#pursue love

[stuckinapril]

Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything

#I’m just in a whole state of mind rn #there will always be ppl who try to bring u down but pursuing the things u love will help u rise above it. #I absolutely still get anxious / annoyed at things but I’m over it sm faster. and soon it won’t bother me at all. #or at least it’ll have a healthy duration. bc negative emotion isn’t always bad. negative emotion is important and we should not ignore it #but overall!! preserving my energy better. just need to work on my knee jerk responses & I’ll be set #text

[lotus-pear]

hngghh domestic......

#screaming crying throwing up sliding down the wall soft skk makes me so feel so warm and giddy #listen i love their canon dynamic but a hopeless part of me wants them to fall in love and pursue a tranquil domestic life #free from the burdens of their jobs and their past (<- i am delusional this will never happen) #A GIRL CAN DREAM #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #soukoku #skk #lotus draws

[fiovske]

ngl the early s3 post-divorce pre-making up era angst of he-means-a-lot-to-me-but-if-any-of-you-ever-mention-him-in-my-presence-i-am-going-to-kill-everyone-in-this-room-and-then-myself crowley and aziraphale are gonna be delicious.and brother i am but a dickensian orphan waiting for my food to arrive

#good omens #good omens 2 #listen. the dynamic is going to be SOOOO juicy. #in one corner....LOVED AND LOST CROWLEY. #in the other... the REGRETFULLY YEARNING AZIRAPHALE #he's gonna kick off his disillusionment and win crowley back. pursue the devil for a change! #good. good food. knowing they're renewed for s3. brother we are getting the whole romcom spiel. #and i wouldnt have it any other way.

[revvethasmythh]

On the topic of FCG potentially being reincarnated--it makes sense as an option the party might organically consider attempting, but, as we saw with Laudna's death (and even Percy's way back when), input from the player is a really operative aspect of whether a character will be resurrected. Marisha clearly did not want to let Laudna go, so they pursued a long road to bring her back. Alternatively, Taliesin was totally willing to let Percy go if he thought the ritual offerings wouldn't be enough (shoutout to Vex's nat 20 persuasion check for this one).

And Sam? Well, Sam, as a player, loves to fail. Because failing is interesting, usually far more interesting than succeeding. We're talking about a guy who openly derides luck points and fervently refused to use the halfling luck feature except in the ONE instance where succeeding the roll would have had a worse outcome than failing. Regardless of how I or anyone else feels about losing FCG and/or wanting them back, Sam does not strike me as the kind of player who would want to bring FCG back after going out like this, available reincarnation or not. I would both suspect and anticipate that this will be FCG's final showing, just based on what I know of Sam as a player

#it's a great way to go out honestly #like i do think there's some interesting stuff that could be pursued via reincarnation #but not enough to supersede how interesting this end already is. fcg doesn't need flesh and bone to be alive. he already realized that #and sam LOVES to fail. this is a juicy drama point that i'm sure he'd rather press on than erase #critical role #bells hells #cr spoilers

[sakuraluck]

when i said i wanted to understand whatever’s going on in ivan’s head, i didn’t mean like this 😭😭

#alnst ivan #alnst till #ivantill #alien stage #ooooh boy turns out ivan’s self esteem is pretty low in terms of love #makes total sense but it’s not what i expected from someone who looked so in control of what he wanted and was willing to pursue from till #he loves humbly which was my first intepretation of him before we even got round 3 #it’s changed since then with more (mis)information leaked by vivinos to misdirect our understanding of him #so to get this clear dialogue of his final thoughts is really… clarifying #and terribly sad in a way #ivan loves till so much and is entirely aware that he hasn’t been the most gentle of suitors #god i have many thoughts about this #ahhh ivan baby your feelings aren’t shallow at all

[wr-n]

Smoke

Trying to cover up one addiction with another... And failing.

#dust is trying to stop himself from pursuing LOVE now that he knows that killing the human is impossible #they stopped reloading #stopped playing their game #now he has to cope with the constant need to fight and KILL #he figures other addicitons might help #it doesnt #wraith art #dust #smoking #cigarettes

[mikuyuuss]

Ok, not only did Moon Dong Eun avenge the villains of this story. She found love afterwards and was able to pursue architecture like she always wanted to. She now dresses freely with her tattoo, proudly showing her scars. She's no longer confined to her trauma. Dong Eun got her revenge AND her happy ending!

Even though she was so convinced that she's a terrible person for wanting revenge, she actually managed to touch the lives of the people around her through simple acts of kindness (empathizing with them for being victims) and those same people came back to support her as well.

It's usually "revenge is bad" this "you got revenge but at what cost" that, but no, she got her revenge AND her and other people's happy ending. Even though it's a dark story about how victims suffer, there's always the underlying message of hope, where they also understand and help eachother. Even if they had to bend the rules to get it, The. Victims. Won. Oh. My. Goodness.

In the end, it wasn't exactly just "revenge," it was also about bringing justice to the victims.

#the glory #the glory season 2 #kdrama #moon dong eun #song hye kyo #me speaks #also I love how it also shows that its never too late to pursue what you love just like what Dong Eun did #sometimes things happen but when its time to heal and live your life then its never too late #also I love her tattoo and her newfound confidence shown with the way she dresses #shes just free and not ashamed anymore #tr #meta #ish #my post

[ryllen]

wingman malleus-sama

#i just want at some point malleus assures sebek that it's fine that he found another reason to pursue in his *suspected* shorter life #twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #malleus draconia #twst mc #twst yuu #fanart #i have longer life and the longest time to ponder about the meaning of my life #but i couldn't find it; it's a blessing for you to have shorter life but actually able to find it in much shorter time #so please treasure it #i just thought of buttoned up suit malleus looks more serious and will be taken more seriously in sebek room so i keep it that way #or maybe he just feels safer to have it buttoned up bcs he was in like his super FAN lair fhsdhsdhd ANYTHINgCOULDHAPPENf FSHDS JK JK #he just looks more formal that way i love it #this is why he deserves the best man position

[babygirlgiles]

So many ppl have said that what the Elementary version of Holmes gets right is that perfect ratio of low asshole energy to high bitchy energy, and while I hear that and totally agree I think what they Really got right is that Holmes is totally and certifiably an absolute fucking freak. He’s a complete weirdo. He loves kinky sex. He has all his bizarre little hobbies. He gets deep joy from these things. And he is not at all ashamed of any of this, he’s actually quite proud of it all and willing to share it with anyone, out of a true love for his passions. He doesn’t feel confined by convention or expectations at all, he just wants to be vibing with his weird little projects and solve some weird little crimes and That Is How Sherlock Holmes Should Be.

#elementary #cbs elementary #jlm Sherlock Holmes #and he doesn’t want Watson to feel that way either he wants her to shamelessly pursue what brings her joy too #because ​he loves her SO much

[theelastword]

i saw a very interesting post recently from @fellthemarvelous about how Aziraphale is often treated the way female love interests are— likely because his hobbies and emotions are more traditionally feminine whereas crowley’s style and anger are more traditionally masculine despite the fact that neither of them are gendered. the thesis of the post was essentially that because crowley is the one who fell, fans have decided that aziraphale only exists to comfort and protect and bring peace to crowley rather than be his own person with his own emotions and ambitions. i’d never been able to put this into words, but it’s like this person stole what i was feeling right from my brain and i am so thankful to their eloquence.

but it did get me thinking about the end of season 2— specifically how many fans, even people who defend aziraphale for what he did, believe that the “only” way for his choices in the finale to be valid are if he did them for crowley’s safety/well-being. i’ve seen so many arguments along the lines of “oh, he has to go back so he can fix Heaven for Crowley and make him heal from falling” or “oh, he has to go back to Heaven because if he doesn’t, Metatron could go after crowley and he needs to keep him safe”. and while both of these very popular aziraphale-defenses are valid (this is not an attack on anyone’s opinion!) and i wouldn’t be surprised if they played into his reasoning for leaving, i can’t help but think of that lovely person’s female-love-interest argument.

i don’t actually think aziraphale leaving for heaven needs to be related to crowley at all. it can, of course— and likely does— but aziraphale has gone through just as much Heaven-induced trauma as crowley has, something that many fans (and even the characters themselves, sometimes) like to forget. aziraphale knows first-hand how abusive Heaven is to young angels and humans who they deem unworthy of being saved. and so to me, it is just as valid if it turns out aziraphale going back to Heaven wasn’t “for” crowley at all, but rather a way to protect these other generations from the abuse of Heaven that aziraphale has witnessed and been victim to. is it so hard or unacceptable to think that aziraphale could make a choice that doesn’t have to do with his love life? he is not obligated—nor is crowley!— to live entirely as though he’s making something up/repaying/protecting his love interest. that kind codependency is not something to idolize. i guess what i’m trying to say here is that there are other reasons to go back to Heaven having nothing to do with keeping crowley safe, and while that is a perfectly valid interpretation, i’m not personally a fan of the widespread belief that it’s the only interpretation that makes what aziraphale did “forgivable”.

EDIT/ADDITION: i ALSO think that this is why i’m so bothered by the argument that while Crowley being “selfish” and choosing his own path at the end of s2 is perfectly valid, aziraphale doing the exact same thing is not. i do not blame either one of them for making a different choice, but in my opinion far too many people believe that crowley had a right to his own autonomy and do what he thought was best for himself, whereas somehow it was Aziraphale’s job to choose the same thing in accordance to what was most healthy for CROWLEY and not for himself/his own ambitions as regards to Heaven. people think that crowley has an obligation to do what is best for crowley, but that aziraphale’s subsequent obligation is to also do what’s best for crowley. no one seems to particularly care what may be best for aziraphale. at the end of the day, if one of them can make a self-prioritizing choice, the other can, too. aziraphale is his own person, not a love interest!!!!

#good omens #anyone remember that one himym plot line #where lily left to pursue art and postpone the wedding #and everyone made her the villain #and she was like ‘marshall ily this is not about not loving you it’s about ME an my life #but when she came back she still had to apologize #and say she was a bitch for not putting marshall first #this is like that! #i will never get sick of analyzing aziraphale #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale defense #good omens season 3 #good omens season 2 #good omens season 2 ending #supreme archangel aziraphale #metatron #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #gabriel x beelzebub #neil gaiman #michael sheen #david tennant #good omens prime #good omens s2 #good omens finale #good omens analysis #good omens 2 #baddass aziraphale take

[stuckinapril]

Kind of ridiculous that it’s a ubiquitously held notion that if you don’t start a hobby while you’re literally a developing embryo then you can never go pro at it. I have all this TIME to live am I supposed to just lie down and die

#I’ve always wanted to pursue so many things #but the first thought that popped into my head was ‘21 is too old u’ll probably never get proficient at it’ bitch SHUT UP #21 is nothing in the grand scheme of things i literally love wasting time overthinking shit that doesn’t matter #i will do what I want 2 do. goodnight.

[indigoire]

Do y'all ever think about how Stede didn't hesitate for one SECOND to make a mad dash to Ed/The Revenge? Like, he didn't even fully process the information. He heard "The Revenge" and fucking BOLTED. He didn't even try to go for a ladder to get off the ship or anything he literally jumped over the railing to get to Ed. No thought, head empty, gotta get back to my man. THAT'S devotion! THAT'S true love.

#he was operating on pure adrenaline #everyone else is like okay but he might kill you okay but he's been doing fucked up things okay you should be cautious if you donfind him #and Stede went fuck all y'all and continued singlemindedly pursuing the love of his life #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #gentlebeard

[malacandrax]

a little close up!

#I imagine Halsin is reluctant to pursue his feelings because it wouldn't be proper...but he's got it bad #and astarion knows it #I love all the fics with this dynamic #kills me every time

[sluttylittlewaste]

But..like... Kristen Applebees would be a terrible student body president? Just, at the base level of what the job entails, responsibility is literally what student government is about???And unless the function of student government is completely different at Aguefort, it's just a lot of organizing and planning and fundraising - you know, the boring stuff she's never once shown interest in. The shit she didn't want to do for cleric class.

I just want one (1) person to ask her if she knows what the actual job is and if she actually has any plans to do it.

#fantasy high #i love Kristen #but when Cassandra said Kristen is unreliable #she wasn't wrong #kids who want to legitimately pursue politics do student government #kids who aspire to higher education #PEOPLE LIKE RIZ #i also think there's something in this whole campaign to be said about having overly helpful friends #let me die #d20 fhjy #fhjy #if i die #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #thoughts

[lunarharp]

more phoenix wright situations

#ace attorney tag #maybe i should tag this narumitsu or something. but i dont really care. #gearing up to rereading/illustrating bits of my fic i suppose...i think nick really is too dense to realise he's in love with edgeworth #without some scheming fop trying to intrude. i love villains like kristoph..villains can be fun..witnessing their pathetic folly.. #or more like edgeworth would never have mentioned his feelings ever in his life if he wasn't sure phoenix reciprocates. #i want to see it this way because Falling in love during childhood with the person you're going to end up with. is not relatable #there have to be Situations that make you Realise. #as with orufrey i adore the idea of people not working out their romance with that person until their 30s+ #but... i mean. even with orufrey i often think how alaira could be qifrey's ex. and oru having been pursued by noble fops through his work #there is that delicate sliver of time before orufrey start living together that such believable situations could have happened. #Then the relief of politely and amicably extricating themselves from those untenable situations #the idea of falling in love age 7 and saving your first kiss for age 35 or something is all very well but more relatable is #people realising how they really feel whilst trying something that ends up feeling wrong. #The comfort and joy of living with your dearest one as if it's platonic - much preferable to trying anything more with anyone else. #But i doubt i will ever portray that or mention it further. it is indeed very delicate to me. #and i really am an OTP FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! kind of person who can barely bear to consider this anyway...NOT a polyshipper i'm afraid ! #so i wouldn't mind either if they do have their first kiss in their lives age 35 with each other either. I would not mind that at all. #i love bi/gay couples apparently... bi father figures & their grumpy gay men waiting for them to work it all out... #not used to using colour in comic-style drawings..or at all..so this is messy and awkward looking..but colour is refreshing #i imagine i will go back to witch hat art soon btw. my destiny in life. #i still remember writing my nrmt fic expecting to write their first kiss & then partway through twas like Umm No. They have kissed prior. #does that really line up with this comic though... i think i had their early dinner dates/first kiss BEFORE disbarment. #so i guess this comic doesn't line up with my ficverse.... No..... U___U Oh well. sorry kris! <3

[beefy-the-stronk]

Can I do some request?

can you do more of Pepperlante of Pepperman x vigilante please

also can you do Pepperman kiss vigi for the first time

*ragdolls out of the void*

Thank you for this request, it was very healthy enrichment.

This is certainly their first time, they absolutely have no idea how to react ToT

#this kiss was building up over months of them knowing each other- yet it suprised them both #Phil always had feelings- but did not expect this to ever happen #and Vigi to me is rlly demi in both ways- so he didn't really pursue or anticipate any intimacy until they ABSOLUTELY were in the mood #ough i love em #pepperlante #pepperman #the vigilante #pizza tower