#more than what we've got

[aethersea]

it is funny though how kids' shows are so so so careful about death, no one's ever killed except MAYYYYBE the big bad, all those random side characters are fine, here have a quick shot of them before we leave just so you know they really did survive that 50-foot drop into a stormy sea,

and meanwhile kids' books nearly all agree that it's not an adventure until it has a body count.

#to be clear I don't mean the heroes killing people #that's frankly a separate question #but bad guys come with collateral damage #even if they're nameless extras who are never described as more than a body in the street #and quite often the friends the hero meets along the way #will not all make it to the end #edit: actually I do also mean the heroes killing people #atla being so so so careful to show random mooks surviving and having the fire nation take prisoners all the time #vs animorphs going 'yeah we kill people. yeah we've got ptsd. what of it' #vs that one vivian vande velde book I read where the protagonist is really really stressed #about creeping up on a mook with a rock to bash him on the head #bc *what if she kills him?* she's just a teenager she doesn't know how brain trauma works she doesn't want to be a killer #to be clear animorphs and this book are on the same page

[starcurtain]

Oh, so when IIIII make the "mutual" joke it's delusional, but when Hoyo makes it--

(Actually, since that Youtube end card tried to gatekeep it, here's Ratio's tsuntsun sweatdrop as he tries to think up a good excuse for going on TV to talk about some guy he's definitely not "friends" with:)

#honkai star rail #aventurine #dr. ratio #ratiorine #aventio #raturine #guys I think #I think we just got served actual ship tease #like very #very #very intentional #ship tease #HOYO PERCEIVES US #I'm kind of shocked #this was significantly more blatant *wink wink nudge nudge* than I ever thought this ship would get #I don't know what to do with all this power we've been given... #I'm telling you guys #they're going to be married before Bronya and Seele can even get that first date #HSR devs out here like “And they were gay” #the Genshin writer responsible for Alhaitham and Kaveh is quaking with anger #Youtube

[blood-starved-beast]

Big fan of how Farcille as a ship is undercut by Marcille's issues with aging/death and her own elven biases and Falin's issues with undercutting her own autonomy to mask and the challenges faced by trying to break away from that mindset. Especially how these two facets of these characters ultimately serve as a blockage for the development of a legitimate romantic relationship. It's an interesting development in a ship that by-and-by is pretty vanilla all things considered (dark magic aside). The fact that Ryoko Kui portays that level of complexity in this relationship not only highlights her mastery of character development and worldbuilding but also is a great example of how something "vanilla" can be made complex or interesting if done in a way that is interesting.

#Farcille #marcille donato #Falin Touden #Dungeon meshi #like in any other fandom I would like this ship but not really Think about it all that much #but the fact we've got this nuance in this one #that's the good Shit right there #and I really like the idea of Falin after some years of Finding Herself and coming to terms with who she is and what she wants #returning to Melini and deciding she Does Want That Elf Actually #and does an absolute Power Move of a Courting Ritual #And it would be 1000 times more interesting than simply Farcille immediate dating post canon and happily ever after The End #especially if Marcille is completely swept off her feet/caught wrong-footed about it #Cause I mean it took Donato 17 years to romance Marcille's Mom #It Will take time for Farcille is what I'm saying

[sentientstump]

pov: you're a chef

#''we've got a personal chef now! 😄'' what a boss #implications are always more colourful and contrasty than the game LOL #vintagebeef #artstump #hermitcraft fanart #hermitcraft s10 #i finally got some free time YAY \o/ #i wanted to draw this since that episode dropped.. it feels like a long time #hopefully its more free time from now on. we keep hoping💪🏼🔥

[a-hearts-a-heavy-burden]

Mean people make me sad so here is Joey Batey being himself aka adorable, nerdy, precious, beautiful, talented, brilliant boy.

#Joey Batey #British Boy #Pretty Boy #Handsome #Hairy Boy #He's got so much fucking hair #We've an accord #if you ever touch or harm him #please rest assured #while you might not fear a man #to a FANDOM by the end you'll kneel and plea #'Cause he's more than what the haters make him seem #Indie #indie alternative music #The Amazing Devil #vocalist #writer #musician #linguistic #Jaskier #Julian Alfred Pankratz #Gorgeous Gorgeous Boys #stay away from social media for their mental health #and dare eco conscious #kind and caring and brave

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

obligatory rock murder mention

#i think someone said earlier that they had kind of a lot of mind control stories 'back in those days' #dont remember where #but now im trying to think if we have a lot of them in new who #and if theres something to that in terms of like societal preoccupations #but i guess im just gonna have to...........continue my classic who watch for that and make notes #what do we have in new who? satan comes to mind #midnight but i feel like thats..........a very particular kind it's not like the hypnosis thing you see here #or with the master #or i think sarah jane in the hand of fear? #maybe its JUST because they had the master around who kept hypnotising people tbh like that seems possible #the unquiet dead but thats ghosts more than mind control #i feel like we've got more bodies being taken over than minds in new who? #like the gas mask thing. midnight like i said. 42 with martha and 10? #love and monsters. idiots lantern. the vashta nerada. that guy who got turned into an ood. the masters thing in end of time #11 and the flesh. the god complex perhaps could be mind control? but feels different to me too #but i also havent watched really a lot of classic who so i dont know the vibe of their supposedly frequent mind control #town called mercy. asylum of the daleks. crimson horror. journey to the centre of the tardis? cybermen #it all feels more about the hijacking of the body than the mind or will or whatever #would be intersting to actually look into #if i continue my classic who watch #biggest mind control in new who might have been those mummy monks in pyramid/lie of the land?

[justmenoworries]

This is gonna sound beyond weird, and it's gonna be egg on my face if the show doesn't go in the direction that I think it will with Vox but...

Is it just me or are there several paralells between Vox and Angel?

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel meta #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin angel dust #I was listening to 'poison' again and I guess the brainworms started #bc yeah on the surface angel and vox are different as can be #but some of the lyrics in 'poison' I felt could be applied to vox too? #'I got so good at being untrue I got so good at tellin' you what you want to hear' Vox's job is being untrue #and putting up a facade so the sinners in hell will buy what the vees are selling #he's become good at talking val down and saying just the right thing to make sure val doesn't ruin anything #'any way you want me baby that's the way you got me baby' #as we've seen in 'stayed gone' vox will change format literally from one second to another to appeal to more sinners #in a way both angel and vox are sell-outs dependent on valentino to keep afloat #yeah vox has more power than angel #but as alastor implies in 'stayed gone' a good chunk of that power comes from velvette and valentino #where would he be without them?

[justarandomhelluvablog]

having thoughts about how Husk actually has very little left to redeem bc he started his journey of self-change before even coming to work at the hotel, but at the same time redemption isn't even his goal- he ain't even aiming for heaven, he just wanted to be a better person and maybe now with friends and especially Angel, who he supports so much and wants to see succeed, maybe now he has a reason to be a better person

#hazbin hotel #husk #warning I am about to ramble in these tags O7 I have a ridiculous amount of thoughts about this cat bird man #thinking about that word of god from vivzie that Husk is actively fighting his gambling addiction in hell #which besides the pilot we've only seen his gambling mentioned in the past #and idk if it's just because they had to focus on other things but we don't see him drinking as heavily as he did in the pilot #and first few episodes. like he actually wants to be sober #we know he used to be an overlord and we assume that comes with all the terrible overlord qualities #(aka there's no such thing as a good slave owner) #but the Husk we know now has been on both sides of this chain #he knows and respects boundaries. consent is super important to him. this feels like a moral you can't really have to be an overlord #he also sees everyone as more than just what they can do for him specifically. he gets NOTHING out of being Angel's friend #he gets NOTHING out of defending Angel and Cherri during the fight with the Exorcists #he knows when to open up and who to open up to and trust. and he extends a hand to someone in need. someone he ain't even close to- #and if it hasn't changed he is trying to beat his own vices despite not even being a guest of the hotel. he's staff. he doesn't HAVE to #participate in their activities or try to change. he was dragged into this #but dammit he does it anyway #(also if he is still trying to beat his gambling addiction I wonder if the pilot was a relapse. hm) #anyway ig what im trying to say is husk isn't a guest at the hotel but plays the role of a guide for the guests bc he's already #got a very strong and *GOOD* set of morals considering they're in hell #like his level of morals we've only seen /explicitly/ shown in hellborn. and yeah consent and boundaries is rock bottom even for Earth #but they're in hell so somehow the bar manages to be even fucking lower than that so I consider it a win #ALSO THE FACT THAT HE STOOD BETWEEN ANGEL & CHERRI AND THE EXORCISTS??? this mf is willing to DIE for these people #I am 100% sure that if Husk's soul didn't belong to Alastor he would already be redeemed #we don't know what he did in life and we don't know how bad he was as an overlord but we know who husk is /now/ #and that person is a pretty damn good guy #he might have some work to do sure but he's already at least started his redemption before the show even began and #we're just seeing the tail end of it #god damn I really rambled in these tags i am so sorry #I just have so many thoughts about him

[beedreamscape]

My crack theory for ATN is that John will use Kiriona to preserve the sun (and the nine houses) by transferring the 'godhood' to her, which is why he didn't resurrect her in a regular body but in an immortal one, also why he's been flaunting her as his heir tower prince yadda yadda, so he can go fuck off and become mortal again and live the rest of his days on earth, frying that bacon Tamsyn talked about.

The tension of the book will either be him failing in doing that or succeeding and now they have the job to turn Kiriona mortal again.

With this also fulfilling the generational ructions she talks about.

If anything, John is crafty, and it'd be foolish of us to think he doesn't have a plan, what that plan is gonna try to achieve is where I fall flat, but we know the first step has been completed: the Tomb is open and Alecto is free (and if we consider those dreams are his actual connection to Alecto, he might've known about Harrow's soul swap and getting her back was also part of the plan).

#listen i love john and i support his wrongs #if i was him and saw the perfect scapegoat out of the most stressful and unfulfilled immortality. i'd take it and run with it #kiriona doesn't love him. and with what we've got so far idk if he loves her. neither of them is much to blame though #they're both in some of the shittiest moments of their lives having lost people they cared more than each other #i think they both care for each other in some level but love is yet to be achieved between them #anyway #alecto the ninth #atn theories #atn speculation #tlt #the locked tomb #john gaius #kiriona gaia #also whatever wedding we get it's gonna be weird af like somebody will be at gunpoint somebody will die

[vroomian]

So not only did tv-head bag Masa, he bagged Ue too?

Does Lucifer find out?

Whoever Masa loves, Ue loves. When Ue calls Masa its heart, it’s really really not exaggerating.

#you've got questions we've got answers #think of Ue as a sentient sensation of hunger and starvation #it doesn’t have any emotions of its own! #it uses masa’s heart mind and humanity to experience more than what is capable of on its own #black hole au #bbp #it loves masa more than even its own desire to eat. ue is masa is ue. there’s no difference in its mind #j

[thelaurenshippen]

may the fourth be with all my morally ambiguous/sometimes-serves-the-role-of-villain-but-is-actually-my-poor-little-meow-meow glup shittos

#star wars #to me they are perfect #we've got: #extremely cool sith lords #imperial loyalists except haha what if not...unless? #and night sisters I would let murder me #(okay okay I KNOW darth maul is more straight ahead villain than all of them) #I just think he's neat #reva sevander #darth maul #eli vanto #crosshair #asajj ventress #merrin #if you are unfamiliar with these characters #reva and crosshair are the epitome of poor little meow meow to me #darth maul is very much “i could fix him but what's wrong with him is way better” #merrin is 'i'd let her step on me' #and ventress and eli are both 'my wife is a bitch and I like her so much' #hope this helps #lauren feels things

[saturntheday]

matthew, please just give us the 3 hour version of rwrb already

I want it like yesterday

#rwrb #amazon prime we know you have it #give it to me #ugh #someone start a petition #3hour rwrb petition #i will sign #who knows what all they've deleted so far #like #we've gotten 112 minutes of the movie #3 hours is 180 minutes #that's like #68 minutes of deleted footage #we only got two deleted scenes so far #there's still more than an hour of deleted footage #GIMME MORE UGH

[hirazuki]

I'm an idiot and completely forgot that the only thing I was waiting on for a Maeglin cosplay was a longsword, which... I've now had for a month ^^;

SO threw together a quick costest for the lad today. Mostly pleased, though there are a few things I want to adjust; and I need to figure out if the reason his eyeliner/eyeshadow color isn't showing up properly is because it's too dark or because of this particular lighting/phone camera setup (I decided on dark blue for him, but it's not showing here the way it is in person).

Also, with thin clothing like this, compression bra/binding doesn't cut it for me, and I wear my silicone torso to change up how the fabric drapes on me -- so I wore it today, to make sure my clothes still fit with it on (as these are just my daily clothes lmao). Aaand, since I already went to the trouble of wearing it (it is a huge pain in the ass to take on/off), I figured might as well take some fun photos too -- enjoy, under the cut! XD

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[Well, there were fun photos but tumblr won't make this post visible to y'all if I include them so T_T It was literally just shirtless + sword, good grief.]

Edit: I added them via a reblog, which you guys should be able to view below!

#maeglin #silmarillion #tolkien #cosplay #hira cosplays maeglin #it is still wayyy too warm for running around on location in the torso so #prob have to wait another month or so to shoot him #but he's ready! :D #i have no idea where to hold a photoshoot for him though #i'm shooting both his parents in the woods so i think i'd prefer an indoor location for him to change it up #ideally something that recalls gondolin #but i don't think there's architecture like that around here?? #we've got some old mansions that are available for booking shoots in but they're more of a dark tudor aesthetic #than what i normally picture when i think of gondolin #i guess i could take him out to the mountains; do a '10 photos taken before disaster' shoot lmao #no but if any of you have ideas/suggestions for an appropriate location i'm all ears! #drop it in a comment; reblog tags; ask; dm; whatever :D

[politemagic]

submitting my first project for review today at the new job, would appreciate some good vibes & maybe some prayers that i don't launch myself out of a window instead

#people always like my work more than i think they will but i'm genuinely so nervous bc they gave me a VERY important first project #and the video i have to work with is.... not great thanks to a pair of IDIOTS who don't seem to understand how cameras work #but i think i made the best with what we've got!!!! and it's just a draft anyways. it'll be fine!!!!! #<- not me trying to encourage myself lmaoooooooooooo #it just feels so good to be editing again. premiere pro my beloved i have MISSED YOU!!!!!!!! #em's ponderings

[eddis-not-eeddis]

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#i don't really want to make a whole post about it because it was a very personal and very miserable time for me #but genuinely #the thing that got me wanting to move on again and LIVE after my life plans all fell apart last year #was sitting down and very seriously thinking about the kind of woman i want to be when i'm 70 #i hit that thing that a lot of people in their mid-twenties are hitting right now #where it feels like we've already wasted everything and not only are we failures now but we will always BE failures until we die #but right now i'm still in my twenties #and when i thought about what a good lifespan looked like to me #70-ish seems about right #and what do i want to have when i'm 70 #what skills will be useful and beyond that #what skills will be fun #i had gotten into a mindset of “too late too late” #learning to draw #or sing #or dance #or fix a car #or ride a motorcycle #they all felt like learning NOW would be pointless because *melodramatically* aLL my YoUtH HaS bEEn WaStEddd #but unless God has another plan i'm not going to die in my twenties #i'll likely live many more decades #my life probably isn't even half-way over yet #what do i want to be when i'm 70? #it doesn't matter that i don't know everything yet #i have more than four decades to work on it #that's more than the entirety of the life i've already lived #and yeah #i spent five years at a dead end job that finally drove me almost to a breakdown #but even that wasn't a waste #i saved enough to go to school and i learned a lot while i worked there

[thedreadvampy]

how I announce a positive COVID test to my household:

#red said #HEY FRIENDS BAD NEWS. it's a COVID!!!! #over the last 2 years the chat has been named #plague house #unplague house #replague house #un-replague house #re-replague house #un-re-replague house #and now this #that's Aimee's COVID then me and Sam then Aimee again now me again #we name it unplague celebratorily whenever we're done quarantining #this may seem like a lot of cases of COVID but in fairness #a) 3 of them occurred during the period where Aimee was working at the test centre. although i don't think that's what caused me and Sam's #cause my colleague in the borders went down the same time as me a few days after we met up down there #so i think we both got it at that cafe #and also b) 2 of them happened after people largely stopped testing regularly so all I'm saying is. #i don't think we've had it more than most but i do think between the 3 of us we've stayed pretty good at testing #and we keep track in the chat cause we quarantine separately and thus far have never dealt with a situation where all of us have COVID