#not the best reveal but not the worst

[yavin42]

just finished the second season of black sails and i gotta say i understand why it makes queers go feral

#i’m frothing at the mouth #black sails #i watched the first season yesterday and didn’t really enjoy it much #the pacing is really weird the characterisation was shallow at best and the whole thing stank of game of thrones levels of forced edgyness #but man the second season slapped so hard full 180 turnaround #the flashbacks were expertly crafted all major characters have relatable motives and they pull through ruthlessly #their fatal flaws are right there and like a greek tradgedy it all happens exactly how it must #in revealing it’s nature as a character study of flint and of what broke him so utterly the pacing actually becomes so poignant and perfect #with each new bit of information we’re given we understand his urgency his ruthlessness his unwavering calm hatred #he’s turned himself into a proper fucking monster and it’s tragic because it could only have ever gone this way #there’s no way out and the show being a prequel we know he lives we know he can’t win #actually doomed by the narrative in the worst/best way #but by god i just want his to set the world aflame

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #big bro yosuke..... #ok but like. the way in which so much of yosuke has rubbed off on teddie #i've said this before and I'll say it again but teddie especially really is a reflection of all the best and worst parts of yosuke #(perhaps even taken to the furthest possible extreme) #but teddie is also sincere and genuine and caring towards yu and nanako in the way that yosuke is #he's also lonely and needy and clingy in the way that yosuke is except yosuke tends to repress those feelings about himself #and that reflection is SO important to me because it really shows how teddie looks up to yosuke and towards yosuke for cues on how to behav #i mean should teddie? maybe not always but it's. it's the way in which he amplifies and reveals the depth of yosuke's private thoughts #teddie can afford to be unrestrained and careless in the way that yosuke cannot/doesn't dare to be #and yeah i honestly just. POINTING AGGRESSIVELY AT THEM #he's good with his queue

[seberrabears]

THEM!!! HOW ARE THEY REAL

#also how did they manage to have the worst/best lighting #georgenotfound #dreamwastaken #sapnap #dnf #dnf meetup #dreamnotfound #dream team meet up #dream face reveal #dream team #dream smp #dsmp #minecraft #minecraft youtuber #mcyt #mcyt fanart #dnf fanart #dream team fanart #dream fanart

[suitmana]

father hans you are the best worst old man to me (yes more than old jochen). i love how the game tries to give him some depth without shying away from his actions

heavy discussion of the apostasy route ahead

so, yeah, he's very zealous in his religious beliefs.

but despite (or maybe because of) his strong convictions, he cares a lot for kieferberg, even if only out of moral obligation:

i mean, he has the decency to feel a little guilty about the supernatural terrors he puts the town through:

that very religious zeal, unfortunately, also makes him willing to have any of kieferberg's residents burnt at the stake for the sake of the town's "salvation". ironic, then, that in the same letter that he condemns walpurga's followers he starts with this:

his well-meaning, yet extremist religiosity is also apparent in his relationship with elise. even with the clear animosity on both sides, he was genuinely concerned for elise's soul after learning about how holle had her in the first place:

...as that concern later turns into condemnation:

yet he doesn't even word it as something he looks forward to either. just something unfortunate that needs to be done.

the way he tries to keep the peace throughout the game and is actually one of the more vocally skeptical among the townsfolk (even if part of that is to diffuse suspicion towards his own experiments) is also interesting considering how his religious beliefs enable him to do genuinely terrible things. like he believes that his god has no problems with him burning people alive but also he wants to be absolutely sure that there's an actual witch to burn in the first place. he is simultaneously the personification of everything wrong with kieferberg and one of the few (aside from gustav, leb, and freya) who are barely keeping the village together

#little goody two shoes #lgts #father hans' study #tangential but while father hans is the worst manifestation of the dangers of religious extremism #kieferberg as a whole is just tragic #even when you understand why elise wants to get out so badly #talking to the townsfolk also reveals that they're just people doing their best #given that kieferberg's a small and somewhat remote village #i also get why they would rely on superstition and their religious leader to explain or rationalize what's happening to them #when you feel so small compared to the overwhelming horror of nature that could consume you at any moment #why wouldn't you grasp for any semblance of an explanation #especially from someone like father hans #stern yes but he at least gives off an air of authority #idk i guess that's just the appeal of kieferberg's small town horror? #i love how this game takes place from elise's perspective but i can't help but sympathize with the villagers anyway #i won't overlook how harmful their mindsets are but they're not just one-dimensional bigoted set-pieces either #planning to talk more about that eventually

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

Vi’s inability to be for real paired with Cait’s inability to be for fake and the mess they get into because of it

#arcane #caitvi #vi arcane #vi #caitlyn kiramman #caitlyn arcane #violyn #caitlyn #piltover’s finest #piltover's gayest #caitlyn and vi #slay on the run #I dont entirely know what I mean by this but the gang gets it obviously #they’re just really silly so like obviously #I think I’m just saying they handle their emotions very differently and they’re silly because of it #this is completely switched when they’re flirting tho #my drafts are insane guys some of my best stuff is hidden in here #and will never be revealed #only the worst of the worst comes out of this cave

[nightsandreala]

warning cringe under the read more… did some reala colored nails

#the worst part is that this isn’t even the first time i’ve done this #had me googling “best angles for photographing nails” at 10:30pm… smh #local woman DIES of cringe #also shoutout to the papercut on my thumb that revealed itself when i was using nail polish remover #the other hand is the same but the red and black are reversed btw #hand reveal…………

[omgeto]

do a face reveal

suck a dick

#was that too harsh #no it was not #BECAUSE WHAT #'do a face reveal #not even any punctuation #not even phrasing it as a question #just a straight up order #u silly anon #and now if I was planning on doing a face reveal I CANT since it'll be like im only doing it because you told me to 🫵🏽😣 #so look you ruined it for everyone 😭 #im just playinggggg #I am not playing since damn anons r so demanding these days #OMG ILL DO A FACE REVEAL if u rank all my works in order from best to worst #thats actually easy since ive got like 15 works #anyways #time to go back to writing #xoxo gossip girl 💋 #unknown sender — ★ #but that just caught me off guard

[pivsketch]

started drawing this back in 2021 and never wrapped it up until now (lol) (oops)

my high school hl2rp ocs... over the years ive adapted them elsewhere (ccstory) but the thing with adapting high school ocs is that theyre still ocs you made in high school. they will carry that baggage forever. regardless! nostalgia

jess pirou was originally named pivot and thats the username ive been using for the past 10+ years. but im not my high school oc and generally resent the implication, so shes the one that gets renamed. im like 🤏this close to committing to naming her pirouette btw

#pivstuff #its perfect because a pirouette move is also kind of a pivoting type move. also pivot is apparently a french name so thats an element too #but its not really a name name. maybe pirouet or some alternate like perrault would be better. anyway #im still very fond of ccstory but... i dunno... due to its nature its kind of complicated and weird and awkward to develop any further #the best thing about tagcen is that it makes absolutely no references to people i (used to?) personally know #so there is nothing to have a philosophical quandary over. its all me babyyyyy #well LDRF is also like that but cuz there was never an overarching plot or conflict it got embarrassingly psychological for slice of life #at least tagcen has a core conflict so i can pretend it isnt incredibly personally revealing #anyway............... creating things is both the best and the worst

[flowerflamestars]

Course Correct snippet

Feyre played for time, biting the already beginning to disintegrate cardboard straw in her iced matcha. Feyre didn’t like green tea. Had been known to proclaim on many immoderate occasions that it tasted like grass, mournful that pretty tea latte colors couldn’t be worked into her grid without waste.

“Lucien always likes the omelets,” Elain pointed out, sunny. Nesta could hear the leather toe of her flats taping the floor. “We could split one?”   Feyre shook her head, setting back down the undrunk tea. “I’m not eating animal products. No sugar, no carbs, no coffee, no nightshades, no seed oils.”   Nesta’s normally very healthy blood pressure skyrocketed in a way she could quite literally feel.   “Seed oils?”   An open handed gesture toward the matcha, slowly separating as the ice melted under bright California sunshine.   “I’m on a cleanse!” She hopped up, catching the strap of her heart-shaped purse from the back of her chair, “Just running to the bathroom. Can you order me the kale kiwi protein smoothie? Thanks!”   The dark surface of Nesta’s coffee held no answers, but she gazed into it anyway. Three inches of liquid was about enough for a human being to drown in, theoretically.   “Do you think,” Elain was laughing, hushed, horror needing a sheer output, “That she knows almond milk has almond oil in it?”   Nesta heaved a sigh, tilting back in her chair. “Do nuts count as seeds?”   Hibiscus, darkly red and dreamy violet blue provided cover for the tables, trellis arched into a whole porch overhead. Feyre’s favorite restaurant, all day brunch. Feyre’s favorite foods. For her birthday eight months before, she’d eaten a waffle made out of bacon. “Maybe she’s pivoting into wellness content?” Elain asked, hysteria reeled in.

#the way this fic makes my brain PURR #Nesta Archeron voice: YOU HAVE A LIVER? KIDNEYS? COOL THERE'S YOUR CLEANSE #THE REAL DANGER IS WEIGHT CYCLING CAUSING LONG TERM DAMAGE TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD #Feyre as an influencer is literally maybe one of my favorite things I've ever come up with #not Fey a few thousand words later hiding from her wedding planner/best friend Mor to inhale a burrito #my god we are talking about allll kinds of fuckery in this one #it IS A sexy love story #(yes I'm hording the Tarquin content for The Reveal) #but also? #a hating certain flavors of rich people story #a pointing out that weddings make people crazy story #also. very quietly. a story about carelessness vs compassion #A ROM COM FIRST AND FOREMOST HOWEVER #Nesta is three seconds from murder at all times #Elain ALSO is but she's trying #sometimes your sister decides to marry a guy nineteen years older than her and it's bad #sometimes its worst because he's a billionaire she's known a grand total of FIFTEEN DAYS #there are too many fires to put out frankly

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

(major s-class heroine spoilers)

made the mistake of briefly considering reed/hestio, and then thinking about how hestio might react to learning that the mass murderer in front of him was once his extremely kind and upright friend who always gave too much of himself to others. i got socked in the gut by the throwback to my own grief when discovering that reed=tesilid.

like. what and how much has he gone through that he has thrown away the morals and self-sacrifice he internalised so much. what do you mean he killed his younger self in the most cruel and painful way he could think of. what do you mean that even he himself was not kind to himself. that, even after a hundred lifetimes, he still hasn't learned the slightest shred of self-love and is acting only in self-preservation. what do you mean that he has been running on fumes and desperation for several lifetimes? he probably hasn't had the time to even grieve and cry for himself. has there been anyone who could even do so for him? what do you mean he's tried every means possible to save the world, and then just himself, and then had no choice but to try to kill himself, but even that didn't work so now he's forced to try to kill everyone else too. what do you mean that this isn't just an issue of mental health and of convincing him that life is worth living? there is genuinely no conceivable path forward for him. maybe the world should just burn or something idk.

#s-class heroine spoilers #insert that orv livetweet screenshot here. so what if everyone dies and is frozen in time #THE LONGER YOU THINK ABOUT TESILID WITHOUT AILETTE THE WORSE IT GETSSSSSS #man the juxtaposition between reed and tutorial tesilid is truly the worst and best thing ever #tesilid's character development is sooo good #the way it all happens off screen but you can see how it happened and it makes horrifying sense #it scratches an itch in my monkey brain #it really has kept me entertained for 6 months huh.... #anyway me going 'hey look fun thought experiment' and then got hit in the face with 'hey this is a good premise to- #-externalise the shock and grief and horror that readers feel when they reach the Big Reveal' #ive been thinking 'man i sure have strayed pretty far from the source material these days' #well apparently not. i've come full circle or something #hestioreed

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶

#random personal stuff #if I go to bed then I have to get up for work tomorrow #not really looking forward to it #Friday it was revealed that a book I had dutifully ordered at the request of the person in charge of what we order #was requested as a replacement but we had never owned it to begin with #best case scenario it was a careless mistake #worst case scenario it was outright dishonesty to get away with ordering a book that was a personal choice and not approved by faculty #this guy often drives me crazy but I don't like thinking of him as the sort of person who would do that #and I don't know what the outcome is going to be but it's going to be tense carrying around this information inside #relabeling books is a huge chunk of my job right now #and it's incredibly mind-numbing and dull but at least I can put in headphones and exit reality so maybe I'll do that tomorrow #just a few more days and I'm out of here

[janetsnakehole02]

i bet the people relentlessly slut-shaming hiba abouk on every instagram post of hers are the same ones commenting on her husband’s instagram with blind statements of faith in his innocence. and saying his victim is making this up for attention. just say you hate women and go

#the victim didn’t even want to reveal herself nor did she want it to become a case - what does that tell you? #i hate the men in the football fandom so much god #innocent until proven guilty? nah guilty until proven innocent #at worst he’s a rapist and barely worth calling a human and at best he’s an adulterer #achraf hakimi #hiba abouk

[byanyan]

byan's distrust and outright fear of hospitals is something that's come up a bit in threads and muse discussion, but i've never really talked about why they hate them so much?

for one, they have a heavy distrust of any authority figures, including doctors and nurses. pair that with the fact that being treated in the hospital puts them in a vulnerable position and not in any control of things going on around them or to them, that's already enough reason for them to hate the place. and YET... the thing that really traumatized them and created a proper fear of hospitals happened when they were 12. after running away from an abusive foster home, which put them back on the street as they had no where else to go, byan stole from the wrong person and wound up severely injured in the resulting altercation. someone found them, called an ambulance, and they woke up in a hospital bed. using clues from the things they'd had stuffed away in their backpack, the hospital managed to find byan's identity and, from there, found their family - or, the foster family they were still technically under the care of. when the nurse told them that their family had been called and was already on the way, byan panicked and pleaded with her to not let them in, but... of course that didn't work. she thought they were merely afraid of the consequences of running away and being out so late in such an unsafe part of the city, brushing off their concerns to assure them that everything would be fine. it wasn't.

going to the hospital resulted in the family they fled from not only finding them, but dragging them back to that terrible house which became much, much more difficult to escape from after that. and that's all they can think about anytime they're in one of those buildings, be it in a bed or simply visiting.

#'maaaa grey's posting depressing headcanons on the dash agaaaaain' #sorry (: being in a rough place mentally has been really fleshing out some of the darker parts of byan's childhood in my brain ok #this is something I've had headcanoned for months now tbh. only just writing it down rn while I'm on this depressive kick #this isn't the only Unpleasant experience they've had bc of hospitals either - just the worst one #they've also had their drug use revealed to foster families against their will to..... mixed results. some Very Bad. #they Do Not Trust nurses or doctors to genuinely have their best interests in mind. #and any time they find themself waking up in a hospital bed all they feel is that same ice cold chill of dread and fear that they did at 12 #this is also why they have a tendency to try to escape hospitals regardless of what state they're in 🙃 #anyway....... #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ HEADCANON ⋮ DANGER IN THE FABRIC OF THIS THING I MADE. #child abuse cw #ask to tag

[thatoneluckybee]

when you finally find a character that shares your name but all she does is experience the Horrors

#TW blood #Cw blood #Blood #technically she's “bea” BUT CLOSE ENOUGH #not tagging the series. y'know that one tumblr post screenshot about ships where it's horrible and they're perfect but no one else should #Get involved? That's this. Great stories! I will never recommend this goodness #That is her. Bea. Bea please stop. GIRLIE YOU GETTIN PEOPLE K I L L E D #she seen at least three dead people. Two of which died in front of her. Intentionally. And her best friend was just revealed to be a serial #Killer. Aaaaaaaand she's prolly about to die to the main antagonist #Rip Girlie and the second worst therapist of the year award goes to #Rambles #fambles

[piosplayhouse]

wait WHAT. can you please explain the potion thing. what the fuck

"Luo Binghe's shoulders trembled.

Shen Qingqiu made sure to emphasize every word. 'If I were [Su Xiyan], no matter how venomous that drug was, I would have drunk it down without hesitation, then escaped the Water Prison. Afterward, I would draw all its effects into my own body. No matter how agonizing the process, no matter if the price would be the complete destruction of my martial aspect, no matter if it meant a horrible death: I absolutely would not allow my child to suffer even an ounce of harm.'" (Book 3, pg. 318)

#svsss spoilers #contextually it does make sense though binghe was at his lowest point and felt as though he had never been loved and was never meant to be #loved even from his conception. this comes off the tail end of the tlj sxy backstory reveal too so thats why hes bringing it up #its not just out of nowhere #but still . absolutely hilarious timing #actually i got the post wrong this happens after/as theyre having sex. worst pillow talk ever #or best if youre binghe i suppose #lemon text #nsft

[sharkneto]

1, 6 and 16?

.1. fave book? MEAN why did you ask me that when it was one of the options, hard question. My default answer is Aron Ralston's autobiography, Between a Rock and a Hard Place (what the movie 127 Hours is based on). I've read it quite a few times and Twin gave me a signed copy for Christmas one year. Idk, reading about a man's mental and physical survival journey to cutting off his own arm (and all his adventures before this moment) hits me in the right spot. Books I've read recently, as I'm getting back into the whole reading thing, I supremely enjoyed Six of Crows and The Goblin Emperor.

6. fave trope? Another hard one. For this I'll say... main character denying that they're Special as they figure out they're Special. I'm listening to The Way of Kings at work and the few chapters it took for Kal to realize something was up, making excuses for why x or y happened, was delightful.

16. fave day? Fan of Thursdays. Something about it being over the hump of the week, get to look forward to the fact that tomorrow is Friday and then the weekend. It's nice.

faves ask game

#i appreciated the goblin emperor for how straight forward it was #loved the main character and you were absolutely rewarded as a reader for paying attention and predicting things #and then obviously six of crows - kaz is a blorbo and that heist is french chef's kiss #this is now just books i enjoyed and gideon and harrow the ninths both get mentions here #gideon was just a great ride and then harrow had the *best* twist. the pov reveal i had to pause and walk around for a minute #it was So Good #and i've been enjoying Way of Kings! #my friend sent me the audio book because she and another friend are obsessed with it #so i report to them as i get to different parts and have thoughts about what's happening #fun for everyone #kaladin has the worst fucking time guy can't catch a fucking break #i have a whole prediction for where he ends up but i dont know the pacing of this series for what happens when in what book #or even what the necessary overarching plot is of the entire series #the war obviously and uniting the kingdom i suppose - and the return of the knights radiant and the implications of that #but again idk the pacing of it - i'm almost done with book 1 and Kal is still having a terrible time with bridge four #and my prediction is that he's obvi gotta get out of there and end up in a place of prominence in the army #probably with dalinar because he's not a sack of dicks - and get a shard blade #(even though he doesn't want one I know - so it has More Implications when he does accept one) #my pet theory is he gets Dal's #but - again - first he has to get out of being a bridgeman #which assume will be a terrible time for him yet again and all his fellow bridgemen will die on their escape attempt #ah fuck and then however Shallan fits the fuck into all of this what is she even doing #any way if anyone else has read way of kings/stormlight archives enjoy my probably very wrong predictions #please do not spoil it for me i'm having a great time listening and guessing #ANYWAY thank you for the ask lizzie lol #ask game response #ask response