#but i suppose anything's possible

[sovaghoul]

Today was the day. I hope everything went according to plan. I wish I could have celebrated with you. Congratulations.

#i've been telling myself i'd give it the weekend before i got anxious #<- what a fun joke i told myself #i told you two months ago that re-establishing contact was up to you #i will abide by that but my heart is going to lean at insta and discord notifs again for a while #the way i see it there are five ways things could go from here: #1. we pick up where we left off #2. we're a couple again but take some number of steps back to rebuild #3. we're friends with the option for more #4. we're friends with no option for more #5. there's nothing between us anymore and we maintain/return to no contact once that's communicated (if it is at all) #although i'm hard pressed to believe you wouldn't contact me even with upsetting news #but i suppose anything's possible #i never expected to be here after all #but here we are #personal

[thejasontoddarchives]

Catwoman (2018-) #57

Bruce is really swinging between extremes huh

#dc #jason todd #red hood #catwoman 57 #gotham war #last week it was ‘shouldn’t I kill you’ and now it’s ‘I’m gonna take back my son screw the plan for now’ #some people are saying it’s inconsistency but tbh I think he’s supposed to be off the rails #even as he’s saying this he practically tossed said son into the middle of traffic #possibly drugged him too #For once the writers are probably telling you to take what Bruceman says with a grain of salt #like especially that last line makes absolutely no sense in the context of everything he’s done this issue lol #but tbh is this really anything new for him #the only new thing about it is the fact that it’s being framed honestly for once

[mizunoir]

stargazing ⭐

happy [late] laven week!

#dgm #laven #lavenweek2023 #lavi #allen walker #lavi bookman #d. gray man #I really promised myself I will do at least one artwork for laven week this year #i hope everyone is doing well in the laven fam #wanted to do the happy artwork but i'm not really in a happy place lately #anyways it was supposed to be ready for day 4: night + stars but alas #i am just glad i managed to do anything even though i missed all of the possible deadlines ;; #mizunoir

[puppyeared]

Why are ppl scared to call it what it is and say we’re still going thru covid on top of seasonal illness. Like. That’s pretty important right. I was watching the news and they were like oh yeah we have an unprecedented number of flu cases “as well as other sicknesses” without actually saying Covid. No announcement abt vaccinations or masking or anything. Also if I hear someone joking abt “war flashbacks” for mentioning covid I fucking hate u

#source: most of my family members are nurses and it was so bad for one of them they had to be put on a ventilator. in the hospital they #worked at. looking back I think I had a reason to feel a little offput by the shows of support early pandemic #with people tying blue ribbons around trees and lighting signs blue to support healthcare workers #I get that it was supposed to be moral support when we couldn’t do anything but follow health advisories #and it did matter to make them feel uplifted and do something than nothing. im not gonna deny that #but. you can still help now. u know that right. you still have a responsibility here #u can still mask up. u can still get vaxxed and call in sick to avoid infecting others #don’t leave it on healthcare workers to pick up the pieces just because they were doing it before. do u think they had a choice? #nobody likes picking up the slack for someone else and now that we have more tools to do smth couldn’t we just. do it???? #im not a virologist but i also feel like continuing to let it get worse by letting more mutations develop #could continue to set us back since this virus is pretty good at fucking us up long term and finding new ways to do that #while there are ppl still researching covid which is STILL A RELATIVELY NEW VIRUS. and studying possible treatment and cures #yapping #vent

[goemon-fan]

This was easily one of the best Lupin episodes

#there will be a rant in the tags that you can ignore #but it is so upsetting how modern/current lupin took away the depths of these characters and flimsily tries to restore their earlier depth #i'm one of those people who craves depth in what i watch and it's so difficult to like this franchise because it will be so close to doing #something interesting only to abandon it #this episode and part one as a whole was peak lupin in my opinion with each character having emotional depth yet flaws to overcome #yet modern lupin would have you believe that these characters don't desire to improve in any capacity #if we were to just focus on Goemon for example right here he shows depth with revealing hidden emotional maturity and empathy for Lupin by #comforting him and admitting he himself is afraid (which is a big deal for a character like him who is supposed to be unflinching) #but in modern lupin goemon will literally say that he's not afraid of anything and this is written without any hint of irony or depth #i'm okay with mindless entertainment and i understand that this is a series simply about stealing but the character assassination is so #disappointing #and when this series does try to be “deep” they pick the most triggering subject matter possible to depict to the point where it's #practically unwatchable (this is in reference to Part 4 and its constant SA plots as well as the rampant gratuitous child abuse plots #throughout the entire series) #i want so badly to love lupin the 3rd but it's a huge problem when fanfiction understands the characters better than the source material #lupin iii #lupin the third #lupin the 3rd #goemon ishikawa xiii #goemon #arsene lupin iii #jigen daisuke #daisuke jigen #fujiko mine #part 1

[remyfire]

The fact that BJ walks out of residency directly into a war and then has to go home with his dominant hand battered to hell will always break my heart.

#i know this is supposed to be just a temporary cramp but knowing operation friendship is coming next season has it on my mind #he really chased a life path as hard as he possibly could and then sustained injuries that are gonna fuck with him for the rest of his life #before he ever got the chance to have his own private practice or anything #bj hunnicutt #m*a*s*h #mashposting #mashblogging #s8e22 #dreams

[violetdisasterzone]

here's my hot take for the night: way less people, if anyone, would misinterpret Maigu Ridge as rape if Shen Qingqiu had topped instead of Binghe

#like I cannot understand how you could possibly read that scene (and the aftermath!) and come to that conclusion #one person was conscious and making decisions and it wasn't binghe #NEITHER of them wanted it #much less thinking that scene was supposed to be kinky and sexy ??? #not to even mention its narrative purpose #not the Narrative Expectations happening in the Subverting Narrative Expectations book! shocking! #“but how is it subversive if the same things still happened!!1!” BECAUSE IT WASN'T GOOD AND DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING! THAT'S THE POINT #svsss #bingqiu #scum villain's self saving system #人渣反派自救系统

[0ann3]

Waking up at 2am and opening youtube to have this as the first thing I see-

#ensemble stars #enstars #eichi tenshouin #niki shiina #madara mikejima #natsume sakasaki #hajime shino #doodle #april fools event #otome game or shoujo is not the first thing that came to mind as their possible theme #but idk what I'm expecting for this year's april fools anyway LMAO #I think anything is possible after Tori during ensemble training #Anyway #me not going along with my supposed schedule/plans for today #there's the prosekai april fools too and I think I wanna draw a certain group too KAJHSAKSJh #I already had to do this in a rush since I got exams so I might redraw this once I have nothing else to do/draw

[lord-squiggletits]

Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).

And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.

IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.

So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.

Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....

There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).

It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.

I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.

At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care

TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence

#squiggposting #idw op love #like honestly just admit that you havent actually read his parts of the story #or that in a continuity of moral grayness you insist OP must be the one person who's perfectly good #bc idk Optimus is supposed to be good and perfect bc nostalgia/marketing/mythology says he should be #also i feel like theres evidence here of a very juvenile mindset of like #to be good a person has to have all the right beliefs and say it in all the right ways #which is the mindset only extremely insular or inexperienced ppl could possibly have lmao #heartbreaking i know but IRL there are very few people who are and always have been progressive and perfect #there are ppl within progressive mvmts that have unaddressed harmful beliefs outside of their Chosen Issue #there are people who wouldnt ID as progressive at all but are still good ppl who act well towards others #like if youve actually interacted with ppl IRL you understand that if you reject everyone who isnt Perfectly Progressive #youll have few if any allies and possibly alienate ppl who would help/ARE HELPING #like idk do you know how many ppl i personally know who i think have some bigoted/problematic beliefs #but im still friends or collaborators w them bc i understand that theyre still good ppl learning and growing #like. learn to understand that 'goodness' doesnt always look like a walking leftist textbook please i'm begging #and in fact sometimes stories. esp adult and mature ones. will present you w problematic ppl #and you have to like. grapple with their flaws and explore the tension between intention and consequences #a bit of a philosophy tangent rather than anything TF related which is why i kept it to the tags

[worstloki]

something very horrifying about the concept of Thor but not Loki being told that Loki is Jotun when the brothers are old enough to understand the importance of the secret

#so he gets to watch Loki be unfavoured or try to do things and HE KNOWS WHY #but Thor can't SAY anything about it bc he's not supposed to #and Thor obviously has no way to reconcile that Loki is Jotun which means Jotun can't possibly be plain monsters #so Thor and Loki both keep badmouthing the frost giants #Thor gets to watch Loki hate on the frost giants while knowing Loki is one and idk something about that doesn't sit right with him #Thor basically gets to watch Loki fail at things and to Thor it's like 'oh yeah of course he's not as good or doesn't fit in' #he gets to watch and learn bad war stories and that's just how they learn about how horrible the Jotnar are #and i think occasionally Thor would stop to really process that fact #but most of the time Thor is just like. yeah that's a thing but it's not like it matters #even tho Loki being Jotun totally IS an important thing #he's just used to ignoring that it's not since he'd been told pretty far back #and it was apparently never relevant to their parents to inform Loki so *shrug* #ALSO ALSO Loki finding out so long after and being devastated and ''they told you of my parentage did they not?'' #but make it Thor 1 #make it happen when Loki goes to Earth to visit Thor too hjsvfdsh #Loki: I have reason to believe I'm not related to any of you by blood. #Thor: uh well that'd be a little hard wouldn't it #Loki finds out that Thor knew he was adopted/Jotun before him too #lets get that breakdown moving along

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

my fandom hot take of the day is that “whump” and “whumpee” are the stupidest terms I’ve ever heard in my life if you’re going to indulge in a little fictional sadism or whatever is going on over there can you not find something that doesn’t sound like the name of a mascot in a PBS kids show?

#Yes I am just being a little hater #but tumblr just throws random posts to my recommended for some reason #and every time I see it I am filled with disdain #how do those prompts even do whatever they’re supposed to do for you #if mid-sentence about graphic gore and psychological torture #you have the character call the person ‘Whumpee’ like a proper noun #Does that not pull you out of it #do you not get anything removed from your weird possibly kink possibly not sadism thing when you have to read ‘whumpee’

[lifeofmarvvel]

LED lights in car headlights should be illegal

#b talks #like how am i supposed to see anything #if everyone's regular lights are as bright as brights used to be #also i am in a college town so it's possible ppl really do just #have their brights on all the time bc they either dont know or dont care

[forcedhesitation]

I MISSED THIS ENTIRELY MY FIRST TIME AROUND....THIS IS SO DAMN PRECIOUS?!!

#bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #this is so sweet. corydalis would cherish this present to the end of his days. #so nice of mirkon to say we killed the harpies in one blow! #we did not. #I couldn't long rest and reset corydalis' empty spell slots because the scene was glitching and the kid would spawn dead. #so i had to forgo the long rest and just fight them. #and then astarion and karlach kept getting lured by the harpy song! #lae'zel was the only one getting anything done! #and she sure as fuck didn't even want to be there!! i brought her to try and boost her approval... #but it's like. stuck at 6 or something equally abysmal because I keep pissing her off by being too nice. #I didn't realise there was an interaction between her and a tiefling in the grove in my first playthrough...she hated me more after that. #GIRL I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE ZORRU BOW FOR YOU! #like corydalis is a tiefling himself! be real lae'zel! #being nice to zorru got us the information we needed anyways... #astarion for whatever reason didn't complain even though i'm pretty sure being too nice in this interaction is supposed to annoy him. #i'm literally LOOKING for interactions to gain his disapproval!!!!! #BECAUSE HIS APPROVAL WON'T GO DOWN!!!!!!!!! #please my dearest I would like to NOT trigger your first romance scene too soon. #honestly if i could romance him without suffering through that again I would be thrilled. but it is not possible. #REALISTICALLY corydalis wouldn't even fall for his lying. he's ten times better a liar than astarion could ever hope to be. #and he's also extremely kind and caring! there's noooo WAY he'd let astarion's evasiveness slide unmentioned. #BUT ALAS. the game only permits you to avoid this TORMENTUOUS experience if you are playing karlach. #goblin camp is next though. I'm SURE I can earn disapproval there with him. #he may be allergic to disagreeing with my tiefling but this is still act 1 astarion! he is a bitter HATER with no healthy outlet. #I just have to like. oh I don't know. offer to help some random npc and ask for nothing in return.

[a-s-levynn]

okay we all knew i was talking out of my ass when i said i might not finish it (well not yet but in a day or so i will for sure)

to be fair i really do enjoy his shapes. he is much less sinewy than Vessel and just feels easier to draw. but i'm terrified of shading his hands because they look good right now T~T

#and i'm unsure how much effort i want to put it into his pants #i don't know.. but today is askew anyway so i'm not taking my thought on anything seriously #i mean i had plans to do a lot of things but insted i got up at 6 went grocery shopping i cooked which i have not planned at all #and now i'm drawig ii which was a possibility but like.. after chores #uhhh #anyway #one day i'll manage to do stuff i am supposed to #but today is not that day #sorry i'm rambling nonsense again #levynn tries to draw #sleep token

[thisisntreaver]

So its been a while since I've seen anyone bring it up, but do people still believe the "Theresa does bad things but has good intentions" thing?

Because she really,,,doesn't? Her intentions are selfish, she wants the spire, to get that she needs Lucien to be driven to rebuild it. To get Lucien out of the way she needs Sparrow to have a reason to fight him and lets Rose die to grow that seed and all but ruin Sparrow as a person.[really their only saving grace is being raised by the Bower Lake people] Then she has them do all the heavy lifting, has them go through years of torture and mental breakage in th spire and doesn't even give them time to reassimilate before sending them back out there. In 3 shes hiding information to keep HOBW angry and against Logan, while knowing that Logans like this because of her guidance. Never taking any responsibility because "this was his/your" choice when she actively steers both of them onto these paths to fight the coming darkness. The darkness thats only in this world because of the Spire, that she wanted so much.

Like Theresas a great character, love her dearly, but pretending shes only doing things for the best of reasons and messing up is doing a disservice to the character and the overall story

#fable #fable 2 #fable 3 #fable theresa #this isn't to cause a fight or anything #i just remembered how a few years ago that was a narrative that was said and very rarely refuted #but Theresas a VERY good character because shes not really doing things for the greater good #shes doing them because she wants to and she knows outsourcing is the most effective way to do it #do I think she knew how far her actions would push Lucien? i think she definitely knew it was a possibility #same with Logan #the darkness shes got a bit more wiggle room on I suppose but thats still a repercussion to her actions

[letsmcfreackingloseit]

So I know everyone have this theory/hc that sun and moon have some sort of technological/chemical/??? color changing modes that makes them and their clothes change depending on the lighting.

However there is a much funner option that I can’t stop thinking about which is literally this:

like- these dudes would have the world record for changing clothes

#fnaf #fnaf sb #fnaf security breach #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #moondrop #sundrop #I mean we never see them changing on screen so anything is possible! :D #and if anyone is wondering what my color changing hc of their metal is #(and I know that there probably could or maybe even already exist color changing technology on command. but- ) #I like the idea that their paint changes because of heat #their paint is very sensitive #so even though the lights in the pizzaplex probably isn't too stong and definitely not at a distance #their paint picks up on it #their personalities on the other hand would still change because of light sensors in their eyes or where-ever #however if it was like that- then it would be really weird for them to go outside the pizzaplex #since the pizzaplex probably always have the same temperature #except for when the lights turn off (which they're not supposed to do anymore because the naptime attendant is cancelled :( ) #so when you go outside you're faced with #Cold during the day? #warm during the night? #mmh- now the existential dread is kicking in #so it probably isn't like that- but it's fun to think about! :D #also-! #I didn't draw it here- but I like to think that the hat is actually just stashed in their pants #they're big enough for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯