#Levels of Meaning

[abellinthecupboard]

Levels of Meaning

—for Stephen Kessler a woman burns. the woman in the house burning a woman outside watches the flames the woman who writes about the woman in the house who burned the woman who reads about the woman in the house who burned the rich woman who funds fire departments the stalwart woman who raises funds to help the families of women burned in fires the women who have burn scars having survived to lecture on the value of fire safety the woman who threatens to burn the woman seer who predicts a slow & painful burning the woman who says, "help. i'm on fire." the professional woman firefighter the woman who builds hearths of cold stone the woman who warms herself by fire the woman who eats fire the woman who takes the fire out of her lovers the woman everyone fears because she's made of fire

— Wanda Coleman, Bathwater Wine (1998)

#Levels of Meaning #Wanda Coleman #Bathwater Wine #poetry #writing #literature #poets on tumblr

[kayawolfhorse]

Discuss

#this isn’t necessarily based on creature or sanity levels it’s what would be funniest for the Bit #also the idea of muppet & human duos is amusing to me. false and ren. pearl and gem. bdubs and etho. do you see it #zed and cub as unethical scientists is fun it’d be solid enrichment for them both #mumbo is equal parts muppet and man. maybe he’s a muppet that got turned into a guy idk #mumbo being over the line vs under it doesn’t mean anything i just ran out of room and didn’t feel like changing it btw lmao #kaya posts #hermitcraft #1k

[beesleeps]

"kabru doesn't even like laios"

meanwhile, kabru:

#i dont even mean this as a romantic thing necessarily its just people do not understand kabrus relationship w laios at all #he was chasing after laios the whole time how could you say he hates or doesnt like laios #labru #kabru #laios touden #dungeon meshi #anyway the characters and relationships in this series are so good and so complex but ppl are incapable of seeing past surface level #and its frustrating

[ulgapodatkowa]

i said it once before and I'll say it again: queer community. the calypso's birthday episode is fucking pride man. and for izzy, oh for izzy, to be able to finally be free like that? he doesn't understand wee john's 'look' at first but he knows how it makes him feel, so he gets one as well. and for such a repressed queer man to be able to walk out in drag it's huge. AND he sings a love song!! la vie en rose, that's a staple of love repertoire. so izzy feels comfortable, at home enough to be able to go on the deck and show himself as a queer man that loves. he finally accepts that about himself enough to show it. he kisses wee john's hand. he puts on a show. and the crew loves it, sings along with him at the end. one more song indeed, cocksuckers!

#my brain after i finish an episode: people must know how strongly i feel about izzy #the level of 'comfort' this tiny character holds #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #izzy hands #con o'neill #wee john feeney

[nine-aetharia]

i need swifties to shut the fuck up about 'oh so kendrick's disses can be analyzed for hidden meanings but we can't do the same for taylor songs' yeah bc that's not isolated to kendrick. subliminals and entendres abound in rap. taylor swift songs are as deep as a puddle while youre wearing flip flops and your feet still arent wet

#kendrick lamar #she's a rich industry plant talking about people not surviving the asylum they raised her in. girl shut the fuck up #she'd cry if you took her pet jet away #you seriously think she's on the same level as a pulitzer prize winner who wrote TO PIMP A FUCKING BUTTERFLY #and an album you can listen to either forwards or backwards and the meaning changes???? you think ahe can write smth as haunting as U???? #also why the fuck are swifties even inserting themselves in this shut up sit down be humble

[hotdogmchiggin]

I guess DARE wasn’t a thing in Goron City

#saw someone call zelda the gorons drug dealer and I couldnt get the image of her in a trenchcoat peddling marbled rock roast to children #like one of those shady guys selling wristwatches in cartoons out of my head #anyway that’s where this came from #trying to figure out comics and shit. not my strong suit so sorry if its rough. #figuring out an optimal level of detail is hard :( first I’m like oh i’ll just leave it black and white and then i’m like maybe ill add #color and then i’m like well now it needs shading and THEN it needs lighting and THEN IT NEEDS A BACKGROUND AND THEN IT NEE #anyway i should. probably stop rambling bye #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #i mean sorta. not huge spoilers. slight spoilers for goron arc I guess #zelda #myart

[twinstxrs]

idk if this is accurate but i’ve felt like in previous seasons riz & gorgug have been one of the inter-bad kids dynamics we’ve seen the least of & this season has been so great in that aspect. gorgug having helped make some of riz’s magic gear. riz helping gorgug with his studies. the shared birthday party. gorgug’s gift to riz being something he himself made to protect riz. riz’s gift to gorgug being something he illegally grabbed to protect gorgug. gorgug who utilizes rage to put his body on the line for his friends & riz who will take deep levels of mental stress for his friends. even though it was within the context of a joke, riz calling gorgug an “absolute sweetie.” like yea they might not be in a band together or both part of a presidential campaign team or owlbears teammates, but they’d go to war for each other, because they’re best friends.

#riz gukgak #gorgug thistlespring #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #these kids are all so self-sacrificing but i do think riz gorgug are the most clear (& juxtaposed) self-sacrificers #riz will mentally tear himself to pieces and get lost in cases and take on ungodly levels of stress for those he loves #gorgug will use himself as a human shield. he will take hit after hit if it means his friends are okay. #and they’d both do the other thing too. riz would let himself get hit for gorgug. gorgug would pull all nighters & take stress for riz. #even if mechanically they can’t or it wouldn’t make sense. they would if they could. #also #the starstruck barry mechanic of being a guard is so gorgug. it’s soooo gorgug like that’s literally him #anyways love this tall green guy & this short green guy so much #especially because gorgug is tall & considered intimidating but protective in a deeply kind way #while riz is short & underestimated but protective in a deeply vicious way (affectionate) #i hope this makes sense but i think riz is primarily ‘i would kill for you’ & gorgug is primarily ‘i would die for you’ maybe #this does not mean gorgug would not kill for riz or riz would not die for gorgug. they both would. #but those are the primary ways their love manifests due to the nature of their strengths/personalities. To Me #idk this is all just me saying stuff when i should be sleeping 😭 #sorry if i missed a riz gorgug moment in the main post btw i’m tired

[cloudpalettes]

i've been playing a lot of ffxiv lately !!!!

#ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #by playing a lot lately i mean i've been playing for 3 months straight #reaching new brainrot hyperfixation levels #my beloved twins !!!!!!!!! #this is why i haven't been drawing much OTL

[captain-flint]

Ed leaning in for a kiss

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmd s2 spoilers #blackbonnet #blackbonnetedit #gentlebeard #gentlebeardedit #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #taika waititi #rhys darby #yes he wanted to kiss stede during the snake scene you can't convince me otherwise #he is literally looking at stede's lips and yearning #anyway making this unlocked some new levels of insanity in me #i've never seen a man look so deeply in love im gonna bite him through the screen STOP THAT #my stuff

[bluerosefox]

Joker Messed Around and Found Freaking Out.

Okay hear me out..

Class trip to Gotham, class gets held up by Joker who actually can scare the class cause they are still teens and they know Joker has a high kill rate, like yes they're used to ghosts and junk but none of them wanna die yet or at least die outside of Amity, if they die they wanna have a chance of coming back as a ghost at the very least.

Anyways, Danny feels pure dread when Joker takes Jazz hostage, who was elected to be a chaperone for Danny's class since her volunteering would look good on college recommendations, and finds her little mutters about his mental health reminding him of Harley before she left him. He even jokes about needing a new partner and wonders how long it'll take to break her like he did to Harley.

Danny is frozen in his spot but something snaps when he hears Jazz cry out after Joker backhands her. Before anyone, even the Bats, realize it Danny is on top of the Joker beating his face in, he only gets up once, takes Joker's discarded crowbar and slams it over his head, barely grazing the dazed man but it does destroy the flooring behind him, while screaming to never ever touch his sister. That he will destroy Joker if he even thinks about coming after her. That even in the afterlife he'll never be safe from him.

All this happens so fast that by the time the Jocks from Danny's school, Red Hood and Nightwing get Danny off, Joker is beaten badly. He's still feral screaming at Joker though, calling him everything under the sun, spouting off about how the dead are ready to rip him apart when Joker (or you can have Danny call him by his actual name if you wanna strike some "the fuck? How'd he know that?") Finally passes away, that even death will not save him from Danny's wrath. Danny is squirming hard in their holds, nearly breaks free a few times when he hears Joker groaning, but only stops when Jazz, after getting looked over by Red Robin comes running over and just..

Hugs Danny.

And like a kitten getting scuffed by the neck he goes limp. Just breathes heavily, eyes burning from anger, fear, tears, and relief, before he returns the hug. He starts crying and mutters low that he can't lose her, that he almost lost her again and "is this even a fraction how Dan felt when he lost you?"

And Jazz just shushes him and does what she can to comfort him...

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc #blue rambles #crossover #writing ideas #random idea #danny phantom dc #dpxdc #dcxdp #Danny goes legit feral #and i dont mean like funny gremlin feral #i mean Dan levels of feral #no one touches the people he loves #especially his sister who basically raised him #felt a bit serious today so have a serious prompt #danny was so feral he didnt even think about using his ghost powers besides using it to escape his bindings #and when he used the crowbar. it left a crater behind the Joker's head when he slammed it down #when the Fenton teens get home their parents pull them out of school for a week and just... stay together to cope #when Danny returns to school the Jocks all give him a wide breath but nod in respect towards him #Sam and Tucker are making sure no one bugs the Fentons btw. both inside and outside of school #Tucker notices someone trying to get info on Danny from his montiered firewalls he got set up #Jazz is a little shaken up from the ordeal but is doing her best #the Bats coughBatmancough wanna question the kid. he knew things about Joker and his abilities #the others kinda wanna let sleeping dogs lie though and are trying to get B not to bug them #Danny wakes up one day to a package full of cash #and the latest space themed stuff #and a thank you card from Red Hood #btw Joker isnt dead... just in a coma. #he really and finally messed with the wrong person

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4: Deranged Bedfellows

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #lan wangji #nie huaisang #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #This is the *first* part of what was supposed to be a much longer comic (LWJ's morning routine in full). #I'll finish the remaining part as a reblog to this post! I just think this is the funnier chunk. #Lan Wangji absolutely is the kind of person who has a perfect internal alarm clock for when it is time to get up. #He already has a dedicated sleep schedule. He is accurate within 10 seconds of 5am every day. #I think the Jiang disciples are most likely used to waking up around 6:00-7:00am #But the allure of having a guaranteed time keeper getting you up in the morning is worth the earlier hour. #I imagine they started outside lwj's door and slowly moved closer as the weeks went on. #Now LWJ has to cope with being way too warm in the night from all the extra body heat. #LWJ is not a fan of this but they scamper off immediately after he wakes up and they at least show initiative to follow routine. #NHS joins in only because he is a chronically heavy sleeper and needs this level of intervention to get up early. #His boldness would be a death sentence in the cloud recesses but here? Whole new game. #Yungmeng Jiang isn't a lawless land. It's just a land with different laws. #And one of those laws is to forcefully domesticate the catboy coded Lan boy through any means necessary. #Completely different tangent: I drew the thumbnail for this before I did comic 134. I then realized they had the same visual gag. #So I had to space this one out so it didn't seem like I repeated the waking up joke. That's my secret and all of you have to keep it. #And in my land the law is that snitches get itches (telepathically transfers hives onto your body)

[badxwolf]

Genre of image: Writer and the two little guys with homoerotic tension that he created and one of them is blonde and one of them is David Tennant

#looking at the cover of the writers tale and thinking hm… i’ve seen this image somewhere before #ik ineffable husbands isn’t technically homoerotic tension on many levels but you know what i mean #doctor who #good omens #russell t davies #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #john simm #ineffable husbands #thoschei

[cak31ssuperi04]

"Basically what happens is, Grace and Max are right about to win. They're right about to do it. And then, there's a groaning. In the floorboards. Suddenly, the staircase gives out beneath Grace and Max, and they fall through the floors. They fall stories. Pieces of wood shove through their chests, and they both are killed."

"But keep this in mind, nothing truly dies in the Waylon house. Grace and Max become ghosts, and they're off doing whatever, but they're no longer involved in the tournament."

So.. that Pit Stop in Hatchetfield tag team deathmatch huh.

#hand in unlovable hand #Pulling pledges last-second to affect the results is FOUL but this was the best possible outcome for them actually. #relative to the death tournament where every other character dies a horrible death anyways #but more importantly. to my entertainment. They win even when they lose. #Terrible for hatchetfield though. Just one of them was enough to be World Ending Cataclysm levels disastrous #and now there's two of them. terrible. #a pit stop in hatchetfield #Ted finally survives a timeline but his friends and family are dead and there are murder ghosts on the loose #nerdy prudes must die #Also tom being the nighthawks coach loredrop. and max being hesitant to fight him #I mean he does anyways but it's the thought that counts right #grace chasity #jagertity #max jagerman #starkid #hatchetfield #hatcherverse #cakeart #Coping about lex and ethan though. swept in my heart

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"RIP Jonathan Harker but I'm different" really??? are you really though?

You, a new hire, loaded with student debt, upcoming wedding to pay for, been given a huge opportunity at work, employer paying all your travel costs. you're telling me that you, exploited corporate lackey that you are, you would actually be self-empowered enough to turn back last minute? after spending all that time and money traveling to the rich client's megamansion? because of what--BAD VIBES? how precisely the fuck do you plan on explaining that to your boss??? bitch your credit score can't AFFORD to avoid red flags, you're going into a possible life-or-death situation whether you like it or not, that's capitalism baby!!!

#dracula daily #tumblr reads dracula #as sympathetic as i am to Jonathan's plight it still sounds pretty cushy compared to literally any modern retail or service job #'oh you've been hired to serve a powerful bloodsucking inhumane monster' yeah that's called a megacorporation #consider this: dracula is a monster but he is also very VERY rich #society has excused worse for less #i mean yeah he's evil but he's not like. jeff bozos levels of evil #the real monster wasn't Dracula it was the unsafe working conditions we were forced to tolerate along the way

[babyblueetbaemonster]

Mer vs Shroom

Never mess with master wizard of house Telvanni and their Mushroom Tower, ever.

fit my friend, @the-sunlit-earth's adorable Breton OC Brenna <3

#tes #skyrim #tel mithryn #talvas fathryon #neloth #brenna #my friend's adorable oc #tes oc #dovahkiin #oc: jokir #ldb #just in the background #tesblr #i draw a meme #THE mushroom post #i mean it's a level 3 meme #you need to know the tumblr post of mushroom. then the atla take of the shroom post. then my skyrim take of the atla take of the shroom pos #when you threaten the mushroom. the mushroom threat back #we discussed about the potential danger of breathing too many tower's spores and how everyone in house telvanni is crazy XD #i only found out years later after treating the word shroom as a cute shorten nickname of mushroom in every telvanni related post #the word shroom is the street names for psychedelic mushroom #i didn't mean to call all telvanni shroom-ple i'm sorry but not that sorry bc it's kinda funny

[nerdpoe]

Tim has to fake falling to an assassin in a public setting as Timothy Drake-Wayne.

Tim is confined to a secure location for the duration of Batman's investigation, as whoever did it had used bullets that were designed to go through Bat-made bodyarmor, so whoever is performing the hit clearly knows something.

He's bored.

He's so bored.

It's all over the news, and he's banking on Bruce finding the asshole soon so he can get back to work before Wayne Enterprise stocks go too far down.

He's not expecting a call from Bruce demanding he talk Kon down, because Kon found the assassin first, and if Bruce uses the Kryptonite he has then Kon will drop the assassin from hundreds of feet in the air away from any buildings.

And the Bat's need this person alive, so they can find out what he knows.

Unfortunately, Kon does not seem very inclined to let the assassin live.

#tim drake #conner kent #timkon #red robin #batman #bruce wayne #dcau #story prompt #tim's so used to gotham biz staying in gotham it genuinely didn't occur to him that the #“secure location” #was batman levels of secure #which also means no sound in or out #or that this would in any way be a problem #whoops #clark is occupied by an Impulse with Kryptonite #kara is also being waylaid by Wonder Girl with Kryptonite #Jon is...not stopping Kon #cause all he can think of is “what if it was Damian” #also sidebar i don't like acknowledging that the ageup happened to Jon #so ye