#SUCH a delightful way

[imminent-danger-came]

I only JUST realized azure lion had a actual icarus arc where he flew too close to the sun in his ambitions and burned to ash before drowning in the waves of his own failures. man LEGITIMATELY flew too close to the sun in so many ways man

the sun- the jade emperors power

the son wukong- the monkey king who doesnt abide by azure lions idea of a better world and what it costs

and the son- monkie boy who's had it up to HERE with azure lions none sense

I kinda love it, azure got exactly what he was warned he was gonna get. stuck his whole arm in that monkey cage man

I KNOW. AZURE IS SUCH A TRAGIC ICARUS TYPE CHARACTER

I've mentioned it before but that's like, lowkey every antagonist in this show. It goes like this:

Antagonist is caught for doing something they probably shouldn't be doing, and is then sealed away.

Antagonist is released when they shouldn't be, and instead of going "hmmm maybe I need to re-evaluate myself" they go directly back to their previous plans. "To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing" —Anne Carson. All of these antagonists desperately want to live past the end of their myths and keep their story going (and they are doomed to fail).

Antagonist, who was stopped by Sun Wukong in the past, is now stopped by MK, either becoming their own undoing and destroying themselves or giving up (LBD, Spider Queen, and Azure being the former, with DBK being the latter).

#AND SO HERE'S WHY ELDRITCH ABOMINATION MK WOULD BE SO FUCKING GOOD— *gets shot* #*reanimates* —Because if Wukong stopped MK in the past like he's done for every other antagonist #that means MK has to stop himself THIS time #And we've already gotten hints of that with Curse MK V Regular MK. And it'd really resolve MK's identity and self-loathing arcs in like #SUCH a delightful way #MK ''Harbinger of chaos''-ing it and having to stop himself. Not going through with whatever previous plans his past life had. #Which is how he can save himself and his friends you know #I'm deranged. I know. But think about it. #Think about how good it would be. #lmk #lego monkie kid #asks #lmk theory #eamk theory

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism #good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry #APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS #eliza cook #is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it #the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave! #not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed #words #gay belligerence

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for lying to my dog about food being 'spicy?'

A while back I taught my dog what spicy foods are (by letting her sniff them and saying "Uh oh! Spicy!") and she figured out that it means it'll smell/taste bad and she immediately loses interest. It was initially an accident but it became really handy in getting her to leave food alone if it might hurt her.

Recently though I've started saying "Uh oh! Spicy!" about any food I don't want her to eat. If she's sitting and staring at me eating a regular non-spicy snack and I don't want to share, I'll tell her it's spicy so she'll stop begging for it. She believes me 100% of the time. She does have a 'leave it' command that she obeys as well, but she always acts so sad whenever I tell her to 'leave it' and it's something she wants.

I feel a little bad because she's an older dog (10y/o) and maybe I SHOULD be sharing my snacks with her, but sometimes a man's gotta enjoy his food in peace without a little creature gazing longingly at him the entire time and crying like the world's soggiest beast.

Included is a picture of her making her very best begging face so that everyone can accurately judge how evil I am for lying to her.

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole #joke aita #pet tax #thank you op i will now be repeating uh oh! spicy! to myself for days #(in a delighted way)

[elfcollector]

I think I need to go to camp for a while. Be alone. Scream at the sky.

#gamingnetwork #vgedit #videogameedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #mybg3 #bg3edit #bgedit #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate #bg3 #karlach #karlach cliffgate #the recurring theme that actually revenge rarely feels as liberatory as you want it to......agh #anyway this scene made me nauseous in the best way i had to take a break and pace around my living room #i dont care how u tag this but karlach in this set IS saying it to a purely platonic tav #she and delight are best friends forever...platonic soulmates forreal

[airborneice]

i think we all know who the REAL star of season 3 is

i'm making a vague attempt to pace out this season by doing a drawing after each episode, so anyway here's my new fave character

#rip to my friend and brother who had to hear me start screaming with delight 5 minutes in when this guy showed up #THEY BROUGHT BACK MY BOY #I MEAN ITS A DIFFERENT ONE AND ITS A GIRL BUT ITS STILL THE DIRT GUYS. THANK YOU #whoever on the creative team made this decision i owe you my life #these guys are animated in the most delightful way and i love them #hilda spoilers #hilda season 3 #hilda season 3 spoilers #season 3 spoilers #hilda s3 spoilers #is that enough spoilers tags #yeah this is my fanart for episode 1. did something happen in that ep i was too busy looking at the creature of all time #jk i loved the episode so much. everyone better be so grateful that i chose not to draw the thing instead for this post i love himb #s3 is knocking it out of the park with funky little guys #hilda the series #hilda netflix #stray sod #hilda loam #art tag

[we-are-astronomer]

WAKE THE FUCK UP LOSERS, NASA DROPPED A SYSTEM AGNOSTIC TTRPG ADVENTURE AND IT'S DOPE

#astronomy #nasa #ttrpg #not all the way done reading this yet but so far it's delightful

[nelkcats]

Coffee-scented kisses

Tim fell in love with a barista. At first he had wondered if it was simply a mistake, to transfer his love for coffee to the person who produced it, but slowly he realized it was a little more than that.

Danny, the new barista, didn't really criticize him when he ordered 8 coffees a day, as long as he was on shift. He also didn't ask him about his health insurance every time he ordered Death Wish, and even made sure to make small talk every time he delivered his coffee.

It had only been a few days since he was hired but Tim fell in love with his small talk, his care, and of course, his coffee.

Then, when Danny was suspected of working with Two Face he was heartbroken. The boy was probably innocent, but he couldn't get out of his head that nothing in Gotham was simple, everyone kept secrets, including himself. So he made up his mind to stay away from Danny, for his sake.

Danny, for his part, was Harvey Dent's assistant and a part-time barista, he just wanted to distract himself and Harvey was strangely sympathetic after telling him about running away from home. Kind of like a guy you stay with during the vacations, but more permanent.

The halfa started to worry when the cute boy from the cafe stopped coming, maybe he was in danger? Danny couldn't help but worry, but when his coworkers told him Tim was coming in on other shifts he wondered if the boy was avoiding him.

#dpxdc #Barista Danny #he likes his part time job #making coffee relaxes him #Danny escaped from Amity #he closed the portal but he couldn't stay there any longer #his parents hated him enough the way he was #so he decided to escape #he took a backpack with some of his most precious items along with some money and ended up in Gotham #Harvey found him on the streets and basically decided to keep him #Two Face is delighted with Danny but Harvey forbade him to interfere #mostly to keep Danny away from a life of crime #dp x dc #dc x dp #dead tired #Tim fell in love with Danny because of his coffee #and his attitude but mainly the coffee #he felt betrayed when he discovered that Danny could be related to a rogue #But he guessed that everyone in Gotham had secrets #which reminded him of his own secrets and the fact that he could put the barista in danger #so basically he started avoiding Danny to protect him #or that's what he tells himself

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A rejuvenating encounter.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #I'm having so much fun with poorly drawn mdzs version 2.0 I'm so glad I decided to change my approach. #Once again I am reminding everyone that these two are *both* catboy coded. #Anyone who is in a 'roommates' cat situation knows full well how that little beast is invigorated the moment the real owner comes home. #I too am also filled with delighted to see the creature. But the dynamic is two ways. #I have a hunch there are many people who also get excited just seeing wwx out in the wild. #Be careful with your approach! He startles easily - oh god he's running off into the mountains. Oh no he's stealing a donkey.

[critter-of-habit]

All aboard the "enemies to lovers" trope train *toot tooooot*

#delighted by this narrative choice tbh #most interesting way it could have gone #Ahsoka #Ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka series #Ahsoka series spoilers #wolfwren #wrenwolf #which way does the dumb shipname go??

[pedro-pascal]

PEDRO PASCAL & BELLA RAMSEY The Hollywood Reporter (2023)

#pedro pascal #bella ramsey #pedropascaledit #ppascaledit #tloucastedit #gotcastedit #swcastedit #dccastedit #userjen #tusercora #tuserpolly #userairam #useralyssas #userbetts #usertom #usernastya #* #the way he laughed was pure delight i really missed his energy 🥺

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[i-ate-the-rats]

hi i’m ur new biggest fan. i need to devour your art neeoooowww. - @dialrchives

be careful with your expressions, mate. (love u sm)

#Hobie is clearly delighted with this information #“FYM THIS WAY” #“this. way.” #“... I didn’t understand you or understood you I don’t understand” #Noir can't fucking see without glasses cant he? #hobie brown #spider noir #atsv hobie #atsv #spider man noir #spider man: across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #noirpunk #punknoir #spider punk

[talesfromthecrypts]

I have lived in this world for ten thousand years, and yet you lack the capacity to understand what that truly means.

Vampire Hunter D (1985) dir. Toyoo Ashida

#vampire hunter d #filmedit #animeedit #horroredit #usermichi #mygifs #70s and 80s fantasy animation is just delightful #the way it shimmers

[flo-n-flon]

showing up one week late with a crack doodle for the poll but let Lanfear and Moiraine kiss instead of fighting

#the wheel of time #lanfear #moiraine damodred #wot fanart #fanart #show: wheel of time #character: moiraine damodred #character: lanfear #daughter of the moon and daughter of the sun #it's fitting #anyway I'm delighted by the way they laid the groundwork for their relationship #smolraine supremacy

[cuddleswinchester]

DOS discussing Charles’ accent.

#aka dos voice reveal #he’s so delightful to me idk if I’ve mentioned that before 🤔 #DOSposting #mashposting #David Ogden Stiers #I was surprised he had to push for the accent! that seems like it would’ve been on the blueprint #they loved him so much just the way he was :) #but I’m glad Charles is distinctly Charles #I am full of emotions #never forget he had a stutter 💜

[accordionsrule]

as a guitar player I am delighted by the choices in glass onion involving miles bron playing guitar. when you first meet him, he is playing "blackbird". the thing about this song is that it sounds complex and impressive but is actually really easy to play - it's just moving the same chord shape around with the same picking pattern. it is one of the first songs most people learn when they are first picking up the instrument. it's an excellent metaphor for who miles is as a person - a dipshit whose success is entirely based on convincing people he is a genius.

#glass onion #spoilers #no disrespect to blackbird by the way #its a great song #but i found this choice delightful