#season one was far better

[plumadot]

I saw someone say your art is squishy and I have to agree! It makes me think of those cute little mochi pets that you sit on your dash or computer. I just wanna pat all of your drawings! The little squishy tangos are my fave 🖤🖤🖤

i super love drawing tango gkfjdkgjf so here's a little steampunk redstoner for you

#went a little overboard with this one #but also not far enough #ehhhhh i'll get better :D #hermitcraft season 10 #tangotek #plume art #ask

[l3irdl3rain]

How is my best friend Arthur has he helped you baldur any gates

He’s been good! My washing machine broke last week and I hauled it out the other day in preparation for the new one and he’s been loving his new Top Secret Hiding Spot.

We are taking a little bit of a Baldur’s Gate break right now just because I was getting burnt out. We’re slowly making our way through Mass Effect Andromeda for the second time. I’m very excited to get back to BG3 tho.

I left off right at the start of Act 2. I’m playing a Githyanki monk named Ez’rai and spent way too much time coming up with a backstory for them. I’m going to be romancing Wyll this time. I think Ez’rai growing up in such a harsh culture that didn’t have room for soft romance will go together in such a fun and cute way with Wyll. A noble’s son who is just so sweet and romantic and good.

#been too busy to play much vidya games the past week or two #I spent SO much time on DND wiki #and I feel like it’s plausible with the already set lore. which obviously doesn’t really matter bc it’s just for fun #but it’s important to me that it feels plausible lol #their crèche went rogue. anti Vlaakith teachings as well as teaching that the githzerai and githyanki should reunite #to have a better chance of defeating the mindflayers #for obvious reasons Vlaakith was NOT a fan of this #Vlaakith sent people to destroy the crèche and Ez’rai was one of the only ones who survived #all the survivors eventually either died or ended up split up somehow #makes for an extra interesting dynamic with Lae’zel and also Orpheus (even tho I have to imagine it all in my head lol) #anyways BG3 was my first introduction to DND lore so if you’re a seasoned pro and this seems so far fetched to you I’m sorry #I’m just having fun with my blorbos #my post #Arthur #ask

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 British Grand Prix - Qualifying - Oscar Piastri(ft. Mark Webber, Jenson Button, Max Verstappen & Lando Norris)

#sry this took so long!!! my internet was holding me hostage!!! #but oh MY GOD!!!!!!!! OSCARRRRRRRRRRRR IM SCREAMINGGGG #oscar!!! ich bin so stolz auf dich!!!!!!!!!!! #i was watching this in public and my hands were shaking and my heart was pounding i cant believe it actually happened!!! #absolutely fantastic quali session!! every single round i was like woah??????? #its so crazy to see how far mclaren have some since the beginning of the season #like i remember them being i think p19 and p20 at the beginning of the season #but now look!!! p2 and p3???? crazy. #i guess mark actually does have good foresight! we can stop bullying him abt the piasco jdksdk #anyways ahhhhh ive missed being able to fully keep up w the race wknd! #im not fully back yet but it feels rly good to be able to do this not in a completely frantic rush as per the past 2 races #but i will say its been nice to be in a better timezone!! im not excited to have to wake up early again once i get back #oscar piastri #op81 #lando norris #max verstappen #mark webber #jenson button #f1 #formula one #formula 1 #we do a little bit of f1 #2023 british grand prix #2023 british gp

[thatonequeeraunt]

"You're just an angel that goes along with heaven as far as he can"

WOW THAT HURTS SO MUCH MORE NOW

#and he went far #I was screaming #YOU BETTER RUN OUT OF ELAVATOR #NOT THE DOORS CLOSING WTF #I'm not hating on aziraphale #but that was one hell of a mistake #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #gos2 spoilers #good omens #gos2 #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands

[lemongogo]

can i ask.how u guys practice ur creativity <3 how u practice ur imagination or like.. how u experiment with ur art, how u come to ideas and how u develop them.<3 pretty please <3

#smthing i have always struggled w.is feeling like i can only draw things that r handed 2 me. #as in.an idea or concept that already exists #chara or conflict that already exists.Scene that alr exists. #and i think it can be soo limiting bc when i have that sort of creative desire but nothing 2 reflect off of it #i feel like im unable to do anything/get anywhere bc im unable to do that mental legwork myself ykwim #like comic artists r SOOO JAW DROP INSPIRING TO MEE bc not only are u envisioning ur own sequences/situations #but u are able to imagine even the most MUNDANE interactions within those scenarios u know #like the transitory panels and the quiet moments and the every day stillness #and i feel like.its not even a poor attempt on my behalf its like.i cant Even attempt it.like my brain is soo empty #and soo static and noiseless that i am like gauhh...... #i can practice lines all day long and practice colors and practice anatomy or Whatever bc its something concrete #and its in front of me and i can pry apart the physical technicalities until i understand it better #but my MIND???ABSTRACTION>? THOUGHTS .ough its so hard #and i really want to push past that but i dont know how and its so .. demoralizing to think that ill get there One Day but i feel #one million and two days away.and not making active process towards it. #i know the first step is to build ur visual library and i feel liek. idk i FEEL LIKEEE theres more 2 it that im missing #but also im depressed as hell n my job is killing my creative drive and the seasonal stuff isnt helping #so maybe i just need 2 give it time (true) but i also like.man i dont know. i want 2 do something w my hands #but everything ive been doing so far has felt soo .hard and fruitless and i definitely dont want 2 turn art into such a stressful thing #fruitless as in like.i dont get any personal satisfaction w it.idgaf abt monetization or algorithms or any of tht #but smtimes thats just what happens and i have 2 weather through and know ill be more equipped 4 this some other time #SAWRYYY IM ALWAYS GOING ON AND ONNN im nromal im normal<3 i just rly like art and it sucks balls whn it feels out of reach #sigh cry fart scroll.(:salute:)

[iamsonormalaboutninjago]

oh my god I’m so sorry for being gone so long

Kinda trying to avoid spoilers cause I’m watching only two episodes per week-

BUT I JUST WATCHED EPISODE 5 and AAAAAAHSHSHSNSH

I haven’t been thinking about ninjago that much cause of stupid school finals but omg this is one of the most perfect examples for how ninjago is just so top tier

The writing is amazing

The emotions are emotioning

Egalt is an assening

I LOVE ITTT

#it feels like S8 again #there’s so much care put into this season #I just wish EP 4 was better I think that ones my least fav so far. it felt like it went by so quickly :( #love Cole and geo tho #i need them to kiss or huggg #I sound like a 4 year old writing this lmaooo #ninjago #ninjago spoilers #spoilers #lego ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising s2

[tennessoui]

about to get my wisdom teeth out which really feels like a rite of passage I should have had years ago when I could miss school and my parents would make me mushy nutritious food and pick me up and sign all the forms for me instead of being all grown up and stopping by Whole Foods on the way home to purchase applesauce before going back to work armed with gauze pads and Advil ☠️

#kit to kit #my holiday season has not been great so far #but it can only #get better from here! #im not being put to sleep so technically I’ll be in pain but still able to do all these things #like shop and then work #because I won’t be loopy #👶👶👶 #dc dentists are sadists no one wants to put me out 😮‍💨 #they just want my dental anxiety to paralyze me into place #loopy kit would have been a fun time we would have loved loopy kit

[swiftcast-selene]

been thinking about how hard MSQ must be on the body, especially for someone who isn't exactly in the best shape of their life. must be hard to keep up with the warrior of light! which ended up in a couple studies of how Negi's carried his weight through the whole adventure, with a couple extra mostly-non-spoilery notes on each expac~

#ffxiv #ffxiv art #ffxiv miqo'te #miqo'te #ff14 #negi bloodpath #images should be id'ed ik my handwriting is hard to parse lol #essentially though. i wanted him to go thru a Journey body-wise because i always drew him kind of the exact same and i wanted to figure out #how exactly it would Affect him to have to catch up with the wol because for a time it is Very hard for him to do that. #with Sagra being a seasoned warrior from the Steppe and him “just” being a little herbalist failed conjurer he has like #a hard time feeling like he deserves to be by his side? and feeling like he deserves his place in the Scions #because so far he'd only been assigned to a couple lower stakes jobs #and then to Sagra and then it got. very serious very fast! #but after a while he figures like. well god damn it if no one else will do it. i fucking will. #and i'll do a GREAT JOB OF IT!!! #overpowering his anxiety just out of pure spite #then shb happens and kind of puts a wrench in that but he does get better. sheer force of will he does get better. #but that's too much to get into in tags LMAOO and we haven't rped it yet so it's still In The Air #taking between patch time to cement him before dawntrail comes he's gotten really good after ew but he deserves to be PERFECT by dt!!!!!! #my little fucking man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #my art

[kaleidoscopeaglow]

the new season of iasip is so good i love how they’re all being nicer to each other but not in a way that’s out of character

#even though they’re still being dicks to each other you can tell they care about each other #i also love episodes where dennis and dee get to team up #and the fact that they’ve had a scheme for sixteen years to take frank out once a year to steal his money is so siblings of them #the new season is just so great so far #the last couple ones haven’t been super good so i was worried but they’re way better #they’re funny as shit too #i love season sixteen #iasip #trash twins #dennis reynolds #charlie kelly #dee reynolds #mac macdonald #frank reynolds #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #it’s always sunny

[sonknuxadow]

it's so wild to me that people talk like sonic and knuckles just now started acting gay in frontiers or that the sonknux ship only exists because of frontiers theyve been gay this whole TIME you just refused to admit it until now

#where were you when knuckles was caught staring at the moon thinking about sonic HMMMMM #ok actually. and id like to preface what im about to say with the fact that #while my feelings on it and the way the fandom acts about it are complicated i DO like sonadow #and im not trying to argue over which ship is better here thats not the point im trying to make #but anyways now that im thinking about it i think people only acknowledging how gay sonic and knuckles are in 2022 #has something to do with shadow not being in frontiers #because. its a fact that sonic and shadow are like the default gay pairing for sonic and they tend to overshadow sonic and knuckles #moments between sonic and shadow always get a much bigger reaction than ones between sonic and knuckles #and a lot of the other media with sonknux moments also had shadow in them #so no matter how gay sonic and knuckles are people Always choose to focus on sonic and shadow instead #sonic could do the exact same things with both of them and people would only care when its shadow #i know because its happened before #people also tend to take certain themes and dynamics from sonic and knuckles relationship and apply them to sonic and shadow instead #even if it doesnt make sense and theyre just making stuff up #or they make shadow act like knuckles to make the dynamic appeal to them more instead of just. liking sonknux instead #sometimes people even go as far as taking onscreen moments that are obviously about sonic and knuckles #and try to make them about sonic and shadow instead (example: the i love captains scene in sonic prime) #sonic and knuckles still go ignored even if whatever media that's being talked about has sonic interact with knuckles MORE than shadow #and none of sonics interactions with shadow could reasonably be interpreted in a romantic way #(again like season 1 of sonic prime . there were like 500 sonadow posts when they barely even interacted) #basically where im going with this is that shadow not being in frontiers #possibly forced people to actually think about sonic and knuckles because shadow wasnt there to distract them #AGAIN not trying to argue about which pairing is better this is just a pattern of behavior i have noticed

[pftones3482]

A list of ways they could have ended the Hamster and Gretel season finale that would have been better than whatever the hell that was:

Gretel reveals herself to Hiromi to help explain to her why Kevin constantly has to dip (Hiromi has proven herself trustworthy several times at this point there is literally no risk to telling her)

Kevin and Gretel have an actual heart to heart where they talk out why they're frustrated with each other

Gretel reads Kevin the speech she literally wrote for him

Some kind of flash back to the twins where we see Lauren starting to doubt the whole "supervillain" thing

I get it's a "kids show" but kids shows still deserve actually good writing and plot and this just. Wasn't it. The open ending was TOO open ended. Leaving the failed date for next season? Sure. Leaving the potential redemption arc for the villain next season? Yeah okay.

Wiping away the brother and sister tension with a throwaway scene and no follow up? Come on. And ending with the stupid aliens teasing next season, then crushing Kevin further with how he wasn't supposed to get powers, and finishing out the whole season with what literally is just a, "That's rough buddy?"

Yeesh.

#kevin has a catu level meltdown coming and i for one hope he actually gets it #hng #hamster and gretel #i also struggle bc like.....gretel is roughly the age of phineas and ferb. if not a little bit younger #but youre telling me that she WOULDN'T feel bad if kevin actually told her how he was feeling? #if you're gonna make another sibling show that specifically revolves around siblings can you like. #idk make me care about them AS siblings? #tell me how with no episodic continuity phineas and ferb and candace still have a more well rounded sibling relationship #in just the first season of the show #and theres actually a STORY LINE to HnG and theyre still having the same sibling problems they did at the very beginning of the show #Kevin still feels left out and useless and Gretel still doesnt get that despite it being brought up 100 times #idk do better that was a shitty season finale it didnt even feel like a finale #this is far too many tags for me to be rambling about a childrens show #also the opening scene? was redundant. its already been shown in the show a thousand times that Kevin would do anything for Gretel

[space-twelve]

loki season 1 🤝 loki season 2

“that did NOT happen in the finale”

#overall this one was far better than the season 1 finale #and yet #loki season 2 #loki

[ladyalicentshightower]

I think people overestimate how feminist team black is. If someone brings up how Baela should be the heir to Driftmark, it's always "she would've been Queen if not for the Greens!", ignoring that 1, she would be Queen consort, not a Queen in her own right, and 2 she has a legitimate claim in her own right to Driftmark. Team Black's goal is to crown Rhaenyra, but Rhaenyra becoming Queen isn't a win for feminism because it does nothing to dismantle the rest of the patriarchal system that exists in Westeros. From what we've gotten so far, it reads that Rhaenyra wants to be the exception and not the rule. Rhaenyra has made a lot of bad political decisions, which means she can't acknowledge Baela's claim because it would weaken her own claim (blatantly admitting her eldest sons are illegitimate would not end well for her to say the least). So she betrothes Jace and Luke to Baela and Rhaena to kind of atone for that, like as a consolation prize Baela will be Queen and Rhaena will be lady of Driftmark, neither of them would hold either title in their own right. It's good matches because the kids like each other and will treat each other well, but it's not a feminist win or a feministic liberation. It's usurpation, usurpation that takes place because Rhaenyra has to do damage control after having illegitimate children and after a serious of bad political decisions (both hers and her fathers, Viserys is the arbiter of this entire mess). To me, Rhaenyra is very reminiscent of Mary Queen of Scots, I can see a lot of elements drawn from Mary's history in Rhaenyra's story and character, down to their sons eventually taking the crown they failed to claim/keep.

#hotd #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon #house of the dragon spoilers #Rhaenyra targaryen critical #I'm going to do a rewatch prior to season 2 & I'm going to analyse the bad political decisions from vis & Rhaenyra that lead to the dance #like by no means the only factors at play lets not forget otto daemon larys etc #but it's an interesting factor that the fandom doesn't really acknowledge #and a lot of Rhaenyra's bad political decisions are understandable because of her youth and because viserys does fuck all to prepare her #like even if she wasn't who he choose as heir she should've been given a better political education as a princess #but vis fails his most of his other four kids in that regard to #i mean he also fails to acknowledge them or remember them but anyways #he is a huge part of the reason aegon and aemond became he they did #props to whoever probably alicent for sending daeron to oldtown so he could grow up well adjusted #alicent: i'm writing a letter to daeron is there anything you would like to say to him? #viserys: daemon? why are you writing to daemon? #alicent: daeron? #viserys: who? #alicent: our son? the one you sent to squire in oldtown? #viserys: i think i'd remember if we had a son who's name was one letter different to my brothers #viserys: in fact i do alicent do you mean the one who lost an eye? #alicent: *screaming internally* #viserys targaryen #king viserys #rhaenyra is such an interesting character but i hate how the fandom sanctified her because how dare characters be complex and have flaws #like you dont have to justify their actions or bend over backwards to deny their faults to like a character you know 😭 #and the same thing is done to daemon who is far more fucked up and far more flawed in the show than the fandom allows #i hate the team stuff tho i get hbo going for it as a marketing move that was genius but my god are certain stans insufferable #the entire point of the dance is that its a pointless tragedy there's no good or bad side theyre both awful in their own ways #but thats a longer rant for another time outside of the tags

[candied-cae]

S2E2 Ed's plot my beloved-

I ADORE THIS EPISODE IN HOW IT PORTRAYS ED'S MENTAL HEALTH!!!

TW, this post is going to discuss Ed's suicidal behavior and attempt in depth. It will not be heartwarming, I am agonizing over the details. Please don't open if that reading is going to be damaging at all to you. Protect yourself first, y'all! Anyway...

Every little detail from his time on screen is spent sending hints to the viewer that it's Ed's last day alive.

The first time we see him that morning, he looks refreshed. He's decidedly sober and cleaning up his cabin and he's joking and almost... bright again. He's talkative and seems so calm. And it's because he's finally decided to kill himself.

It's been a long observed point for folks with suicidal thoughts/actions that once they've decided on doing it, there's a certain kind of peace that comes with that. Because it's going to be over soon, you know you'll be able to rest. There's an expiry approaching, and there's a comfort in knowing you've almost reached the end, like getting close to the end of a long work shift.

And so he's cleaning up, so he'd doesn't leave as much of a mess behind (Also something that is well documented from people who attempt). At least, assumably that was the idea, like he hadn't originally planned to take the whole ship down with him, it seems like he was planning to do something smaller for just him as of that morning. So he’s tidying up for the rest of them.

It's both a gesture of kindness to make sure they aren't left with as much of a "hassle" once they find him dead, but it's also a point of "pride" in a way. So when it's all over, they will sweep through a cleaner room and remember him better in that last day, than so much of the mess and stress of the earlier ones.

The second time we see him is when he's figured out Frenchie didn't finish off Izzy. And not only does he offer for Izzy to do it, he tells him that it'd be a good thing for him to do. Like it was a favor, killing him would've been "just what the doctor ordered" to make him feel better.

But Izzy doesn't do it, and he assumes Izzy ends himself after he's left the room.

The third hint is that he's so forgiving with everyone. He doesn't hold a grudge against Frenchie for lying to him and hiding Izzy in the secret room, he doesn't yell at anyone (like Jim or Archie) for conspiring with him, he even tells Frenchie to take the day off and thanks him for the closure.

Again, it's following that motion of peace and contentment, he doesn't have to go into death mad, he can do it calmly. He can let it all go, because soon enough it won't be a problem and he knows he's now decided to take them all down with him. So he might as well let them enjoy their last few hours as much as they can.

And he instead resides to sit at the wheel, turning them sharply right into a dark storm, all the while he wears the softest smile. Because he is calm, he is clear headed, and he is done waiting for something else to kill him. And that's a very common thing for people to want in those last moments. To go clean and sober and content and in peace.

They hit a lot of the MAJOR signs they teach you that someone is about to take their live, the only one I can think of off the top of my head that wasn't explicitly included would've been the giving away of personal possessions.

(But, perhaps even following the idea that originally he was going to go alone, he was going to be leaving everything including the boat to his crew, so maybe that idea was kind of hidden in there. It's just not as direct as personally going to people and handing over things.)

Anyway, I'm sure a lot of these clues were well picked up by the fandom, I'm sure a lot of us have learned about these stages of suicidal action for various reasons ourselves. I just wanted to point out that timeline and how perfectly it seems to fit across the whole episode as this singular, unspoken intent behind every single one of Ed's actions until it comes to a head and the crew on deck can't ignore how drastic everything had turned.

#Cae Has Lots of Feelings About Our Flag Means Death #I love love love this plot of the episode #From the moment it started and we saw how at ease he seemed... I knew what was coming #The suicide plan was officially in motion as far as Edward Teach was concerned #And there is some soft sweetness that he was going to do it all alone originally. #That he had made the decision that there wasn't anything to live for and he was going to just take care of himself in that way. #That he only decided to try and take the whole ship down with him when he was 'scorned' again by his crew. #AHHHHHH! #I just love Ed so much and his character is so beautifully written and played and expressed #That moment towards the end as his crew huddles together - terrified - and they can't figure out why it all seems to backwards #Why he's acting 'better' but steering them right into the violent waters of a sea storm #Because they weren't taught these things. They don't know what it looks like when someone's ending their life like this. #And they are trying to follow the logic of 'Ed is a sailing genius' 'He knows what he's doing' 'He has to' 'But this...' #It's 100% perfection #and though I definitely have a few gripes and concerns about this season so far... This episode's Ed plot is not one of them. #Not in the least. #Our Flag Means Death #OFMD #Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Spoilers #Our Flag Means Death Spoilers #OFMD Spoilers #OFMDS2 #OFMD s2 spoilers #Edward #Edward Teach #Blackbeard #The Kraken

[sm0lcatfish]

is there anything i could do? i could try?

you can’t help me. maybe figure out your own problems.

#yes i know in the ep her hat is still green but its offwhite to match in my heart #‘maybe figure out ur own problems’ could be taken as insulting but it could also be like. i’m already too far gone #at least you want to be better #do better #so focus on helping yourself rather than someone who’s already fallen too deep #which is interesting considering one of the reasons shelby was rejected was because of her desire to help the others #she always puts others first. even when it dooms her. #anyways enough of my rambling #empires smp #animalfied #shubble #empires shubble #catified #catfish art #empires season 2 #nature wives #empires katherine #katherine elizabeth #empires shipping #nw is implied so i guess it could be taken platonically but #nw breakup <33333

[akkivee]

‘fucking shit it’s cold as hell!!!!!!! and i have to clean these damn floors in this weather????? ………fuck, fine, let’s get this over with!!!!!!’

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no you don’t understand kuukou really hates the cold LOL

#this is vee speaking #the arb chronicles #in his other line he was much more chill lol but obviously by that point he’d adjusted to the weather lol #he got bored shoveling snow so instead of incurring his father’s wrath by going back to his room #he decided to risk it all by making a snowman lol (KUUKOU MAKING A SNOWMAN 2.0 LETS GO) #jyushi doesn’t fair much better in the cold lol but hitoya!!!! #he gets cold too but he’s far better adjusted lol #i can’t believe arb doesn’t have winter chibis btw lol #maybe after the anniversary that can happen lol we deserve seasonal chibis to alongside the holiday ones