#just snake boi thoughts

[lemon-wedges]

When your beautiful wife makes his Special Anime Beef Stroganoff™

#solid snake #otacon #hal emmerich #otasune #the art of a lemon wedge #of course the reason hes giving him a smooch is to distract him long enough to let the pot burn #and theyre forced to either grab fast food or let dave throw a steak on the grill #i do think sunny was helping cause BOYS DONT KNOW STROGANOFF. and she sang the song the entire time!!!! #without fully grasping the war crimes shes committing #and otacon just thought he could trust anime girls

[johtodoll]

When your snakie needs head pats

#snake #ball python #reptiles #banana ball python #just a boi #no thoughts head empty

[raayllum]

Love as a Strength and Weakness in 5x08

Re: Callum drawing love from strength vs love never been an unequivocal good in TDP (written post-S4).

Let's talk, briefly, about love as a strength and a weakness in 5x08, as the episode highlights this dichotomy very well. To begin, we have Callum and Finnegrin's differing viewpoints on it, specifically:

C: See? So long as we protect each other, so long as we love each other, you can never control us.

F: All that talk about how love makes you stronger, but the second you see that elf girl in pain, you completely lost yourself.

And to a certain degree, they're both right. Callum's epiphany of "You don't control anything" is something that applies to both Callum and Finnegrin because it's the innermost truth of the arcanum they now both share.

Callum's love for Rayla allows him to be controlled, shown when he gives up the spell (and by doing dark magic).

But it's also what sets him free from Finnegrin's (immobilization) blood freezing spell. Love here is why Finnegrin is also ultimately unable to control him, too.

However, I want to talk more specifically about the hands in Finnegrin's Wake (yes, again, because there's still more to talk about) in regards to the epiphany scene in particular with more detail than I gave it in the linked meta a few lines above. Let's look at the framing, shall we?

When Finnegrin first gives Callum the rattle snake tail (a literal warning sign that Callum is goaded and then does crush out of desperation), we see Callum clasp his wrist, like a chain, and the shot of his palm open wide.

We get a similar open hand shot as he starts to connect to the Ocean arcanum, thereby showing his acceptance of being willing to use dark magic to save Rayla (and his loved ones) is indeed crucial to him unlocking the Ocean arcanum. Rayla is likewise highlighted because she was on the one tethered to this poem earlier on in the season (x2). Callum mimics the crushing of the slug as the final physical / metaphysical stage required for the magic to take hold.

And, rather symbolically, the dark storm we saw at first as well as the rain begins to fade. The light comes out and the chaos recedes. He's weathered the storm and come out drastically changed for it, but him unlocking the Ocean arcanum is strength and is a positive: it allows him to free himself. It brings back the light. It's tethered to Love.

But the episode doesn't end on a triumphant note, because it's not interested in easy answers or straight forward paths. Instead, it's interested in dualities and dark sides, and that Callum's love for her will unlock both great things - and terrible ones.

And so again, we return to the hand clasp - the metaphorical chain - because as much as love has given him strength and having Rayla in his life is worth it to Callum, it's still not without its complications ("Now you're back: that's kind of good, and it's kind of bad" / "We have to hold pain and love in our hearts at the same time"). She makes him strong and supports and loves him, but she's also his weakness and leaves him worryingly exploitable, if only to his own nerves and reservations.

And, y'know, probably Aaravos' plans, too.

#rayllum #theme: strength vs weakness #i would do anything for you #5x08 #mage boy #analysis series #snake boi callum #analysis #tdp #tdp meta #the dragon prince #subset: salvation and destruction #will put under a read more on request i just thought it was short enough #callum realizing he'll quite literally do anything in his version of a finale #it's giving claudia 2x09 leading to the s3 fuckery arc #except even more blatantly bc that was for her father and s2 is what gives hope she might choose her brother #and she Didn't lmao #yes i wrote this and cried

[the-dragon-girl-27]

I've had this as a WIP for weeks and decided to finally shut up and post it

anyway oh no i got into metal gear a surprise to nobody i went and drew the one final fantasy ass anime twink who lives in the world of old bearded dudes

bonus: this started as a sketchbook doodle before i decided to make it a whole thing

I also did the worlds most out of character thing and drew a dude with a beard the result is the exact level of quality you would expect from me attempting to draw a not anime looking man with a beard

#metal gear #metal gear solid #mgs #mgs2 #raiden metal gear #i still feel like this drawing is missing a little something but imma just post it already #looking at this i made raiden even more of a pretty boy than he already is oops #also unrelated but confession for years before i actually played mgs i thought raiden was pronounced ray-den please tell me i am not alone #anyway #solid snake #traditional art #below the read more

[sibillascribbles08]

People who followed me way back when I was posting VHHB may remember I had a personal AU where Donnie was raised by Holly Blue. Yeah my brain kind of blew up with it the other day, adding in Leo being raised by Bueford, the tension between Raph and Mikey being cranked up to ten, and a lot of other craziness

Anyway here's a doodle page.

Couple of other quick points

Donnie's full name in this AU is Belladonna, but Leo still calls him Donnie

Leo's name is just Leo, no longer form

Due to losing two children, Splinter is rather protective over Raph and Mikey and Raph being the big brother starts picking up on this as well, and Mikey finds it suffocating.

Leo and Donnie have known each other since they were toddlers and consider themselves to be cousins (they don't know they're related)

ID under the cut (it's a big one tho oh gosh)

[ID: A massive page of doodles, some colored and some not, for an AU of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Starting in the upper left corner is a two panel comic featuring an alternate design of Donatello. In the first panel he's holding a cigarette close to his mouth and attempting to light it. In the next panel, a voice from someone out of view shouts "Belladonna! Did you steal my cigarettes again!" Donnie drops the cigarette in surprise, and the antenna attached to the ear pieces he wears go straight up.

Just below it are a small doodle of Holly Blue, a mutant wasp, holding a baby Donatello who is reaching for her antenna. And a simple drawing of a shield bug.

To the right of it is a three panel comic. In the first panel is a drawing of Draxum with his mask still on, pointing with two fingers. He says, "Matter of fact, your eggs hatched on the same day." In the next panel is a simple drawing of Donatello and Leonardo. Leonardo is gasping with his arms out while Donatello just looks shocked. In the next panel Leonardo is holding Donatello by the suspenders and shaking him while shouting, "We've not only been brothers this whole time but TWINS?"

To the right of that is a simple drawing of Leonardo holding up a bagel and looking sympathetic while looking at Raphael who has giant tears in his eyes. Leonardo says, "Can I offer you a bagel in this trying time?"

Below that is a drawing of Michelangelo pointing, his hand larger due to perspective, and glaring sharply as he shouts, "I'm 13 I'm basically an ADULT."

In the bottom left is a drawing of Leonardo, his fists on his hips and smiling with his tongue sticking out. Rather than his usual outfit he has a pale yellow bandanna on his head, an off-white tank top, and blue shorts. The tank top has a logo for Bueford's Bagels on it, the design of an ouroborus but puffed up like pastry. The shorts feature the same yellow stripes on his legs.

To the right of this drawing are two small doodles, one of Leonardo hugging Bueford, a snake yokai, and another of a baby Leonardo biting into a bagel that's almost bigger than he is.

In the bottom right corner is a colored drawing of Michelangelo from the back. He's looking back just a bit and glaring at the floor, his eyes in shadow. He's clutching his left arm with his right hand. On the back of his shell is a hazy image of Shredder's face with a crack near the center of it.]

#sibillasart #sibillasocs #rottmnt #rottmnt oc #mom holly au #'what the hell happened to mikey' uuuuh look #he thought it was a good idea at the time #separated au #leo is bread boy #also raised by a snake so he sticks his tongue out a lot #I may draw like one other thing for this au but it will continue to just live in my head #blorbos

[takiki16]

A Fine Chain

UPDATE: Chapter 14/?

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Beta: @gallifreyburning

Relationships: Jupiter Jones/Caine Wise

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Light Dom/sub, Power Imbalance, Royalty, Slavery, Collars, Leashes, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Don’t copy to another site, Dark

Summary: Caine Wise, disgraced ex-Skyjacker and convicted criminal, is suddenly inducted into the service of the enigmatic Queen Nea-Seraphi, mysterious new Recurrence and puzzle to the Entitled social circle. While figuring out the boundaries of his new station, worrying about his old commander, and nursing old wounds from his court martial, Caine finds himself slowly being drawn into the confidence of his royal employer. What could Her Majesty possibly want with a defective splice?

In which the queen is in peril, royal wardrobes are dismantled, and Caine experiences some tribulations.

The wonderful @zahnie has made a PLAYLIST for this fic!!!! Go check it out immediately!

#a fine chain #jupiter ascending #ja fic #jupiter ascending fic #caine wise #jupiter jones #y'all have NO IDEA how petty and disappointed I felt when I couldn't find a better name for the Bee Gun (TM) #like...they ALREADY used the best name so i had to come up with another name #but anything involving venom is just not specific enough to bees and feels more associated with snakes in fiction #and looking at all the weird anatomy charts was giving me very yonic vibes for some reason #however this is nowhere near the weirdest rabbit hole i have gone down for fic research #not even the weirdest rabbit hole where the end result was a single line or words #AND ALSO IT TOOK FOURTEEEEEEEN CHAPTERS for caine to even be able to verbalize the fact that he SHOULDN'T BE HAVING THESE THOUGHTS #i'm so proud of the Good Boy for hitting that milestone. I shall be Hurrying Him Along This Path don't you worry #part of the fun of pacing is that I realize it doesn't seem like a long time to ME bc i'm actually very far ahead of where i'm posting #but to the READERS it will feel like a while and to CAINE he doens't get to do time skips like we do #so the pacing isn't as wonky as I fear it is...i hope #everyone thank gallifreyburning bc TRULY...without her this would not exist

[pkmn-smashorpass]

I'll adopt your snake if you don't want it (no worries I'm not gonna smash it) (your bf has no say in this)

-🦀

YOU CANT HAVE HIM

#I will fight #he might just sit there and be dramatic all day #but I still love him #okay but since you mentioned him #another fun fact #so my bf had this snake long before me #and he thought it was a girl snake #and it had a girl name #but when he found out it was a boy snake #he literally gave up on names #the snakes name is Snakey #literally Snakey #which is hilarious #anyway #snake #ask #anon #I also just sit and be dramatic all day #expect I have a job now #but still #crab anon #pkmn smash or pass #pokemon smash or pass #personal life

[bardofavon]

the ballad of songbirds & snakes album is going to obliterate my spotify wrapped

#i thought the fall out boy album sweep this year was bad #but i just listened to the song she sings with the snakes like 15 times in a row #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[finicky-finnick]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes + Catching Fire parallels

YOU GUYS. Lightning struck the tree in the Quarter Quell’s arena at midnight. The victors were running around the woods, yelling for each other, trying to reunite and meet back up at the tree at midnight.

Just like in the The Hanging Tree song i- 

#legit just noticed this #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #catching fire #The Hunger Games #tbosas #i'll be making a longer post about all the parallels i noticed because BOY are there many #my thoughts #the hanging tree #tbosas spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers

[yr-obedt-cicero]

“Once, he [William S. Hamilton] held a snake in his hands and chased a friend around the lawn of his family home, the Grange, in New York. The back-woods near the Hudson River behind the Grange must have made an ideal playground for a young boy who was in his element when surrounded by nature.”

Happy late birthday to William Stephen Hamilton! I was drawing a little comic based off of this childhood story of his and saw his birthday was soon so i guess it can be his birthday gift,, it's just a little late because I was super busy this week.

Bonus comic;

#My boy just wanted a pet snake 😔 #The comic is entirely a fictional scenario I thought of as a joke #Anyway first hamkid comic woooo #amrev #american history #american revolution #william stephen hamilton #william hamilton #james alexander hamilton #john church hamilton #hamilchildren #hamilton family #hamilton children #hamilton kids #hamilkids #my art #art #comics

[thetrapperstrap]

I’ve seen people say the lyric change from “What’s left for me in this broken house” to “What’s left for me and my broken heart” is to reflect the change of Blitzø going from an escape to Stolas having genuine care for him and while I agree that is one way to take it, I took it a different way.

Personally, I read the lyrics of “What’s left for me and my broken heart” as an admission to already having a broken heart because Stolas, since the beginning has had depression. It was implied (in my opinion) that at some point during the series he stopped taking his medication due to Blitzø’s influence on his life. We have seen Stolas grow more confident, more independent, and more assertive since the beginning of the show and this is largely due to the relationship he’s formed with Blitzø. One person can do a world for one’s self esteem and confidence in both good and bad ways. For Stolas this has mostly been a good thing.

He has finally gotten some control over what he wants for his life. He’s broken off his marriage, most notably. He’s discovering what he truly likes sexually. He’s mending his relationship with his daughter. He’s putting in work to make his life more his own instead of just what was forced upon him.

All of this largely a result of that first night with Blitzø and also the continuing of spending time with him. Blitzø was at first the event that caused his life to change (through the thrill of pleasure) and then the person who has become Stolas’s drive to make it better yet still, it’s not enough.

It’s not enough to just have things change. It doesn’t make years of abuse and torment go away. We see that with Blitzø most notably with the fact that he is still so guarded and views so lowly of himself despite caring for Stolas as well.

The same is true with Stolas. When he is faced with the possibility of losing Blitzø we see him go back to his medication. We see him have that confidence that Blitzø unintentionally gave him (through the sting of pain) with finally standing up to Stella properly but we also see him immediately collapse after (whereas before he stood tall and laughed in joy and relief). It’s a fickle thing.

With or without Blitzø his heart is broken. He is depressed. However, with Blitzø it seems to not stay around as much, he seems to have hope for a future that he truly yearns for or at least he used to. We see Stolas smile most often with Blitzø or when he’s thinking about him. There are several examples that are exceptions but for as much as he see him standing up for himself while he’s surrounded by people who have abused him we also see him in a state of unease.

Now before people put words in my mouth, I’m not saying that Blitzø’s job is to help with Stolas’s depression or that he’s somehow a cure. What I am saying though is that Stolas does see him as a light source in the dark, a moon if you will allow me to be so on the nose. What Stolas seems to be forgetting is that the moon’s light is a reflection of the stars’ and even without the moon there is still plenty of light.

Stolas, in fact, has been represented as stars as well as Octavia. He has light in other forms but Blitzø has been the brightest one in terms of attention grabbing. However, Stolas doesn’t seem like he’s realized that all the potential of confidence just had to be shown to him through someone else for him to be able to grab it for himself because Blitzø’s confidence has been false.

Blitzø and Stolas are just as similar as they are different. It’s both what makes them work and what holds them from each other. They’re both broken individuals in a sense and they could both help each other heal if they’d just open up to it. Would they heal each other completely? No, absolutely not but they could help each other begin to mend in many ways.

So, “what’s left for me and my broken heart if I cannot have you?” A lot. A lot is left for him and a lot of it would be a struggle alone to have that confidence for himself and have it not be found in the pain or the pleasure of Blitzø which is really the main times we’ve seen him have it so far.

#I’ve thought waaaaay too much about this little lyric change #Stolas #blitz #Blitzø #just look my way #stolas x blitz #blitz x stolas #media analysis #the snake boy hisses #long post

[colecassiidy]

Thinkin bout the kid wanting to go west, wanting to pick up a security job, seedling instincts that BW allowed to flourish unabashedly to the skillsets he'd scraped together surviving as some street urchin

#ooc;; mun barks #The way it fell away from him bc he became so fond of ashe - and by extension DL; the way he really didn't think twice abt it #how in another universe he meets gabriel reyes the detective as a fledgling recruit/cadet in LA and learns to protect people #how this would probably all fall apart anyway due to rats and inside jobs and it's the splintering of ovw just w another face #or maybe he makes it to a rural town and takes up sheriff-hood #and yet how there seems to be an inevitability that this will fall apart on him somehow - through some disillusionment - #How some snake will always slither into an eden bc #this is ultimately a small whim of a then-15 year old boy that thinks maybe his bloody hands could do good #(But then - instead - they just got bloodier thru DL) #Thinking abt him saying he'd like to own land one day and work it up to something to be proud of but the way this one #Carries more complications to his tendencies to always be uprooted either by his own volition or outside circumstances #The way he is married to disruption and that This is even less likely to ever be in his cards #but not bc he recognizes this pattern of dispossession but bc he never thought he could accrue the finances #and the way this small little want falls further and further away from him and #how he is so certain that he's going to end up dead in a ditch someplace somewhere someday #it's the way there's these small things of childhood sincerity that managed to survive n persist thru the horrors #but are then proceeded to be strangled out of him n it is a slow suffocation #Thinking abt him thinking abt him thinking abt him

[raayllum]

like once again I am positing that Callum is delightfully terrifying

#broyals #s3 #snake boi callum #3x09 #ZERO REGRET ZERO REMORSE HE'S LOVING IT HE'S LOVING THE ZAP HANDS #i've always thought this parallel between them was interesting as well as illustrated their differences so well #from the very start to the very end #arc 1 #parallels #mine #last related post for the night i swear i just #brrr love him so much #like on the one hand harrow & sarai would be so proud of him #on the other hand they'd be like 'callum. Honey. u good?' if not disapproving #from sarai a lil bit #JUST SOMETIMES #even just when his temper comes out with ez #now i wonder if callum created the jerkface dance bc sarai & amaya had a similar ritual #tag ramble #headcanons

[neon-angels-system]

only one 999 ending to go (true end (+ coffin end by technicality)). anyway.

#note: I am playing the DS version via emulator! #gave in to temptation and looked at one (1) thing on the wiki I thought wouldn't spoil me #...I got spoiled again #my guess about the coffin was completely wrong btw #I thought the third dead was in there. but no. they were dead. #trying to specify who I mean without spoiling it for others lol #anyway I still love Ace's design but Snake has just risen up in my favourites #Santa. I like Santa. good character. great design. one of my faves. enough said. #Clover. oh boy. her design's cute. there's a weird implication made by Ace at one point but I'm ignoring it #but there's not much to say about her? like yup. Snake & Clover's connection sure is strong #but Clover doesn't get much development outside of it. I like her but she's not making my faves list #Junepei himself? he's not a blank protagonist. I like that. however he's not that far off from being a blank protagonist #he has some good moment. his design is eh. that's all #June... I've been spoiled about her #she's nice & I love her design! her and Junepei's relationship fleshes both of them out a lot #I also find the constant interruption of the flow for June and Junepei's special romantic tension time really fucking annoying #they're cute! I get it! I get that it's plot relevant! I think that these scenes highlight Junepei's flaws! #but also shut upppp about her hair smelling good. I don't Care #they do have some good banter at points though #Seven has actually really surprised me - I thought I was going to hate him but he keeps becoming even more likeable #Lotus... I think we're supposed to think she's a terrible person. and she definitely has her moments #but although she is selfish and values her self-preservation above everything else #I think her motivations explain a lot of that #wrote these out of order then reordered them to fit the number order. was just feeling silly goofy #to finish off the cast for good measure... contestant 9 sucks in all of the ways. his design is bad. his actions are realistic #but that entire sequence feels like some kind of ableism to me. it just really rubbed me the wrong way

[subsequentibis]

wait if eva literally wasnt even one of the defectors to begin with and wasnt coordinating with adam that means ocelot just didnt show up for the scheduled rendezvous. #1 flake. king of dodging responsibility. tag two blokes who do fuck all

#ignore me #ibis plays mgs #KIDDING. if i was him and my spy partner got ganked i'd lay low too #like he probably thought someone was onto him and he had more things going on than just getting snake out alive #presumably the american can handle himself like a big boy. meanwhile ocelot's got a whole squad following him #and volgin to deal with. god help him.

[dotster001]

Guys! It's happening! 🎉🥳

#ikemen prince #just some thoughts #finally snake man lore #I've been waiting and waiting #all i need is him and clavis and rio and yves and I'll be happy #my perfect boys