#just a dumb thing I thought of lol

[darkheirwill]

@ James

#just a dumb thing I thought of lol #dark rise #dark heir #cs pacat #will kempen #sarcean #james st clair

[bhaalsdeepbat]

As much as I love to joke about Astarion being pathetic I don't actually think he is. He's sad and wet, but he is also one of the heaviest hitters. I think he just feels weak & pathetic and externalizes it, which then kinda makes him seem more powerless than he actually is.

#bat rambles #he's pathetic in the sense that #he bitches and moans about everything #but i love that he is a whiney baby who can also rip your throat out #he just has self esteem issues 🥰 #also adds to like how weak he feels to caz #idk this and like the obsession with him deflowering people are two fanon things i just #do not jive as much with lol #he is also absolutely SO dumb #but it is also the first time he has been allowed to have a thought in over a century

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

#hs #homestuck #dirk strider #eye strain #probably? if you think i should tag something else let me know!! #anyway hooray its time for rambling in the tags #so uhhh heres the teæ i've been sick for like a week and you know how it is when suddenly your throat becomes the main gunk warehouse #and you can't breathe lol. wish i could just pull it out. anywaaayy this is basically a vent piece for me being sick lol #also i could draw remotively the same thing with kris deltarune. oh how easy it is to project having a cold #though i have been also experiencing troubles with feelings recently as well....how fitting for dirk #speaking of the man himself (enough of me) his relationship with his own Heart...is peculiar to say the least #the thing i love about alphakids is that despite being so feral they were. so relatable. i cannot stress this enough how unwell they are an #and how they represented being a teen so well. yeah being 15 years old makes that to you #imagine being an emotional mess and trying to fit the 'norm' and act normal about your friends so youre not offputting #and then you fall in love with you friend and your ai clone falls in love with him too looool noone makes out of this one alive #uhh literally. godtiering stuff and dying remember #and speaking of it. tw for suicidal talk for the rest of tags #do you ever think dirk was suicidal. of course the part of when he teleports his head to jake was totally planned and he knew he would -> #wake up as dreamself but. don't you think the moment he cut his head off was sort of. cathartic. how much did he hate his own guts #beheading himself not only for the plan...but also because he thought he 'deserved' it #also wow he is a Prince and was literally beheaded don't you think its funny hahaa #sigh poor thing #this has ended on a not the very pleasant note hm #also fckkkkkk i didn't draw anything with rose/mary for the lesbian visabilty week #(putting the slash because tumblr search system has a dumb gag with showing you posts that contain the tag inside the other tag. #and i don't want this post to show up for the ros/mary fans because it's not!!!! its rose's father emotional crisis post!!!!) #update YOOOO WHAT THE HELL THE GIF HAS EVEN LESS PIXELS THEN I PLANNED fantastic #this your breakfast now tumblr. enjoy your crunchy flakes of dirks meltdown. mwah

[slavhew]

Hello!

If you're not too busy, would you mind listing some of the things you think count as death flags for Mr. Spender?

There's the obvious fact that he's the "old" mentor to group of young protagonists, but what else do you think would count?

OHH BOY ok so I'd think I'm a crackpot for this but since we're talking about Zack "Foreshadowing" Morrison. I have some thoughts

No harm in leading with the (chronologically) first thing that jumped out at me:

This one IMMEDIATELY made me antsy whenever I came back to it after my initial read, and considering Zack has referred to it on twitter in the past as one of their favorite jokes it's definitely not been forgotten about.

Second, the sheer amounts of near-misses, jokey or not, of Spender narrowly avoiding specifically lightning

Again, not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice, latter two of which had real gravitas rather than an one-off joke.

And third, Spender himself. He's repeatedly shown himself to be kind of a self sacrificing idiot, as well as prideful to a fault. Granted, it's both him and Mina trying to take on all the responsibility of saving Mayview and its inhabitants from their fate.. But Spender is exactly that right measure of doesn't-value-himself-enough (chest footprint aftercare or lack thereof), having an obscene amount of power (enables his loner act + pride) and poor judgement that has the capacity to put him at great risk. And it has!

Spender has not only shown low enough self-esteem to view himself as the de-facto scapegoat for the safety of the town, but also prideful enough to make very bad calls that end up in people, often himself, hurt (COUGH FORGE INCIDENT COUGH)

This is all conjecture, but it's definitely enough to make me worried about him :') Even if all this doesn't mean he'll necessarily die he's definitely getting (even more) seriously injured at some point. I love the guy but he's so far doing a horrible job of convincing me he wants to live bad enough to circumvent at least that

#not art #admin answers #paranatural #pnat #richard spender #pts-fic-notes-and-blog #before i continue on with tag ramble i just want to say tysm for leaving an ask! #none of my friends read this so ive been stewing on these thoughts for some months and i loved finally sharing them #this isn't exactly proof but the hijack possession seemingly being the final nail in the coffin for his and isabel's relationship. #idk it feels significant to me. thats one more tether to support kinda gone. someone who knows him well enough to know he's unwell #he seems not exactly content but fr incapable of not burning bridges as he is now. and considering how rashly he acts he REALLY needs those #to not do stupid shit all the god damn time with no buffer other than Lucifer. who for his measured approach to rick's hotheadedness #has honestly shown himself to be pretty lenient and kinda bad at controlling spender's more (self) destructive tendencies? so he dont count #to be clear i love spender to bits but he is dumb as rocks and has all the self preservation of a fruit fly. it needs to be said #also the lightning man... idk its WEIRD like especially on the reread its the thing that most consistently threatens him! it repeats #sure he gets chewed by a bat and banged up by forge but?? he somehow always comes back to lightning. catnine has it out for him #its something i didnt even really put together until i continued reading the flashback chapter AFTER getting this ask and went OHHHGNHF #which the only reason lightning is such a non issue is lucifer's powers. which belong to his sunglasses and not to the spirit in him #so its not like they can't be taken away he's just got a really good excuse for having those on all the time #TAGS GETTING SO LONG. ANYWAYS. i hope this is comprehensible lol

[wasabi-gumdrop]

thinking about modern au Kabru

ivy league college student, probably studying law and political science on a full scholarship. first time living away from Milsiril so he has to promise her, yes mom i’ll call you at least four times a week, no mom i don’t need your amex black card, yes mom the normal credit card is fine i need to learn how to budget like a Normal Person (it has a limit of $20k — that’s not normal Kabru).

Milsiril insists for a long time that she’ll just get him a house off campus so he can have his own space (aka a place she can drop by anytime and possibly live a few months out of the year just to be close to him) but Kabru puts his foot down and tells her the best way he’s gonna make friends is by living with other students (bye mom).

his floor in the coed dorms is the party floor and he always makes sure to invite everybody (his nightmare is accidentally leaving anyone out and having them think that he doesn’t like them). somehow it’s always a good time, everyone leaves with more friends than they came with, it never gets totally out of control, and plenty of girls who are interested in him (and a lot of guys too tbh) bring tons of baked treats so there’s always free food. Kabru is the RA’s favourite person to have in the building (even though Kabru himself is messy but most of the people he’s friends with are nice and clean up after themselves).

he has a porsche (Milsiril gift for his 16th bday) but he’s adamant about not driving it unless he absolutely has to (because he doesn’t wanna look like a douche). BUT he never says no when his friends ask for rides (so he ends up driving all the time anyway). he actually contemplates selling the porsche and going for a more practical car but Mickbell is like ‘dude you are not taking this away from me.’ Kabru sighs and decides to keep it because his friends (Mickbell) like being chauffeured around in a fancy convertible (Rin, Holm, and Dia don’t care, they’re just glad they don’t have to walk to the grocery store).

he’s probably on a casual texting basis with most of his professors and you know he’s going to all their office hours, grabbing beer with them just to keep chatting about life outside of school. and that’s how he winds up in some super secret faculty group chat where he’s now privy to all the college administration gossip.

Kabru is elected for student council during his freshman year and he’s probably the favourite to be sc president one day.

he doesn’t really date (gets too in his head about how he doesn’t wanna ruin any friendships) but he does hang out one on one with a lot of girls and treats them all really well. he probably goes so far out of his way to be platonic that he flies a little too close to the ‘Just Like One of the Girlies’ sun, he kinda forgets that most people interpret it as flirting coming from him. which leads to a few awkward conversations. people feeling led on, a few angry jealous boyfriends, scathing dms about him being a girl stealing homewrecker.

it’s such a nightmare for him and he needs it to end right now. so he begs Rin to ‘date’ him for a week or two and then publicly dump him just so the entire student body gets the message that he is Just A Friend.

Rin stares at him for a few seconds. then she laughs. she laughs and laughs. she laughs for a crazy long time. and then eventually she goes, ‘wow you’re an asshole, Kabru. no i won’t be your fake girlfriend. you’re gonna suffer and i’m going to enjoy it.’

and that’s when Kabru has a moment of enlightenment. ok yeah. asking for that is probably really selfish and mean. maybe he needs to think about girls’ feelings more and that’s maybe more important than his deep seated need to be liked, and when has Rin ever been wrong about anything.

he apologizes. and so begins one of the more serious talks he’s ever had with Rin about being okay with not being liked.

he thinks he can really turn over a new leaf. the whole ‘not worrying about what other people think’ thing goes pretty well — up until Kabru meets the aloof professor for his Monsters and Myths class who keeps forgetting and mispronouncing his name.

Kabru has never needed someone to like him So Bad, he needs Prof. Touden to like him as a matter of life and death, and he’s willing to look stupid for it (fails a midterm on purpose to justify begging for one on one tutoring)

#wow if you made it to the end of this post here’s some surprise labru #kabru says fuck my gpa i need this white boy to like me #i am plagued by demons (labru professor/student situationship) #dungeon meshi modern au #ok but the Kabru Milsiril dynamic is my new favourite chew toy #especially them in a modern setting #all of the lavish gifts and expensive lifestyle that Milsiril would want Kabru to have #perhaps even as a way of depending on her forever (love to an unhealthy degree) #but Kabru is more interested in people than material things #so perhaps he’s a little out of touch financially (thinks a jug of milk costs $12) #but he’s still very much socially aware #enough to know that he can’t just be another annoying trust fund kid with a dumb car and designer clothes and zero fucks about academics #so his social and academic excellence is probably in large part overcompensation for his privileged upbringing #and even the thought of someone not liking him gives him stomach cramps LOL #kabru my love you will always be famous #kabru of utaya #kabru #wasabi rambles #labru #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon

[mildcicada]

#when i was first coloring him in he was gonna be golden chinchilla colored but then i was like ehhh jonah magnus should be red/orange but #elias should be gray ...so i just desaturated what i already did instead of recoloring lol but #he is now supposed to be shaded silver lol #but thats why his coat pattern is on the darker side compared to what it *should* be #og elias bouchard coming from an important/roch family and while whole thing with thinking he just *deserves* stuff bc of his upbringing. #etc. -> he is purebred and matches the breed standards etc for a scottish fold of his color #obviously the eye color doesn't matter because. ahaha #i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes #and the cat body/face type (also present in british shorthairs) to me gives off sort of... unnasumming vibes? #like ahaha yes i am a boring boss who loves paperwork look at how unnasumming i am season 1-2 elias y'know #trying to think of what cat breed jonah would be. and also jon gerry etc you know all the other characters i like #would it be boring to have multiple british shorthairs #i mean.. #Michael shelley/distortion is a laperm that's all I know #i didn't particularly care with the personality attributes associated with eliascat because it didn't need to fit his personality on account #of not being his original body. but i do try to keep in mind the best personality/look/etc. cat attributes as a whole for a character #also sometimes get obsessed with jt making historical and geographical sense but then it just limits me greatly to a point im not into it #so i don't care about specific breeds in that respect lol #tma #my art #elias bouchard #the magnus archives #some notes looking back(made it 2 hours ago but still looking back ok..) on it now are that i feel like elias would never choose this breed #for his next bodyhop because of the inherent health issues in scottish folds. I saw the breed was created in like the early 1960s and #assumed that maybe the health issues wouldn't have been common knowledge until later enough for jonah to be unaware of them but actually no #there's legislation about it like 6 years later LOL so jonah would..maybe not make this choice #i guess in the future when drawing i will just make him a British shorthair #my catTMA is simultaneously 'they are just regular cats or like all show cats or something' and 'exact tma plot but as intelligent cats' #LOL its just vague in my mind idk..also maybe jon can be an Abyssinian #ALSO WHAT WAS I THINKING 'jonah may not have been aware about x thing' like did i...did i forget. me 2 hours ago was dumb as rocks

[rg11]

whats your fav aspect(s) of jadekat?

anon im sorry but i had like 40+ notes prepaired for my thoughts on jadekat but i lost all of them proof-reading it and this is all i got

they are the ultimate yuri to me

#jadekat #rgtxt #there was also tags that were like #karkat did not get the outcome he wanted with jade #he punished himself (slapping himself isnt that bad but i digress) #for well finding pity in such a “stupid” human #and it was obvious to him she hated him #(before the apology) #he wanted to troll her but got red feelings for her and did not like it #like i feel like if youre nice to jade she would be nice to you but with how karkat was being an ass he just got into more shit lol #like another thing is that they bicker a lot #like in the old couple way but also like... #a highschool couple shipped together by their school but they do not like eachother that much #like that probably isnt a real trope but its a trope in my head #but its like 3am sorry anon my thoughts are jumbled and i dont remember much right now soz #but in the sense of bickering it was more like opposite trolling #mainly with the passwords #but karkat was just trolling himself with that hugeass paragraph with just... i dont want to think about it hes just fucking weird #i am referring to page 3972 #i think the whole “you turned it into this overdramatic thing” is a good way to dumb down their relationship #most of her actions are just poking fun but then he will make a whole entire soap opera #she would do a puppet show he would do shakespear #and thats funny as shit

[sarellathesphinx]

Both square enix and other players can take the idea that Cait has his own personality and sense of will separate from Reeve from my mummified hands

#like there’s just no fucking way this cat is controlled 24/7 by a man who is currently #working to restore multiple destroyed sectors in the city he’s the HEAD OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR #he also speaks and acts separate from Reeve in dirge so like. #Cait’s a little guy. the overlap between him and Reeve is definitely real. but they’re like a living Venn diagram to me #especially in the original game some of the things he says just only make sense if he’s got his own personality and thoughts #and I do believe there’s room for that in the remake timeline too!!! #it’s like dumb how adamant I get about this i know #but to me it’s a diminishment of both characters if you go ‘Cait is reeve’s fake fursona and he’s doing a bit in his office constantly’ #text #idk!!!! #like I’m not saying Reeve doesn’t speak thru cait. I think he does often #but Cait’s got his own mind too!! #I have this like very elaborate idea of how it all works but when I try to write it. incomprehensible #someday I’ll phrase it right lmao #Cait sith #Reeve tuesti #tagging for my purposes and not #for the purpose of this showing up in the tag but if you read this far and wanna talk to me about them: go for it lol #sorry to my friends who have read my rants about this before lol #I just!!!! #sigh!

[acesammy]

While I do still think sam’s anti-Benny stance in the beginning of s8 is wildly out of character, it does make sense that Sam (in a season where all of his mistakes are consistently thrown at him) would be deeply jealous of Benny (blood sucking freak)

#Like I reiterate #/Sam on demon blood wasn’t killing people/ #and yet /he/ was sentenced to death for it #the nurse of course being /after/ Sam was sentenced to death #and /after/ Sam accepted that he was a monster that was gonna die anyways #may as well save the world #one nurse as collateral? Well that’s nothing #(bad stance and I do think that this is that moment of like. Yeah you did horrible things Sam. But if I’m fine w the demon blade???) #(Or well if /dean/ is fine with the demon blade?? Then this is really not different) #anyways I just woke up lol here’s dumb thoughts #Lea speaks #spn

[lion-buddy]

i love putting a bunch of work into something and then getting self conscious and not wanting to share. someone tell my brain to shut up

#bonk bonk bonk bonk stop!!! it!!!!!! #yes i put a lot of effort into it. yes it made me really happy to make. and yes im still too scared to share the things i write. we exist. #its the fear of being the only one who gets its. I get what im trying to say with it. but what if no one else does cuz i wrote it bad. #not trying to be self deprecating on main btw. read this in a silly tone pls. im just frustrated #bc i know this thought process is stupid and dumb and everyone i know is very nice. and yet </3 how do u get the little voice to Shut Up #at least i know its a piece that means a lot to me cuz if it wasnt i wouldnt be feelings this way lol

[good-beansdraws]

Anyway, after a long time of roasting Shidou's art I decided I couldn't just talk the talk, you know? So here are me and @igotbones 's attempts!

Low-effort art game: reblog and add your own :D

#we did it a while ago when the question was still fresh but i forgot to post #idk if its dumb but i thought a low effort doodle game could be fun adfgbh #i have. so so many wips. #i hope to get through a few this week but things have just been crazy lol #milgram #shidou kirisaki #mahiru shiina

[bbq-potato-chip]

does anyone else think that link is so short because getting the master sword at such a young age stunted him or is it just me

#I don’t know maybe this is dumb but #The weight of the sword weighs him down and he chooses not speak. I think it’s kind of represents how he represses himself #<- I really hope that this makes sense #Correct me if I’m erong #But in Oot link needed to go thru the whole sleep thing so that hee be old enough to carry the sword #But I think botw link had been using it since he was like twelve #Idk. Idk just throwing thoughts out there #Maybe I’ll write a more coherent post abt it #I’m not fluent in loz lore lol #Loz #botw #totk #I feel like I am on to something but idk how to articulate. Anyway it might a dumb idea. I dont know I’m bad at this kinda stuff

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

NOT TO BE DRAMATIC BUT FIRST 1K OF SUNLESS GROUND WRITTEN!!! a little bit:

She and Darren have been at the cabin for eight months. It belongs to a college friend of his—an arcing property flanked by evergreens and nothing more. She could lie to herself. Say she’s gotten used to waking every morning at yolky dawn in the bedroom she occupies alone. She’s gotten used to the scalding silence at midnight and gotten used to lighting the candlestick on the nightstand even in the middle of the day. The same instant peach oatmeal Darren keeps buying every time he treks out to the city because she said she liked it once. She can’t bring herself to tell him she can’t handle the flavour anymore, the way she’s gotten used to it and the way she’s gotten used to her hair getting longer, nearly touching her shoulders, the way she’s gotten used to her waxen face in the bathroom's uncovered mirror. She could lie. But nothing changes the truth even when she stays up all night, rocking back and forth, hoping something will. She made it out—no more running, no more hiding. It’s a good thing, and yet the prospect is so lonely, so frightening, that she sometimes considers walking into the woods until she makes it out the other side a woman who did not survive alone.

#REEVE POV!!!!!!! #holyyyy i thought I forgot to write with her and then it all came back #I love how beautiful and literary reeve's pov is just wait till we get to harrison's he's gonna be making sex jokes #ALSO I WROTE VIRTUALLY ALL OF THIS TONIGHT LMAOOO #i realize that i can just work on this concurrently with my other stuff because the writing is so dumb that i can handle that #tho actually i don't mean THIS writing is dumb this prose is fantastic LOL #that's more relevant for harrison's pov but in general the SV/SG brain is so different that it's not a hassle to write this and #multiple other things #also weird that this book is sunless ground because i've been used to seeing my sideblog username for like a year as that LOL #BUT I LOVE THE TITLE!! #also yolky is stolen from my changing states description <3 #i'm considering doing a 10k day for SG just to get the plot rolling a little bit LOL just like I did with SV! #maybe not that high but maybe at least 5k?? we'll see! #I AM NOT ABLE BODIED ANYMORE LIKE WHEN I DID THAT THE LAST TIME SOOO LOLLLL #sunless ground

[soranker]

What’s the biggest emotional gut punch you’ve ever gotten from a show?

AHH i wish i had a good answer for this but i havent watched a lot of shows lately and im wracking my brain to remember if i had a strong reaction like that to anything i've watched in the past... ive def watched sad stuff that hit me in the heart but not enough to feel like a gut punch......

BAHA ok this gonna sound predictable but fr when i got to the end of volume 10 of trigun maximum i stopped reading for a couple of days LMFAOO T_T maybe even a week. i just reread that same chapter over and over again for a while lol

#if i think of a better answer at some point later ill update this.... it would most likely be from a movie tho #i just dont have time to watch a ton of shows #OK QWAIT I JUST THOUGHT OF ONE. THIS IS GONNA SOUND SOOO DUMB THO LOLL #the end of kill la kill gets me every time just as it did the first time i watched it like 10 years ago #i know probably an insane pick for this kind of question lol #but the trope of knowing someone for a short amount of time -> them having a massive impact on your life -> and then parting ways forever #REALLY gets me #like intersecting lines.... to intersect only at one point and then diverge never to meet again.... #powerful stuff to me. OK IM DYING BC I THINK I PICKED THE WORST EXAMPLE FOR THIS JKHDFGSKJ BUT HOPE I GOT MY POINT ACROSS #i still love klk a lot tho. ... i need to expand my library of things ive watched KJAGHSDJ #yeahA HH oops i dont think i can think of a good answer ASJFDH

[bobzora]

is this a safe space. can i be honest and say the first time i played royal for a good bit i assumed that the car accident that killed kasumi was caused by akechi.

i think my thought process was: sojiro mentions an accident in the beginning when he didn't in the original -> sumi has a dead sister -> so the girl killed in the accident was probably her sister -> akechi caused every other vehicular incident in the game -> therefore akechi caused the crash that killed sumi's sister

#bobtalk #p5 spoilers #p5r spoilers #+ sojiro mentions the sumi accident like. when stuck in a traffic jam caused by the train accident. so that also #i wasnt dumb enough to believe that shido would want this random kid assassinated i guess i just thought she was collateral damage...? #like from the driver getting a shutdown/breakdown/whatever. shrug #anyway i figured out pretty quick by thirdsem at least that that wasnt a thing. lol #between the train & wakaba & the principal there was just kind of a theme happening

[sskk-manifesto]

(*・ω・*)b♪

#I'm a bit late but :) #Mmmhh lots of thoughts about this episode. Nothing really relevant though lol #I like it... Mostly. Well‚ I like Atsushi‚ and I like Atsushi screentime. #I always forget that there's actually a one week timeskip within the Guild arc #I think these chapters were generally better executed in the manga. #But even then it's just... #Why do the make the Guild / Fitzgerald so. dumb. Why do they make them act so wildly irrationally and at the protagonists' advantage #It really gives villain acting entirely mindlessly to make the plot advance and the heroes win. It's really sensless. #I mean especially when Atsushi yielded. Why didn't Fitzgerald take his offer. For real!! #For real. He had NOTHING to gain from proceeding with his plan. He already obtained for Atsushi and the ada to collaborate. #Now they are NEVER going to help him‚ and that's agreat loss for him. #And idk. i hear that little Tumblr post in my voice saying “why would you complain about characters acting irrationally! #Do people irl never act irrationally?” #And yeah I get Fitzgerald was frustrated for losing Mitchell and his fight with Hawthorne. Okay I understand. #But that's definitely too much. That's him acting downright stupid at the heroes' advantage and it's just pretty underwhelming to read? #That said. It's just general notes I'm not particularly annoyed because like. That's just b/s/d to you. Dumbing down the villains a second– #so the author can escape the trap they put themselves into. Very Marvel-esque move lol. #On that exact same note WHY WOULD LUCY HAVE THE DOLL. #The doll is the whole premise for your plan working why would you not protect it with everything 😭😭😭 #I'm not getting in the Lucy / Atsushi scene itself. I love Lucy but I swear every time that scene gets played a femminist dies #(it's me. I'm the femminist dying every time.) #Mmmhh a couple more things. I dislike the ost choice in the scene where Steinbeck is torturing Q it feels so out of place #And I really don't get what's the deal with the Hawthorne / Fitzgerald convo it's so confusing to me. Like it It looks like Hawtorne is– #blaming Fitzgerald for Mitchell's condition (both in health and for her family status) but... #Objectively neither of those things are Fitzgerald's fault? Idk maybe I just have very little media comprehension for this arc because– #a lot of things just seem to happen with no sense. But it's okay #Im complaining a lot lol but its mostly irrelevant things (or like with the dumbification of villains things I've learnt to live with lmao) #But the episode was generally nice. The animation this season is consistently very pretty. #random rambles