#never touch them

[arggghhhsstuff]

something about the spider-verse and dimensions and how tragic they really are (originally from a comment on ao3)

the worst part about that dimension thing is that they can never be together for too long. they can visit, sure, maybe spend the night somewhere, but they'll always have to go back. each dimension needs its spider-man, after all. they will never be one big family. they don't belong here; even their cells know that.

it's just so heartbreaking to think about. like. leave for too long and you'll have nothing to return to, nothing but dust. you have to go home, to go back. you have to fight, because if you don't no one will. so go home and fight, child, blood on your hands and tears in your eyes. because that is your destiny. your purpose. clenched fists and clenched teeth, always tense, always hurting, always fighting. go home; you do not have a choice. no matter how terrible home is, that is the only one you'll ever have. you cannot leave; you have nowhere to go.

#might turn this into a fic #if i find the energy and a semblance of a plot #but this has always fascinated me #you're not alone; there are others just like you out there #but you can never reach them #never touch them #never hold them #there is someone that understands exactly what you're going through and could ease your pain but you're not allowed to see them. ever. #or i guess you can but if you do your world might be destroyed in your absence #everything you fought for for so long #destroyed. just because you wanted to be held #how fucked up is that? #um anyways #spider verse #across the spiderverse #spider man #alternate dimensions #cam thoughts #cam speaks

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

#imagine you're a boy who's going to die. you're in love with the girl you've been watching from afar. you know your fate. #you just want to help her‚ but then there's the announcement and she's here in front of you‚ kissing you‚ risking her life for you and you #think‚ i could live and i could love. you think she loves you when she hands you the berries‚ when she puts them in her mouth. #then you both survive and you go back home and nothing is real anymore. you have nothing. no family. no friends. no love. just an empty #house. a drunk for a neighbor. the love of your life walking into somebody else's arms. you think‚ i survived the games. i could survive #this. and you also think‚ i should've bit down on those berries‚ should've felt the juice burst before i died. #and then the third quarter quell announcement rings in your ears and you think‚ she will live and i will die as i should have in the first #place. the girl you love kisses you on the beach and somewhere you heart stirs and your mind revolts and you savor every touch she has ever #given to you‚ in front of the cameras and off. because you are a tribute and you are always being watched and snow's presence looms and #you think‚ i know she cares. but you get taken. you get drugged. you get tortured‚ your mind altered. the girl is a mutt‚ a murderer. she's #everything you despise‚ your mind stirs. your heart revolts. you gain more awareness but cannot distinguish reality from fiction and you #have never known katniss' love. the war ends. you heal. you come home. you plant primrose for her. years down the line‚ you grow in love #more than you thought possible. but some days‚ you cannot tell fiction from reality so you ask the love of your life‚ you love me. #real or not real? and she says‚ real‚ and kisses you. #and you sigh and kiss her back and revel in this. a home. a life. a love. #lit #the hunger games #everlark #otp: real or not real? #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #text #tais toi lys #thgpost

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god. #and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name. #it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable. #but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god. #so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything. #“give me your heart.” #“my god. it had always been yours.” #comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

[reineydraws]

i dont have a caption for you lol i'll let shanks's heart eyes speak for themselves 🫶

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#mishanks #akataka #dracule mihawk #hawkeyes mihawk #shanks #akagami no shanks #red haired shanks #one piece #one piece fanart #incorrect one piece quotes #op fanart #i have accidentally signed up for too much to draw as lesurely as i have been lol soz 🙏 #but i noticed my blog got taken off the mishanks tag's top blog list which clearly means i havent posted enough abt them recently LOL #comic #op comic #shanks: no u dont understand. he only calls me by my first name when he's feeling soft and he would never let anyone else touch his face #especially like that from behind! and first thing in the morning? anyone else would find themselves without a hand. #i call my angel all these lovely pet names and in return he lowers all his walls and i love him 🥰🥰🥰 #(mihawk on the side is feeling extremely exposed lol) #(but also fond 🥰 he loves him back so much too!!!)

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[spaceistheplaceart]

right next to me yet so far away

#you ever think about how no matter what gordon will never be able to interact with his friends in the way they can interact with eachother #can never touch them. never hug them. never share a drink. #aough #hlvrai #gordon feetman #benrey #tommy coolatta #dr coomer #bubby hlvrai #hlvrai bubby #op art #this is post game btw but gordos hasnt learned how to take off suit yet lolol

[cherrirui-official]

I hope u guys don't mind me posting these au doodles while I work on things ahaha

I also gave JD slightly longer hair in these doodles as a funny haha but I don't think it's funny anymore he looks genuinely good with his hair like that ahahaha I hope you're not mad at me for changing his au design a bit

#first of all ahem DONT TAG THIS AS SHIP OR WHATEVER!!! ILL THROW ROCKS AT YOU!!!!! BITCH!!!!!!! #troIlcest (or whatever you call yourselves idk) DONT TOUCH my SHIT! Ty :] anyways... #For context I like to hc that when he was younger Bruce would always have JD brush his hair #and like... whenever lil Bruce was upset it would help calm him down i think ahhauysgjiodk do u guys see the vision?? #and since it's my au i can make reality whatever i want it to be sooooo :] #I like to imagine that it still helps Bruce calm down even tho they're older now.. Big bro brushing his lil bros hair to soothe him UUGH #Let JD be a good older brother pleeease #also gave JD flowers in his hair too bc he deserves them me thinks... Now him and Bruce are matching!!! #i dont have any specific flowers in mind for the ones in their hair i just picked a color for the flowers that looked pretty and ran with i #also saying it again i love love LOOOOVE the crayon tool in mspaint using it to make gradients is so!!!! UUUGHUHHH!!!! /pos #the pattern on JD's jacket fur will never be consistent shhhhh #trolls #trolls band together #john dory trolls #trolls john dory #bruce trolls #trolls bruce #beach bros au #cherris canvas #I made that last image btw #everytime i saw that screenshot of jd it made me think of the spongebob scene where its a pov of flats waking up #and the first thing he sees is spongebob waiting for him with flowers in his hand and smiling

[nevereclipse]

i want casual, everyday autism in shows. i want autistic characters who need sensory symmetry, who casually mimic anyone's touch on one side of their bodies on the other (or who have friends who do it for them). i want a friend with flashcards or signals for when their friend loses speech. i want people on video calls and body doubling when they do jobs. i want people having conversations without eye contact. i want excited stimming. i want to see someone getting really excited about the tiniest thing thats related to a safefood or a special interest. i want casual, everyday autism.

(edit: october 22, 11:04am - "nonverbal" -> "nonspeaking") (edit: october 24, 9:44pm - "nonspeaking" -> "loses speech")

#never rambles #autism #autism culture #neurodivergent #neurodiverse stuff #actually autistic #actually neurodivergent #all i want is to see an autistic character in a show have a friend pat them on the shoulder #and as their other friend walks past #they mimic the touch on the other shoulder #give me casual autism #give me everyday autism

[sootsz]

qsmp has accidentally stumbled into a psychology experiment that would make the stanford prison experiment sob in fear. they’ve gotten a bunch of cc’s, and tens of thousands of viewers, to be deeply emotionally connected to pixel eggs. in doing so they’ve presented a problem:

how the fuck do you get outta this

the eggs were obviously never intended to be permanent (logging on every day to do tasks isn’t feasible to upkeep forever) and they were even given a vague limit of When Mama Dragon Comes Back (and then, of course, the “6 days til they die” thing). now you’ve made it so quackity (and his team) have a big ol dilemma, where two things are true: 1) they can’t keep the eggs forever since it’s not sustainable 2) you can’t take away the eggs without, oopsies, emotionally damaging your friends that you invited to have fun on your server.

turns out, when you give a group of humans all their own fully-realized individual who presents as a (weak, vulnerable) child that is in need of care from them, whatever instinct has kept us alive for generations goes “!!!!!” which is both really cool and compassionate, but also kinda concerning!

because, well: not sustainable! and if the eggs aren’t sustainable, what’s the alternative? killing them?? no! just look at jaiden’s reaction to bobby “losing” a life, even when it wasn’t his last one. or bad’s genuinely heart wrenching reaction to dapper losing a life. or how quiet and angry phil got after chayanne and tallulah had a “nightmare,” before it was resolved. that’s not acting. that’s real. what the hell will they do if the eggs actually die? from what i see, the cc’s are taking the “6 days til death” thing as something that’s avoidable. a threat that can be overcome. and for their sake, i hope it is.

ever played a dnd game where you actually feel insulted bc of smth someone’s pc did? yeah. that x20 because there’s SO much overlap between “streamer persona” and “literally just who they are”. and this level of roleplay character bleeding is cool, but i hope the eggs are handled carefully, or all those involved might end up actually hurt.

there’s also the whole added element of fans, many of whom only tune into the streams for egg content. the plot is very egg-centric. the roleplaying and characterization that the cc’s are doing is all centered around the eggs in one way or another. it’s been going on for a month, but it does not feel at all resolved, and plot-wise it would completely mess up so many plot threads happening if the eggs were all to go (charlie’s unresolved deal with lil j, quackity’s goal to bond with tallulah, the trial, etc etc) so if you take away the eggs, you risk messing up the whole vibe they’ve got going on, and facing backlash from fans who are also emotionally compromised by pixel eggs

we inherently want to protect the cute and vulnerable, and by god are these eggs cute and so very fragile. (then, there’s another layer of people’s own issues that they project onto the eggs. be it desire for paternity, some kind of maternal instinct, or, even in the matter of chayanne, using chayanne as a sort of way to cope with loss by making connections between chayanne and technoblade. which is beautiful and very sweet but would give chayanne dying some additional emotionally charged elements which i think should be avoided at all costs). there’s a reason that movies and other media generally do not kill named children characters—audiences really hate it. it’s taboo for good reason.

which leads us to

schrodinger’s egg: until sunday, they r both alive and dead. and this is both good and bad. god help us all

#please handle it carefully please handle it carefully please handle it carefully please handle it carefully please handle it carefully pleas #eggs :) #qsmp #quackity #Wilbur soot #tallulah #Philza #Charlie slimecicle #pleaasseeeeee #and this isn’t even touching on how the eggs feel #emotionally connected to somebody #never to talk to them again #having to watch them be sad #knowing it’s because of you #kinda fucked up #badboyhalo #dapper #Jaiden animations

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we don’t talk about this scene from the titan’s curse enough, because i think about this a lot. like… a lot. the way he was just like ‘oh i can move faster than bullets, that’s cool’, and then immediately moved on and never thought about it again?? i mean, i knew he could SWIM at mach 5, which is…. hypersonic speed, and equivalent to 3836 miles per hour. and i know all demigods are naturally a bit faster than humans. but like… he can move faster than bullets?

i guess i just wasn’t expecting perseus to go all spider-man on me, that’s all

#it’s the way it’s so casually mentioned #and never touched on again #HELLO?? #my boy said screw bullets i’m getting to annabeth #percy can move faster than fucking bullets #and can… SENSE THEM?? #rick explain #percy jackson #pjo #the titans curse #percy jackon and the olympians

[moidhaterxxx]

Where are my women with zero maternal instincts

#radical feminists please touch #radfem #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #rudefem #I'm never having children #Don't like kids #Obv I won't hate on them or moms #But like keep em away from me #Antinatalism

[beaulesbian]

One Piece ep. 24

It's still too early for you to die. My name is Dracule Mihawk! Learn about yourself! Learn about the world! And become strong! No matter how many years it takes, I will hold this seat of the strongest and wait for you. Surpass this sword! Try to surpass me! Roronoa Zoro!

One Piece: Live Action ep. 5

Roronoa Zoro, it's too soon for you to die. Grow strong and come find me. I'll be waiting.

#one piece #opla #oplaedit #netflixedit #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #mihawk #dracule mihawk #one piece mihawk #one piece zoro #one piece luffy #one piece netflix #zolu #insane about them. unwell and never normal #love that whoever designed the opla scene was like.. luffy needs to be closer that in the animanga #they need to be touching 👏👏 #mine #gif:one piece #gif:opla #gif:op anime

[otlwoozi]

MAMA 2024 ALBUM DAESANG - FML

#seventeen #art #my KIDS. my hearts. 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 #i lost track of how many of them i drew multiple times so i had to do tally marks on a sketch layer #8 years after their first mama award seventeen is the DARLING of the industry this is all ive ever wanted for them #idols of idols #had a long talk w my friend abt the direction of kpop and not many groups still feel like classic idols they just feel like a group of ppl #svt has never let me down on that front bringing emotions n connecting is so sososo integral to their mission #and its through music but its also through ground level activities n styaing in touch w their core fans n eo #amidst the globalization of kpop SEVENTEEN STANDS STRONG AS IDOLS #ok sorry for tag rant #u have to endure it if u want to see my art

[cradle-of-darkness]

guess who watched epithet erased........ 😢

#epithet erased #sylvie ashling #sylvester ashling #mera salamin #giovanni potage #molly blyndeff #♦️charlie's art #sylvie is my favorite if u couldn't already tell from how much i drew him..... but ugh all thr characters are so fun and loveable #i literally love EVERYONE except for like molly's dad 😒 #also mutuals from discord i have touched up some of these so if they look a little different from when i sent them. thats why #ugh disappointed in myself for not getting into this show sooner it's so good and its right up my alley 🙄 better late then never ig

[nomlioart]

🥀 when touch averse becomes touch starved 🥀

#so i had certain vision in my head #it's gonna be pretty long so you don't have to read this 👀 #peppino is afraid to fall in love cause he's very scared and convinced that if he gets very attached to someone he may lose them #because of his fault #so this case fell to gustavo and now gus does everything to show him that this won't happen #he shows peppino that it's not bad to get closer to someone if you really care about that person #so back then peppino refused closeness or touch #but the closer he learned to get attached to gustavo the smaller steps he began to show him his feelings through gestures #this had never happened to him before and gustavo was proud of him #sorry you had to read this all hxdgjkdsa #pizza tower #peppino #peppino spaghetti #gustavo #pepstavo #my art #my stuff

[hellomayu]

beautiful as ever 🖤

#(with the touch of your hand i turn to pieces) #they cant get enough of each other #and im never getting enough of them being dramatic lmao #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #satosugu #jjk #jjk fanart