#and he was very interested by fire

[mumblesplash]

he's not even that light impulse is just really strong

#[elsewhere skizz is hit with a sudden inexplicable compulsion to teach the whole server about maslow's heirarchy of needs] #my art #tangotek #impulsesv #hermitcraft #taken completely by surprise by how much fun i'm having with the ambiguously-on-fire hair #random thing but i've actually been putting effort into drawing *fewer* fabric folds recently #it's one of those things i get like. stuck in #and i want to Simplify the Shapes #but do u guys understand. tango just has digitigrade vibes #vital to his character that he be able to scamper and clamber at a moment's notice #honestly the idea of designing shoes for nonhuman feet is super interesting #i defaulted to pseudo-claws cuz like..that's what they'd be used to using for traction? at the very least seems rude to remove that option

[kicktwine]

here is another silly thing about alphinaud. is that he loves to Get information he’s like a little information magpie but as soon as he gets it he latches onto it for the next several days to weeks. he finds out that spending money is something you need to be careful about he’s going to bring it up and be extra frugal every time he buys something for a week. he learns how to collect firewood he’s going to volunteer for it as if he is already very good at it and knows a lot about it. alphinaud is the kind of person to learn a fun relevant fact about birds and tell you, as soon as it comes up, this fun fact about birds that he’s been dying to tell someone for hours. someone let him infodump about social policy

#play game #ffxiv #I think it’s partly he wants to never be the dumbest person in the room but also he’s just very excited about Learning #he has straight a student syndrome he needs to demonstrate that he learned to do something correctly #And hes also just so intensely interested in how things work he’ll read a 500 page manual. Which is canon #wow!!! did you know (obscure bird) looks exactly like (other obscure bird) but they’re unrelated they just went thru convergent evolution!! #this is important because one is peaceful and one breathes fire (ARI DODGES)

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

When a character has the most intriguing backstory and piques your interest but you haven't even gotten to see the character fight

#legends of avantris #finally found a DnD podcast that absolutely delights me and isn't tarnished by my ex #on episode 5 rn and only just saw this backstory blurb and I had to pause cause that's so fucking interesting to me #and yeah in five episodes there hasn't been any combat but honestly hadn't even noticed until the blurb mentioned him fighting with chains #pretty sure there's like 50+ episodes out already so i have a lot to catch up on lmao #I'm very excited to see some fighting #kee speaks #BUT LIKE #Fire genasi forced to power a train?? He uses the chains that bound him to the chain to fight?? #I want to read some backstory about how that captivity happened and how he got out #(also the guy that plays him has the best character voice for him and his laughter is the best)

[somequicknewmusic]

I'd lower the world in a flood / Or better yet I'd cause a drought.

#it sounds like maybe there was some interest in an exploration of water references in unreal unearth #and how andrew likes to pull a bait and switch #between the album's visual imagery and its lyrical imagery #just like he did with wasteland baby actually being a very fire-centric album #and how we see elements as cleansing and renewing and cyclical forces in his music #so this was fun to think about #with bonus through me (the flood) content #because i still feel like it's canonically part of the album #hozier #unreal unearth #lyrics #francesca #first time #eat your young #i carrion (icarian) #who we are #anything but #abstract (psychopomp) #unknown / nth

[peony-pearl]

"Iroh ignored Azula” Well what if I didn’t believe that and the greatest irony of Avatar is that Iroh was one of the folks who encouraged her strategic thinking that she would use to later hunt him down

#atla #Azula #Iroh #my art #did he fail her? Yeah probably #homeboy had his own set of issues like continuing his father's conquest #he really didn't have time for either her or Zuko #and if Zuko really was born kind of meek to a very competitive family #who's to say Iroh paid much attention to him? #And put favor towards Azula? #and then he's gone for the siege and then an unknown amount of time for his spirit journey #and comes home and Azula is firmly not interested in Iroh #but Zuko who has been ignored and belittled by his father may seek Iroh out #to which Iroh would be open to but he's still messed up over his own issues #and being on the boat during Zuko's exile creates that bond #So Iroh would escape the favoritism aspect of the Fire Nation and show love towards the 'imperfect' son #while Azula has Ozai's favor #Which itself isn't healthy #but idk I can't hate Iroh for a series of events set before his time in which there's going to be a definite loser #and he's already lost #so he's going to try and help someone even if he doesn't really know how nor does he have the motivation at first #but then his care for Zuko grows and he realizes he wants that again and will do what he can #I'll gladly take the imperfect character who at least tries to have his heart in the right place

[good-beans]

I know most of our focus goes (rightfully) to the trial songs, but I genuinely believe Baptism of Fire is equally a masterpiece of meaningful writing and intense vocal acting

Incoming tag rant because I need to yell about this, feel free to yell back

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #like the other vds have good writing about the character and whatever social issue their crime focuses on #but this one is very pointedly about YOU #its about the audience. its about the milgram project. its about self reflection. its about self-appointed roles. its about you #even if you didnt vote t1 or anything the whole things is calling on you to reflect on your own judgements of others #how you treat people who come off rougher. how you treat people who have made a (bad but) common mistake. #do you also find entertainment in seeing people dragged down and suffering because it would 'serve them right?' #but es always remains in control of the situation. the drama doesnt end with 'and fuuta was right - you guys suck!' #its clarified that situations are different and have nuance. we are reminded to look at things with nuance. #then we are smoothly re-immersed in the story #and then!! the acting itself!!! #arthur lounsbery put his whole fussy into that performance (<- fuuta pussy) and i am in his debt every day for it #in both his vds hes just super expressive and fun to listen to #i dont understand japanese but he packs so much interesting intonation and emotion into every word -- im obsessed listening to him #he nails all the subtle emotions fuuta has: the pouts and outrage as well as underlying fear grief insecurity and immaturity #and then baptism of fire hes just... Wailing #like mahiru has her innocent and pathetic cries of pain in her sweet voice that works for her character but fuutas pain feels much more raw #the way hes practically sobbing at the end -- his voice cracking and screeching throughout -- the whimper of pain #its so unbearably intense!! it hurts!! and its supposed to!! but hes just so raw with it #and dont even get me started on his pained hysteric laughter omg.... #its just. a masterpiece. #i always appreciate the vds but i dont think ive enjoyed/relistened to one as much as this one #okay WAIT im back to add one more thing because im obsessed with ths idea of intentions #specifically in milgram i think the intention behind the murders are very important to consider #so i love love love the huge focus on 'i didnt expect/mean for this to happen' #plus as a general theme in fiction i think its sooo juicy when good intentions get fucked up #so i loved the repetition of that #fuuta is such a special case because he genuinely had no desire or expectation for his victim to die #(maybe kazui too? but he doesn't say so in his vd like fuuta does)

[knightsickness]

‘overall hotd’s decision to make some characters brown was a net good + brown characters do not necessarily have to be morally good’ ‘criston cole being a dornishman in westeros prior to dorne being conquered adds a layer to his fighting with the dondarrions against the dornish and his relationship to royal power that is compelling but never explored’ ‘reading fire and blood as a sometimes-false historical account of the real events shown in hotd opens discussion about a misogynistic tendency to sideline women in history in favour of men who fight/the knightly class (see jaime loras discussion), criston didn’t actually do that much and that’s the point’ ‘this watsonian reading also implies a conscious historical erasure of his race in f&b (you know that scene in the green knight where the only time gawain’s race is acknowledged is when he sees the official portrait of him as a white king? yeah)’ and ‘hotd’s decision to make criston a brown man and also reduce his agency to the point where people uncritically call him alicent’s attack dog was questionable’ should coexist

#main reason i don’t like dismissals of criston that are just oh he sucks. yes he sucks yes he’s very compelling to me #i’m genuinely interested in his relationship with the dondarrions #asoiaf #criston cole #a song of ice and fire #hotd #house of the dragon

[moe-broey]

Forever thinking about this panel

He will NOT be accepting hugs for any mundane reason and if you try he will react like he's being hunted for sport

But I am ALSO thinking about

He will give a little sympathetic pat on the back........ if you're feeling down ......

Alfonse physical affection seems to vary and is situational 👍

#fire emblem #feh #he's better than me tbh but that is exclusively bc i am so autistic about touch #like i get distrected if i'm upset and you try to give a supportive touch even something small like rubbing the back #and really the best thing to do is give me space unless if i say otherwise. and i act as if that is EVERYONE'S default #which results in: 🧍 <- he is 100% supportive and concerned and cares for your plight #still i think these panels are so interesting bc one shows a general baseline/boundary #and it's easy to extrapolate he's like that across the board. but also i think it's interesting that #he will give a little pat on the back. like i would never think to write him/portray that otherwise #when i write alfonse and touch he is very reactive. never thinking and/or daring to initiate #which i think so much about w sharena too like it's SO clear she is so physically affectionate #like that first panel is from a comic where SHE IS. #i am just. always thinking about it. #AH ACTUALLY BEFORE I END THAT THOUGHT. the fact that whole comic is about hugs/differing boundaries #and the implication that sharena had to learn alfonse's boundaries probably the hard way #i am just. ALWAYS thinking about sibling incompatibilities where they love each other anyway. #just... ouuughghhh.......... #fe alfonse #fe kiran #sharena

[volivolition]

suggestion do you have... any wants? like obviously you do but like? suggestion my guy my ourple boy. both the easiest and hardest to write. you need a skill to say something to move conversation along but it doesn't fit any skill in particular? about 80% of the time you can have suggestion say it and it will make sense. but like actually characterizing him... how do i define you dude... what makes your character tick... urgh. i dont get you yet. im trying to understand but you are difficult.

#chemi chats #there are some skills that i just dont understand yet and that just means i have to work on their character study chapter #im reading his bio and i think suggestion is a good manipulator and it's instinctive and he tries not to feel bad about it? #he's clever!! charming!! friends with savvy and drama. planting seeds in the mind and coaxing them to grow towards him like he's the sun. #a crude oil reservoir lying beneath a carefully laid flower bed. taps into the roots. the plants don't know any better than to drink. #he's great at sensing what makes people tick and uses that to his advantage. he needs goals to look forward to so he knows how to best #pull the strings to get them there. otherwise he's a bit aimless. he likes being useful. and since influencing others is helpful #he just keeps doing it? because it's what he's good at. and he tries to convince himself its fun and cool and just cuz hes charming and #it's his role as a skill and manipulation isnt thaaaat bad because it's helpful to them after all... but he does feel bad sometimes. #oh im listening to his voice lines and i just got to ''brother you should have put me in front of a firing squad'' and im sad about him now #but what do you want for short term little guy?? probably for people to like him. he likes chatting with people. i bet he'd like genuine #conversations with no strings attached but there's always some part of him filing information and tidbits away that he can't turn off #subconsciously figuring out things he can hold over them or how he can nudge them into thinking someth-/wait.../ no. no he's just talking. #he's /supposed/ to just be talking stop analyzing them stop falling back into that just have a normal conversation!! but he can't help it.. #hm. this is all really helpful for his chapter. he and empathy are very alike but also different. very interesting... #task: swept up #okay good talk everyone i think i understand him a little better now lmao?? still gotta figure him out some more hes not fully there but ye #also i think he goes by whatever pronoun you think he'd use. just ''oh what do /you/ think i am hm?? what /would/ i use; do you think?? :)' #funny fella. i love you.

[fallout-fucker]

Random Headcanon: Hancock screams that he was 100% a hooligan in his teens/twenties. I can just imagine that he was a rebellious teen/young adult that found a old, worn acoustic guitar and learned how to play/sing. He stopped eventually, probably around when he got to Goodneighbour because of the state it was in with Vic. By the time he became Mayor himself and became a ghoul, he was hesitant to ever go back to playing because he was scared of what he would sound like as a ghoul and how his vocal chords could've been affected. He softly sings to himself now and again but has yet to fully go back.

Bonus: Sole catches him singing one time and is over the moon, stating they wish he did it more because he has a great voice (His 'new voice' is as good as his old one, just raspier. A little rusty after a few years without practice, but still pleasant). After that he starts playing/singing again.

#I just feel like Hancock would have a really nice singing voice #That actually has nothing to do with his VA but if you're interested. Go on to YouTube #There's a video of Danny (Hancock's VA) doing a cover of I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire in full Hancock cosplay #You're welcome #But anyway yeah he just. He looks like he 100% knows how to sing and play guitar #'Sexy king of the zombies' for a reason my dude #Hancock F4 #Fallout 4 #Fallout #Hancock #Sole Survivor #John Hancock #John Hancock x Sole Survivor #If you squint #Hancock x Sole #He 100% has such a good voice. Very raspy.

[oozeandgoo-art]

had an odd dream that i was reading a comic book. sketched a couple of the pages i could remember.

#i might adapt this into an actual story because i am SO SO SO mad that it isn't a thing i can go back to reading #oc #im definitely keeping the concept of save-bot i fucking love save-bot he's just doing his best. i love a robot who wants to help people #im not equipped to be writing about underground rebellions with any sense of real tact though #besides its in a superhero universe/story so you know it would just be so sucks lol #sketch #god the colors were so interesting. the teal parts were all very precisely crosshatched and the fire was this gorgeous brush pen looking #colored inks that just seemed like they were MOVING #and i mean some of that was because i was dreaming but god even in my halfhearted copy you can see some of the movement #it was a bad scene but a really really REALLY fun dream. i love when a book can *get* to me so i was really enjoying it #put it aside so i could take a break and woke up. instant fury at the universe for not having it be a real book instead #ill reblog with details if anyone's curious. i can explain this scene but i dont feel like it #the green people are in a secret basement though. hiding from the government. blue jacket guy is a speedster robot named save-bot who does #rescue stuff with every fire department so fire suppression technology is not very good because save-bot "can just save you'' #however they're badly over their legal occupancy and the secret basement has One (1) exit so everyone is like really fucked here. #includinig save-bot who is going to do his job until he dies because he is an ai without any sense of self preservation and he cares #which i didn't even CATCH until i woke up and started tryin to frantically note everything down #and then i was like wait. the glitter on that last page before i realized i needed a glass of water to keep reading... what WAS that... #(it was tears suspended in midair because save-bot goes so fast and also knows he's so fucked LOL) #seriously i'm so mad someone else didn't make this.

[myheartismadeofstars]

Just thought about a soulmate au where XL and MQ both are very rare people who have two soulmates: (each other and their respective lovers) in this one after you meet your soulmate your skin is connected. If you draw on your skin, your soulmate can see it, if your soulmate is injured they feel an echo of pain... XL is so excited when he meets MQ and they turn out to be soulmates! (imagine this being a major factor in him helping MQ to cultivate!! So they can become immortal together 🥺) MQ however is horrified to realize that he has two soulmates, and desperately hides it because people with two soulmates are considered duplicitous traitors. He hates FX because his life would have been perfect if he wasn't also bound to FX!! If only it was just XL!! Every time they fight, they end up with identical bruises (yes XL gets bruises from this too, FX curses MQ for hurting Dianxia with his aggressive behaviour)

The day after the parade where Hong-er and XL meet, more bruises start appearing on him for no apparent reason, bruises that MQ doesn't match.

Hong-er doesn't realize XL is his Literal Actual Soulmate until later, because he's always hurt. In fact I think it isn't until... probably the Land of the Tender incident that HC learns "of fuck, my soulmate is my god!" (trying to think of the first time XL gets hurt or something that HC wouldn't be able to explain away)

so during The Separation, MQ could write or draw on himself to communicate with XL, but not without outing himself as FX's soulmate too. HC probably does try to communicate with XL multiple times....but he doesn't want to have a one-sided conversation with MQ either.... but both of them can FEEL him, not where he is...but HOW he is (Coffin Time would be horrific for both of them because they feel this constant dull pain that fades in and out for a CENTURY)

poor FX probably knows he's Bound but can't for the life of him figure out who it is. Sometimes he'll get random things, and he'd know his soulmate is immortal (or a ghost) because it continues for centuries, but he's just... trying to find out who they are...(and doesn't know how to tell them that he's in love with MQ)

#hualian #tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #san lang #fengqing #feng xin #mu qing #mulian is only platonic #platonic soulmates #this could be very angsty #though it might be funny if xl and mq also feel each other's pleasure #mq would be disgusted #soulmate au #also its kinda interesting to have hc NOT realize hes XL's soulmate for a while #but that also means HC can tell xl he only had a couple years knowing his soulmate when hes a ghost fire! which would be so sad

[poolsidescientist]

Master Eiji is two things to Mizu: a parental figure and an artist. He has a great respect for sword making, it's a process and a labour and it comes from both body and soul. Swords are weapons yes, but they're also the soul of the samurai. It's funny how Mizu's potential actual father, Abijah Fowler masters the arts (paining, woodblock, etc.) in technical terms but has a deep disdain for art. He considers them a waste of time and while Master Eiji puts time and effort and love into what he creates, Fowler has no love and resents that he has time and energy to spare for the arts he uses to pass the time. Mizu grew up with Eiji's philosophy in life and now will likely have to learn from Fowler on her way to London. Master Eiji may be the angel on Mizu's shoulder but Abijah Fowler is most certainly the devil. It'll be interesting to see how much influence over her he ends up having now that they're stuck dealing with each other for the next while.

#blue eye samurai #I guess Eiji and Fowler are kinda narrative foils #it is interesting how Eiji lost his sight in a fire #I wonder if he was perhaps on his own revenge quest #perhaps we will get backstory #I guess one possible ending is that Mizu gets her revenge and perhaps like sword father gets blinded in the process #perhaps she will go back to the forge after discovering the real father is the sword maker she met along the way #and fowler very much does not see revenge as an art so I wonder how his perspective might affect Mizu

[not-so-terrible]

Konoha: Wow, it’s so great our double agent within the Uchiha Clan has the selfless Will of Fire, completely cancelling out the possibility for trauma, repressed emotion and deep love to trigger the Curse of Hatred and cause them to sacrifice the many for the few they care about. We can relax and leave it all to him :)

Itachi, trapped on a burning clifftop, wrapping Sasuke in duct tape in preparation to throw him over the edge: ~ I will kill our friends and family to remind ☽  you ☺ of ♬ my ☮ love ☠ ~

#itachi uchiha #naruto meta #i'm not 100% if in either itachi shinden or the manga/anime itachi ever actually talks of the will of fire himself #and technically its a philosophy vs the curse of hatred being part philosophy part kinda genetic environmental mix #but boy oh boy does the general uchiha clan's self interest of not being spied on scapegoats pale against itachi's m.o #its not even exclusively a sasuke thing he drowns a young shinobi who tried to kill kisame for 2 days in tsukuyomi #even though he planned to stab him straight after #and he tortures shisui's killer and everyone who accused him of killing him himself #and basically locks izumi in a snowglobe with just illusionary people and him for 70 years #like will of fire or no it feels like his mindset is right up there with madara-obito-sasuke #its just that part of his single minded love happens to be konoha-directed #like he doesn't have asura's philosophy he has indra's #itachi's goal is peace but his tool is almost exclusively power and fear #with love being something he keeps very private #the ninja world will play nice if he has to hold it at knife-point #not anti itachi he is a mess it's great #he's so bad at being good but could have become so so much worse #like danzou is pretty heavily implied to have chosen itachi to kill his clan the day he graduated so his whole life in konoha\ #is just slowly being steered to a slaughter

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I am once again thinking about Dazai and Ango's friendship and how Ango is the only person Dazai approached with the intention of just hanging out. Like, I can't recall any underlying motive other than Dazai's plain interest in the man when he noticed that Ango was making records of people who died in the DHC.

Objectively speaking, it would've been easy to say "oh, Dazai wants to have Ango as a contact as the man who knows the mafia's secrets" and for Ango, it would be easy to note that "it's probably better for him to be on good terms with an executive for his undercover mission" but that's... literally not what their dynamic was at all. They talked about anything other than work. They just hung out.

Has Dazai ever had another instance where he expresses interest in getting to know someone without ulterior motives? I can't think of anyone before or after where he did.

Dazai didn't suspect Ango until he saw the umbrella in his case on the night they took the photo together. And honestly, I think a huge part of the reason that Dazai is still so angry at him is not just because he was involved in the events that led to Odasaku's death but also because it was Dazai that invited him to Bar Lupin in the first place (in his own weird Dazai way). Like, that must've hurt, man. Dazai isn't the trusting sort and he also has this "everything's going to end eventually" mentality so I have to wonder if his stable friendship with Odasaku and partnership with Chuuya, both of which had lasted at least a year by this point if I'm not mistaken, made him feel bolder about going up to someone he didn't know and trying to initiate a friendship himself... only for that person to turn out to be a fucking triple agent.

It's sad, honestly. The tragedy in Dark Era wasn't just Odasaku's death imo it was the entire dissolution of the whole trio, which started with Ango's betrayal and ended with the death of their mutual friend.

Angst aside though, their friendship is really funny to me too - literally they are nothing alike, their values don't align AT ALL and it's comedy gold, especially in Wan.

I think about the only thing they have in common is that they both absolutely suck at acting on their hearts over their heads. Like, Ango has values that contradict those of his boss and career and Dazai has feelings that run counter to the most logical solution but they almost always prioritize orders/logic unless someone is dying or there is a literal world-ending threat somewhere and even then

Oh and I suppose they have their screwed-up sleep schedules too.

#i love their friendship they were so weird together in dark era and in wan #i think they both still care about each other tbh #dazai definitely scares ango and he is absolutely doing favours for him out of guilt over odasaku #but he misses when they'd hang out #and on dazai's end i really feel it is a lot more hurt from him than it is hatred #he must still trust ango to a degree at the very least #honestly i'd think it interesting if their team-up in the latest arc #kind of led to an indirect mutual callout of each other #maybe even... *gasp* talking about things #eh probably not but i can dream right? #regardless i think poor ango's definitely getting fired after this #rip buddy #actually mark all three of the buraiha trio down as passive characters #something else they all had in common #bsd #bsd meta #bsd analysis #bsd dazai #bsd ango #storyrambles

[dr3adlady]

Thinking about that one time when Sandor granted that poor Pyper soldier a merciful death.

#he's mostly gentle towards the Stark girls but not exclusively #and that's very interesting #he even tells Arya to give the man some water #he also teaches her how to do a mercy killing but she's an angry little child and the 'mercy' bit just flies over her head #but maybe when she's older she would understand #asoiaf #sandor clegane #arya stark #a song of ice and fire #gift of mercy