#i get cheesy with these two

[pianokantzart]

Not me thinking thinking about how good of a brother Mario is and how there's literally nobody better that Luigi could've clung to while he sorts out his own anxiety.

Mario acknowledges that Luigi is a fearful person, but doesn't think any less of him for being scared. He doesn't see Luigi's bad luck as a burden, even when he tries to make sure he's safe and protected at every turn. Mario gets annoyed by his brother on occasion, but doesn't degrade or talk down to him– not even jokingly. He just puts up with it and forges ahead without drawing attention his brother's mistakes. Then when it comes to Luigi's victories, even small ones, he dwells on them and gets excited without an ounce of insincerity or exaggeration.

The worst thing Mario does is get a little too caught up in his impulses and emotions to listen, but otherwise he's so rock solid, even apart from his three-day adventure solely focused on saving Luigi's life.

#it's getting emotional about the mario bros hour again #super mario brothers #super mario bros #mario movie #Mario #Luigi #It is literally so so good for young boys to have a role model like this too #I can not think of a single character aimed at kids that is nearly as good of an example of how to treat your sibling #siblings are always made either a source of annoyance to relate to #or a point of tension and drama #not the very thing that highlights just how heroic a character is #while simultaneously not feeling forced or cheesy or even boring! #If anything you wished you got to see more of these two on screen!!! #It's just so so good I need more of their dynamic in my life

[cainpdf]

a hilson poem as a new year gift, from me to you —skel

#i love it when something makes me write poetry<3 #house md #hilson #time to get cheesy for a bit but one of these year's resolution is to be more chill about my poetry in general #so here have this poem inspired by two insane old men from a mid 2000s tv show<333 #my writing #mine.txt #yes i did name the poem leg pain. i never said i am good with titles. it is accurate tho #i also have the handwritten version of this if anyone would like to see it<3 #poetry

[an-au-blog]

Oh, your love is sunlight

Happy (late) Valentine's Day (version without text ↓ +description in tags)

#east blue asylum wing au #zosan #zoro x sanji #zs #first off if its bad quality - it's a huge canvas and it's more pixelated if i try to export the picture than if I screenshot so... :/ #I sometimes like assigning songs to different dynamics and or characters I play around with and I've been recently listening to #a lot of Hozier again and I'd like to think that Sunlight is how Zoro sees Sanji - he is Icarus flying to the sun and he is willing to get #burned if only to reach the sunlight - it's a deathtrap... because of course it is... all attachments are but Sanji's love is the death tra #that he welcomes like a moth to a flame because even Icarus felt the bliss and freedom before his wax melted #I haven't depicted it here but Sanji's Hozier song for Zoro would probably be NFWMB because in his eyes Zoro is this untouchable force #that would watch the world go up in flames and when the time Sanji wouldn't mind being a tree just to fuel his fire (im well aware how #cheesy that sounds just bare with me... or better yet listen to the song its really good trust me ok?) #the world starts and ends with him and where they lay #and their shared Hozier song is Francesca because if anything in this au zosan are two lovers stuck in Dante's inferno and sprinting back i #only for the chance to get back to their lover and if that meant going back into hell to look for each other then so be it #there's a part of the song that goes “My life was a storm / Since I was born / How could I fear any hurricane?” which is pretty fitting imo #op #fan art #my art

[dootznbootz]

Odypen definitely and equivalently adore each other BUT I weirdly can't see them as the type to actually say "I Love you".

They still definitely vocalize their love for each other but it's more so in "My Joy", and "Extraordinary Woman", "Strange Woman/Man", etc. And very cheesy lines (both say some cheesy shit in the Odyssey, and he definitely does in the Iliad as well. "Joy like a drowning sailor seeing land" bit???)

I could see "I adore you" but even then, that's probably during very specific moments but the actual "I love you"??? I just typed it just now for fic shit and... It weirdly just didn't feel right and I don't know why. 😅

Idk maybe it's kind of because I see them as over the top in ways, they love wordplay and riddles and I think they'd almost think "...That's not good enough >:( " about it??? I don't know???😂

#I wrote this last night. I'll do the asks I got later. don't worry! :D #I am the cheese god remember?😅 #I think these two would try to “out-cheese” each other and whoever is left speechless first loses #“I would forget my own name before I would ever forget you” bullshit. CHEESY #And yes. “I sleep in our nest with you or outside on the dirt” stupidity >:D #I plan for Odysseus as a beggar to ask why she waits so long. As he's been gone a longer amount of time than the time they had together #(Simply asking as reassurance. He knows his answer. Calypso asked him. but what about Penelope?) but she gets mad at the #“Beggar” and pities him as he must be telling the truth about having a miserable life if he never got the chance to know such devotion #How what they have could never be sullied by #something as trivial as distance and years. How the years with him were the best in her life. Only made better by their son. #'My dear Joy made songs and poems about love a reality as that was simply the life we shared. Even separated our 'song' will always echo #no matter how long it's been. I'LL make sure it always does. And I know he's doing the same... That strange man used to say that #even if he died his corpse would drag itself back to us before he'd ever give up.' #...I'm not one for 'odyssey zombie au' but when I first heard it yeah. :'D Came up with this back then #“His eyes as hard as flint or horn-” Bullshit! The sad lil fuck is hiding sobs with coughs and telling her to keep away for fear of her #catching whatever “illness” he has. The nice thing about being disguised as old means sickly old man works. #... #I'm noticing that Odysseus has a lot of silly oneliners while I write Penelope with a shit ton of set up :'D #They are so silly and I love them so much #...I wrote a lot :'D #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #my headcanons #odypen #yahoo!!! #sometimes I wonder if I should tag this with more things but I don't want to taint the regular tags with my bullshit :'D I KNOW I'm insane

[thranduel]

everyone wants byler’s first kiss to be a rain kiss but i have to disagree. i don’t really like big dramatic kisses especially if it’s in the middle of an argument or one of them is trying to shut the other up because it feels cheesy and rushed so hear me out

i need them to be sitting down somewhere alone where it’s quiet and where no one else is around so they can talk and let everything out. they’ll both finally realise their feelings for each other AND the audience will find out that this has been building up the entire time as well. i want it to be the most beautiful “it’s always been you” moment even if they don’t say those words exactly. the audience should just know that this has been planned from the start and it’ll be the most incredibly written slowburn ship

i want to see tears in mike and will’s eyes as they finally realise how much they love each other. and maybe they could add a few little flashbacks here to show the audience what memories they’re thinking of because it’ll make it even more emotional. then when will notices that mike is starting to cry (something he rarely sees since mike always bottles up his emotions), he puts his hand on his face and tries to wipe his tears, but then he also starts crying himself and they both laugh quietly for a moment for making each other cry. after that, they just look at each other and lean in a little bit to show that they’re both ready and comfortable. AND THEN they slowly pull in and have the sweetest kiss. like are you kidding me that’s the most beautiful and wholesome thing ever

and then after they pull away from each other, they press their foreheads together and they’re crying because they can’t believe they finally made it to this moment and get to be with the person they love most. mike asks if his kiss was that bad to try and make will laugh because he’s still crying and will jokingly says it was pretty bad even though they both know that’s not true. then mike asks will if he’ll promise to always stay by his side because he’s so terrified of losing him again and will just says “yes” (this is obviously a parallel to the day they first met when mike asked will to be his friend and will said “yes” and then mike said it was the best thing he’s ever done. I’M GONNA CRY). then mike kisses will’s forehead and pulls him in for the tightest hug and they just sit there holding onto each other

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #ok yeah this is also a little cheesy but it’s beautiful #pls duffer bros and stranger things writers I AM BEGGING #and i prefer when both people look at each other and make sure they’re ready and comfortable before a first kiss #because they would both be so nervous and if a kiss just happens suddenly without warning it could be overwhelming #i mean don’t get me wrong sometimes the surprise kisses work SO well #but with these two i think it’ll just be more beautiful and special if it’s done in a softer and more quiet moment #where they can both look at each other and say yeah i want to do this #like that’s just so sweet to me

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

MAKE ME CHOOSE ↳ @youdontloveme-yet asked Kongpob/Arthit or Tharn/Type

#mine #sotus #sotus s #our skyy #thaibl #sotus the series #singto prachaya #krist perawat #kongpob x arthit #arthit x kongpob #kongart #this was hard #on one hand kongpob's cheesiness did get extreme lol #and I love tharntype and their chemistry is off the charts #but I think with tt it's more about the show as a whole that's great as opposed to them as a couple in particular ya know #but the deciding factor was the fact that i've watched two seasons of sotus and the our skyy ep #and while I loooved tt 1 and the special ep I couldn't finish tt s2 #also enemies to lovers brooooo #they have merthur vibes i cannot deny it

[oh-8-4]

Constantly thinking about how Aaliyah would never lay a finger on Cruz with the intention of hurting her, so consciously aware of the abuse she experienced before they met. She’d kiss the bruises, trace the scars, ask before touching Cruz in a new way, look her in the eye to find any sign of discomfort. And Cruz would slowly let her in, telling her about her mother’s and Edgar’s abuse, her brother’s death, the horrors of being a marine. Together they’d create a safe space to feel all the trauma and horrors of the past and try to heal from it together, something Cruz has never had before.

#aaliyah amrohi #cruz manuelos #cruz x aaliyah #special ops: lioness #fic #prompt #please consider this an extension of my previous prompt for these two #still available if anyone wants to write it #it’d make my day lol #I miss them #okay it got a bit cheesy at the end #but I think you get the point

[gottagobuycheese]

Under the fireworks brightly dyeing the night sky, Han Sooyoung's chilly, sharp dagger gleamed dangerously.

"You, just who the hell are you?”

Hugtober Day 9/9 - Can You Really Call This a Hug, I Didn’t Receive Physical Affection or Anything

[ID: A piece of digital fanart depicting Han Sooyoung and Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. Han Sooyoung is dressed in a purple jacket, dark grey t-shirt, and a pair of black sweatpants and shoes. She kneels in the grass and pins Kim Dokja to the ground with her right hand, holding her dagger aloft in her left as the colorful lights of the fireworks light her figure from behind. Her hair is disheveled as she glares down at him, baring her teeth, though her ferocious expression betrays the faintest glimmer of fear. Kim Dokja, meanwhile, is sprawled flat on the grass, reflexively throwing his arms over his face. His legs kick up into the air by the force of Han Sooyoung’s initial tackle. He is dressed in his signature white coat, black button-up and slacks, and black shoes, which are partly lit up from the light of the fireworks. /end ID ]

(Credit for the fireworks brush set goes to bybaobab!)

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #han sooyoung #kim dokja #omniscient reader #orv #hugtober 2022 #hugtober day 9 #orv fanart #been very inconsistent using that tag lol I keep forgetting to tag my own orv art with it and not just other people's #my attempts at art #IT'S A HUG OKAY BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM THEY MAKE SOME KIND OF LOOP OKAY IT COUNTS #I had a 10th one at the sketch layer that just needed to get cleaned up a bit to line it but sadly I ran out of time for this month #I'll finish it at some point of course #but for now let's end this year's hugtober with a BANG #(geddit 'cause of the — 'cause of the fi — 'cause of the firewo —) #anyways did not expect to actually be able to pull off that background #but I'm glad I at least tried it #astoundingly the entire coloring aspect was just like. a day. in between other stuff even #that NEVER happens #can't wait to look back at this years from now and go ‘wow I can't believe how cheesy that background looks’ #’I could do it even better in half the time now’ #don't know if I've ever personally experienced that emotion but I've heard it happens to people so you know what here's to hoping #ANYHOW THANKS Y'ALL IT'S BEEN FUN #activity SHOULD be more sporadic going forward since I have Important Life Things coming up I need to pay attention to #and I only took a special exception this month because I had to post all this stuff (yes I know I didn't have to but STILL) #so if I'm diligent (ha) you will see very little of me in the coming months #this will either mean a) it worked and I'm actually studying (lmao) or b) I am simply distracting myself offline #for example I found out that there's an octopath traveler II coming out which now inspires me to finish the first one #(and also finish all the fanart ideas I had for it whoops) #and also prepare for genuary which is hypothetically something I would hold near and dear to my heart if I remembered it skjdhfskjf

[fragilelovelythings]

“No buddy, without me there is no you” ARGGGHH it kills me how Rust even under all his nihilism and peculiarities, still seems more aware of their relationship, as if he’s been waiting for years to Marty to catch up on his own, to face, accept and give in to his real feelings about each other.

The best part is how Marty can’t say anything after that and just let him goes, as if he knew too but wasn’t AGAIN ready to face his feelings.

It’s amazing how time being a flat circle works with them as well, taking to know the other so well and develop their bond trough years, even those they spent apart to of course, circle back to each other.

Marty is Rust’s heart and Marty is rusted from the inside without him.

#true detective season 01 #true detective #rust cohle #marty hart #rewatching season 01 #again #I love them so much #I’m always cheesy when it’s about my blorbos #they’re in love your honor #I can’t blame Marty for taking so long #man got such issues and internalised homophobia that it even makes sense taking years to finally accept it #and about rust well it’s clear that this man can’t believe sth good can happen to him #or that he deserves anything #he’s literally quietly waiting to die #like every cigarette he smokes #it’s another promise he makes to death itself #of course he would never expect Marty to give in to get close to willingly cross their silent sacred agreement of not get #involved and fuck these two are involved since the moment they laid eyes on each other’s

[pixiedust-poppers]

If you would’ve told my younger self there were more Jizzy non-shippers now she would’ve been ecstatic and then promptly disappointed as to the reasonings of why lol.

#‘bc they have a bro - sis relationship!’ ok cool! would love to see this dynamic between them more! post more hcs and fics about it #‘bc they’re kids!’ welcome to fandom ppl will ship two cartoon puppy’s together and have you stepped foot into any other kids fandom #or fandom in general ofc they are! this is nothing new #but sure ok. valid response #But never- #and not ‘ppl write them like shit and turn Izzy into the most basic bitch ever and Jake does all the cool shit while she’s just there’ #<- can tell you are not as mentally ill about Izzy as she is #like good god Wattpad is FULL of that shit😭 especially the damn hospital and nuclear family shit #also the ‘love’ portrayed between them was the cheesy shit oh my gooood and then the whole ff tag became full of it #painfully traditional and boring #or Jake was a shit husband and it was like Izzy girl if you don’t get out of this marriage 😕 #I think their funniest dynamic is when Izzy is secretly his biggest hater at times because she’s stuck in his shadow #now they’re both intelligent but Izzy is the brightest out of the three of them yet her contributions will always be overshadowed by Jake #he could never hate her BUT… sometimes he does think she’s planning on killing him #and he keeps his distance #ok rant over #pixie quips about jatnp #pixie yaps abt fics

[ifyourereadingthisblinktwice]

i really like the poppy war so far cause the premise is like. girl of mysterious origin with a tragic upbringing tests into prestigious school😯! uh oh, there’s a school bully🫢! she’s an outcast😨! how will she rise through the ranks🤔! and then you finish the first book and it’s like. oh. hm. ok. so she’s actually the most fucked up one here. good to know.

#for the record i just started the dragon republic (the second book) #like. i was excepting some cheesy romance trope with two characters and now both of them are dead #don’t get me wrong i’m glad there was no romance trope #BUT I WOULDVE PREFERED IT TO THEM DYING #the tagline for this series should be gods forbid women do anything #the poppy war #rin you are so fucked up i love you

[nakanotamu]

People will talk about "idol wrestling" and just mean wrestling that wants you to emotionally invest in the performers and want to see them improve as if that isn't virtually all wrestling ever and then hold up TJPW and Act Wres like they're some sort of ultra pure sports based presentation that're just ultra focused on putting on quality matches and not the most pure unadulterated attempts to copy idol frameworks since 2011 Stardom

#sorry every once in a while I suddenly get really mad about some incredibly dumb shit I saw on twitter like a year or two ago #it comes bubbling out of me like a virus being purged from my system #the essay I have in me about how twitter joshi guys use their not understanding Japanese to ignore the actual presentations of the companie #they watch to ignore the actual work and stories being told by the women they claim to be fans of and overwrite them with narratives they #like instead as if these women are just barbie dolls for them to smash together. Is extremely long annoying and correct. #that's why they get upset when the melodrama and character work is too dramatic or in your face. You can't just ignore it so you say ugh #this match sucked what's with the cheesy character shit. How about. Shut the fuck up delete your blog you have nothing to offer

[skeletalheartattack]

Imagine a gator anthro eating a cheesy pizza..... whoah

simply, to me this is just a normal day in the life of Ruce O'Donnell. this guy. my guy. he eats those. pizzas. AND he's a gator. whoah.

#ask #anon #ruce #ruce o'donnell #my characters #i really aught to draw him more #but hes a little more complex to draw for me in comparison to Boe #specifically in drawing his head right yknow #but i just have to draw him more to be consistent at it #i have drawn two alternate expressions for him on his ''ref sheet'' #and some alternate clothing... though the only difference is that i swapped his black jeans out for some red plaid pajama pants #anyway thank you for the ask anon :) im sure he'll get and eat a whole cheesy pizza. in one bite even. whoah.

[mikka-minns]

"Blessed Curses" chapter 1

An AU by me. In advance, i apologize if its a bit messy. Also, there Will be kuai x hanzo implied/hinted in one of the next chapters (probably third), so i guess i should warn you. This chapter will focus on Kuai and his "origin" + his friendship with Tomas. Its written in Kuai's perspective, even what is in the brackets. There is also a personal headcanon of mine about Kuai that i hope some poeple notice (its just me projecting again! Yay! 🙃)

Tagging @infernoinvictus and @dinainwater cuz yall inspired me to actualy write this instead of just thinking about it. Love ya! ❤️

Also TW: mentiones of abuse and child negelect

The Ones who will pass on his powers. His legacy. The Ones that will bring honor to his clan.

The grandmaster's sons. His pride and joy.

That is a fantasy. But it was real... All until i ruined it.

My father was a grandmaster of the lin kuei. He possesed cryomancy, the ability to control ice. It was a power passed down for generations. For centuries. Once, there were many people who had it. But not anymore. Now, it is only our family. Our bloodline. And we should continue to pass it down no matter what.

That is.... My brother should pass it down... As i cannot.

My brother developed his abilities at a yound age. He started training right away, even though he was too young, even for our clan's standard.

I, however, started training and then puberty before i got my powers. I Also started young, not as young as my brother, but young. It was Expected that i too would become a cryomancer soon enough.

But.... That didnt happend.

The older he grew, the less time could my brother spend with me. He was nine years older than me. By the time i started, he was already going on supervised missions.

All i wanted was to be like my brother. To be with him, by his side. Father couldnt be there for us. All we had was each other. But it soon changed when a boy my age joined us. He was about a year older than me. Closer to my age than my brother's. He was adopted by my father after his family was killed by the guards. He seemed to resent the whole clan. Everyone except.... Me. We were the only children there and so we understood each other quite well. I found out his name was Tomas. I was the first person he told his name. The first person he spoke to, actualy. Until then, we all Thought he was deaf or mute.

What Was unexpected was that that Tomas Also had an ability. But his wasnt genetic. He could control and turn into smoke. We found out when he had a panic attack for the first time, around a month after he was taken in. He was partialy a cloud of Smoke and partialy a human. He barely calmed down and turned his powers off.

What realy scared everyone was that his powers came from a demon named Enenra. Everyone but me. It amused me greatly.

After his ability,his curse, was revieled, Tomas  was proclaimed as a "cursed child". Aperantly, his "family" that was killed, wasnt his family, but the cult member that tried to sacrifise him to the demon. Once that didnt work and the demon possesed him and.... Became his Protector, they tried to sell him to the lin kuei. But instead, they got what they deserved.

I said "Protector" because it seems that Enenra only awakend when it felt Tom (my nickname for him. I love giving nicknames)needed protection from something or Someone. That was the reason why he was never outright attacked or executed for his "curse".

I was his only friend and he was mine. But our father tried to separate us. He Thought i would gain a bad reputation by being close to him, even tho he too was his son. My brother. I wouldnt let that happend. My first brother got taken away from me for no good reason, i wouldnt let Them take my new one away. They couldnt convinced me to let him go. Whatever reason they gave me, it was never enough. "He is cursed" so what? "He is dangerous" only when he is in danger. "He will cannot be controled" GREAT! Neither can i. If anything, i was more of a trouble maker so they should've told him to stay away from me.

"He will hurt you" like the whole clan doesnt already.... Only Tomas didnt hurt. So.... Check mate.

It seemed that however everyone felt about something, i felt the opposite. I never wanted to do something if there was no good reason for it. Sometimes, the older members would tell me that i could never become an important figure in the clan if i associated with people like Tomas, but it didnt bother me. My position in the clan was WAY less important than my relationships with people i cared about.

Everyone, even my other brother, was trying to convince me to drop the emotions and focus on my training and "what mattered" until they decide that i was Also something.... Not normal.

That was the day i finaly got my powers. But those werent the powers everyone was expecting. True, some People were sure i will never have cryomancy, but even they couldnt predict this.

I had pyromancy. The ability to control fire. It happend sudenly when i was fourteen. I was hanging out with Tomas. We were talking about something (i still cant remember what) when i felt something in my chest. It was a weird feeling that i've never felt before. Now, it seems that i felt.... Nostalgic. In that moment, my whole body was covered in flames. I was so happy.... For some reason. Truth be told, i was always attracted by fire. The little flames on the candles. The fire on which food was cooked in the kitchen. The big flames that i only dreamt of when i was young even tho i have never seen them in real life. Fire was so colorful. So free. So.... Warm... Something that wasnt common in Artica, where we lived.

To my suprise, nobody except Tom was happy for me. No one was proud of my powers. I thought that i would be special. No one else had fire abilities. At that time, i didnt even know it was possible to have them, i didnt know they had a name. The only person that had similar powers was Tomas, so it excited me that we had something similar.

But that was the same thing that the clan was afraid of.

"He is cursed!" an old clan member yelled as he saw me walk into the temple, still burning.

"See! He was around the cursed child and now he is cursed as well!" another one proclaimed. Quite proud.

My father only stared at me. Terrified. The closer i tried to get to him, thinking he would be proud, he only got further away. The next thing i remember, i was frozen. Not by my father, but by Bi han... My older brother.

I woke up in my Bed. No one was in the room with me, but i could hear many voices right outside.

"Let me in! He needs me!" that was Tomas, no doubt about it.

"Stay away! You caused it! Grandmaster, allow us to-"

"Let him in." my father demanded.

Tom flew right in and hugged me. His eyes were red and puffy... He was crying... This was the first time i was ever hugged....

Soon after, my father walked in. He looked at me.

He wanted to say something, but he didnt. He left Tomas and me alone to calm down.

Later that week, when i was able to get out of my room, he told me to stay away from any type of fire and to never, ever, use my powers. From that day on, i hated fire, warmth and everything related to it. It made my life a living hell! I was deemed deserving of any kind of disrespect and abuse the clan would put on me. "The lin kuei who cant become the honor of the clan, must become it's burden! " as if anyone in the clan was honorable.

Both Tomas and i were forbiden from using our powers. That didnt stop Tom, cuz it didnt stop Enenra. I dont hate Tomas, or his powers or even Enenra. I knew they werent truly a curse. Enenra might be a demon, but it was more honorable, more caring than anyone in our cruel clan. There was a reason why it let Tomas live instead of taking him over completely. There was a reason why it awoke only when he was in danger.

I could not say the same for myself. I dont use my powers. They were a curse. The only way to control fire was to learn to do it, and even that was Almost Impossible. The only Ones born with it... Are demons from the netherrealm..... Some would say that i was actualy a demon child and that i was a replacement for grandmasters real son who was take to the netherrealm. Some even called me a "changeling". My powers were seen as a punishment from gods. An "unfair" punishment. I know that, since i saw Enenra as something good, i should have seen my powers as somthing positive as well, but i couldn't. I just couldn’t. My powers.... my curse, was a punishment. I was a punishment.

The one thing that brought me comfort were Tom's words "Were there is smoke, there is fire. We may not share blood, but we are brothers. I will always be by your side, Kuai Liang, dont forget that!" and i never did.

And i continued not to use them until my father's sudden death, when Bi han became the grandmaster. He ordered me to train my powers and master them as soon as i could. I did. It felt... Good. But i still could not complitely feel positive about them after all they caused me. All the pain, shame... They were uncontrolable at first, which made us all think that they realy are just danger, but Bi han said its because i didnt use them. Because i was scared of them and didnt trust them. He was right, it seems.

He also ordered that whoever speaks negatively of me and Tomas and our abilities will be punished. But that couldnt take back what Was already said... And done.

#mortal kombat #kuai liang #Scorpion #Tomas vrbada #Smoke #Bi han #Sub zero #Mortal kombat AU #TW abuse #tw mentions of abuse #tw child neglect #child abuse tw #Lin kuei #Im sorry for the cheesy usage of the two lines from the game. I needed to do that for my own well being #There is also a reference to one of my fav shows so i hope you get that

[16-jarrah]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning—the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

#idk if i put it into words right but i'm just musing #was walter a good person when brba started? up in the air. but his family genuinely adored him. despite feeling like a loser teacher #some of his coworkers actually really liked and respected him. he was just as much of a regular person as anyone else was tbh #you know it's interesting that he and gale basically have the same motivations. why jump to meth of all things. why go from 0 to 100 when #it sounds COMPLETELY ridiculous. but they were both very passionate about chemistry who felt like their potentials were wasted and felt #like they were finally putting their skills to good use again. getting to flex their muscles and shit. whenever they cook better purer meth #than most other people. i think it's a really genius idea to have this premise for the show lol #cz as much as walter is motivated by him feeling like he desperately has to take control of his own life he also is a scientist at heart #who desperately needs to apply his knowledge and skills somewhere where it would feel gratifying #seriously dude you could've tried to get a paper published or two or something. djhdidhd #but the academe has its own Politics and whatnot. so one could only speculate why walt didn't get to pursue that any more #(aside from the whole grey matter industries thing) #anyway uhhh i hope i get the post across lol not to sound cheesy cliche but brba is a corruption slash character deterioration arc #quite literally the whole point is that he Didn't Start Off Like This And He Gets Worse #again. he already had some of his bad tendencies and traits but it's like. we all do that's not necessarily inherently make or break #it's what he DOES and KEEPS DOING. CONSCIOUSLY that turns him into the horrifying man he is by the end of it all #so i just think if your biggest takeaway is Walter Was Always A Monster then you're just missing the whole damn point #op #brbaposting

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Gunhild's magia, Crushing Fangs of Mánagarmr, is named after the giant wolf from Norse mythology who will one day devour the moon and feast on the dead, staining the heavens with blood and blacking out the sun.

Couple this with how Gunhild compares herself to the moon and Olga to the sun, and how Gunhild being consumed by her hunger for power and leaving a trail of corpses in her wake is what causes Olga to lose her cheerful shine... augh. It's almost too on-the-nose.

#i mean that positively ofc #olga and gunhild are good because you get both ''SHE ASKED FOR NO PICKLES'' and this #there are so many layers of symbolism to pick apart with these two #thinking of the wolf as a metaphor for gunhild's blind lust for strength might be a bit cheesy but i like it #magia record #gunhild #olga