#i could talk for hours abt this

[elekinetic]

real younger teen + older teen friendships (aka who i think would be closest to who)

mike and robin

lucas and nancy

will and jonathan (obv)

max and steve

dustin and eddie

el and argyle

#obviously dustin and steve’s bond is unbreakable #but steve and max’s relationship is something that can be so personal #i’m right :/ #please argue with me about this #i could talk for hours abt this #mike wheeler #will byers #max mayfield #lucas sinclair #el hopper #dustin henderson #argyle #jonathan byers #robin buckley #nancy wheeler #eddie munson #steve harrington #stranger things (ella's version)

[fleshdyke]

i wish so fucking bad that schools would teach even the most basic nature and wildlife literacy. bc what they teach now is how we get these godawful lawns and monocultures and an endlessly growing list of extinct animal species. like i can’t even count how many times i’ve been trying to explain to people why mosquitoes/moths/bats/flies/wasps/etc are so important and people have gone “but that’s what bees are for (pollination)” or “birds can just eat other things” or “things decompose on their own”. it has to be in the dozens. nothing makes me as upset as when people simply cannot wrap their heads around the fact (fact, fact, fact) that every single organism has its purpose in nature and there is *nothing* that is “pointless”. ignorance like this is what leads to barren monoculture lawns and deforestation and “pest control” and devastating invasive species and expanding extinction/endangerment lists. i just wish schools would teach that every animal and plant has its place, and *nothing* needs to be exterminated as a whole, *especially* native wildlife. but of course capitalism can’t thrive on proper environmentalism so i guess we’ll just have to deal with this.

#i could rant about this for HOURS #it all ties into capitalism. it all fucking ties into capitalism #if anyone wants to add on PLEASE do i am ALWAYS down to talk abt this #sir david attenborough. one of the most famous and influential environmentalists in the world. has publicly expressed that for nature to #thrive capitalism MUST be dismantled #rambles #capitalism #capitalist hell #environmentalism #naturalism #climate change #infodump #100 #1k #10k

[lesbicosmos]

okay seriously why are people still (at all actually) hating on jodie whittaker

like i just saw a rly sweet interview clip where she's talking about how she's so excited for the 60th and she has no idea what's happening in it and half the comments are shit like "she's the reason i stopped watching the show" "wish i could just delete her era"

like ??? let her exist??? if you didn't like her seasons you don't have to talk about them but there's no need to say shit like that she doesn't deserve it

#i could talk for hours abt how much i hate that side of the fandom istg #i love 13 and jodie and sure some of her stories werent at the level of some previous seasons but she doesnt deserve this #i just wanna give her a hug #doctor who #13th doctor #jodie whittaker #dw #doctor who 60th

[extravagav]

Oh heal my shriveled up little heart...

#this is so important to me actually i think abt this panel all the time #the little stutters 🥺🥺 #the way hes finally coming out of his comfort zone all on his own 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #IM JUST SO PROUD OF HIM #HE ASKED THE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!! HE TOOK THE STEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! #wind breaker #sakura haruka #god i love the pacing of sakuras character development sm i could talk abt it for hours #this is a threat

[ink-the-artist]

forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

#it was a weird class #it was just this russian lady doing private lessons in her house that my mom learned about somehow #I did NOT like those classes all we did was still life and they were hours long which is esp rough when im in high school and busy #and she wanted us to stand while working the whole time bc tradition i guess? #she did allow me to work sitting but thought i was lazy for it. idk dude i dont want to exhaust myself fast for no reason #standing is a lot more tiring than walking #i def did still benefit from those classes just from learning to accurately draw from life #did not like the teacher tho #on one hand shed paid for the art supplies for kids whos families were too poor to (and these are nice expensive supplies) #which is very nice #but on the other she was very homophobic and open about it #like when they legalized gay marriage she went on a rant about how horrible it is that they can adopt kids now #and also kind of racist #she was telling me how she got blocked from a facebook group bc she made a post asking if she could speak to a white person #and she didnt realize she was posting that publicly she thought it was a private message to the group owner #im honestly still not sure i heard/understood her correctly bc it was so bizzare and the only time i ever remember her being racist #she talked abt it like she genuienly was unaware it was racist #she described it as a misunderstanding bc she accidentally posted it publicly instead of privately #like it wouldnt have been racist to ask that at all #also one time she talked about how she saw demons in her home once #also she doesnt vaccinate her kids bc of microchips #she was like a walking russian stereotype lol #anyway heres some ink the artist lore

[nibblelinephym]

when mischa bachinski said "i will lay my masculinity at the altar of your maidenhood" .... kind of going insane tbh. he puts on this tough guy persona but hes genuinely one of the softest characters in this musical

#achilles rambles #rtc #ride the cyclone #mischa bachinski #rtc mischa #not even just talking abt talia when i say this like ?? #after sabm hes the first to go we'll start listening and he says it with such genuine passion #hes just. hes such an interesting character i could talk about him for hours

[stealingpotatoes]

Invitation to talk about Sayuri and Nymie?

:D CAN OF WORMS: OPENED!! i'll tell u abt how they got found as Jedi

ok so Sayuri is one of the students that doesn't rlly go home bc there isn't much to go back to. Basically her parents were Rebellion pilots (or one was a pilot the other a mechanic. kinda unsure) but were both killed in action against the Empire abt 3-4ABY ish. obvs the Rebellion couldn't look after a 7-8yo while fighting the Empire

so the remainder of the squad manage to get her back to her parents' home village/ where she was born. so having like Everything change all at once leaves her pretty ?? and gives her some serious trusting-her-environment issues. her coolgirl "i dont care" persona is very much a result of this bc she's worried abt getting too comfy in smthn. (which is at odds w the OTHER issue she got from this event which is "deathly afraid of flying" an issue not helped if Master "traffic laws are just guidelines" Skywalker is piloting. but she tries 2 act like shes fine)

this is gonna get kinda long so im gonna smack some unposted art here and then go into a readmore

anyway fast forwarding to when Sayuri's abt 13 (roughly 9aby) she's visiting her parent's old squadron on a New Republic bc they'd all come visit whenever she could and after the Empire's fall they did a lot more pick her up and fly her to a base to ALL see her. and they're like omg Sayuri you came at the PERFECT time bc this rlly amazing pilot war hero who's also some like. mystical whatever is here!! he's on his way to some magic place we heard. maybe u can meet him!! which sayuri meets w her usual whatever bc she's not that gassed abt war heroes.

very worth noting that the squad's probably all seen her move shit with her mind, but theyre like oh you know how it is with teenage girls. the "nobody knows what a jedi is" + "the empire existed for a decent bit of her childhood" thing has kept anyone from being like yeahh sayuri should like. talk to someone abt this.

anyway she goes along when the squad are like c'mon let's see if we can see him. ok the only way i can describe this is you know the spiderverse like... spidey-sense recognition thing? that's basically what happens LOL Luke and Sayuri both have a FORCE USER RECOGNISED?? moment and Luke then makes a beeline for her then realises oh shit tiny teenager not jedi. would you LIKE to be a jedi?? and sayuri who hates her village and is feeling the strongest emotional connection she's felt in forever w this stranger she met 2 seconds ago is like okay fuckin sure yeah. and woo jedi!!

i posted my unposted nymie art yesterday but likkeeee pretend theres some here <3

So Sayuri falls into the "one of the Jedi found them thru the force or by chance" category of students who get found. However Nymie very much falls into the second category, which is "CAN SOMEONE DEAL WITH THIS WEIRD SUPERPOWERED CHILD FOR US????"

So 2 things about Nymie: 1. like i've said before, she's from a very rich high class pantoran family. super stuck up, mostly raised by nannies & tutors, but somehow Nymie just didn't get the stuck-up genes like all her (4!!) siblings who are just obsessed w their social standing etc and is instead just :D all the time. 2. her proficiency ig is the living force esp in the 'good at connecting to animals' way (which I think means I legally need to draw her w Ezra).

so the former often led her to escaping her family's stuffy parties and galas or whatever (usually to whoever's house it is' garden or somewhere she wasnt meant to be) to find something interesting. usually a pet <3 one particular time when she was 9 she was following her Pet Sense but couldnt find anything in the house. so she kinda just reached out more and long story short thats how Nymie managed to call this hugemassive beast (i'd tell u what it was if i knew pantoran animals LOL) out of the nearby countryside to her. massively distressing for everyone, all these rich ppl were like "OH MY GOD I NEARLY DIED" (it didnt attack anyone). very funny exciting time for Nymie who was enjoying this new beastie friend til animal control showed up. saddening. everyone is confused bc HOW did that happen

a dude old (and cool) enough to have seen more than one jedi in their heyday (+ idk uni researcher knows his shit) noticed what happened w it going straight to Nymie and overheard her account and realised what happened and was like hi nymie's parents. i think u need to get into contact w the new republic bc thats a jedi right there (which they take and go oo social climbing. we have a jedi child people will think we're cooler. bc theyre assholes)

and yeah im losing steam now but luke shows up and she joins the academyyay!

#i tried to NOT go on a 2000 hour ted talk #bc im pretty sure i could give a solid 5k of meta on top of any explanations of abt... 95% of my OCs lolll #which does mean this comes off as a lil messy but hey #sayuri ireshla #nymie #oc #original characters #luke's students

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

#its like youre unable to root for her in any form. which is annoying bc shes actually awesome actually #also having her say “actually im the good guy fuck you'' w/o any actual deep analysis of her psyche or whatever while doing these things #doesnt count as development or showing shes 3 dimensional. its just having 2 dimensional waller say shes right when everyone is obviously #supposed to believe shes wrong #anyways i want real waller back please i miss herrrrrrrr #anyways hope mr john ridley has read secret origins no 14. i know its from 1987 but please guys please. my only hope #also it was a few months ago but i think they tried to push certain elements of a diff backstory in dream team and sorry but fuck that. and #any mention of another waller background like my eyes are closed sry. im a preboot truther #actually im just ignorant of most squad comics outside the original series. im gonna do a readthrough and become knowledgeable on other #stuff i just need to find time. so if im wrong then sorry if its smth factual and if you disagree with my opinion then uh sorry for ur loss #anyways shoutout to the time i had a nerd night w my one friend and she was asking me abt dc and said my favorite villains and i said waller #and silver swan. and she had a “yuck WHY” to waller and a ???? to silver swan. love shouting out my faves and explaining them to the less #informed. didnt say a number 3 but would probably be parallax ig. idk hes kind of slay. or maybe someone else honestly i like hal but waller #and nessie are blorbo level for me i could think abt them for hours #or maybe it wouldnt be parallax actually idk who my 3 would be. hes definitely up there but way below the other 2. maybe the cheetah #interpretation that i personally have. v different from the popular cheetah interpretation esp rucka vers actually. much closer to the pérez #and esp develops some subtext there surrounding barbara and the exploitation and theft of sacred cultural artifacts and pieces but also #like british colonization a lil bit #but i actually despise the cheetah that lives in my head but think shed be interesting to use narratively and see diana fight #vs the other guys who i find interesting and sympathetic and like for themselves #whereas my fave interpretation of cheetah can rot in hell #i got off topic here #blah #swishy rant #also disclaimer that w the main character ik dreamer is the main character of dream team. im talking more in general and that amanda should #always have a huge role as shes the main character of the squad and yet is treated like its villain and not its protag #sui sq

[lolorenoca]

ponylands 2.0 !!!!!!!!!!!! november rain and dragona are half zebra !!!!!!!!!!!! ft paco !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#my art #jjba #the jojolands #jojolands #mlp fim #my little pony #crossover #i could talk abt this au for hours #jodio joestar #dragona joestar #paco laburantes #paco lovelantes

[thefishdeath]

Just. finished fallout. normal.

#what the fuck #what the fuvck what the fuck what the fuck #im so normal about this guys very so normal #(shaking and gripping the edge of the sink hunched over like im playing silent hill) #so normal so normal #what do i even do with my life now #how am i just supposed to go about my day #FUCK that last scene fucking insane though #oh my god the ghoul is so cool #like holy SHIT #the relization that the ghoul could of killed maximus in that first meeting but just like. chose not to? insane. #fallout is ruining my life i have to play every game now #fallout #i need a season 2 NOW #8 hours is not enough #i need to see Lucy kill her father #its like 5am where i am #im going to impulsively dye my fuckass mullet about this #fallout show #fallout series #just fishdeath-ing #fallout tv series #if anyone wants to talk abt fallout with me i dont know how to start a conversation but im clawing at my walls & willing to try please plea

[doblvr]

#god i love this show #its so good #could talk abt it for hours #percy jackson #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo tv spoilers #i laurv it

[soupwalker]

he makes me so fucking insane for no reason. like. Yes this is my favorite character. he has one whole scene of semi-animation and no voiced lines, but he has two whole emotions and suddenly I’m crazy insane

#something abt him just. starts the brain chemicals idk!!!! #I could talk about this character that Does Not Exist for hours I’ve literally done it before #soupwalking.jpg #toh spoilers #caleb wittebane

[audhd-nightwing]

this is super random but if dick grayson was dean winchester, would jason or tim be sam? like i could argue both so idk!

#dc #dcu #dc comics #jason todd #tim drake #supernatural #spn #sam winchester #dick grayson #dean winchester #random poll #this is for an au that has been gnawing at my brain #‘but jason should be dean!’ false. #just bc jackles played both of them doesn’t make them similar characters #like all they have in common aside from jensen #is guns leather jacket and literally crawling out of their grave #i could talk abt the similarities b/w dick and dean for hours yall

[cosmicrhetoric]

can i ask what the deal is with monstrous regiment?

like the deal as in. the whole deal? its is probably my favorite book full stop (not even fave fantasy, fave pratchett, whatever like full stop) so its hard to condense my thoughts lmao. ok monstrous regiment is based on the english folk song sweet polly oliver. the basic plot is that our main character polly dresses as a boy and joins the army (under the name oliver) to look for her brother, who has been missing in action. if you've heard of the book b/c of the online presence you probably have heard about the gender stuff. there is a Lot of it to be fair (canon gay characters, at least one canon trans character, whatever tf was happening with maladict), but it's shares screentime with the other two main themes, war and organized religion gone bad. it's discworld so its funny and satire and heart but it's a horror show. i genuinely think the book lapses into gothic tradition at times however i cannot in good conscious reveal more of the plot cause i swear reading this book feels like tripping down the stairs at times.

where i think the book succeeds where a lot of 'girl cuts her hair and goes to war' stories doesnt is that is like. it doesnt feel like a Girl Power book. i have nothing against Girl Power books (i was in middle school in 2009) but in monstrous regiment the point isn't "a girl can be as strong as boys!" the point is that when you are stuck under a serious model of oppression and your country is lying to you and your god seems to hate you and everyone you know is either at war, starving, or both. how are you going to survive?

also would like to mention that someone did upload the entire audiobook to spotify so. stephen briggs does a really good igor voice.....get it while its hot

edit: not on spotify anymore haha but the way audiobook uploaders are on there if u keep searching for it it'll show up eventually

#if ive missed something obvious sorry i just deleted 600 words of stream of consciousness malposting #monstrous regiment #i could literally talk abt polly or jackrum for fifteen hours so im not gonna #it was my intro to vimes. #i read it really early in my discworld career it was my first book with de worde too #asks #discworld

[obsob]

ive been reading books of the raksura recently and all i can think about is Moon...baby...baby boy

#mine #original #books of the raksura #raksura #i drew this for me and like the 4 other people who know who this is #srry people who follow me for cat drawings. i also draw people sometimes. #im so eepy.....so seeby.... bf i round this weekend i am so full of love #actually rn im not. im so overstimulated im going to kill someone #please i could talk for hours abt this book series......martha baby u did it again #if u wanna read a fantasy read books of the raksura!!!!!!!!!!! #i wnna draw stone as well but hes like. a little too close to an actual dragon n idk how 2 draw that so. sorry stone

[stealingpotatoes]

“she’s still their princess!!! despite everything!!! even if she feels like the princess died the same day as her parents!!!” made me SOB. thinking about leia organa is the saddest thing ever it gives me psychic damage if i think abt her too long

YES LET'S SHARE THE LEIA FEELINGS. I LOVE HER SO MUCH. her level of grief is just insane to me. you cant imagine it! she didn't just lose her family and friends and home -- she lost EVERYTHING she'd ever known. every park and village and restaurant she'd ever visited at home. anything she'd ever made a memory with is just GONE. completely. its an asteroid field now. like her life before 19 never existed

but she still has to be strong. even if she can barely think of herself as the princess of a dead planet, she's still a rebellion leader. she's still general organa. she has to be strong, she has to push through her grief and destroy the monsters who did this to her people and she has to ignore the want to cry every time someone calls her princess or says im sorry abt alderaan, she has a job to do. she talks to other survivors when she finds them, and tries her best to be the princess as they discuss places and people neither of them will see again. she shoves the grief down (except on the days she just can't -- Luke always seems to know on those days, it's almost eerie) and does her best

and yeah that's a kind of grief you never even come close to getting over, but time passes. and she gains back some of what she's lost, even if its not the same -- she gets a family!! a brother, a husband, a son, and a very fluffy unofficial brother-in-law! and the resistance wins! the empire will never do what was done to her to another!! and she helps New Alderaan settle, still refusing to be princess bu hey they all think of her as princess of their small hope- and grief-stricken community. and she tells her son stories abt her planet, tells her brother about her parents, tells her husband about all the ceremonies they'd've had to do if he married her as princess. and she keeps alderaan alive in her heart (not half-killed by grief and anger anymore) and can finally feel hope (:

#sorry u activated leia organa ted talk mode #i could go on for hours LOL #i talked abt it a bit in that one twins fic i wrote but #thanks for the ask!