#out of the corner of your eye

[obstinaterixatrix]

here are all the f/f recs I posted for femslash february 2023...! each individual post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. this was done on a whim, and I wanted to showcase works with official releases so folks could support the writers/artists/translators/devs/etc in a pretty straightforward way. I'm pretty pleased with this set!

#femslash feb recs #ff recs #recs #long post #JUST realized I could do this..! so I did. rec retrospective lol. #made my stupid little canva header so it could look nice. I hate making headers... but I wanted the post to look nice...! #can't wait to post the one for 2024 at the end of the month #it's so funny. it's all manga. and then. out of the corner of your eye. french japanese workplace movie. #also yes that's my own dang book. lol #femslash february

[shopwitchvamp]

Thinking about a comment I got recently saying my clothes are "peak Gen Z bad taste" or something like that. And I'm so offended :[

Like, I'm 33. Born in 1990. This is peak Millennial bad taste! Obviously!!

#very sad that the fact that i was a teenager in the 2000s is somehow not coming through like a giant flashing neon warning light #you should be able to just see my designs out of the corner of your eye and already know the truth #that i was a 13 year old hot topic mall goth and anime nerd in 2003 #this has let me know that i need to become so much worse #witch vamp #text post

[loptrcoptr]

The blue eye samurai fandom, for some reason

#I am once again asking if the kids are alright bc it doesn’t really seem like they are #friendly reminder that mizu kills people ny guys including unarmed randos and one unlucky teenager pissing his pants in a corner #but sure Taigen is irredeemable. lay off my emotional support blorbo. #blue eye samurai #taigen #and hey I love Akemi a buttload but she has at least nine lives or something no way would getting robbed in the woods #running off to a brothel and getting re kidnapped go half as well for anyone else #no one ever took advantage of her it’s incredible I’m glad and all but my god those were stupid risks to take #I’m so looking forward to her political intrigue character arc but let’s not act like she hasn’t done some dumbass shit #and Mizu’s a fucking mercenary. does she kill for money? no but she killed for information and she’ll kill anyone in her way to get what she #wants. taigen as far as we know has only killed peoples in duels and fights. he’s not out ganking randos. #the point of this show is that this is not your average cartoon and none of these characters are average black or white types #everyone’s grey and it’s all delicious #enjoy it.

[themthistles]

you don't finish black sails, black sails finishes YOU

#it's the final scene of xxxviii #out of the corner of your eye you see them #jonathan steinberg and robert levine with a steel chair #black sails

[saintkey]

the visual of rapunzel's hair being not only long enough but also sentient enough that it trails along the corners of castle like the grudge to spy on everyone is so sick

#dimension 20 #neverafter spoilers #neverafter #d20 #like oooo if they didnt check for that or just trusted all the princesses blindly that wouldve been bad #rainposting #just like . out of the corner of your eye you just see tendrils of her hair moving along the crevices OUUUGH'

[petricorah]

hair down sokka

#hair down sokka #in my brain #yeah we know you got the Bisexual Bob TM #you're gonna let your hair down? be vulnerable and not stressed about being prepared to fight or needing to see out the corner of your eye #bc you trust the people around you? #and you're gonna look like ThatBitch while doing it? #aight go #why don't you imagine sokka with his hair down and maybe you'll feel better #trying to think of comic ideas where i can make him have his hair down for a Reason

[binah-beloved]

hey. don't cry. think about meltdown form Binah passing you by as you suppress one of the many abnormalities that was let loose and giving you a single, gentle pat on the head

#project moon #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #binah #binah lobcorp #binah library of ruina #unsurprisingly you are one of the few who survive that day #your coworkers trade stories but when they ask you about it you simply shrug #binah glances at you out of the corner of her eye #comes over to you after everyone else is gone and quietly says you did well #that's probably the only praise you'll get directly but it's nice

[all-things-fic]

#Ross #ross macdonald #this is giving dad vibes who sees you trying to get *the shot* #and you’re stressed out and worried for no reason #and he just wants you to chill out #so he does this and you see him from the corner of your eye #and suddenly you just laugh #cause it’s not that deep getting the shot of your baby at their birthday or whatever #live in the moment yada Yada #which one of us is grace on Twitter #cause thanks for stealing this babes #lol

[pyrepostings]

whumpee who's only given soft water to drink/bathe with.

#pyreprompts #Sourced from a very unfortunate hotel experience #I understand soft water in the shower because the glass door #But the sink too? Sir I just had several drinks at your bar I am thorsty for something that doesn't taste like soap #Too tired to go see if there's a water fountain around the corner #In too much period cramps to fall asleep #Def dehydrated #Don't know if soft water is like actually bad for you or just tastes like shit #Eyes too adjusted to darkness to want to get on my phone to find out #Bad time #Could be solved if water was palatable #Give that option to your chained in the basement whumpee #I say bathe as well because low pressure hotel shower plus soft water equals Bad Sensory Time #How are you supposed to feel clean??? #Whump prompt #whump prompts #whump scenario #whumpee #whump #whump ideas #whumper #Also also can't get over the keurig in the room #Are they expecting guests to put salty soapy water in the machine to make their tea or coffee?? Huh??? #Anyway my point is make your whumpee dring vile tasting water it's so effective

[theotherrichardpapen]

AU where Josh manages to grab onto Nigel’s hand at the last moment that night on the train and both of them fall out. AU where Nigel has been dead the entire time but Alex Forbes doesn’t know that; where the trauma of watching his friend fall to his death combined with the realisation he was complicit in the death of another causes his mind to fracture.

He doesn’t remember making it back to his dorm room that night, only remembers waking up to the news that Josh and Nigel were was dead. All of Nigel’s things have been moved to another room, of course they have, because Nigel was gone, dead, all his fault, his fault trouble.

AU where Alex takes the train one night to the Colbie house because Nigel asks him to, because he feels this innate and intense need to try and better understand this boy he got killed; where he finds the card and the books and Nigel’s red bible, and begins to understand.

AU where the body of Susan turns up one morning, and the police question Alex about it, but there’s no way it was him, because he was late; he was late, and by the time he showed up at the cinema, she was waiting for him still, sweet Susan, with her kind eyes and kinder heart, she had waited for him and she didn’t even suspect anything until the very second before he struck gone.

AU where Alex finds the letter he wrote Nigel wrote, inviting him to his house that night, where Alex sees the Colbies arguing through the window; where he wrestles the gun from John and shoots him to kill him because he read the journals, knows that this man has been hurting Nigel his whole life and he wanted him dead protect Nigel.

AU where Nigel confronts Alex at the train yard that night, where he forces Alex to remember everything he did, everything Alex did; where he forces Alex to pull the trigger and kill off the version of Nigel he’s been carrying around in his mind, where Alex dies that night right along with him and Jack is born instead.

#types out the most incomprehensible batshit thing ever and posts it: haha you get what i mean? #this would've been a fic but i know i don't have the motivation to commit to that right now and it would've ended up abandoned #anyway . blame the crowded room for inspiring this . and then the dynamic between the narrator and tyler from fight club #and joe and rhys from s4 of you for driving it #does this actually even make sense ? to anyone that is not currently sharing the braincell with me ? #who knows #like minds #murderous intent #nigel colbie #alex forbes #doing some serious handwaving as to how this au would work for like . 60% of the movie. youd have to scrap the sally interview basically #also doing some serious handwaving as to whether josh's death is enough of a stressor to trigger a dissociative episode #especially one that results in development of DID #dont look at this post directly . only from a side angle . corner of your eye. thank you

[askzloyxp]

There is not a one path There isn't even a 'right' path There is only your path You are lost in the woods.

#Out of the corner of your eye you spot him #shia lebouf

[biscuityskies]

Right lads I believe tumblr has successfully made me a codywan shipper

#this is the last thing my wips needed #codywan #sw #seriously like what the hell am I supposed to do with this information #because now I want them to check in with each other after battles #and I want them to tend to each others wounds in a secluded corner #and I want Cody to crave so badly to brush his thumb along Obi-Wan’s cheekbone and brush stray hair from his eyes #I want Cody to take the blaster bolt in the shoulder for an otherwise occupied Obi-Wan #and then I want him to laugh it off and say well one of us is wearing armour and it isn’t you sir #and I want the PINING and I want the COMFORT and I want the RAW EMOTION #I want Obi-Wan to gently remove Cody’s helmet and pull his head into his lap #and I want him to gently card his fingers through Cody’s hair #and I want him to trace his thumb along Cody’s cheekbone!!!!! #and when Cody inevitably says sir what are you doing you have to get out of here #i want Obi-Wan to gently lovingly carefully smile back at him and say not on your life commander #anyways they’ve already got shit in my wips so #what can you do am I right

[roitaminnah]

aheemheemwimper.... um. oh (falls over and starts crying)

#butterfly soup #ppkm #shouts out to balls-on-my-face (my best friend) the little heart eyes doodle. thank you for the affirmation bestie <3 #aggie doodle! if you didn't. um. if it is not apparent. balls-on-my-face was there doing masterpieces and I drew this in the corner help #my best friend balls-on-my-face #roi draws #sketchbook #this is my backlog! I'm so busy but I realized. I have like. er. haha. like at least 5 drawings I didn't share yet woup. #(32 boxes of plushies looming behind me menacingly as I draw ppkm kissing for the fivehundredth time) #THEY'RE SILLY YOUR HONOR. just thought i'd add that sorry.

[loptrcoptr]

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#it’s wild out there yall #and exhausting like?? who has the energy to take part in that kind of vibe #I am Old okay I don’t do ship wars I don’t care what you ship blah blah love your best life #blue eye samurai #I just want to vibe in my corner and write my nonsense and stay in my lane #and I want everyone else to be able to vibe in their corners and write or draw or what have you and stay in their lane #this used to not be difficult in fandom but for this one somehow it is lol! #taimizu #we are a leper colony because *checks notes* bisexuality bad dick bad man bad transmasc bad #right. gotcha. that’s dumb as shit but ok I’ll be over here hiding then.

[hajihiko]

Seeing as ghost are canon in danganronpa, how do you feel about Junko ghost AUs where she haunts the remnants or first game survivors?

It is almost literally my favourite narrative take (tight behind found family / they love each other) I am SO about it you have no idea. It's the tastiest I go nuts

#I yell and think loudly about Junko physically haunting the ppl who took her body parts so much and often #Fuyuhiko sees someone right out of the corner of his eye that's supposed to be blind #Even after Nagito gets a cool robot hand sometimes it acts against his will for a second and it feels like .... #Mikan is such a whoof idk if I can even go there. But she might have it worst of all #Like while everyone is haunted they get it the worst #Maybe it's because of them that the entire island is haunted. Bc they kept her alive in a way that cant be undone #If they took in even a little bit of her cells or blood or DNA. Its irreversible and shes just There Now. #Can u imagine??? Ur on an abandoned island or a ship and you dont have the option of leaving. And there is a ghost #Everyone knows it but talking about these things gives them power you know #Maybe that's partially why even the antisocial or private people start sleeping with others in the room #You'd rather wake up to your loudly snoring friend than to a vague silhouette that *might* be someone sitting on the corner of your bed #Sorry I lose it when ppl start to talk horror I dont know what I'm writing #I have an entire fanfic in my head that I might get out sometimes about The Haunting Of Jabberwock Island

[psalmsofpsychosis]

so i talked about Din being so ungodly unpredictable, and after digging a bit deeper beneath the surface of The Mandalorian season1 and 2, i think now i know why.

To the surprise of absolutely noone, Din Djarin is a rogue!! He's a rogue character, that's the foundation of his personality, at any point of his characterization he's designed to stray from structure and to undermine it.

But he's also a knight! and this introduces a very intriguing and fascinating conflict at the heart of his character: the duality of honor, and how he orients himself towards that specific value. He's a knight and a knight is bound by honor and servitude; but in order to save his honor he has to choose what and whom he serves at different points of the narrative, and he has to disobey in order to obide by his honor. A rogue character by definition is the least honoring person, a knight is most honorable. So the heart and the lungs of Din Djarin's characterization is his struggle with servitude and where his values lie, and it's never "this" or "that"; he's constantly switching between rogue and knight in the bat of eyelash, just when you think he's bound to code he abandons mission and when he's supposed to stray he stays and binds himself to a child.

I think introducing him in the position of a king is the most outrageous and hilarious plot twist, because narrative wise, all three archetypes of the Rogue, the Knight and the King have in common the conflict of honor, while the King is most bound to obedience and the Rogue is least concerned with it. So i'm actually quite curious now to know where they'll take season 3 Din Djarin, simply because this is such hefty faceted dynamic and it's quite frankly very ambitious to tackle, we haven't had an archetypal story this intricate in star wars since, well, the original trilogy.

#listen i'm not giving any credit to Favreau or Filoni none whatsoever lmao #i also do not think that they'll tackle Din's internal conflict well #i think they'll write him into a nice clean tidy #''obedience of status quo is the highest honor and the definition of goodness'' propegenda corner #the way hollywood bluckbusters often do #which would be an honest to god shame because HE'S SUCH A MARVELLOUS CHARACTER SO EXCITING #but like. ya know. at this point i'm merely sitting in this corner like #''you absolute madmen; you did it #by accident or not your cooked a fucking hilarious and exciting dynamic; and i'm just curious to know how you'll handle it.'' #Din's dynamic also has m a s s i v e parallels with Luke Skywalker's because Luke also has a huge internal crisis around honor #and has more or less inherited a dead-and-gone legacy #but they made Luke do a 180 and become eyes-and-ears-closed obedient of precuderes in the most out of character way #so like. you know #i hope against hope that they do better with #Din ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Din Djarin #The Mandalorian #The Mandalorian season 3 #star wars #star wars meta