#and sometimes the wolf is better

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

[kvtnisseverdeen]

GET TO KNOW ME MEME: FAVORITE SHOWS ↳ Teen Wolf (2011-2017)

"I'm going to tell you a story, maybe it will sound familiar. There was this kid, 16, alone, and running for his life. He couldn't see them, but he could hear them getting closer. They had guns, crossbows. They were hunting him. It started on the night of the full moon. Something came at him. Something bit him, and it changed his life. It changed everything."

#i often think about how well this show would've done if it was on streaming #it would've had a better budget for sets and cgi #tbh i think the writing sucked sometimes because the writers had a shitty budget and had to reuse sets #and also they had to include those god awful mtv ads lol #but yeah i think about it a lot :( #it was still a very good show for an mtv show in 2011 #miss it so much! #and the movie was horrible that doesnt count okay #derek is ALIVE in my head #teen wolf #mine* #gifs* #gtkm #teenwolfedit #twedit #teenwolfgif

[onewolfaday]

[ID: Digital art of an upright grey wolf smiling and waving a tiny genderqueer flag, with excitement marks of green and purple radiating away from its face. End ID.]

158. genderqueer wolf!

#i know terves sometimes like to steal the genderqueer colours but they better keep their grubby little hands off this #wolves #wolf #genderqueer

[child-of-hurin]

Part of what charms and compels me in Jeyne Poole's arc is her reaction to her predicament. All the female POVs in this book are dealing with a lot of gendered violence, and they all deal in different but dignified forms... Jeyne is not a POV character and she is absolutely not dignified lol. She cries and begs, she is utterly helpless. But unlike most women in this book who are utterly helpless, she survives. It's frustrating how fans refuse to celebrate that, simply because there is no glory in it.

#Sometimes I wonder if that's part of why fandom is so uncharitable towards her #like if she had some self-sacrificing sense of dignity maybe people would like her more... if she were resourceful or proud #boo! #she's perfect #i also think the absurd notion of arya 'mercy killing' her stems from this too? tbh #like - you think this woman is too pathetic to live? that even if she escaped bluebeard's castle her life is better over? #people will call grrm a grimdark author but this shit you see in fandom is 100000% more cruel than anything this man wrote #her pain is too real to her for games of honor to hold any meaning! she tears the veil she ruins the veneer #she has no noble bearing no honor no ambition no wolf no lover no knight she will not rise from this taller and wiser #none of the ways in which she'll change will be for the better and her pain will only reward her with more pain - the pain is worthless! #here is a child-bride suffering and nothing about that suffering can be made beautiful or meaningful- besides her escape #which theon instantly romanticizes.... what a moment #we flew! #i can't wait to read about her again #jeyne poole

[hydrachea]

I can't stop thinking about Blade saying gifts are unfamiliar.

And I can't stop thinking about Kafka and Silver Wolf, hearing that, and making it a mission to bring him gifts whenever they travel somewhere for their script - even if he's there with them. About the confusion in his eyes when they steal buy something and turn right around to hand it to him.

About his room starting out completely empty except for the bare minimum necessities, a few spare clothes and what he needs to take care his Shard Sword, but filling up with little trinkets and gifts over time. Clothes and jewelry and perfume from Kafka and posters, figures and plushies from Silver Wolf. About them also bringing food back, expensive specialties swiped from a restaurant and the weirdest option they could spot in a lone vending machine, a category of gifts that doesn't leave anything behind (except the photos they both take of the three of them eating together, or of the faces he makes when Silver Wolf manages to trick him into trying a suspicious snack while he's distracted with polishing his weapon).

About Kafka spending hours finding clothes and jewelry she thinks would suit him, because that's her love language. She gets him makeup too, refusing to let his good looks go to waste. She knows he can't put it on himself, they both do, and he doesn't care for his appearance enough otherwise - but he'll let her do his makeup for him anyway, because she enjoys it, and because he finds it soothing.

About Silver Wolf also buying him clothes, but the ones she gets aren't his style at all, and just barely his size. She gets them for him, but just so she can steal them right back - her love language is quality time, and she fills Blade's room with gifts she can borrow along with a moment of his day. It still counts as a gift, she insists, practically swimming in an oversized jacket she swiped from his closet.

About how in another life, Yingxing gave gifts to the people he loved and in this one, Blade receives them from those who love him.

#honkai star rail #hsr #hsr blade #hsr kafka #hsr silver wolf #lads. lasses. i care them and i have an agenda to spread. #stellaron hunters #one day i'll have a better tag or will i #i still don't have a great one for my trailblazers ot3 #why is coming up with tags so difficult? #anyway #woe sap be upon ye #fresh from my dms with fero and a little more polished #ray's records #i think getting the people she loves all prettied up is kafka's love language #she has an eye for what would suit them and she likes to indulge her fantasies #silver wolf isn't safe from it and doesn't mind it so sometimes when the time is right kafka will make all three of them match #identical pieces of jewelry they each wear on a necklace a ring or an earring #coordinated colors found in each of their outfits #and after silver wolf's line about how blade promised to game with her i think that's how she shows her love #spending time with the people she cares about #filling blade's closet with jackets so she can wander into his room to snag one #and take the opportunity to sit next to him and play a game for a while #it's the next best thing until she can smack a controller in his hands and finally get him to play a fighting game together #man i do love them so much

[pollyna]

Pete and Tom's wedding, spring '91.

Source: twitter.

#slider was officiating #bradley was the ring bear #merlin&sundown were cryin' #hollywood&wolf were talking photos and crying #mav has tom's part of the photo in his wallet and sometimes he moons after it even if it's 2020 and seriuously dad??? #ice isn't better #i mean your honor saves us for the second hand embarrassment #and save ron too pls he is a good friend but he needs a break #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #icemav #top gun (1986) #otp: things get old our love is gold

[lunalycana]

Barry and Gadget Gijinka Designs!

I made these a long time ago and at two different times lol but I still like them a lot, so here they are! I'll probably redo them in the future when I finally get around to figuring out Infinite!

#Badget #Badginfinite AU #Barry the Quokka #Gadget the Wolf #Gijinka #Luna Doodles #I actually made these BEFORE I finalized the Team Sonic designs lol #They look kinda old now and the style is inconsistent (I think I drew these a month apart) #I LOVEEEEE Gadget's jumpsuit so much I was very pleased with it when I finished it #And Barry's hair makes me very happy lol #I'll redo these better sometime! #I still need to perfect Infinite he'll come eventually!

[ships-n-bats]

I still absolutely love how Wolfwalkers ended.

Love that it still ultimately focused on Robyn and Mebh and how they leave their old world behind to find a new one, just for them, their parents, and the wolf family to live in peace, far away from the townspeople. How after all that drama and near-death experiences, they just get to rest in the caravan, protected by their respective parent and live together in the forest.

No more societal expectations. No more gender roles. No need to appease a bunch of people who really only want them dead for what they are. No focus on these two literal children to change a town’s whole mindset like so many other films do. No, the message was just these two girls finding their happy ending with their loved ones somewhere else and just cutting out that toxic environment all together.

Why waste energy trying to help a bunch of people they don’t even have any real attachment to, after all? Especially with people who actively forced roles they didn’t want onto them and mistreated them for being different? It’s just such a breath of fresh air to see a film that ends with the characters finding happiness and peace in their own little slice of heaven, rather than wasting time, energy, and emotions on trying to change others.

#Wolfwalkers #Robyn Goodfellowe #Mebh Óg Mactíre #Mebyn #Ship Discussion #usually in films like this the main characters will have some grand philosophical speech about how they're all “not so different” #and can “live in peace together if we all just get along” and while I do agree with that sentiment /sometimes/ #in this instance I agree it was just better for the girls and their parents to find somewhere that was better to plant their roots #this type of lesson and world change is a better fit for something like HtTYD but not for Wolfwalkers #this also plays into one of my fave yet underrated shipping tropes where a couple leaves society behind just to live together freely #just let the girls be wolf lesbians in the forest while everyone else fucks off

[commsroom]

an underrated aspect of eiffel and lovelace's dynamic is that she is the one person who can speak his language, she's just not happy about it. "we're bootlegging the opening band to figure out what kind of anvil the headliner is going to drop on our heads." / "oh! why didn't you just say that?" or saying "there is no try" to him in the live show, or trying to explain her time loop predicament with the one pop culture reference he doesn't actually get, etc.

lovelace is also a pretty quippy and pop culture savvy person, and, unlike hera and minkowski, lovelace has definitely seen star wars. she has referenced star wars. there had to have been a moment where eiffel realized he was finally, after so long, occupying the same space as another person who has seen star wars. this absolutely does not mean eiffel can talk to lovelace about star wars, but you know he tried.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #isabel lovelace #it's funny to me to think that lovelace has COMPLETELY different star wars opinions #but also she just doesn't care that much and decides not to engage with him. and he's intimidated by her anyway #so as excited as he is initially. eventually he gives up and goes back to trying to explain it to hera #but eiffel and lovelace ARE friends too and it's sweet sometimes #i was thinking about the way he enables her moth joke like under better circumstances they could have so much fun together #and 'you're my friend' while her mind is still coming back... #everyone's best friend douglas eiffel

[electoons]

giving my ldb a daughter. embarrassing for all involved. mostly me

#her mom is an orc and her dad is a wood elf so she's going to be a very pointy orc. angular #like ok i suppose i leaned a little heavy on the elf features but also shes 12. she'll develop more orcish features. Not My Fault 😐 #mimiart #weird little girl who pretends to be a wolf -> actual werewolf pipeline #elder scrolls #skyrim #shes sooo sweet and smiley :) idk where that comes from. not either of her parents. neither a point for nature nor nurture #calling her Khara for now. might change idk #re: my caption its only embarrassing because of who she had the child with. he fucking sucks #but so does she which is why they get along and they make each other worse. but also sometimes better #whatever. they love each other and their weird kids #tes

[skinandscales-if]

How would ???? React if MC hit them with the, What can you do to me? that People like You havent already done to me.

Like they caught MC changing clothes and just sees scars covering their naked body and put one and two together and realise they were tortured by people who hate dragons and dragonshifters, and the most likely reason why they came to the city.

Ohhhooooo this one’s so crunchy I love it it’s got me monologuing

———

She looks on in silence, staring long enough for it to become uncomfortable quickly. You notice something that makes it feel worse though. Every time she looks at you, it’s with a barely contained fury that seeps from every inch of her. A predators eye that never blinks, never falters, never hesitates. But this look is different. It’s not fury.

It’s reverence.

She traces her eyes along every inch of scars, every hard-fought escape and every desperate clawing to survival. It is not the horrific moments of terror and pain you’ve experienced, not the mental scarring that would leave far before any wounds faded. No, she only sees victories. And failures on those who had tried and failed to take your life.

Her eyes snap up to yours, sharp emerald dots in the darkness that otherwise obscures her. There is no pity, no understanding. No kinship. Only deep, knowing certainty.

“I’ll finish the job next time.”

#asks #s&s: ??? #snippet #listen. depending on choices she CAN get better #but if you look to a wolf for pity don’t be surprised when it snaps at your exposed throat #also. the implications of an MC like this is KILLING ME #😭sad mcs I love u…. I am going to make things worse #??? has got the weirdest relationship with scars #like a red alarm that sometimes blinks green lol

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

insp.

#they make me... sad #to say the least #I said I'd respect Laura Hale's role as one of the better 'haunting the narrative' girlies to do it and I'm here to keep that promise lmao #teen wolf #laura hale #derek hale #show #cloey talks teen wolf #tw webweaving #my tw webweaving #my fandom webweaving #i make things sometimes #mine

[cheerfullycatholic]

I think I'm gonna be thinking about hermit crabs for the rest of my life

#this mornings conversation with myself was about those weird self reliant 'lone wolf' types of people #and how much literally everything including us relys on something and someone else #mainly God #always and forever #and how crabs rely on snail shells for protection we rely on God for protection as well #and just yeah #idk i worded so much better in my head while feeding the chickens #couldnt replicate it to save my life #but you get it right? what i mean? #sometimes we can find answers ro our questions by looking out instead of in #because the same God who created us #created all of this #and the strings that collect it all together is so much More than we can ever hope to imagine

[lottieurl]

here's. a thing. to consider. van was originally gonna die in the wolf attack i think?? cause i know they just kept the chatacter cause they liked liv that much (meaning that would be a wilderness death and an s1 death). and i gotta ask. like completely honestly and genuinely how interesting would van as a character be if she did die during wolf attack

#just wouldn't be very interesting cause majority of whats REALLY interesting imo abt van comes after wolf attack #this applies to others btw hence why i enjoy for example. the thought of laura lee's corruption arc #and whatever unhealthy fucked up thing she could develop if she didn't die #or why i have a. jackie dies and comes back to live au IN MY HEAD cause i enjoy imagining how that would fuck up #a character so focused on how shes perceived and so focused on crafting an image #its also why ive been kind of turning around in my head a crystal someow lives au #just kind of interesting to think of like. after what she learns from misty plus a betrayal plus i Could Give More Layers To Her #shoving writers away killing walter and deciding that crystal/kristen could be explored More #idk like there is appeal in that #love grief love hauntings love well written deaths #but also its fiction i can imagine any scenario i want #sometimes better than the writers oops who said it #anyways. GOODNIGHT. its a silly show btw the writers arent sure what happened OR if supernatural exists so lets stay silly too ig #yellowjackets blogging

[i-love-harryosborn-dotcom]

Parksborn werewoof AU

Pete is very grey wolf-ish & often appears as an anthro “wolf man” as opposed to a full wolf. He has increased physical strength & speed n seems to have boosted healing n senses

Where he can normally transform at will- on full moons & new moons he has a hard time not being a full wolf. (New moons are worse then full moons)

His silly full wolf form is an absolute BEHEMOTH of a feral wolf & is considerably tougher then his half form. Though it obviously has its downsides, a lack of opposable thumbs is rough 💀 + it comes with a unique & wolfish set of anger issues n behavior

Either way, big silly boy is a sweetheart. His heterochromia still shines through in wolf form & has created a mixed review on sightings in NYC. There are totally online forums n debates dedicated to discussing his physical appearance- his eye color being a big argumentative piece

#peter parker #parksborn #hes a cutie tho #sometimes he gets lost in the sauce on wolf behavior tho lol #i honestly think Aunt May probably knows early on that Peter is NYC’s infamous wolf man #JJJ really hates this peber #still no idea what to call this AU #id love help or suggestions #or questions really- i like it all #also i promise i draw animals better then this- im a furry- I promise i can draw doggos good #this is just a rough concept :’3

[vermillioncrown]

picrews all have a look to them that doesn't always fit... anyways. excuse the haircolor/style, it's approx

fig 1. si!kagami when he's ready to be a shithead

the smile when he's about to fuck with someone. haircolor fits, but it's a bit too messy for him. he's got more of a fade+pompadour that he styles. if it's on the streets he has rings on -> chrome hearts brand, started in L.A. and he's a sucker for the aesthetic. killer hoodie game, especially with direct access to a bathing ape

fig 2. si!kagami sensing ball sport sickness within his vicinity

or it's the face he makes when kuroko tries to mansplain kise's new nickname for him

the hairstyle is closer, even if the color is not a match and it's not a fade on the bottom. gakuran doesn't match the seirin zipup style (he wears his uniform properly bc it's cold in japan and he likes styling the shirt underneath). may make fun of tatsuya for his new prep purgatory, but he unironically buys burberry tartan scarves

fig 3. upstanding young man (🌸◕ v◕) that his dad shows off to his colleagues

this is the closest hairstyle, but wrong color (he wishes his hair is brown. one day, others will accuse him of being part of the clown brigade and he's gonna be diving into denial river)

at his age, dress shirt + suit is too stuffy. he likes shopping and is conscientious of what goes in/out of his closet (what he outgrows he consigns). he knows prada brown stands out on him in the best way

#on bil #bil.jpeg #of course we're missing the infamous forked eyebrows #si!kagami isn't plucking that. he knows. it's too easy to fuck up your eyebrows for life #better let them settle until he's an adult and then deal with it #also: 'give that wolf a banana' is now stuck in my brain #thank you supervisor #sometimes while we wait for code to compile we talk about the latest hyperfixation #he's always on eurovision tho