#everything's fine universe

[catmask]

if you ask me. being a good storyteller and love are inherently entwined. you cannot tell a good story without loving the people in it and loving those you tell it to. because to tell a good story is to understand it and its impact. to love is to understand how something moves through others and how to deliver it the way it would be best received. and how to breath life into something that did not exist before. storytelling is an act of creation sure but i do believe in all creation, there is love too. that there must be

#this is also sort of how i see/think about god #that if god isnt real. well then thats fine #god is the meaning we give to life. because as human beings we give things meaning. simply because we are humans and thats what we've alway #done. that could be god to me #but the other thing that could be 'god' is the idea that everything here is made with intention #not with the intent to control the outcome of the universe or the people within it but #with the intention to make something. and i do think that creation intention and love are inherently intertwined #txt #scratchpost

[pastelaeqy]

meme that took me 20 minutes, 10 of which being finding the closest font to the original, and two wips I don’t think I’ll finish

#Steven universe #su #steven universe future #steven universe fanart #su fanart #my art #steven throughout the entirety of everything’s fine

[wistfulwatcher]

one of the most complex and delicious choices they made with misty is that she genuinely understands what kind of attention is valuable. they crafted this character who is so desperate for love, so hungry for attention and companionship and recognition, a woman who would doom her entire team to a life in the wilds just to hear one more nice thing said about her, and then they put her in a position to grab at fame. when the team is rescued, misty would have been barraged with offers to tell her story. media appearances, interviews, book deals. people would be able to recognize her on the streets, she would have been (at the very least) a local celebrity for the rest of her life. she smiles when she sees the flash of the cameras getting off the plane; she wants to be seen, and the offer is right there in her lap.

instead, she stays silent. she stays out of the limelight, she says as little as possible, just like they all made a pact to do. can you imagine just how difficult it was for her to say no? for her to see that people would be falling over themselves just to talk to her, that she could have used what happened to make connections, make friends, be famous and lauded, sympathized with, talked to, complimented. she could have told the world how SHE was the one who saved them, who got them through the worst moments of their lives when the plane crashed.

and the price for all of that is to admit to some cannibalism? she has no shame about what happened. she eats jerky and wears heart necklaces and remembers the wilderness with open fondness. besides, she knows how to sell herself, how to spin what happened. when she pretends with jessica, she paints the perfect portrait of a victim, the perfectly sympathetic survivor wracked with guilt for what she had to do.

all of that is right there within her grasp. so why doesn't she go public? she displays absolutely zero guilt over breaking the black box, or anything else she did in the wilderness. literally the only reason she never breaks the silence is to protect her team. her friends. to honor whatever pact they made. a pact she makes in '98, when they're still together. when she thinks their lives are all so deeply entangled and their bond is so permanent and unshakeable that it would be easy to choose this family over public attention. it makes sense that she keeps quiet in the beginning.

but the team breaks up, and as far as misty knows they all go their separate ways. still, misty stays quiet. years pass and no one calls her, no one visits. so she goes on unsuccessful dates and works a job where her co-workers seem to barely tolerate her. she gives socks to gross men who still don't call and lives alone and gets a parrot who never talks to her.

she spends her adult life living with her loneliness because the people she loves asked her to, and then forgot she existed.

25 years of this deep sense of loneliness and she never wavers. never tries to tell her story or make a grab for the fame she knows she could still get when she looks at "25th anniversary" splashed over the tabloids. in a world that has grown up around her to create social media and influencers and viral posts. every single day it would have gotten easier for misty to reach out and take even a small slice of the attention she so badly wanted her whole life.

instead, she quietly follows her actual friends. she tracks weddings she's not invited to and the birth of children she'll never meet. she registers to vote for a woman who might not even know she's still alive, and decides that it's enough. that 25-year-old memories of true connection are better than acknowledgement from a million strangers. she collects all of these little details and files them neatly, an umbilical cord of connection that she is the only one supporting. like this information will be important again, relevant again. she sustains herself for twenty-five years off of the mere possibility that maybe, somehow, someday, she will be part of her team again.

and then, like finding the flashing red light of a black box while she's all alone, the universe rewards her.

#misty quigley #misty quigley meta #yellowjackets #yellowjackets meta #hi good morning i am having misty feelings and wanted to make it everyone's problem #(and not to make everything mistynat all the time - so i'm putting it in the tags - but the universe rewarded her with NAT specifically) #((something something misty wanting connection and nat wanting a purpose and so we kick off episode fucking TWO with those needs colliding #IT'S FINE that's a whole other post to be made someday)) #meta #~ #wordles #mine #1k

[dreamsy990]

something about the erasure of platonic love in fandom bothers me. maybe its just that im aroace, maybe i just dont 'get' the differences between loving and being in love. but it bothers me.

#are you in love with the friend you hold when they cry #are you in love when you smile whenever you see someone #are you in love when you wish they were by your side because they always make you laugh #where is the boundary. where does love turn into something more #is it not knowing what youd do without them? #is it devotion? is it wanting the world and more for someone? #do you just know? is it a gut feeling? #i dont know and i probably wont ever know #but i think people see romance as something far more universal than it really is #anyways. bonus points if one of the characters is a minor i see that more than i should #not saying its inherently wrong to ship these kinds of characters also #its literally fine do what you want #i just think. maybe not everything has to be romantic #doodles #this is probably my hottest take ngl

[skipblebee]

HELLO PETRIGROF NATION 🤩🤩 Fionna and Cake finale destroyed me and made me very sad so I couldn't draw anything except silly doodles to cope pls enjoy

#adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #fionna and cake #fionna and cake fanart #adventure time fanart #the quote from the second doodle is from a Steven universe fanart I saw back when they revealed rose quartz was actually pink diamond shsjd #Most of these are from ms paint :) #Skipsart #Will never get over this ending actually #Like three of my classmates who have never even heard of adventure time love these two now just because I can't shut up about them #ME WHEN TRAGIC LOVERS 😢😢😢 UAUAUA <- (sounds of despair) #Really wanted to see a human Golbetty design :( #Also low-key wished they pulled a La La Land and showed us the life they could've had/an alternate dimension where they're happy together #I get that they wanted us to feel like the characters and stuff but still HHHHH #Anywayz it took me two months to get over this #I couldn't listen to Everything in You without ugly crying LMBOOO #I'm a sensitive guy okay 😔 I'm fine now so we're good‼️💪

[uncanny-tranny]

What I think is so important to learning how to truly appreciate life is learning how to appreciate the creatures and things we've categorized as "disgusting" or "gross."

When I learned to appreciate wasps, I realized how much they just... don't really care about anything, and they're not trying to be an asshole because they're uniquely cruel. If they have any wants, it is to live. Why would I punish that when I also want to live?

This isn't to say you need to fall in love with the creepy crawlies that stalk this world or to love what you cannot, but to recognize that in their arrangement of atoms, they are trying to persevere, and in the end... aren't we all?

#positivity #bugs tw #this is why i think science is a love language btw #learning to love and appreciate through study is still love and appreciation #i've always been fine with bugs which might make this ring hollow to somebody with a phobia #and this isn't saying that people who are phobic of bugs are Evil or dumb (quite the opposite- humans are Good at fearing things) #what this is saying is find something you don't appreciate and learn about why you should appreciate it - for whatever reason #i learned to stop being neutral about bugs when i learned how cool they are - how they live! #i stopped being neutral about this planet when i learned how ancient it is! #i stopped being neutral about humans when i learned about how we lived and survived and loved! #i stopped being neutral about these things because i started to love them because i saw just how intricate EVERYTHING is #when you learn to see things through an appreciative lens you sometimes direct that viewpoint inward #so now instead of viewing myself as outside the universe i see myself and every little bug as PART of the universe #i stopped believing that i almost... wasn't worthy of being Part of Nature when i realized just how big everything is in the scale of it al #you should see my google searches omfg #everything is an argument and boy does this world have the ability to argue so well

[iamchickenhearmesquawk]

Man, the hidden world as a place doesn’t make sense at all to me. (As an enjoyer of the shows so yeah yeah they’re technically not canon but like)

You’re telling me there are screaming deaths and thunder drums and death songs are all coexisting happily with everyone else? Or Scauldrons and seashockers? And snow wraiths are there too? The cave crashers?

The dragons in this world (the movies and show at least) are just so different from each other and need different habitats.

#thw criticism #I feel like dragons are like #so vast in this universe #they’re like birds #like just a new class of animal that exists here #they’re not a specific type of animal like narwhals or something #anyway #if you like thw that’s fine but I dont #rtte #HTTYD #HTTYD rtte #I am indeed rewatching the show now and despite like #how the animation is low budget #it’s good #I like it #it expands on everything so well #rant post #but like #mini rant

[pogostikk]

He created smoothies

#extended au where everything is fine #steven universe #su au #human steven #pink steven #connie maheswaran

[chaotic-fabric-softener]

The Quietness Of Intimacy, There's Nothing Quite Like it

#communication #boundaries #quiet life #intimacy #understanding #heartbeat #even at your worst #parallels #web weave #find yourself #parts of you #never let you go #you're my everything #universal bond #deep thoughts #deep feelings #aesthetics #art #web weaving #we are fine #together #bake love make love

[gotham-response]

#only in gotham #gotham city #just gotham things #in universe memes #so I guess since it's a meta fight it goes to my meta insurance #which would be fine #if I HAD ANY #Gotham is all about rouge and vigilante insurance #everything else is moot

[toastingmanryanb]

truly hope rick or becky come forward and ask people not to spoil pjo when the tv show comes out bc the whole "this piece of media has been out for this long - it isn't spoiler" is the dumbest thing to come out in the past few years. dont gatekeep the show, dont gatekeep percy jackson and dont be assholes to people that are only now getting to know this universe for whatever reason it may be. it won't hurt you to put a spoiler warning.

#people will never be able to know and consume all the media out there #idc if it's the most popular story in the world #no one is obligated to know everything and it isn't fair to be spoiled of something on purpose just bc you thought someone should know it #sometimes people dont have time or resources or interest at the time and thats completely fine #let people find out about the pjo universe on their own let people figure out the story as it goes let people get interested #this ridiculous idea that bc the source material has been out for a long time you cant spoil it will only get people to lose the hype on it #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #percy jackson and the olympians #what's the tag for the show

[51ft]

(Bg3 spoilers)

So you know how one of the tenets of Shar’s church is “Love is a lie. Only hate endures.” But Shart is so desperately hopeful that Shar loves her….. then Shar goes on to demand DJ Shart’s “whole heart” …. Shart’s line to a romanced Tav that goes “please don’t call it love” or something or the other. Do you think this is something she demands of every DJ or another god’s favorite princess thing

(Coughs also something something Shar wants Sharts whole heart uhhhh um. Shadow Heart ???) (I am forcefully expelled from the stage)

moment of silence for every single dj in a loveless relationship rip...

I THINK THE IDEA IS LIKE, (imo) their worship of the goddess should supersede any kind of romantic entanglement which makes sense but i think shart is just exceptionally zealous (overcompensating, but for what?? :)c) about her worship and thus is super dramatic about it bc shes gods favourite princess

we have exhibit b nocturne who is So Normal by comparison

#bg3 spoilers #q&a #you cant tell me nocturne is the only normal person trappedi n the cult even if the game doesnt show us #its hard to figure out the deal with the dark justiciars bc the timeline is so wack #youre telling me that the battle for reithwin was fought ~80 yrs ago with an army of dark justiciars #but by the time of the game theyre like #a lost tradition #in a universe where some creatures live for a millenia or more #ALSO WHY IS THERE AN ARMY OF DJS WHEN THEYRE SUPPOSEDLY SHARS RIGHT HAND ELITE WHO WORK ALONE AND IN THE SHADOWS??? #WERE THERE NO OTHER SOLDIERS IN KETHERICS ARMY BESIDES DARK JUSTICIARS #i mean this is fine its just dndisms retroactively silly puttys in the lore #anyways if dark justiciar rly are the small handpicked elite then yeah it would make sense for me that they THROW THEIR HEART AWAY FOR SHAR #its just funny that shadowheart has to take you aside and put it in those words specifically #like she needs you to know she cant love u bc shes bad at lying and despite everything she still cares :''')

[chey-speedylead]

#myart #speedylead #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk #jjk geto #jujutsu geto #jujutsu kaisen geto #geto suguru #geto #jjk suguru #suguru #IM NORMAL #poor little meow meow #jjk fanart #he's so babygirl #asdfghjkl #teacher geto #everything is fine au #everything is fine universe #haibara yu #haibara #jjk haibara #baby boy #he would've been so handsome soft baby #gojo's pretty boy face would've had competition #nanami kento #jjk nanami #nanami #they're all foodies they all go out and eat together on days off

[crazylittlejester]

I made Warriors in BG3, and it’s so funny because i made him a dark urge tav so he’s sitting here fighting the evil thoughts but he has the biggest bluest eyes that have NOTHING past em

I made him a Paladin with the Oath of Devotion, and this dude has LEVEL 15 RIZZ.

He also can make fireballs >:) (he’s set no less than 4 imps on fire in the first 30 minutes of this playthrough)

Click show more for the pics of him cos he’s a bit beat up looking and I dunno if that’ll bother anyone

also his hair IS blond, he’s just going through it rn

and i dont have mods so ignore his hair-

rn his stats are

STR 17

DEX 12

CON 13

INT 8

WIS 10

CHA 15

#his empty eyes are everything to me #ill get mods eventually and fix his hair but rn? hes fine #poor guy is battling evil thoughts cant wait for him to experience the horrors of faerûn #linked universe #lu warriors #lu wars #linkeduniverse #warriors linked universe #linked universe warriors #bg3 #bg3 durge #jes talks

[andi-o-geyser]

Continuing my Dr Jacob rants, I wanted to mention how... off I've been feeling with how the rest of the characters have been treating the whole situation regarding him dating Michelle. It's so far been exclusively framed as a marital issue that Ted has to work through, and it's being massively downplayed by the people around him and the narrative itself? I feel as if it's being equated to simply struggling with watching an ex move on, which is SO not what is happening here. This is a deeply unethical and damaging relationship to everybody else being pulled into Michelle and Dr. Jacob's absolute fucking nonsense, and I know I've brought this up before, but this is the type of shit you get your license taken away for. Having a relationship with a patient, former or not, is such a full stop unethical crossing of every boundary meant to exist between a patient and therapist that I couldn't explain just how much of a no it is if I had 15 hours uninterrupted and a megaphone.

At least where I live, the college of registered psychotherapy has a half a decade minimum legal time frame that must be elapsed to have a relationship with a patient, but honestly that's just technicalities. Therapists should, under NO CIRCUMSTANCE, have any kind of duel relationship with a current or former patient. Therapy is meant to make a connection to help you work through your problems, but it's not for making a friend and it's certainly not for meeting a partner. And for a therapist to abuse that power and, in this situation, maybe even coerce a patient out of their marriage so they can date them (because come on, that's exactly what fucking happened given the facts), is beyond deplorable. I don't give a fuck if Dr. Jacob gives nice guy energy, he's a professional (unprofessional as he may be) who knows exactly what he did, and he's a piece of shit for it.

I know this is TV, and the way therapists act in media is so sensationalized and dramatized, but considering Ted Lasso is "the show about having good mental health" and understanding and unpacking trauma and issues, the lacklustre reaction from characters regarding the relationship between Ted's ex wife and her (and Ted's!!) therapist are just bizzare. I need at least somebody in-universe to acknowledge how baffling the behaviour is, and I really can't deal with the idea of Ted being left out to dry in this situation. This isn't some simple "my ex is moving on and that's tough for me but I need to accept it" situation, this is a borderline traumatic betrayal of trust Ted is going through, and the thought of it being left unaddressed while Ted has to make nice with Dr. Jacob because "Well, I really need to not make a fuss because he makes Michelle happy and he's Henry's new father figure now!" is soooo fucking awful I honestly can't even think about it. Anyways don't date your therapist this has been my PSA

#I'm in such a mood and I don't care if anybody sees this I just need to get my thoughts out there #this is very stream of consciousness and not incredibly thought out but idgaf because i can't stop fuming about this fucking fake dr i stG- #im fine. im normal #i have so much beef with him you don't fucking get it #everything about the situation should have his licence for practice instantly revoked #full stop #getting with a patient after treating both her and her husband in couples counselling and then seeing her individually #to coach her through her DIVORCE and then starting to date her??? #its such a stupid fucking thing to do thats so morally reprehensible for him as a professional i just- #aksjhfkjJHKHKJKJKHLJKHFHDJSHKLHJKDSFHJRRRRRRRRR #we're all good. we're all good :) going to teleport into the ted lasso universe (get on a plane to britain) so i can drop kick him brb #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso meta #andis thought geyser

[raptorbricks]

#steven universe #steven universe future #i am my monster #everything is fine #steven universe wiki #cartoon network #described