#flicker's meta

[a-flickering-soul]

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth / Ada Limon, "Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds" / Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House and Other Plays / Tamsyn Muir, "The Unwanted Guest"

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Image 1: --whole body surging in spasm. Gideon's heart started up again. Before she could move, Palamedes was there, and with terrible tenderness-- though they were alone in the room and the world alike-- he kissed the back of Dulcinea's hand.

Image 2: There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her-- immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife's hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

When I met Ana, I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.”

Image 3: "The Warden,” she said, “has been exchanging letters with Dulcinea Septimus for twelve years. He’s been—a weenie—over her. One of the reasons he became the heir of the House was to meet her on even footing. His pursuit of medical science was entirely for her benefit."

Image 4:

Palamedes: (Pause) Look-- I doubt I'll get another chance to say this, so...

Voice: Don't. You don't have to.

Palamedes: I loved you. I love you still. I would have worked out how to love you better over time.

#tlt #the locked tomb #the unwanted guest #the unwanted guest spoilers #flickerthoughts #flicker's meta #guys if i think abt palamedes and dulcinea for too long it makes me literally want to hurl #god. god. god. #there was another poem i was looking for that had a line smth like #'love like the laundry could also be done' and it was abt a mom who cared for gay men w aids?? smth like that #and i would've tied that back to dulcie saying cam would have to cook #and how cam had memorized palamedes' letters to dulcie too #and how she asked palamedes 'will she know who we are in the river' #but it was a bit too much for this post #anyways im still so devastated #also sorry abt the one single image tumblr changed their image processer for new posts and it just autocropped all of my screenshots

[raypakorn]

Fantasy vs. Reality (Phaya's Version)

#phaya x tharn #the sign #the sign the series #thesignedit #asianlgbtqdramas #thaidrama #babe tanatat #billy patchanon #tuserhidden #userspicy #usertoptaps #mjtag #userrlaura #antedits #i don’t write meta but the fact that they both got what they wanted… #flickering tw

[lacefuneral]

thinking abt ed's character development here

#someone could probably write the meta better than me #ofmd #blackbonnet #jay.txt #sorry for the weird flickering with the moonlight scene btw #the file i have is like. weirdly pixelated and finicky and when i cranked up the brightness it did NOT not like that

[cowsaresushi-coral]

A little looping animation because my brain is just full of my thoughts on kirby blorbos. Guck, they’re just cute.

Breakdown of the animation below (various other gif examples) - Warning for the roughs, it’s very flickery because I have a couple of blank frames interspersed. It’s the 5th gif before a blurb of text.

kirby - so squishy. so cute. surprisingly can be difficult to animate because feef.

galacta knight - i like his wings :)

meta knight - note, one frame is SLIGHTLY different from the final because I made a last minute edit because it was bothering me SO MUCH. looks better now :D. This has the old wing animation, but I can’t be bothered to fix it in these gifs.

both

I was going to have both get a little bit squished when kirby bumped into them, but it looked a bit weird with the wing animation going on, and honestly, I just got tired.

roughs (flicker warning)

I skip frames for timing reasons. sometimes I can’t tell if i need another frame or not, so I’ll leave a blank in between, and play it, and see if it looks smoother with the blank, or weird and clunky. If it looks smoother, than it means I need another frame. I just draw that frame in crispy crispy lineart at the very end because i’m lazy :) (well, selectively lazy).

Anyways, time to go do other kirby animations, or maybe do my animatics or maybe sculpt or whatever. I have many hobbies and projects

#doodles #animation #gifs #kirby #meta knight #galacta knight #2022 #flickering #tw: flashing gif #tw: gif #tw: fast moving image #lmk if there's a more proper tag for flashing images. i'm not aware of the universal one #just flashing gif and maybe fast moving #this was such a pain to do #but i think it looks cute

[pearlcaddy]

midgelenny + hollywood (jukebox the ghost)

#the marvelous mrs maisel #tmmm #tmmmedit #the marvelous mrs maisel spoilers #midge maisel #lenny bruce #midgelenny #midgelennyedit #periodedit #perioddramaedit #cinematv #flickering gif #midgemaiseledit #lennybruceedit #pearlcaddyedit #pearlcaddy tmmm #something about me is that i will make jtg relevant to every ship #but this song in particular was screaming out for midgelenny #for the characters themselves--the way they know their love story only exists in small perfect moments. not in real life. not long term. #also on a meta level because of the way the show pulls on our desire for the hollywood version of their story vs the reality of lenny's lif #idk if the 'kiss you in the pouring rain' gif works--i tried to use a snowstorm scene for it but the text was illegible and it wasn't rain #so i went with the backstage 2.10 scene as a tribute to the days when my otp tag for them was bring an umbrella

[landwriter]

i am sorry i was so close-

#i've missed searching up all these little bits!! ahh!!! #oaths #honestly there's no excuse here #like #NONE #fic writing is just a vehicle for me to justify following up on every single 'i wonder...' that flickers thru my simple brain #am but a cat chasing a laser of curiosity on a wall and if the scratches i leave are legible it's icing on the cake #also frankly local heirloom & landrace fruit varieties are rad as fuck #i am never gonna resist the urge for a deep dive on that front #some of THE biggest nerds i've ever encountered are farmers market gardeners and growers #so in my meagre defense it is a very well-established Nerd Attractant #fanfic #about me #writing meta

[stuckasmain]

Why is this man shirtless when talking to his ex situationship.

You stop that.

#David I’m begging you learn to form a shirt #actually the fact that his real voice beneath the distortion is so soft and confused- the way his eyes flicker in #I’m obsessed with his unnerving ass #however I don’t like how it implies he was married to Betty? mainly because it’s illogical/goes against the point of the mission - just no #2001 a space odyssey #2010 the year we make contact #dave bowman #2001 meta #2010 meta

[dreamlandbarnes]

tw flickering, implied/referenced abuse

the way jamie’s eyes dart around after beard physically drags tartt sr. out of the locker room is so haunting. it’s like jamie completely dissociates. he doesn’t have a moment to feel relief or remorse. he’s just standing there in shock, about to accept whatever comes his way (whether it’s a sucker punch that never comes or a crushing hug from his childhood hero).

it looks like jamie’s line of sight is stuck on the locker room doors until roy pulls him into his embrace, bringing jamie back down to earth. jamie doesn’t even notice his presence until roy is right there in front of him and filling the empty space of where his father was. of course he flinches (how was he supposed to know the next form of physical contact wasn't going to be violent? was this the first time jamie reacted with physical violence? or did he already know what to expect from his father when he fights back?) but then jamie buries his head deeper in roy's shoulder. he doesn't need to fear his father in that moment; roy has him in his arms and he can let go and cry and be the little boy who's been holding onto so much hurt.

and roy is there for him in every sense of the word. for a second it looks like jamie loses his balance, but roy is steady and solid as a rock. he only squeezes jamie tighter when the sobs get louder.

not joking when i say i think about this scene every day. and every time i edit it i always find something new. i currently have like three versions of this with different colouring and music lmao. i love the original scene and the choice the editors made to have that moment of stillness and silence before roy brings the music to jamie and "beware of darkness" starts playing. i can't find the interview where they talked about it but it was definitely an intentional decision that i'm very fond of.

#tw flickering #ted lasso meta #idk how video edits as a medium work on tumblr this is kind of an experiment #tiktok editor attempts to write about their blorbo's feelings #i’m having a lot of Feelings and needed to channel them somewhere

[madeimpact]

Y'know I think it could be interesting to write a thread where my little man just gets to go completely apeshit. The problem is it takes a LOT to get him to that point. But it can be done

#like we have SEEN what angry sora looks like in canon #and that would be so juicy to write in a thread #but like.......i think smth i see a lot of in fanon that i disagree with is like #“hm. this sunshine boy needs more brooding!” #which like.............can a protag just be allowed to hold onto their hope in spite of all the shit they've gone through? #i'd say that's what MAKES sora sora yanno? #and like he ABSOLUTELY can have and has had his low points. but narratively he IS that light that never goes out #even if it flickers from time to time and threatens to go out completely sometimes #anyway this is a very long winded way of saying it's so hard to straddle that line LMAO #i sometimes worry that i'm too vanilla on this blog and my portrayals come off as one-dimensional bc of that #but i don't wanna veer too hard in the other direction either #i've got shinji for that /j ( he's JUST as complex but that's a diff rant ) #anyway hi i'm neg and i find protags that find hope in spite of all their bullshit WAY more compelling than brooding for its own sake #this turned into a WHOLE tag rant sorry. this was meant to be a wishlist post KWJHEFLKAJWSKGLBHFLHJKG #❛ ooc: wishlist. #rant in tags #❛ meta: sora. #yeah this can go into that tag for the. tags rant.

[tatort-sideblog]

Gegen Tote wird nicht ermittelt, das wissen Sie.

Karow & Rubin Meta

#tatort #tatortedit #tatort berlin #nina rubin #meret becker #robert karow #mark waschke #meta #* #sure hope this shows up in the tags my last set of eight didn't even show up on my own bloody dash #sorry for the flickering in the some of these i still haven't quite worked out how to use those photoshop curves #ich liebe diesen moment #und gods ninas augen sind so verdammt schön

[pix-writes]

tlou meta: the watch

SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD (look away now if you don’t want the game/tv show spoiled)

Here’s the thing that has insterested me since I finished the tlou game like 10 odd yrs ago & with the show making sure the watch is a recurring ‘theme’ on screen:

Throughout the game (and through the show so far), we are reminded frequently of how Joel has done some terrible shit to survive, has fucked over innocent people in the name of survival.

But the thing about his watch is, is that it is a symbol of his humanity. Not just of what grief he’s been put through, or of survivor’s guilt. Because his watch is what he looks to when he is in situations with Ellie, where he ultimately decides to keep going, to keep protecting her. It reminds him of Sarah, of course, but thematically it holds so much more weight than just a reminder of what he lost. It’s a reminder of what he used to be (a father). 

I could go on about why this is (though honestly i’m too tired/wired to think it out coherently) but the main, interesting part of this train of thought is that if the watch is a symbol for Joel’s ties to being human, of making the ‘right’ decisions (to protect Ellie), is that Joel has NEVER taken the watch off!

#tlou spoilers #tlou meta #tlou hbo spoilers #sarah miller #joel and ellie #joel miller #joel's watch #i have adhd forgive me of the word vomit format #i just think thematically that that's what it is i have done since the game #but he literally never takes off that watch #like he can't take it off #sarah's death breaks him but yet he keeps something on him that constantly reminds him of her #of the worst most painful day in his life #why? #because he does hold onto some of his humanity he isn't lost #he likes to think he is but really deep down he cares for people #for his family #<3 #he keeps going because of sarah in some way idk how but he does he has hope but its just a flicker

[a-flickering-soul]

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir / "Tam Lin", trad. collected by Francis James Child

In the "Tam Lin" ballad, Janet's love is taken by the Queen of Fairies and in order to get him back, she must hold onto him as he is turned into a variety of wild animals, a red-hot brand of iron, and a burning coal. It is only through her determination and her love of him, though he fights and hurts her at every transformation, that he is made human again.

ALT

#okay. be real w me is this one insane or not. #tlt #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #flickerthoughts #i just think tam lin aus/comparisons are criminally underrated #flicker's meta

[denkryn]

Imogen feeling… strange that she can no longer hear laudna’s thoughts because back when everyone’s thoughts were chaotically swimming in her mind, the one place she could go to—her safe place, her solace—was laudna’s mind and her thoughts. She was so reliant on this one thing for so long, so dependant on it to live—not even live, but to survive. And now, she doesn’t need it anymore. And it feels like a loss. It feels like she’s lost her safe place—her home. Suddenly, it’s not there anymore. There’s just an emptiness. A silence.

Sure, the chaos is gone, but so is the joy.

#and even more so when laudna returns to her looking absolutely traumatized #and she has no idea what’s going on in her head #its feeling adrift its feeling untethered its the flickering image of what once was home #and she has to do something #she has to #so she finally asks the question #bears her heart and asks it without any ceremony #because this is survival this is desperation #and so she finally asks: can i kiss you? #critical role #cr #cr meta #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #just having some normal feelings about them #txt

[deadsetobsessions]

Cassandra Cain knows how to read people. Every twitch, every micro-expression, every sway of their pupils.

She knows people better than they know themselves. She could pick out a person’s life without having to speak or hear a single word from them.

Language, without a sound.

Honesty, complete and unwilling, at her fingertips.

David Cain had beaten it into her; to observe, to read, to kill without protest. She was never a daughter to him- even if Cassandra hadn’t understood what love or being a daughter meant before she met Bruce- and she understood that.

There are scars lining her body, truths carved into her flesh that she knows she could never truly hide. But that’s alright. She’s learned by now that no one can read her quite as well as she reads them. Not even the metas. They notice it, of course, the tells and the twitches. But none of them could flawlessly put everything together like Cassandra could. They focus on the big things, like heart beat or sweat or flickering eyes. Cassandra takes note of the twitching fingers, the stances, the breaths, how lax their legs are, or which muscle groups are bunched up. She figures things out about them far before they even have a hint of her outer workings.

Cassandra Cain knows there is subtle faintness to her frame, a wildness lurking beneath her skin that she’s never going to be able to tame completely, the ways in which she leans that betrays her time as a starved and feral street kid. She also knows that no one will ever know the extent of it unless she allows them to. It’s nice, having that security.

It’s also lonely, that no one will understand her the way she understands everyone else. Well, until Danny Phantom.

Just like how she can see the scars left on him by people he trusted, the marks of crackling electricity behind a boy who should be dead, he also sees her. The training, yes. But Danny Phantom also sees the pavement like side to her where it should have been downy feathers. He sees the wildness prickling at her fingertips, the violence set in her bones.

And he still smiles at her anyways. His acceptance is screamed to Cass, though simply relaxed to anyone else.

Cassandra glides over to place a hand on Danny’s shoulders and squeezes twice.

Yes, she tells him without a word, spoken, you’re my little brother. I am not alone anymore.

Yes, she tells him without a sound passing through their eyes, we will protect you.

Danny beams up at her as the rest of the family relaxes. She still feels a thrill when she realizes (not belatedly, only slow comprehension) that they were waiting for her verdict.

She sighs in relief. Message received. Danny, eyes glowing green, leans back to rest on the couch.

He shrugs at her with a sincere grin.

And he even says thank you.

And he meant it.

#danny phantom #cassandra cain #cass cain #dc x dp #learning how to read body language #Cassandra was feral child

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 123

Danny is haunting the watchtower. No regrets. He was just so fed up with the lack of action.

Seriously they had a whole bs site claiming they were pro meta and basic rights. Like it had links on where to ��report” breaches. All utter bs.

Nothing about the anti ecto acts. He personally called in and reported it many times. And nothing happened. As the king. He had a duty to his ppl. Now he didn’t want to hurt anyone or declare war.

But he will absolutely in the middle of their meeting change the screens of the computer to the site to report breaches. Mayhaps add bloody green text seemingly dripping in all cap LIARS and maybe YOU IgNORED US.

Was it a tad much to leave a stabbed article about the anti ecto acts in the middle of the meeting room ozzing ectoplasm. Or maybe the whispering in the ears of anyone who slept here.

He certainly didn’t think so.

So now the screens occasionally flickered the failed experiments of the GIW. Sure no one’s been killed yet. But the justice league didn’t know that. Danny is great at breaking them out.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dcxdp prompt #dpxdc prompt #Danny is pissed #like they ain’t helping #clearly those acts set a bad precedent #at least that’s what sam told him #yet they did nothing! #just ignore them all #like rude #enjoy being haunted #technus helped Danny #ghost king danny #cause i love that #danny is a little shit #danny is a gremlin #danny will prank them for the rest of time if he has to

[sentient-stove]

"Nightwing watch o-" and then he was gone for a moment, vision blurring as his body dropped to freezing temperatures. It wasn't uncomfortable per se, and Dick had experienced a world of many odd and uncomfortable sensations, none like the tv static currently muffling his mind and thoughts.

He was pretty sure Red Robyn was yelling though. And that his grip on his weapons was loosening, the electricity on his escrima turning off when his thumbs moved off the activators. His body was moving when it shouldn't and Dick really wanted to maybe panic but couldn't, which was less than ideal considering the circumstances.

And then as quick as it happened, he was warm again, someone was coming out of his body via his chest and hands to bring his weapons with them as they came into solidity, black and white coloring shining almost as bright as the venom green of their eyes.

"What the hell?!?"

The newest assailant tossed one of the escrima in the air, it spinning once before they caught it again, smile wider than any human should be able to grin. "You're pretty good, I'll admit that-"

Robyn threw a batarang as interruption, them ducking to avoid it as they stepped to the side with feet barely skimming the ground. Dick reached out to stop the vigilante from throwing the second, and the assailant nodded at him, fangs on full display.

"-but I'm better than both of you!" they crowed out and this time, when they activated the escrima, it was a mix of flickering electricity and crackling ice, their meta ability somehow incorporating itself into the tech.

#fanfic #wip hell #danny phantom #dc comics #danny fenton #dick grayson #tim drake #dpxdc #dc x dp #fellas is it gay to possess your crush’s sibling-coworker to try to get them to fight you #dead tired #nightwing #red robin