genuinely find him annoying at times (and not just in an "All people are annoying sometimes and characters should have flaws to enrich their personalities and feel more real" kind of way), but...I don't find myself hating him.
For one, his interest in Maomao (despite her open and obvious abhorrence of a good portion of his behavior) isn't based in any of the story beats I hate that frequently accompany this kind of dynamic (i.e. "Interested guy maintains long-standing attraction toward disinterested woman"). It's not, "I hate women, except for this super special one who is my Only Equal," it's not, "She's the only person who doesn't fawn over me, so she's the only one here who isn't Completely Stupid," and it's not, "I think winning her over is a challenge that will prove how macho and cool and suave I am."
Jinshi is considered unearthly beautiful, to the point where people are constantly making passes at him, leaving him creepy gifts to express their obsession, and trying to slip him aphrodisiacs to push romantic and/or sexual contact on him. It's so bad that he can't have younger servants, no one except his older attendants (and later Maomao) is even allowed to see him when he wakes up in the morning, and he has to bar the doors to his office at night. Despite her consistent disdain toward his antics, Maomao is, paradoxically, the only person in Jinshi's relative age range who actually sees him as a person; because her hatred of his behavior means she's evaluating him for something other than his beauty. Even if she doesn't often like how he presents himself to her, her judgment of him is based on who he is and what he does, rather than how he looks.
And this lends a level of nuance to the show that I think prevents me from just being frustrated at Jinshi and that being the end of it. There's other nuance there, too: he does take his political work seriously; he obviously possesses significant analytical ability, and is pretty good at fighting, but doesn't think those qualities mean anything because he doesn't supremely excel at them (which, wow, what a mood, as the kids say); he tries to play nice with Lakan despite finding him incredibly off-putting because he knows it'll help keep things stable. Jinshi has some. Trouble. With personal boundaries (more on that in a second), but we are shown that he has some standards. He's willing to let Maomao go when he thinks that's what she wants. He seems genuinely horrified at Lakan's predatory comments about the courtesan he was attracted to, and at Maomao's story of how she got kidnapped. He pays for Maomao's removal from Verdigris House, but this only happens after he makes a comment to her about it and she says that it might be a good idea. And (at least so far, again, I haven't finished the show yet), when he takes her on as his personal servant, he never considers using that position to order her to accept his romantic advances. He definitely has some flaws (and I can understand if those flaws make him too off-putting to care about to some people). But I do recognize and respect the obvious effort that was put into making sure Jinshi doesn't come across as a one-dimensional character.
I've seen a theory that his, uh...less-than-stellar understanding of day-to-day personal boundaries are related to all of the things I mentioned above, in regard to how doggedly people keep pursuing him. (My sincerest apologies to whoever wrote that post, I tried to find it again and I can't.) And I do think this makes sense--that he internalized a lot of negative behaviors from his immediate environment and the way people act toward him. (I even think you could argue that, since beauty is so important for women in this setting--to the point where it's almost seen as a necessity--extreme physical attractiveness is more broadly viewed as a "feminine" quality. And since Jinshi possesses this """feminine""" quality, plenty of people treat him the way they would a woman: as an object to be looked at and obtained for clout.) I think it's also worth noting that Maomao only really responds positively toward him when he's not being flirty or pushy, during moments where he's being genuinely thoughtful (like the hairpin giving scene, Jinshi taking her to the infirmary after ingesting poison at the garden party, and catching her when she falls off the wall after drinking with Ah-Duo). So, between the deeper aspects of Jinshi's characterization, the fact that he does clearly have some principles, and the specific way Maomao's reactions to him are framed, I still find myself interested in seeing what will happen with him next.
All of that being said. I also frequently find myself going, "Dude. Wtf." And given my own personal preferences in characters and the types of relationships I like to see (which I will not get into because it's not particularly important and this response is already very long), I doubt that will change during these upcoming episodes.
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darklight-owl · 11 days
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i mean i guess filmbug toxic relationship is a bit below the tip but yknow
Are we shipping Clive and Clive now IS CLIVE THE NEW ONCELER?????????
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yonemurishiroku · 1 year
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Is anyone interested in a Percico Break-up fic bc anw they dates for a while but then Nico puts an end to it because he sees how Percy’s love for him only accentuates their broken past.
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firelxdykatara · 25 days
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fondly remembering the former mutual who blocked me a few years ago over sessrin crimes and when posting about it were like 'i love a good age gap too, i ship kakashi and sakura even, but they need to be consenting adults!!!!!'
sakura. who was 12 at the start of naruto when kakashi was their (adult) teacher. lol.
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andorerso · 8 months
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Thinking about your post of Jyn meeting Syril… okay so years after the war is over, Jyn and Cassian are on her late 30s or something and somehow they end up in the same place as Syril (who is now married to Dedra and they are the weirdest couple ever) and they are still able to recognize Cassian but 1- they can’t do anything about this because the Empire is over and 2- Cassian has no idea who they are. So Jyn is like hey babe should I kill these creeps for bothering you or nah
yessss good Jyn's love language is violence 🥰 and Cassian's like I guess?? idk who they are but my all means (he won't say it but he loves to watch her fight so he's not gonna say no duh)
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tim-per-tantrum · 9 months
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Logged into both my fanfic.net and Wattpad accounts and was immediately assaulted by my horrible adolescent fic taste. My reading lists are terrifying. I think I suppressed the worst of my early fanfiction trauma, I forgot I was in half these fandoms at all.
I don't have the strength to continue on in these conditions. I salute everyone who's actually managing to get their fanfic fix in these trying times. You're built different
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