#if they form they kill everything

[rainbowangel110]

Just finished Gem Drill.

That was actually kind of bittersweet.

#forever in the dark #they won't have a form like they want #they have each other #maybe one day they can form themselves individually #maybe one day they'll all get out #maybe one day they'll be free #but not today #they can't #if they form they kill everything #forming the cluster hurts them all #so for now they're all bubbled together #... why am I tearing up over a giant gem ball? #the part where they bubbled one another to help Steven #that. wow #they were in pain until the bubbling #they're probably still in some pain #Hopefully it'll fade away #steven universe #just posting

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

#pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #Percy shows up at CJ and squints at Nico like ''hm. why do i feel like i hate you? like i just wanna punch you in the face?'' #and Nico just immediately goes ''huh no idea anyways i have to go-'' and jumps into Tartarus #but not before he gives Hazel essentially a detailed explanation of ''this is Percy i cant say much but please dont let him die <3'' #and Nico's whole Tartarus trip was basically a whole ''im doing this so no one else has to'' #only for Percy and Annabeth to fall in like one book later and Nico proceeds to spend the next book internally screaming about it #and then Cupid calls him out on it and the next book #Nico's just like ''at this point im hoping i keel over within the next week just so i can force this dumb crush to chill the fuck out'' #Nico staring pointedly at Will: ''For my own sake i need to form another crush RIGHT NOW so i can finally get over Percy.'' #''this has been so bad for my health'' #Nico's crush on Percy is just too funny to me. horrible pick my guy. terrible job. love that for you. he could not be less interested. #Percy LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL NICO and ditch him in the underworld and Nico is somehow STILL like ''but i love him'' #Percy basically chokes him. beats up his dad. tells him ''go get smited by your dad for me.'' and ditches him. #and Nico's opinions/crush on him DO NOT CHANGE #though also Nico's reaction to Percy beating up his dad + skeletons is SO funny. his jaw is on the floor. he's flustered about it. #he just witnessed Percy be incredibly hot and proceeded to go ''yea i'll do anything for this man. collect reinforcements of 3 gods? sure'' #nico you absolute DISASTER with HORRIBLE TASTE. you can do better. raise your standards. #which tbh is funnier when you factor in sun and the star. Nico just wont stop crushing on guys who dislike him and everything he stands for

[dimeadozencows]

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put my lips to the hands of the man who killed my son

#deltarune #gaster #deltarune player #i love still headcanoning gaster as sans and papyrus's dad despite knowing that he saw everything that happened in undertale (including #the no mercy route) and seeing how friendly he is with us in deltarune #you would think he'd hate us and want do nothing to do with us or to hurt us but. he wants to create a new future with us. #he thinks that our search for him is a wonderful thing. he thinks we created a wonderful form. hes thankful for our time. #knowing this while still believing he's the father of characters we've killed makes him such an interesting character #we know he's tied to undertale so regardless of if he's actually their dad or not we have hurt people he knows #and he still treats us with so much care #i love this guy. i wanna know him already #this was fully inspired by a gorgeous drawing by WolfyTheWitch on twitter #of. actual priam jskdjdk #this was drawn using my poor poor pilot pens during classes over three days. i need to buy new ones now lol #i need to use this technique more often #its super time consuming but it looks so cool. and the paper has such an interesting texture now :]]] #i also LOVE drawing gasters hands all melting and barely even like hands #and brown paper packages tied up with string #my art #*i edited this a bit in digital i forgot to mention that gdjdjfk

[uncanny-tranny]

Relationships don't have to be transactional. They don't even have to be 50/50. The idea that a "good relationship" is split down the middle, where nobody acts like people, and instead vends out appropriate cookie-cutter responses and dialogue is genuinely harmful.

A good relationship is one wherein the person/people involved are happy. You don't have to give, you don't have to take. You can enjoy each other's company and be together. If there comes a time when that need changes, then the person who should know is whomever is in that relationship with you. This isn't solely about romantic or sexual partners, this goes for platonic friends or otherwise anybody who spends enough time with each other to establish some type of relationship with each other.

#relationships #kill the capitalist in your head that says everything MUST have a profit value #whether or not that profit is a physical material form is not the point #and kill the person in your head that says that the only relationships that matter are the ones you are prescribed #please don't grind out relationships like you grind levels on a video game character #i just keep seeing people talk about how relationships where you aren't materially benefitting or whatever aren't 'worth it' #like??? are we not social creatures anymore? #and there is a difference between 'cannot be 50/50' and 'refuses to even try to be a part of the relationship'

[basketobread]

Would your Tavs get along with each other?

i imagine they'd be friends, yeah!!!!!!

#i have so many thoughts about these three i love them so much #lotus cant accept any form of affection they just wanna kill everything and be evil #but like... they will...... occasionally.......... accept some affection... as a treat!!! #begrudgingly of course but still #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #bg3 tav #bg3 oc #baldur's gate oc #lotus posting #warlock dude posting #lunara posting #bob the artist #ask bob

[unknowablecore]

greywaren / opal / cdth / cdth / cdth / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren /greywaren

#i hope this web weave brings some comfort for my friends struck by ch49 #its all about adam lying to himself as a form of self-preservation? always has been. #adam lying to himself because he thinks it'll be easier to kill his old self if he's back to base-line-needs #and in the end what made adam unhappy and tired and strung out? everything but ronan #he was creating those unhappy tired and strung out balancing acts at Harvard #ronan being the only thing keeping adam true to himself #if i see one bad take about their relationship development in greywaren #i will commit acts #magic is about intention SO ARE CONVERSATIONS #greywaren spoilers #greywaren #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #the dreamer trilogy spoilers #the dreamer trilogy #mine

[daylighteclipsed]

Blaming KH2 Sora’s anger and aggression all on Roxas really downplays how ready to throw hands Sora is in KH1 and CoM.

#also ignores rage form in kh3 obviously #but I’m talking about sora pre-roxas #i see this take so much and I’m like convinced ppl don’t pay attention to sora in kh1 or com #or they just take what diz/ansem the wise says about sora needing more anger in his heart at face value #even though ATW never knows what tf he’s talking about #my man was wrong about everything in kh2 why would you believe him #sure roxas unsettled in sora’s heart probably played a part #but it’s not all on him be so serious now #anyway. ppl keep reblogging that post from me even though I’m not the op #keep seeing ‘sora wants to kill so bad’ too #and like #i don’t know how to break this to you but sora has killed already #that’s a pretty significant thing that happens in every game #like i understand where you’re coming from but sora very much has killed people

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

#edit: i am so so open to discussion and disagreement on this but please try to have something substantial to say. god bless! #like ofc jason kills but to me it was less “everyone I've ever killed deserves death objectively” #and more “when people are dead they stop doing things like heinous atrocities and trying to kill me" #i don't even think he wanted the joker dead (only) because he thinks he objectively morally deserves death #although the joker is one of the most extreme cases possible and he if does think that he's VERY justified #i really do think it was just about bruce #and wanting bruce to avenge him to show he loved him and he mattered and wanting his dad to give him security #all the killing was about the clown and everything with the clown was about bruce #i've NEVER forgotten the bit in lost days where he has the joker tied up at gunpoint and doesn't kill him #i think if it was only about a moral greater good situation he would have taken him out then and there #if you disagree i'd love to hear why provided you can be civil and not an jerk #also if you disagree PLEASE PLEASE put screenshots and comic issues if possible #i'd love to check them out and form my own stance on them #just know that if you say like. battle for the cowl. or the Tom King batman annual or something i probably won't care too much #comic characterization is ever-changing and inconsistent i truly believe that the best thing to do is just read the important stuff #and try to form your own stances from there #because there's never gonna be 100% of comics involving a character that align with each other perfectly and that's just a given #jason todd #red hood #dc comics

[vampirepunks]

Since Kojima’s been saying that the Death Stranding film is going to tell a story that can only be told through the film medium, I really hope it’s a prequel to the game. There are a lot of background events represented through text and dialogue that wouldn’t translate well to a video game format on their own.

It’d be really cool to see the start of the Stranding, Victor and Igor’s backstory (as seen in the DS novelization), snippets from Sam’s childhood/early years with Bridges, the development and construction of the chiral network, and most of the events described in Higgs’ journals.

Coffin’s decision to leave her family behind, start a terrorist uprising by radicalizing the porters who unknowingly abetted human sacrifices by delivering BBs for the chiral network, and the decision to adopt Higgs as her protégé? That story alone would be worthy of a film.

#just thoughts #i would kill to see little baby Peter #and witness his Becoming™️ from that scared kid into the man we know and love #i know that ‘new world with a new sky’ moment would be POWERFUL #and what of his porter partner who died? what did that relationship look like? how close were they? #what of his relationship with Fragile after Coffin died? having a best friend who probably never saw his face? #not to mention his tragic rise to power and the secrecy that came with it. having to kill to maintain his DOOMS because people needed him #like he was handpicked as the inheritor of a rebellion against Bridges/the UCA and suddenly ended up with a LOT of responsibility when- #-Coffin died. and suddenly he was living a double life to care for and protect the people of the Western region #and those folks responded by calling him King Midas. naming him after a folk hero whose defining tragedy is being powerful but alone #everything he touched turn to gold but it’s so hard to form connections when you can’t shake hands #(sorry not sorry lol) #it’s such a complicated and nuanced backstory & so many people don’t even know about it because it’s in hard-to-reach texts & a side quest #idk I just think it’d make a really good movie. bonus points if it canonized him being a repatriate #it’d make a really good sci-fi political thriller/horror #i would vaporize in my seat if it cold opened with higgs saying 'once there was an explosion...' but now i'm just being self-indulgent #death stranding #death stranding movie #death stranding a24 #higgs monaghan #logan.txt

[polycrews]

ddcds. for u (hopefully ur day will b a bit better!)

had to take a second to respond to this because dear GOD this made me lose coherent thoughts. ahem

#asks #ddcd #i. i want to start up a good feral tag ramble but the only thing i can think of is to break down wailing /pos #my friend. beloved acquaintance of mine. you canNOT keep doing this one day you will fuckinf kill me of heart attack on the spot #i keep stepping away from this every couple minutes i haven’t felt this much emotions in eons. please have the courtesy to picture- #-my tone as that of soft awe. i am barely forming comprehensible sentences out here dear god #i’d also like to mention that i am in love with how you draw carapace. it all flows very smoothly and feels correct in an indescribable- #fuck the tumblr tag limit #-sort of manner. #your expressions are immaculate and manage to perfectly encapsulate these two #just. everything in general makes me even more fascinated with. well. [gestures abstractly] #please be ever so kind as to excuse me while i yell into a pillow for half an hour. i will be delivering you all of my money- #-as compensation for this on the morrow. thank you #fave

[swatato]

I refuse to believe a damn thing I’m seeing thanks <3

#noragami #noragami spoilers #like this just spits in the face of all the themes and messages of the entire story #idk how hiyori being yatos shinki could possibly benefit the narrative #like do they just go home after this and begin the entire cycle of protecting a shinki from ggs again? #or does she conveniently get to remember everything too cuz of some asspull and then they live happily ever after?.? #the whole point was that hiyori should live a full long life #whats the point of yato rising up to father if he just gets ‘taught a lesson’ yet again #and nora too for that matter im just waiting for some payoff after that entire bond she formed with hiyori #like this is just the dumbest way to go out especially for how rushed it is #its so absurd which is why i dont entirely believe this is actually hiyori kicking the can #surely adachitoka gonna pull something here dhsifnksjf #im betting amaterasu will pull some magic cuz a) yato keeping his promise to kill father #and b) something something about a loophole with hiyoris unique half dead status #and the fact that theyre in father weird abstract water dimension #jumbled thoughts ghhhgghh #like im yatori garbage to my core but this aint it

[ms0milk]

rich boy bkg makes you angry. flashpoint and catharsis 200wc

"I thought you were complicated, I thoughtー I didn'tー" You could’ve screamed blood, you could’ve punched a hole through his locker bare fisted like ripping his heart clear from his chest.

Bakugou is only half-finished changing out of patrol gear, still using his mask to push blond hair from his eyes and he looks just ridiculous enough, just beautiful enough, to pour gasoline onto your rage.

"You had picnics and parents who love you! You went on vacations and a housekeeper stocked your spice cabinets so you could learn to cook and feed that fucking competency complexー"

"Y/n I don'tー"

"You're just a rich boy with an attitude problem! You're not fucking tragic."

Shouting isn't helping you win this fight that you alone started and it isn't getting him to join in like it should. Cursing doesn't help like it always has. No, Katsuki only rubs his face down with a glove-free hand. Quiet.

"Got anything else?"

"Fuck you Dynamight."

His last gauntlet hits the floor instead of the bench where he usually lays them together so gently and you do worry for a second that he's usually gentle because they might go off otherwise, so you flinch, and you hate yourself for it.

"I mean it." He huffs, work-worn and sarcastic, to his feet in front of you. He moves forward until you’re close enough to taste caramel exhaustion. Like he's too tired to stick a finger to your chest in threat so he uses his own chest to do it instead, "If I wrote out a list of my problems, attitude would be a hundred spots below your fucking name."

"Cry me river." He's too close, "What's between me and attitude? 'Princess sleep schedule'? Is that above or below 'wet dreams about the kid I bullied in middle school'?"

Red eyes go wide and he seizes the collar of your hero uniform in a satisfying fist, finally angry enough to shout back, finally trembling hard enough you think he might strike first, but tinnitus doesn't come. Fireworks don't go off in a flurry of orange, purple, red, gold excuses. No, he lets you go just as quickly and drops his head, soft and warm onto your shoulder as you stare into the space past the lip of his bicep. Fight bleeds from your body into the cold metal at your back.

"Its just you," 2am voice cracked and growling, "It's just your name a hundred times."

#behold #a new fic idea to distract me from my evil wips :) #i've been thinking about the reality of kats' situation and comparing it to my upbringing.. #it really does kill me a little #how shitty his is for so long #when he had everything handed to him except a fully formed frontal lobe #but eat the rich ya know #bakugou x reader #bakugou drabble #oh god do people spell it 'bakugo'? #bakugo x reader #ick

[imminent-danger-came]

I saw your tag that out of the 3 monkeys, macaque is the most mentally well, and i had a mini breakdown about the fact youre right. You shouldnt be right, but you are

IT FEELS WRONG RIGHT. Like, Macaque is the red and black edgy monkey with shadow based powers, and yet he's also the only one whose positive character arc has impacted the story in an undeniably constructive way. Who knows what would have happened had he not been there to help MK in both 4x10 and the s4 special.

And like, MK on the other hand has had a negative character arc for the whole show (with "Revenge of the Spider Queen" and "The Emperors Wrath" being small hills in the road, but knowing MK we're going DOWN next season). MK is still going to get worse before he gets better (I'm predicting mega guilt over having a hand in Azure's death, but we'll see—also everything about his monkey form/himself is pretty much unresolved soooo) and don't even get me started on Wukong. He ALSO has had a negative character arc the whole show, with his main improvement being his resolve to be more open with MK. But like, between Mei chewing him out in 3x10, getting possessed by LBD, and now his time spent in the scroll—let's just say I'm worried for the Monkey King.

At the start of the show I'd say MK, SWK, and Macaque are all mentally unwell in their own special and equal ways, but Macaque actually got somewhat better (thank you 3x13). He's the only one. It's ridiculous.

#Ready for the MK and SWK spiral. I really am #Macaque still has his own issues don't get me wrong but like. Clearly he's gotten a little better if he was willing to help SWK at ALL. #MK's little “better than we found it” spiel at the end of 4x14 there has me shaking his shoulders. IT'S A LIE AND I AM WORRIED FOR HIM OKAY #I swear in MK's mind that boy is like ''Great! Now I can never use Monkey Form again! Everything can go back to normal now!'' #and boy is that not going to pan out #''Kick this can down the old half marathon'' dude. Dude killing god is a half marathon to you now. OH GOD. YOU'RE JUST NOT OKAY. #HE IS SO UNWELL #AND I THINK HE SHOULD FIGHT WUKONG ABOUT IT. #READY FOR MY s5 TRAGEDY ARC ALRIGHT #I AM #asks #lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk MK #lmk SWK #lmk Sun Wukong #lmk Macaque #lmk analysis #lmk speculation

[goosemagician]

Y’all

This is one of my longest animatics I’ve made so far, and not only that but I’m SO proud of the way it turned out!

After RGB retrieves Hero's heart and finds her again to return it, he finds Hero left out for him as bait. Hate plans to kill RGB, and keep Hero to help her End the World once and for all. Luckily, Hero tends to be stubborn, and RGB tends to be clever.

Here's the Youtube version!

#I might make full rendered illustrations out of some of these frames because I LOVE some of these shots #tpoh #the property of hate #tpoh hero #tpoh rgb #tpoh Hate #HATE DESIGN JUMPSCARE #She takes whatever form she wants but as soon as she gains Hero's heart she can use that energy to become more corporeal and solid #Hate having Hero's heart was basically just trapping her in a state of 'belonging' to Hate #the blindfold was the thing that kept her in that 'Hateful' state of mind. y'know #the 'kill everything but especially RGB' one #It's a little convoluted but it works #Anti-Hero AU #tpoh au #goosedraws #Youtube #Tpoh Assok #HOW COULD I FORGET

[fischiee]

ok actually i don't think i'll ever forgive @favvnsongs for making me ship washilon bc now i am all consumed that the fact that wash DIDN'T KNOW epsilon survived the implantation process LIKE

and the SECOND that he found out that he was alive he rebelled from pfl and took off to go save him with the intention of sacrificing himself in order for epsilon to survive i cannot with these two

#first of all im joking favvn i just really didn't use to think of them that much and now they consume my every waking thought #still screaming at 'i was /sure/ they deleted him' like AHHHHHHHH #also wash in such agony the whole season about how awful ais are only to literally drop everything to go die for epsilon is so crazy #AND THEN WHEN EPSILON SEES HIM HE IMMEDIATELY TRIES TO KILL HIM LIKE WHAT #wash in s7 when epsilon has been saved but literally hasn't come back to help him like wash did for him: alright fuck this guy now #actually really highlights his s7 villain arc bc yes hes silly in it but also he would go against everything he once cared about #in order to finally get any form of freedom and a chance at peace #wow i am so emo about this i could go on for years #rvb #red vs blue #epsilon ai #agent washington #washilon