#choosing pain

[poetsplay]

thinking about how neil died only 10 days before christmas and how sad that christmas (and probably many others) must have been for all the dead poets who had just lost a close friend and had to probably fake happiness and festivity for their family

#choosing pain #dead poets society #dps #dps fandom #dead poets fandom #dead poets #dps memes #neil perry #neils death

[nobie]

#ineffable idiots

#i am not choosing sides they're both idiots who need to communicate better #and i love them so much #its for the character development ok #good omens #good omens 2 #go2 spoilers #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #goodomensedit #dailygoodomens #ineffable partners #it was not funny just gotta laugh through the pain #myedits* #10k

[cwispihae]

The Sanuso thoughts plague me

#one piece #sanji #vinsmoke sanji #black leg sanji #usopp #god usopp #op usopp #op sanji #sanuso #usosan #idk how to draw Sanji #This started out fluffy but I decided to choose pain again

[panaceatthedisco]

Charles was actually so right we he told the Night Nurse that she didn't know anything about them.

She tries to prove him wrong by showing him that she knows his past, and more specifically, his trauma. She tries using that move on Kashi too. But the thing is, people are so much more than their pain, but as someone whose work is solely with dead children who were unable to pass on, I doubt she understands that.

The Night Nurse only begins to actually know who the boys are as people and what motivates them when she looks into Charles' mind the second time, to see the beginning of his greatest joys. She starts tearing up Charles' memories of Edwin and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the first time she'd seen one of the kids she was charged to find happy.

#obviously dying sucked #but meeting edwin #and choosing to stay with him #was a chance to be happy #charles chose to hold onto the kindness he was shown #over the pain #something the night nurse couldn't even comprehend #at point no point #anyway #i hope in season two #she gets to meet some happy(er) kids #and maybe sees that life isn't all suffering until you die #dead boy detectives #dbda #the night nurse #charles rowland #edwin payne #kashi dead boy detectives

[dtheshadows]

I've been pondering this for a second, but I have this theory that ghosts can feel other ghosts, and the show kind of has this emphasis on kissing. Such as Charles misses kissing, and Edwin never got to experience his first kiss before he died. Now, technically, Edwin had his first kiss with Monty and Charles kisses Crystal, but they can't feel it physically. I don't know. I just feel like it's set up to be really beautiful if Edwin and Charles ever do kiss.

#dead boy detectives #payneland #painland #chedwin #seriously we need to legit settle on a ship name #i vote chedwin because why on earth would you want pain in the name #but ive seen both pain and payne used and i get its different from comics to tv but choose one #sobbing

[densitywell]

thinking about Orym not just telling Ashton that he cares about them, but the things he says after: I get it, to a degree, I do. You would never fuck off. You really do have a soft heart. I know you mean well.

there was so much questioning of Ashton and his intentions by the other Hells, accusations that he was power-hungry and that he didn't care about them, that he manipulated or coerced Fearne into giving him the shard, that he was just a "bad" person. even the new shared understanding they had by the time they left for the Feywild, that Ashton took the shard because he was misguided and mired in self-loathing, only gets reported back to Ashton in pretty obtuse ways.

Orym has the benefit of getting time to think, and who knows what he would have said or done had Liam been there for ep 78. but even still he's the first to tell Ashton not just that he cares about them but also that he sees the good in them. most people have never bothered to even look for that. if Ashton can even see it right now it must seem tiny, meaningless, completely drowned out by all the bad in them.

and the other Hells do see that good, to varying degrees, even now. they love Ashton too, and they love him for a reason. but the first one who actually thinks to tell Ashton that is Orym.

#critical role #ashrym #orym of the air ashari #ashton greymoore #bells hells #like there's reasons Orym “feelings are low priority unless they're stabbing people in the face” of the Air Ashari chooses to trust Ash #beyond having experienced Ashton's softness and care first-hand. he's also come to rely on Ash's devotion to their clown show #so to a certain extent he needs to keep believing in Ashton. bc if he doesn’t this whole thing's gonna fall apart. #but like also there's a reason he started trusting and believing in Ashton in the first place!! ohhh. #long post / #it's good pain

[athina-blaine]

for my money, labru is head and shoulders above other ships involving them simply due to the unmatched yap potential, i imagine them feeding off each other's energy like they're slipstreaming in mario kart until they start going fast enough to break the sound barrier

#dungeon meshi #dunmesh spoilers #labru #the Compounding Yap Effect #thinking about kabru wanting to understand the value of monsterhood despite how much pain they caused him ... #laios wanting to understand the value of humanity despite how much pain they caused him ... #none of this even mentioning how much kabru needs a person like laios to spur his character growth #kabru is a schemy schemer who schemes and it's one of his best qualities #but it's also what gets him killed over and over again in an attempt to get closer to laios and co when none of his usual tricks worked #it took until the absolute 11th hour where kabru HAD to choose #between potentially unlocking the secrets of the dungeon or giving it up to the canaries and losing his chance forever #if kabru had fallen back on what he knew he would have killed laios then and never got what he wanted #laios forcing kabru to be honest with his feelings #(a feeling kabru had buried so deep he was barely aware he had it in the first place) #is what finally gets laios to stop and listen #and he finally gives kabru enough of a reason to trust him and make kabru stop the canaries and give the party time to escape #and it's ONLY then that kabru is able to get what he wants #legit i cant imagine a more fulfilling ending for kabru than getting to directly engage his interest in a way that directly helps people #with someone who both needs wants and sincerely appreciates his skills #literally riding off into the sunset gay ass ending im #im going to be sick #day 28 being normal about them

[weepycassiopeia]

Master Miller

#metal gear solid #kazuhira miller #why did he choose mcdonnell to be his name im so sorry #kaz miller #the phantom pain #mgsv #mgsvtpp

[skyscrapergods]

Do Cadence or Twilight ever regret not being able to gift Shining Armor with ascension like them or are they happy he was able to live out his normal life without becoming a god?

Not everyone is mentally suited to immortality. And this time, they actually asked first instead of doing an immortality jumpscare.

Cadance and Twilight didn't get a choice. Ascension was thrust upon them by Celestia. They had to come to terms with it after the fact, realizing they would outlive all their friends and have the responsibility of an entire force of nature in their hooves. They would watch countries rise and fall, see extinctions and new ways of living. Strange technology and customs, and slowly feel their life elongating until it was beyond mortal comprehension. An alicorn has to be ok with this. And alicorn should want this. It's a gift as much as a curse.

Shining Armor cares about the ponies in his life. He knows they will miss him, he will miss them as well. But he wants to stay among his friends, his parents, and his kingdom.

Shining armor said no. He said I have served Equestria my entire life, and one day I will rest.

His family is made of immortal mares. They could force it upon him to ease their own hearts, to prevent their own grief... But they won't. Love and friendship know more about being a person than the Sun.

It is his choice. He will not be the God Prince of Protection. He will simply be Shining Armor, and consider his life well lived.

#ask #skyscraper gods #skyscraper gods lore #ssg shining armor #ssg alicorns #most people I ask say they wouldnt choose to be immortal #im one of the only people i know who says I can handle it #and i would want it #its about knowing if you can find the joy in newness enough to burden yourself with the pain of loss #including loss of yourself

[stivya]

No I won't stop drawing them

The sketch <3

#redraw #it's been three years i #stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed #adolin kholin #shallan davar #cosmere #my art #choosing colors is such a pain

[koszmarnybudyn]

Wow i finally got around to another one of these :D

As always alt version and rant undercut:

Ok so honestly not that much changed from the og design. The wings are diffrent (eyes are a motif of the doodler are in all of these final forms and the purple is also for the doodler) i struggled with them a bit, i still think they could have been better but of well. The backround kinda looks like the old disney intro lol. I wanted him to look more bug like, so the antenne, also him becoming a full butterfly as a kinda transformation. The boots are teeny the teen inspired, i feel like in this final form he can finally embrace being a mascot kid again. The magic is more blue than the usual teal to symbolize love. And that's basiclly it, i dont have much to say today i suppose.

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #my art #normal oak #dndads magical girl au #magical girls #magical girl #this was a mess to color #hope link and taylor dont end up in wip hell cause those two are usually hard to choose colors for... #also guess whose having joint pain? its me ya boi #i think theres to much teal in this one :[ but i am not redoing it

[sinkovia]

Just thinking about reader and Simon Riley cursed to be endlessly reincarnated, always finding each other across different lifetimes but never able to stay together. Every time they meet, they experience intense déjà vu and an unexplainable connection, only for fate to cruelly tear them apart time and time again.

#sinkovia speaks #everyday i wake up and choose violence #pain and agony #angst is all i know #call of duty #simon riley imagine #simon x reader #simon riley #simon ghost riley #simon riley x reader #simon riley angst #simon riley cod #simon riley call of duty #cod #cod x reader #writers #simon riley x you #cod fandom #ghost angst #angst #angst everyday

[myuminji]

Just a thought...

#on one hand you can interpret it as ''he wants to share his future with them!'' when handing the ticket (his future) to them #on the other u can see it as Vash saying ''I think you deserve a future YOU can choose—to be whoever you want because I know. I know u do.' #pick whichever pains you more! #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #ngl you wouldn't even realise...it's a 'ifykyk' moment here... #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #rem saverem #myuminjiart

[zeb-z]

There’s something so important about Gillion - who never heals himself, who rushes into danger, who hides his wounds- facing death and realizing he isn’t unafraid as he was raised to be. He uses his magic on himself to help with the exhaustion, to keep his life intact. And still he tries to comfort Jay and Chip while he’s coherent, being realistic about his chances but refusing to make it painful. Wanting their possible last moments to be light, to be about seemingly inconsequential things, small favorites that still mean the world to him purely because they’re Chip and Jay’s favorites. And then when all is said and done, he makes a raccoon for Jay. He talks about raspberries for Chip. He uses his last saved up arcane energy to try desperately to stay awake, and it works, and it saves him in the final hour.

It’s just. There’s something about how he hasn’t had a chance to rest since the Feywild, really, truly rest. How this whole time he’s been down on himself and taking extreme risks. And now, at what might be the end of it all, he realizes he doesn’t want to die. He wants to live. And not to be able to save others, not to fulfill his destiny, not out of obligation to anyone else - but purely for himself. For all the little things. And though it’s not quite healing in the literal term, his nearly final act was spent trying to save himself - and it worked.

#tw again for tags I’ll say and let me know if I gotta tag any more #but the past 30 episodes have been gillion tidestrider gets the shit beat out of him by the narrative #gillion tidestrider faces passive suicidality and faces old trauma and fresh new trauma #he goes through a shift of his foundation as a person he loses his sister the whole filipe thing and then this Curse #and he goes through with a mindset of ‘these problems exist because I do’ with some heavy implications behind that #it’s been getting easier and easier to choose his own destiny and break from expectations but it’s still not easy #but facing real death. slow and creeping and painful. he realizes he wants to live #not live because destiny demands it but because his friends do. because he does. because he wants to know more and share more of himself #I just. there’s something about all of it yknow #jrwi riptide 98 #jrwi 98 #jrwi #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #z speaks #at what point should I start tagging spoilers like. 100 maybe?

[muleumpyo]

meanwhile, after hours in chan's room...

#chanbig #bigchan #kinnporsche #kpts #kinnporsche fanart #kinnporsche the series #big kinnporsche #chan kinnporsche #kp #artists on tumblr #my art #learned how to use overlay and color dodge for this piece #all in the service of chanbig 🫡 #i wish they didnt both wear all black because it is a pain in the ass to choose 4 slightly different colors of black so they arent a BLOB

[simplykorra]

I'd rather be rescued than alone

#ava silva #warrior nun #alba baptista #warriornunedit #albabaptistaedit #avasilvaedit #avatrice #that quote hits so hard #like ava's fear of being alone is so painful when you consider that she's been living in her fear for 12 years #alone #forgotten #abandoned #and like... #she just wants someone to choose her #and she doesn't love jc but she would rather be with him than be alone #of course #we know she finds real love and beatrice never leaves her side as soon as she finds out ava's fear #but then you think about it and while i love that they got ava through that portal and saved her life #she was again left in her own worst nightmare #all alone #bring her home <3 #myedits