#but beforehand-how. why. ???

[pherredraws]

from the homumiko mines

#dgs #tgaa #dgs spoilers #tgaa spoilers #homumiko #idk why mikotoba is taller in the kiss. hes on his tiptoes #the first one is inspired by the moment when sholmes puts his hands on ryu's neck so he can feel how cold they are from blood loss lol #anyway i continue to be deeply fascinated with early years homumiko #i feel like my view of their relationship is more slowburn than most #like. they were both not at their best when they met and i can very much see a scenario where they start living together w/out necessarily #liking each other #the last one in based on a line in 1-5 where gregson (?) says that after an hour of blood loss even sholmes piped down or something #which makes me think he would not shut up beforehand. and i think he'd say some stuff He Really Shouldn't Have #but susato wrote it off as delirium + she was too worried abt her dad and messing with the crime scene #que like 5 months later her going .........ohhhhhh #thats not how you write que i think. anyway

[successionable]

i don't think we're talking enough about how tom and greg rocked up to logan's wake together even though tom was last seen accompanying shiv (back to their apartment, presumably) and shiv was last seen lying in bed alone

#succession #succession spoilers #succession s4 #tomgreg #tomshiv #tom either picked greg up on the way (why??) OR #they spent the night together #also love how when they arrive #tom surveys the kids in one room the old guard in another and then goes to talk to the old guard #while greg tries his luck with the kids #did they discuss beforehand and decide to divide and conquer? #(failing on all accounts but) #we know tom's fave is strategise and fuck 😏 #dear fic writers this is your cue #adding THIS frame to my list as well #succpost

[lunarharp]

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #brief small post before i return to Real and Emotional things again...but tbh...this makes me feel real emotions too #i think the manga will end up with a epilogue chapter showcasing little things in the girls' future and orufrey holding hands or kissing... #to like Indicate things. if it doesn't happen beforehand. #But. Who. Knows. also then i suddenly started thinking about them raising a baby for ages today because of how narratively poignant it'd be #for things to end that way after having raised almost-daughters all those years. and how healing it could be for qifrey and etc. #thing i said on twt: girls visit so often that the kid's first words are Professor Olly #“deja vu.. i'm not your professor kid - i'm your father!” #sorry but they are literally a gay couple where one truly is like The Mom and one truly is The Dad. to me #i think a housewifey homemaker type lifestyle would make qifrey happy. be harder now that he's disabled - well that's why he has his man. #i dont normally care about stuff like fankids or whatever..characters becoming parents for real..but like..Come on #This is the couple to think about this with.....they already ARE parents..i want them to be happy for eternity #once all the horrors are over we have to make it there.....children are so precious families are so precious.... #i have bad relationship with parents personally and haven't interacted with children in years. And yet i still know that. #the fact that orufrey fight for children to be safe and educated and happy...qif wants to help coustas too.. #aaaanyway today was a pretty weird and difficult day so i deserved to think about happy futures for a bit. i hear it's possible #btw i'm most sure about tetia becoming the princess of zozah. i think that will happen. and riche should have the ribbon tassel.

[gayvampyr]

being autistic and having to deal with bureaucracy is like “sorry for the communication error!” (not my fault even remotely)

#why is my prof all aggro about my not scheduling an exam with the university disability center #bitch i knew the policy beforehand. i didn’t schedule an exam because i simply did not want to take it 2 hours early! #how is it my fault that you didn’t go ahead and put me on the roster to test with the rest of the class knowing i didn’t schedule an exam #with accommodations #he seems actually mad that i wanted to know where to go for the test tonight as if it was my oversight and not his #that’s the policy babe! #if i don’t want an extra long exam i get put in the regular one #it’s literally the rule. disabled student doesn’t choose to use their accommodations -> they do the regularly scheduled stuff #autism #text post

[terrorofthetrident]

do you ever think about how alicent’s children feel about her having an obvious soft spot for rhaenyra? they weren’t around to witness alicent and rhaenyra’s relationship before alicent was forced to marry viserys and then forced into motherhood. they don’t have any fond memories with rhaenyra and the lasting impression they have of her is probably when she called for aemond to be “sharply questioned”. it got me thinking about the moment in alicent’s toast where she says rhaenyra would make a fine queen..i really wonder what was going on in aemond’s head in particular when he heard her say that. the idea that the lives of his family members as well as his own would be in danger if rhaenyra were to take the throne was always looming over his head since he was a child..he made training a focal part of his life for when the moment would come so he’d be able to defend and protect them, yet he heard his mother speak those words and mean them

#alicent hightower #aemond targaryen #the greens #hotd #house of the dragon #aemond seems to be the only one that doesn’t drink to her toast when he was drinking to every other one beforehand #i wonder how a scene where they confront her about it would look #i imagine there’s probably some resentment there #i also wonder if her toast could’ve been why aemond snatched his arm from her the way that he did when she tried to discipline him #it seemed like a deliberate action on his part..not just his temper influencing his actions #the only bad thing aemond ever did was snatch his arm away from alicent

[oshaskell]

'A' Is For... by virginiainbloom - Chapter 7

He steps closer, but as he does the Captain sees his big, ridiculously brown eyes flicker with a sudden distraction, and then Anthony smiles. “You've got glitter…” he says very softly, touching the pad of his finger first to his own face and then, so lightly it's barely there at all, to the same spot on the Captain's face, just to the side of his nose. Goosebumps rise up all over the Captain's skin, even though he's anything but cold.

Initial sketch under the cut.

:)

#bbc ghosts #capvers #bbc ghosts captain #bbc ghosts the captain #lieutenant havers #anthony havers #I don't know how to tag them... oTL #comics #art entry #Initial sketch plus warmups i should say! #I really love this fic and have like 3 unfinished pieces inspired by bits of it and finally i finished one! yippee!!!! #It's because i sketched everything by hand beforehand. this is literally why. whenever i start a digital sketch it stays a sketch. im curse #Anyway if you like capvers go read this fic :) #now for blog archival purposes: #pink #purple

[quettzals]

i wont be elaborating

picture the frame is holding 

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny the game #clovis bray #season of the seraph #beyond light #guardian oc #the guardian #alva lonn #she's not even the young wolf but for the sake of tagging im including that #my art #and this would technically be taking place post beyond light but dont worry about that #also dont worry about how she got lament without talking to him beforehand or why it has the transistor ornament. im delusional

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I'm rewatching Hannibal now that I have a bit more free time and one of my favourite things about the first season is how much fun the show has with the fact that virtually everyone watching already knows that Hannibal is a cannibalistic serial killer — the cannibal puns, the cuts between Hannibal's victims and him preparing meals, the way he's so consistently but subtly manipulative in a way you can't fully appreciate without knowing who he is. I think creators adapting popular stories/characters can fall into the trap of writing or directing the same way they would for a narrative that isn't already entrenched in the popular consciousness, but Bryan Fuller and co. really leaned into that awareness and wove it into the narrative in a way that produces some truly spectacular dramatic irony.

#nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #bryan fuller #i say “virtually everyone” because it is theoretically possible though unlikely that someone would find the show #without knowing who hannibal is beforehand #incidentally this is why i'm not usually bothered by spoilers — sometimes knowing the twist lets you appreciate the story more #also that bit where he tells freddie lounds she's being rude and then it cuts to him cooking one of his victims #as this wonderful bit of foreshadowing for how he chooses his victims #already know what to expect gore-wise on the rewatch so i'm less distracted by being squeamish #and can appreciate how well-constructed the show is #kvetch oc

[wavebiders]

Thinking about how most of the time when you have the option to stay quiet during a companion quest you get approval for letting them handle it and sometimes even get disaproval for talking over them

And then with Shadowheart's quest speaking up with Viconia not only gives a +5(while *keep silent* gives nothing) but also if you don't do that she will look genuinely scared when Viconia asks you to hand her over

#girl just wants someone to love her and stand up for her😭 #I've been choosing to stay silent for all my pt's since I'm so used to letting the companions handle their own quests #so I always get the scared look at Viconia's offer #which is heartbreaking but makes perfect sense #she's spent most of her life being used and abused by her caretakers whose love was so desperate for #of course when confronted with that trauma she's gonna have a moment of doubt in regards to the person she loves now #but turns out just standing up for her beforehand cuts that panic short! #anyway I just think it's a very interesting character detail that having someone vocally have her back #is more important than leading the confrontation herself #bg3 #shadowheart #also not to get overly self-indulgent #but you know that one poem about how to the author being butch means this feeling of chivalry towards other girls? #that feeling is part of why this romance works so well for me #Shadowheart isn't weak and she is the hero of her own story #but you do kinda get to be her knight in shining armor so to speak you know? #larian did a great job of balancing that with still making sure she has enough agency and stands on her own #and without ever making it feel like the romance is mainly geared towards men #I appreciate that

[biscuityskies]

to catch a fallen star, to hold it in your hands

"Does it bother you at all?" Cody asks, slipping an arm around Obi-Wan’s waist and pressing a sleepy kiss to the underside of his jaw. "The blue sometimes going away." As Obi-Wan looks himself over in the mirror, the surface level changes pale in comparison to the gold of his eyes. He tugs down the stark white robes and wraps a jet black belt around his waist, clips his saber to it. Golden eyes meet brown in the mirror as he leans back into his lover’s touch. "No," he says simply, a smile on his lips. "It reminds me that I have you." 

for day 5 of @codywanweek! this covers both Sith AU and established relationship >:)

#codywan week 2023 #codywan week #dani writes #codywan #author is tired. and has many regrets #fr what is that title tho. why did i do this to myself #it's okay i'll bounce back tomorrow with something more fun #I HOPE! #IT WILL BE SO FUN IF IT WORKS #I just need to finish it :| #no comment today on how this ran away from me bc i didn't have it done beforehand. #listen we all have to turn at least one homework assignment in late #author is going to sleep now. goodnight

[bonetrousledbones]

getting a sudden resurgence of art motivation is such a blessing and a curse tbh. bc on one hand im drawing a lot and having a lotta fun doing so but on the other hand i wanted to make Even More secret stuff for atbb that requires drawing so i told myself i would make a few very sketchy things that would have to be quick and don't have to be Insane Awesome Quality since they'll be blurry as hell in the final product anyway and i have like less than a week / a couple days at most to get it all ready in time

so anyways now it's 3am and i just finished the first of what i still want to do after 3 days

#trousled dumb #WHAT THE HELL IS IT WITH ME AND OVERDOING SHIT THAT'S JUST GONNA BE BLURRED!!!!!!!!!!!!! #there are THERE characters in this fucking thing btw. and a background. whats wrong with me who have i become #i was sooo close to just leaving it with minimal shading & detail and finishing it like So Many Hours Ago I Don't Even Know #but i had that thought. you know the one. the one that says Wait I Can Push This More. and well i fucking pushed it #i think im gonna have to do an art dump when this event is done. because where this is gonna be seen beforehand it's gonna be 400px wide. #its original width is 1694px for the record. can you imagine the compression #motion blur + scanlines filter + several gaussian blurs + ungodly compression.......................why did i . do this #sigh. at least i am extremely proud of it and at least i lost track of time solely because of how much fun i was having #but also fellas i do not think i will be drawing everything i want to be prepared by the time of the reveal lmaooo #head in hands. i have drawn a really really good pair of boots. and also a lesbian. and also fully rendered drinks with ice cubes in them #ice cubes that you cannot see. because they are already so small that they had to be drawn with a 2px brush. and now they are blurred #and also obscured by the glass details in general. but by god do they change color under the liquid and everything #goodnight . i would put a cute little emoji here but there isnt anything that represents a smile akin to baring my teeth like a wild animal

[bam-monsterhospital]

fantasy & cannibalism

the decision to make wood elves in the elderscrolls (for the most part) cannibals who forgo consuming vegetation is an interesting one, but it begs the question:

how are the bosmer (wood elves) surviving?

the worst fact about cannibalism that everyone except biologists forget is that you will starve to death if you consume nothing but other people.

yes. STARVE.

why? because there's not enough nutritional value in human flesh. We're at the top of the food chain and the nutrients we need to fuel the engine of our bodies and keep it operating have to 1) pass through other creature's metabolisms and what they took from it in the chain of eating, and 2) if what little was left over has been already processed and used by the human body, there's not going to be much to gain from it. Forgive my extremely short and simplistic way of saying the higher up on the food chain a creature is, the less bang for your buck you'll get out of it in general: aka why mass meat production doesn't focus on farming apex predators, but instead creatures that consume low on the food chain, like grazing herbivores.

That's real life. You cannot live off of the flesh of other people, you will die of hunger(if the prions and diseases and other stuff don't get you first). Now, apply that to fantasy.

Moving on to elder scrolls

Bosmer are weird... they practice ritual cannibalism and the whole thing seems more spiritual (hence 'ritual') to tie them back to the essence of the plants that shelter them, rather than an essential part of their diet... maybe. It's a blurry mess. The 'green pact', the practice that forbids them from harming plant-matter means their diets are carnivorous. So...

Does this mean bosmer are obligate carnivores, ie: is their biology adapted so that they rely only on meat to give them sustenance (and thus can't derive it from plantlife or non-animals)?

if it doesn't mean their biology is 100% carnivorous and they are instead omnivores like humans, where are they getting their fibre, vitamin c, other stuff needed from plant-eating? Do they import it from outside valenwood where the green pact doesn't apply? That's extremely shaky ground to keep an entire civilization alive...

if the bosmer are obligate carnivores, and the practice of cannibalism came from pragmatism to not waste a resource they depend on to survive (meat), which seems to be what the lore implies, how are bosmer getting nutritional value from eating other people (aka, animals at the top of the food chain)? Not to mention if reliance on this meat is a common thing (again which the lore implies), how do their bodies deal with prion transmission? Do their bodies resist disease- OHMYGOD. THEY DO RESIST DISEASE, it's in morrowind, oblivion, and eso as one of their species stats.

'the green pact' isn't practiced by all bosmer but what does that mean when it comes to diet other than 'haha not all of us eat our enemies'. Are these bosmer also carnivorous?

i mean the boring answer is probably 'tee hee, they're omnivores, just like humans, duh', which opens up all the issues™ with the decision to make them so meat and cannibal oriented.

I don't know. there's so much to do here and everything's so vague and wishy washy.

Mostly I'm just frustrated with creators not knowing the one single most interesting and horrifying fact about cannibalism: it doesn't help anything.

#tw #cw #tw cannibalism #cw cannibalism #bosmer #eso #elder scrolls online #i remember way back in 2007/08 playing oblivion and talking to a friend about it #who was like 'yeah i love bosmer they're terrible' #and i was like 'what? why' #and she told me about their lore which i didn't stumble upon or have interest to stumble upon beforehand #and then eso provides more but... just... it's all so nothing #i dunno maybe i just need to go through the valenwood quests and look for more to get confirmation on these things #probably #elves #can you imagine how amazing it would be to have a body that could reject prions? #fffuck #prions are the true terror #fucked up proteins that unmake your building blocks #ramblings #this formed as half a thought and i don't think i finished it #of course you can make it so your magic species of elves are so efficient they can get all they need from other sentient species #especially since it seems they prey on other species rather than just themselves #which means technically it's not cannibalism... still all the hnorror but y'know semantics #i dunno there's just so much that can be done and i'm getting the suspicion eso does none of it #yeah that bit in once piece where zeff survived off autocannibalism? fake. he stayed alive based on magic and dreams and stubbornness

[fauvester]

Young Elim grows up tall and stocky and round faced just like Garak. but very taciturn and blunt. in the postwar world though the Damar Effect makes those traits VERY sexy. AND he's got a Romantic missing eye (from a childhood infection, but doesn't it look like a battle scar?) and he stays home to take care of his parents (the former Castellan and the planet's favorite pet alien) and their many children (the Future of Cardassia)? he's IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST!

#dee s 9 #garak flipping through the mail getting progressively more peeved #he can barely get to the assassination threats for all the LOVE NOTES their ELDEST SON GETS! #young elim shining his old boots: maybe you're just not relevant anymore mister garak. maybe you're getting old and nonthreatening #garak: thankless child. no dessert for you tonight. after everything you put your other father and I through! #(young elim never got out as a teen he's a homebody) #garak eventually gives up on trying to teach elim jr how to obfuscate and prevaricate #young elim like. If I am in a situation where i have to lie to save myself. i would simply not have put myself in that situation beforehand #julian like WELL GARAK WHY DIDNT YOU EVER THINK OF THAT HUH???

[theinfinitedivides]

the tears in his eyes when he called headquarters to tell them where Hae Ryeon's father's gang was located................... Jun Mo you are really f*cked over under and around for her aren't you

#tv: the worst of evil #the worst of evil #ji chang wook #bibi #kdrama #local gay watches TWOE (and ships everyone within sight).txt #local gay watches k-dramas.txt #she offered up this information bc she felt so close to him she thought she could trust him and he trusts her and he cares about her #at least and you can see how it's eating him alive when he calls in to report bc this will ruin her. it will and even in this he asks her #beforehand if she wants to go home bc he wants her to be safe. he f*cking wants her to be safe why are they becoming the most #tragic ship of this series now

[mattodore]

"I don’t actually think Theo has any offensive preferences, because he’s not really a fighter. That human instinct to fight back was trained out of him very young… so."

#cw abuse mention #cw child abuse mention #<- mentioned in the tags. i'm adding these cws bc i talk bluntly abt this in the tags so definitely don't look if it's triggering... #river dipping #questionnaire lb #AND FUCK YOU ACTUALLY ! #BANGING MY HEADI NTO A WALL................ THIS IS ONLY QUESTION 71.......................................... #I JUST . GRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #feeling sick already lord why am i doing this actually.......... #i feel so insane but it's like. theo just can't let himself fight back. he can't do it. #it's like...... it's not even about ''i can't do this it'll just make it worse'' to him. like that was how his brain processed it as a kid #like that's what he was taught then. but now as an adult it's about him feeling like he deserves it... like it's his fault. #i think he needs that sense of... control? as well. like if he's being hurt well. he should've prevented it beforehand. #obviously this is only happening because he did something to cause it and it'll stop if he just doesn't do that thing again. #if it's just. if it's not his fault then that makes him feel helpless. if he couldn't stop it - if it was always going to happen regardless #of what he did - then. jesus. like it just fucks with his head even thinking that. it petrifies him. #it's safer in his head to think okay. obviously i've created this situation somehow so i had that control over it and now i can prevent it. #but jesus theo............... you can't. #and then theo does these things almost... almost to prove that. to prove that he's always been in control of his own abuse. #where he uses and then he finds these hook-ups that aren't safe for him or these sketchy ppl and he shoots off at the mouth and. then. #when he gets hurt it's like. he feels vindicated. i caused this. this is my fault. it's always been my fault. #his recklessness is entirely because he just wants to prove it. he just wants to have that. it's... christ. #it's the only thing he feels like he has control over in his life. the violence he faces... it's his. in that way. #and it's one of the only aspects of his life he doesn't feel helpless in. not anymore. not since he was a teenager. #god. #and when he does finally let it out at one point. when he does finally fight back again. it just...... #it tears him up inside. it's one of the parts of the story i'm the most horrified about having to write #just because i know what it does to him. and how it all just spins out of control after. like it ruins everything for him. #christ. #what else is there to say.