#i will NEVER waver on this.

[sirspeep]

tav, staring at the night sky unblinkingly: (voice of someone who has just learned polymorph) would you still love me if i was a worm

astarion, sleepy cat who just had dinner: (voice of someone unaware they just failed a crucial insight check) of course my dear

#bard on rogue psychological violence #i cant play the new update yet but my mind never wavers from this damn game #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #siv speaks

[cattoru]

silly naruto valentine's day cards for ur use

#(my twt is dead and dry as hell so i'm posting these here too...) can u believe i made these like... 8 years ago i think #and somehow i still have them on my computer... i never let go... i never waver even in the face of cringe and corniness #cattoru's #naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto anime #naruto shippuden anime #shippuden #naruto meme #naruto memes #rock #rock lee #itachi #itachi uchiha #uchiha itachi #gaara #gara #kakashi #kakashi hatake #hatake kakashi #deidara #jiraiya #orochimaru #kisame #akatsuki #naruto akatsuki #akatsuki naruto #tenten #team gai

[tritoch]

wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!

like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"

the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.

emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.

#emet-selch #ffxiv #hades #shadowbringers spoilers #like by the time you get to the end you've already spoken to the amaurotine shades and hythlodaeus in particular #it's incredibly clear that even if emet's plans come to fruition he is *utterly alien to the world he is trying to restore* #and like prospero is restored in the end. but his wife is still dead. miranda grew up isolated and alone. #also to take a somewhat more jaundiced view #the things he did to caliban and to ariel can never be undone. that stain is with him forever. #and i mean even IF you can just yank all those souls right out of zodiark and fix the whole thing #there's still everyone who died before the first sacrifice and after the second. also THE VOID IS THE VOID. #'yeah uh we'll just fix that. when zodiark is up and running properly.' #sure dude i totally believe your expertise on the problem you caused by not knowing enough. you definitely know enough now. #anyways he can't waver for even a moment bc it means acknowledging he has betrayed everything he ever claimed to believe in due to his grie #he is in blood stepped so far etc. if i can be allowed to mix my shakespeares #emet-selch more like emet-sunk cost fallacy

[chronologiical]

my top 3 favourite master and servant combo ✰

#my art #fate/grand order #fate/zero #fate/apocrypha #fgo #waver velvet #iskandar fate #shishigou kairi #mordred #caenis #kirschtaria wodime #and as you can see #i clearly have a type #a loud one and a kinda calm one #that's a lie #waver is never calm #i just read garden of avalon and i have so many things to say about merlin and arturia #but i'll keep that to the next draw #i'm just going to be on my fate obsession roll for the next few months cause i also just started reading case files #LORD EL MELLOI II LORE EVERYBODY

[spiraling-eyes]

Erotic hypnosis is great and all, but do you ever allow your subject to just be and exist in trance? Maybe just hold them in your arms, give them small pets, stroke their hair while whispering sweet nothings in their ear, with no other purpose other than helping them relax and let go? Just existing with eachother, and enjoying eachothers presence?

#my libido has been dead for a few days now #yet my love for hypnosis never wavers #i just really cant relate to all the horniness atm #like im just craving some wholesome hypno rn

[poppy5991]

I think why Endhawks is so cathartic for me is that you have two people who have been through a bunch of trauma and made fucked up choices because of it and are both terrified that deep down that they aren’t worthy of love, that they’ll end up alone, that they are inherently bad.

And they are trying, trying so hard to change, to be good, to be lovable.

And they accept each other so easily. Like yes I see you. I see you trying so hard. You’re not hard to love at all. You are a good person at heart and that’s why you try so hard. I won’t flinch away at the hard, sharp edges of you because mine fit together with yours.

And it hits me right in my trauma core.

I just love them. Anyway…

#endhawks #mini rant of the day #hawks x endeavor #endeavor x hawks #it’s rotten work #not to me #Enji terrified of losing people because he believes that he is not strong enough to protect anyone #and Hawks who believes that he is only lovable when he is useful and charming and putting up a mask #ahhhhhh #and why I love Enji’s arc where he’s like this is it #it’s all stripped away I’m weak and terrible #and his family is like shut up you fucked up but we’re still here to support you #and Hawks who never wavers in his support #Horikoshi just stabbing me with emotions

[torgawl]

this makes so much sense, i'm crying

there's also this similar theory which is based on phantom parade's scene and the number of characters the censored line has that reached the same conclusion. everything adds up :')

#can't believe they invented love #it's just their love is so pure... literally. 'this is pure love' is such a perfect song for them because when you love someone so much #you're willing to let them go... when you love someone so much your feelings don't waver through time... when you love someone so much #you're willing to do the unimaginable to ease their pain... when you love someone so much your top priority is ensure their safety and well #being... when you love someone so much you never think about reciprocity or your feelings more than you think about them... #god they make me sick #satosugu #jujutsu kaisen #sorry for the bad quality in the screenshots i tried to make a collage so i could fit the thread into an image but it got compressed sgsjhs

[sixstringpansy]

unkillable.

every lyric from tonight's setlist that preaches survival, and living on against all odds // the drumhead.

(+bonus:)

(x)

#been having Thoughts today #also I saw someone bring up the “now and always we love you frank” quote and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind all day. #he is relentless. he has never wavered and we do not think he ever will. #like. okay. I didn't need my heart anyway. #long post #frank iero #mcr sydney #mcr sydney 1 #mcr #my chem #my chemical romance #fiatx #frank bus crash #fiatp #parallels #webweavings #(sort of) #drumheads #mcr lyrics #lyrics #callie.txt #highlights

[shoesofthefishermanswife]

book accurate bite wound placement okay!!

[I.D. A drawing of Carmilla and Laura from Carmilla (1872). They are laying down and Carmilla is touching a bite wound on Laura’s breast. Laura is naked and Carmilla is in a victorian nightgown. Both have their hair in ringlets. Carmilla has blood dripping out of her mouth. The left side of their bodies fades into deep red shadow. End I.D.]

#carmilla #this drawing is so funny bc i started it in the summer and then got so busy #so there are so many things about it i would love to fix if i had time #but i’ll never post it if i keep waiting for it to have a better foundation #and the decication to 1860s fashion accuracy wavers- yes carmilla’s hair is a classic 1860s updo but why is she wearing a daytime style?? #but there are also so many parts i worked hard on and i’m proud of #also yes she’s naked i was gonna draw a whole background with bedsheets but um. that sounds hard and i don’t want to #🫣 #my art #<- more stuff in this tag soon hopefully??

[loverboyromanroy]

Did you see how when he starts talking about jerking off she just looks so disappointed

rewatching the scene (over and over) because i can't get over how perfectly mapped onto their dynamic it is – roman's grasping at straws thought is that if he could get her alone, he could get them to sort of reset to a less fractured place, and in lieu of a real apology he's offering her a moment of renewed submission and vulnerability. even if it's couched in his typical sex-averse sarcasm/insincerity (he sounds despondent even as he says it because it's not a genuine desire, it's just going through the motions because it's the best he can do without doing what he really needs to do, which is apologize), it comes from a place of offering her a chance at exercising some power over him again, a subversion of what he did in the last episode which was exert an inordinate and untethered amount of power over her.

ultimately, though, she's so disappointed because it is a lazy, meaningless nothing offer and because they both know that it isn't what she needs from him anymore. she doesn't need power over him – he's too unstable and flighty and untrustworthy. what she needs, and what she needed all along, and what they had before he fucked it up, was respect (and assurance and commitment to Them and their shared vision). and even if it was in the heat of the moment last episode, him telling her she isn't good at her job was the biggest act of disrespect he could commit against her. there is no coming back from that, but even if there was, it would have to be a much grander gesture and falling back on the silly little jerk-off thing felt like one last reminder that they aren't those two people anymore.

#i have to say as much as i hate that it's had to happened i really appreciate the way they've approached their unraveling #because there's clearly a sense of care and feelings that runs as an undercurrent to everything with them...but that's not enough! #it was never going to be enough!! #there had to be respect backing it all up and even if it was one wavering moment that he didn't respect her...that was enough to kill it #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #roman x gerri #succession spoilers #answered #anonymous

[yashley]

favorite yasha/jester moments: C2E69

#critical role #yashter #yasha x jester #cr2 #ygifs #fyjm #🌸🍭 #but if I think about how jester's love for yasha was so unfailing I might just eat the roof tiles again #if I THINK about how jester's FAITH makes GODS and how her faith in yasha NEVER wavered I'm gonna LOSE IT #do you wanna think about how yasha had never had anyone care about her like that EVEN with so little time they technically spent together #that after alllllllllll that happened in that fight jester when met with her own safety STILL STILL tried to bring yasha with them #despite EVERYTHING she still reached out for yasha #honestly if I don't fucking talk about the yashter of it all during the obann arc then WHO else will goddamn #yasha watching herself slowly begin murdering her Friends and it ends with jester sobbing in the doorway reaching for her OK

[pan-gya]

HELLO!!!!! I did it! I actually made el melloi charms!!

They’re available for preorder here --> https://ko-fi.com/s/a67ff57d32

Preorders will be open until March 25th!! :D

#gray #waver velvet #lord el melloi ll #lord el melloi ii case files #el melloi #fate #type moon #fgo #my art #digital art #acrylic charms #im so so so excited about this #seeing my work in a physical form is really wild to me #the actual charms will have star clasps #but i was only allowed to have bunny clasps for the samples #btw i never want to draw scythe add ever again

[sibelin]

my controversial tumblr opinion is that i don't really care about fucking these old men 😔

#sometimes it's a bit frustrating bc half of music tumblr is about that! #i support you guys tho #go get those geriatric new wavers #also make some noise for old women that never receive half the attention the old white guys do

[herotome]

Devlog #123

Hi-ho, Wudge here.

So... it's out! If you somehow haven't heard despite my modest-yet-incessant marketing efforts, Herotome's Super Demo is now out on itch.io!

People seem to really enjoy the game. My notifications are blowing up. Everything seems to be going really well - it's all coming up Wudge, one might say!

Which means it's time to talk about 𝓜𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓘𝓵𝓵𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼.~

Y'all weren't expecting that one, were ya? Boom, baby! Haha!!!

So, let me know if this sounds familiar: I spend most of my waking moments worrying that something bad is going to happen. I'm perpetually waiting for the other shoe to drop. (Thank you to @hummingbird-games for reminding me that idiom exists, and taking it in good humor when I excitedly babbled that "YES! It's like there's this giant centipede with shoes in my ceiling and I'm convinced I hear him walking around and someday, someday he's gonna throw all his shoes at me like that one guy did to George Bush--!"

...I'm worried that someone is going to find a reason to be rightfully angry with me. I'm worried that, through the mortifying ordeal of being known, I will be punished with the harrowing gauntlet of rejection and misery. I worry that, any day now, I'm going to get a random half-thought-out message that obliterates my heart into smithereens and kills me on the spot. I am a sea slug, cautiously edging a tendril into the light and praying not to be noticed by the eldritch fish above that will devour me in a single gulp.

I find myself flinching even when there isn't a blow coming.

Putting out a piece of yourself for the public to consume is really fucking terrifying. I did it anyway, which is cool of me, but I want to make it known that there is not eternal bliss and satisfaction and rose petals on the other side. Is this better than my cave of solitude and darkness I emerged from? I think so. But I'm still perpetually scared, as Toby Fox might once have described it, "like a small dog startled by a thunder storm."

I'm still really tired, too.

I don't write this to complain; I'm conscious that some people are now looking up to me and the way I do things, and I want to be transparent. I don't want anyone to think I'm perfect or have always been perfect and will always be perfect, or that I've ~found happiness~.

I'm not. I have never been. I will never be. I haven't.

But I'm okay, at least. I'm okay and I'll be okay, and I'm grateful to you all. Every single one of you. Thank you for not submitting me to the harrowing gauntlet of rejection and misery…yet.  :^)

Alright what's the takeaway here. Uhm.

Be yourself! Follow your dreams! Never give up!!!

That's sincerely what I'm trying to do. It's a challenge every single day; I have to choose Herotome every single day (something something married to my own game blah blah blah). It is worth it. And I believe in you - assuming you're not a cannibal or a murder or, worst of all, a plagiarist (gasp!) or anything else terrible and bad - I believe in you. (… But honestly, I'd believe in you if you were a bad person too, I'd believe in you to continue to do bad things but I'd hope that you'll stop and turn yourself in to the proper authorities lmao…)

… I went on a weird tangent again…

I don’t know if any of this is making sense. Maybe it will be insightful to someone out there, maybe it won't.

I uh, did some writing for the next part of the game, and I plan on working on some character expressions today in honor of my Ko-Fi donators.

Oh, and there's gonna be a stream on Wednesday 10pm Pacific. I'll be there! Come say hi and please don't squish me!

… Yeah that's all I can think of writing for now. I absolutely wish you all the best with every speck of love I have in my current flesh prison.

Tata for now. Stay safe and keep warm,

Wudge.

#Im also conscious of things I said I was gonna do but never got around to doing and worry its wavering at the brim of my memory and someday #it will fall and crush me underneath-- #dskjfbskj anyway #herotome update #I am full of worries and demons. better than I used to be (less demons) but they are still here #I would take selfies with them and show you all if I could

[chronologiical]

waver at any moment of his lord's life: just end me

#my art #lord el melloi ii case files #waver welvet #lord el melloi ii #reines el melloi archisorte #fate/grand order #fgo #fate/ #i'm having such a grand time reading case files i never want it to end #i hope the adventures of el melloi is all ready and translated once i finish #i'm not ready to leave the grumpy middle aged man alone #i wish the china lostbelt was about the 3 kingdoms #IMAGINE THE DRAMA #and all the headaches mr lord el melloi ii will have to have #i'm sorry all i draw now is fate #and i'm enjoying every moment of it

[kenobion]

Andrew Garfield on The Graham Norton Show

#I'm back baybee but my enthusiasm for him never wavered it's just I was away a few days #andrew garfield #my gifs #I missed hearing his beautiful voice #the graham norton show came through for me with more footage again #I love the moment in the first gif so much #how can he be both the hottest and the cutest person ever? at the same time?? #there is only one thing I want for my birthday and it's for Andrew to slide into my dms (not realistic but I can imagine) #ugh I love everything about the way he looks and he thinks and he talks and he is #please sir let me love you #I'm available anytime