#sensible is how I want to be

[void-kissed]

It makes me smile that everyone has said the same thing about me regarding that reblog game so far - namely, that I'm the sanest/least unhinged one that they know, or other words to a similar effect

I have officially been designated the Holder Of Sense(TM) and shall proceed to go mad with this power- wait, no

#a call from the void #not strictly about selfshipping #but the idea came to mind and I thought it was amusing #sensible is how I want to be #so the fact it's how I am by others' reckoning means a lot #it gives you all a sounding board! #a surface off of which to bounce and amplify hilarity! #for being sane is not to be devoid of chaotic potential #far from it in fact #..for some reason all I can think of now is that post about fair folk being unable to lie and being annoyed that humans can so easily #the one that's like: ''okay i'm.. purple'' ''no! that is not true in the slighest! you are hardly even puce'' #and then the human goes ''haha you seem mad'' to which the reply is ''I assure you I am wholly and terribly sane'' #a line like that's the kind I like to deliver with coldness in my voice and a smile on my face - you know? #to play the part of the serious one while still very much having fun #i'm a trickster not a memer

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track) #The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more. #I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by #and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles! #Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise! #I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space. #It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is #You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together: #I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper. #I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything. #You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there. #Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite. #day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less: #'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all) #This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly. #(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)

[inkskinned]

it mattered because when my brother asked me what if this is the happiest you'll ever be? the best you'll ever get? the thing i felt was fear, not peace. everybody thought you were so perfect for me. even i thought you were "helping me grow". i had to challenge every internal clock. make myself more thoughtful, more kind, more beautiful.

i told my therapist it was good because i like the changes i made and there's something so strong about saying i did that. the problem is that i can like the difference all i want, but i changed for you. something akin to getting your name tattooed, all my progress is stamped with fuck you.

it was the happiest i'd ever been and also the best i'd ever gotten. i would still get in the car and think what the fuck just happened.

#warm up #writeblr #i spent a lot of time picturing our future #how funny to think: in each version of our future #i was never myself #i was someone smarter kinder braver #better adept. #who could navigate the way you shouted and got angry at small things and never fucking believed the best of me #i would never be needy and you'd never get tired of me #people usually talk about how we picture people as being “fixable”. but i assumed i was the problem. my idyllic picture wasn't of you. #it was a version of me that wasn't ill. that needed no extra help. that could be your wife and happy #the fact i wasn't happy was because there is something so wrong inside me. it's always been that way. i convinced myself: #if i stay i can change. if i stay i can make it worth it. i can apologize and fix this. and make us both okay. #for the last year i've been thinking about how you blamed our whole breakup on me. how it was my fault for whatever thing. #and i agreed with you. because of course i did. you'd trained me to believe everything was my fault . that you wanted to love me and i made #it far too hard. that i was always finding ways to ''set you off'. #a few days ago while i was doing something else #i realized that while i was in crisis you told me to fuck off and find someone else to get help. and you never fucking apologized . #you said i made you do that because i wasn't being sensible. i had been crying too hard to speak clearly. #you said: you're doing this to manipulate me. #you forgave yourself for that. i had to forgive you without apology. you said you were right to react that way. and then you were SO #SO annoyed. any time i said: i feel like you aren't nice to me. it is hard to trust that you love me. #i don't think about you that much anymore. but these days when i do: all i can think is that im not sure u ever really understood kindness #you were the cruelest to the people closest to you. and most of the time. that meant it fell to me.

[treasureplcnet]

do i think weissman would try very hard to be a good dad? yes. do i think he would be good at it? i am pleading the fifth

#its ok. he gets better with practice #in yiddish my poor girl is telling karl to kill himself . i had to use google translate so if anyone wants to correct me pls do #karl weissman #esther jankovsky #charles whiteman #bodies netflix #my art #karl 'stop swearing so much' weissman vs esther 'i learnt it from you' jankovsky #i think its so beautiful how he has a parental instinct and no sensibility to go along with it <3 cringefail girl dad

[akiacia]

the myth of eros and psyche

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #thought this would be a fun parody/au! (ignoring the other trappings of the myth) 🤣 #in hindsight the veil looks goofy but it worked in my head LOL #step 4 later maybe (i wanted to make sure i hadn't forgotten how to do illos #also all i initially rmbed and what inspired this was eros being a drama queen + psyche sicced w a million trials #but the finer details are wild af #i think eros/psyche is tame by olympus metrics but (my) modern sensibilities disagree 🤣 myth as allegory vs narrative ig

[spielzeugkaiser]

I love your art soooo much-it gives me life!! 🥰🥰🥰

I have a question about Milek and Jaskier! Milek says they fought before Jask went missing-what did they fight about? Did Milek say something he shouldn’t have? 👀😢 is there ANGST?

Also does Geralt know Mileks plush friend is called Roach? Because surely that’s a clue that Milek is his…(I love this universe so much)!!🥹❤️❤️❤️

[MASTERPOST] That was the last conversation they had before Milek stormed out - and when he came back, Jaskier was. gone. The thing is, Jaskier knows what Milek is interested in (and he is not even wrong about that, Milek has an interest in medicine, and helping people, and I think when they met he was Shanis biggest fan) and I think Jaskier is aware that some of the conflict does have its roots in Milek not wanting to leave him, even if they get really heated and ugly in their arguments. Milek shouldn't feel like he has to care for him, or have to protect him and at times I think Jaskier feels quite ashamed, which leads him to being way too unrelenting at times - especially if he thinks he's doing something to protect Milek.

#jaskier #the witcher #geraskier lovechild #artists on tumblr #omegaverse #I think if they argue Milek is saying stuff he shouldn't all the time #I think for Milek the part that makes him feel really bad is that he KNOWS that Jaskier would always choose having him again and again #because he KNOWS that he loves him more than anything else #but he still implied that he doesn't know - and he knows what he said was cruel #but he also !! is so angry #because Jaskier always treats him like he knows what's best for him and. let it be true - it still makes him FURIOUS #he isn't a little kid anymore #and he wants to HELP he loves his father and he knows that Jaskier gives and gives and gives especially when it comes to him #he doesn't need a fancy education in an academy where he'll be just the bastard kid again #he just needs a Pa who doesn't absolutely run himself to the ground #and I think he finally wants to meet Geralt too #also I'm trying to do a thing here which I think shows how secure their relationship truly is #because Geralt sees Milek as a quite sensible (if sometimes a bit hotheaded) young man - who is quite mature for his age #which he CAN be #but Geralt is also basically a stranger even if Milek knows he's his dad - and he tries to impress him naturally - ofc he wants to be liked #with Jaskier? who has his one true emotionally secure relationship with? #moody teenanger - but also allowing himself to be childish at times - crying shouting teasing - exploding sometimes #because he never ever had to question their relationship once #he can just let loose

[butlerkitty-art]

old/unfinished explorations of freya's past through her garb as Leader of the Vanir & Queen of the Aesir.

#I just wanted to think about how she probably had to give up a lot of her Vanir sensibilities in asgard #forced to abandon the green & bronze of the Vanir and wear the blue & gold of the Aesir in change #how stifling it must have been for her to become a wife #i tried to incorporate some things she currently wears in her old Vanir garb #like she tried to reclaim her past and culture even though she was barred from it #i think i originally wanted to add more adornments to her vanir design? #but couldnt figure them out so. whatever #i do really love that picture of her with sparrows bite though shes my wife forever & ever #also peep the brisingr in her aesir design... cus she had baldur <3 #god of war #gow #god of war 2018 #gow 2018 #freya #freya god of war #freya gow #god of war freya #gow freya #gowr #gow ragnarook #god of war ragnarok

[batrachised]

it kills me how Una doesn't really get her 'happily ever after' - all the other rainbow valley crowd, after a childhood seeded in misery and grief from the loss of their mother (and a neglectful father) get their own families and partners from what we know of their stories. Una doesn't, and what makes this particularly tragic for me is that Una imo would be the person who wanted it the most. She wanted to stay in the glen, and of anyone, I feel like she would be the one most interested in having a family. There's not so much as a hint of that for her; in fact, TBAQ confirms that years later, she's still "keeping the faith."

#una Meredith #lm montgomery #I've talked a lot about how Walter is almost more emblem than character #but I think that applies to Una too #what's sad is that even if Walter had returned I don't think he could have given that to Una #Although I think (pondering out loud) given Walter's sensibilities one thing that could have centered him is having a child #it's a strange thing to say but Walter is similar to Anne and we saw how Anne was with Joy #after such ugliness maybe it would have given him renewed purpose - an actualization of what he had fought for #I want to dig more into the lost generation because I think that Walter fits nearly into that #anyway au where Walter survives and somehow has a baby with Una and he's like Anne with Joy

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

236. Krampus (2015)

#krampus #krampus (2015) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #tw: horror #it's 2 Dec and so the Christmas films begin #no it won't just be Christmas horror #sadly not so many Christmas horror films that I'm actually interested in #too many damned slashers #which bore me to tears #give me the Christmas supernatural horror #that's my shit #and too little of that around #luckily i love Michael Dougherty films #and he did not disappoint #i just love his visuals and his sense of humour so much #it's just as dark and grim and fucked up as mine #and his visuals are as gorgeous as i want #it's an actual delight to make gifs of his films #cos you brighten them up and there's all this detail that literally comes to light #whereas other films you brighten them #and it still looks like shit #but no his films have texture and interesting detail #three out of three films i've watched of his now #and i've loved every one #not much characterisation here #but that's okay #it's the actual story and its dark sensibility that i enjoy so much #and how fucken hawt is that krampus tongue #fuck yeah

[doodlebeeberry]

what implications do u think the amelia investigations episode (possibly) being last has......

thinking about it im not sure implications is the word i was really looking for, rather i think theres like. a particular weight, to me, in placing her episode as the last one (presuming, of course, that there are only 5 episodes in investigations like is generally whats being assumed. for all we know though there could be more than that but thats the assumption im working off of)

ive always read the lack of any particularly tangible details about her pre-plane life, let alone the lake of an actual disappearance scene for her, as a means of further alienating her from her previous life. It drives in this wedge between Amelia and Scenty, such that even though shes probably the most vocal (at least throughout s1) about wanting to go home, her desire is countered by the fact that pretty much her entire existence in the show is defined by exclusively her time on the plane. The lack of a background for her (as absolutely crazy as it drives me) does play a pretty notable role in how her relationship to earth and the plane and herself are laid out.

This, in my mind, creates a bit of an interesting situation for investigations to play with. seemingly, investigations kinda requires an exploration into everyone's pre-plane lives, a certain insight into their lives that amelia just doesnt have. so, unless they do something a bit radical in the presentation of that episode in particular, youd have to explore her old life on some level without undermining the dynamic with it that we already have. I guess the most obvious answer is that it wont be amelia telling her own story to the audience. We wont be hearing her explain or be in her perspective, we'll be hearing from (presumably) garret. Its a story about her that isnt her story to tell. even when we do finally get to see it, her life, her disappearance isnt hers. not really. and i think placing it last in the sequence, the final mystery to unravel, the hardest answer to get, implies at the very least an acknowledgement of that.

but i do have a degree in Reading Into Things so like. who knows. maybe thats just what i want

#in short: i am amelia enjoyer number one thats why #hfjone #i assume that my interpretation of her backstory situation is the popular one but i really have no idea #cause people like. arent as interested in what she has going on in comparison to bryce and liam and airy #(also if taylor and charlotte are your number ones then i dont know how you guys do it. your like 10 times more powerful than me they get #so little despite being so interesting) #its something i accept but like. Real reluctantly. i get why 'not giving a character who wants a thing the thing' is a perfectly sound #writing choice #im just not happy about it. #anyway. hope that answers your question like sensibly. ive gotta go to class #ask

[questioningdragons]

El: *spends five minutes justifying her decision to abandon the new kids*

El: *saves the new kids, but is really grumpy about it*

#The scholomance #This girl goes on and on about how ridiculous Orion's hero act is #And how it's so much more sensible to be selfish #But I don't think we ever once see her being selfish #The closest I can think of is her refusing to tell Orion who killed Louisa #But is not wanting to piss off a proven murderer really that selfish?

[e-louise-bates]

She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

This has the same feel as Bilbo Baggins's "I don't know half of you half so well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

#jane austen #sense and sensibility #I'd almost forgotten how strong her narrative voice is in this one #her snarky asides are delightful #though I am somewhat surprised this time around to find myself occasionally sympathizing with marianne #and wanting elinor to allow herself to show a little emotion once in a while #who knows #perhaps marianne would be less driven by her emotions if elinor weren't so composed all the time

[coquelicoq]

I said, "Can I examine the dead human now?" Indah just looked tired. "Can you humor me and please refer to the victim as 'the deceased' or 'the victim' during the course of the investigation?" She turned to go, not waiting for an answer. She missed Mensah mouthing the words stop it at me. (Fugitive Telemetry, 12-13) Thiago was standing out on said observation deck, trying to reason with a potential target. (That’s "potential" per the earlier conversation where Dr. Arada said Oh SecUnit, I wish you wouldn’t call people "targets" and Thiago had given me the look that usually means It just wants an excuse to kill someone.) (Network Effect, 9)

ugh, hate it when these special snowflakes ask me not to refer to people as "the dead human" or [checks notes] "the human who i'm gonna kill here in a minute," sooo annoying 🙄

#guess who has finally started the network effect reread slash notetaking endeavor? this guy! #and this is the very first thing i noticed #(i feel i should clarify that page 9 is the first page in my copy lol. i can be observant! when i try really hard!) #i just love mb's push-and-pull between how it wants to refer to things and how the humans want it to refer to them #and how it like. snarkily corrects itself in its narration in such a way that you can just feel the eyeroll #e.g. 'Prematurely eliminating the visible targets (excuse me‚ potential targets) on deck #might just tip us out of incipient shitshow into full-on shitshow.' #or how in FT it starts saying 'the deceased' when talking to indah but continues using 'the dead human' in its internal monologue #WHICH i just think is INCHERESTING especially alongside mb's crankiness about very benign preservation naming conventions #it wants to use the words it wants to use! this is a display of independence! but hey guess what mb sometimes #other people have rights too lmao and yeah sometimes you gotta make concessions to their delicate little sensibilities #like ''not wanting to think of people as 'dead members of my species' or 'about-to-be-dead members of my species''' #murderbot #mb identifiers #mb categorization #the murderbot diaries #my posts #f #linked to #i also think it's funny that mb took arada's feedback and just added the word 'potential'. like i don't think that's arada's problem here? #AND it's interesting that later when mb is doing the dramatic rescue it decides 'at the last second' #to change from 'kill-hits' to 'wound-hits' because 'Thinking of Arada’s sad face made me too uncomfortable' #HMM. MUCH 2 THINK ABOUT

[oathtorn]

// sometimes I think about how many times in bg3 you get conflicts that don't have an objectively "best" outcome. I think about freeing the 7000 vampires, for example. Freeing them is the ethical thing to do, because they are all innocent victims, but it remains true that leaving thousands of vampires loose, even in the underdark, is a bad bad idea. Not only are they traumatized people, but they're predators who have only their instincts to help them survive in an unfamiliar land that isn't exactly bountiful in terms of wildlife. If they don't do well, they'll die or be slaughtered, and if they do they'll ruin entire communities or ecosystems, depending on whether they feed on people or animals.

#i was thinking again of that line minthara says about how the patriars should have the refugees work for them and have them defend the city #and tav is like 'um that's slavery you're describing?' #and she's like 'call it what you want but would you rather have them die of starvation stuck outside the city walls?' #and i mean the player doesn't have much to say in that matter but there is still a complex situation being presented with no easy solution #because bg has been the destination for refugees for a long time already #like it was already in a state of crisis after the descent when many people who could not return to their homes #massively started to arrive to the gate #right when their duke was gone and left the city without a ruler and the military without a leader #now the government is even WORSE and so is the refugee situation since they're now coming from everywhere #it is painfully true that the guild is still the only truly functioning organism in the city #and they're also having trouble with the absolute #like bg objectively doesnt have the space or the means to sustain the refugees #the patriars may #but in the end gold cant feed a family either #but eating the rich does sound like the most sensible option still- #ooc #the only objectively good ending i think is if you could leave the githyanki egg with lae'zel #also i think of the quest zevlor gives for killing kagha #which sounds like a sensible option when he says it but it prompts the grove massacre #but you can explain it to halsin and he understands that they forgot their principles and attacked defenseless refugees #and you merely defended yourself and them #then again if you look in the right places you can see dialogues suggesting that the refugees are indeed damaging the grove #like chopping trees without the druid's consent #so. #yeah i just have a deep appreciation for some aspects of the game's writing #that show there often isn't an objectively best choice #and you are just doing your best with the information you have and what your morals dictate

[bethanydelleman]

Missing Scenes in Jane Austen

There are some missing scenes I would love to read, I’ll start with Pride & Prejudice:

Darcy explaining to Colonel Fitzwilliam why he needs to tell the deep, dark family secret of Georgiana almost eloping to a random girl at the parsonage (I’ve done this one)

The walking conversation where Darcy is like, “So what would you think if the next time in Kent you stay at Rosings? HINT HINT HINT” and Elizabeth is like, “What is this dude talking about and why does he keep bumping into me in the garden?”

Lydia and Kitty chilling with the militia and planning cross-dressing level hijinks

Darcy extremely excitedly hurrying Georgiana to go change after her long journey so she can meet this girl he found wandering around his house.

Lady Catherine checking the shade pollution levels post marriage

Sense & Sensibility:

Edward telling Lucy he’s been disinherited and heavily hinting that it would be best for them all if she broke the engagement, while Lucy lies through her teeth about loving him so much

The duel between Colonel Brandon and Willoughby

Lucy "seducing" Robert while Robert is actually trying to steal her away from his brother.

Emma:

What Frank and Jane talked about when he pretended to fix the glasses and got everyone else out of the house. Also their fight on the Donwell Abbey day

Robert Martin’s proposal letter and second proposal. Just for the squees

Northanger Abbey:

The contents of Henry Tilney’s “secret” love letters to Catherine

Isabella Thorpe and James Morland’s break-up conversation

Persuasion:

The actual text of the first break up

Mansfield Park:

Edmund proposing to Fanny

The real conversation between Mary and Edmund, not just Edmund recollecting it

What really went down in London between Maria and Henry leading to the elopement 

Reblog with more scenes you really wish JA would have written

#jane austen #mansfield park #Northanger Abbey #sense and sensibility #pride and prejudice #emma #persuasion #missing scenes #and also like the full text of all the proposals #because I want to know how bad darcy insulting Elizabeth's family was #but I won't ask for too much #jaff

[bonnieisaway]

seven's the best protag ever because i could make a million "get you a man who" jokes about him. get you a man who looks at him the way thirteen does. get you a man who has undefeated whimsy and love for the world like seven. get you a man who holds his friends above everything else. get you a man who'd rather go broke and hungry rather than tear apart the bonds between people. get you a man who'd get himself killed for someone who barely knows him. get you a man who'd get himself killed for an island which he's barely familiar with. get you a man who'd dress up as you and settle the arguement between you and your girlfriend including a really long serenade. get you a man who could both save the girl in white like that and also let thirteen save him like that. get you a man who's driven purpose in life is loving others

#i think i shouldnt limit it to just “best protag” but im too lazy to think of better phrasing #i know very little medias who would be willing to write a man who's that loving and empathetic and caring and also have him have killed #literal thosuands and those two points of his characters dont contradict his very personality because his actions have genuine sensible mot #a character who is the victim of his own narrative and continues to fight it over and over and over even if he's tired #because being tired does not mean he gets to stop fighting for what he loves #the s4 op lyrics literally say something along the lines of “who's tired of fighting evil?” i cant check the netflix captions of it rn #god i just love seven as a character i love how he's written #i cannot interract with the tiktok side of the fandom because #i feel like i'm pretentous or a gatekeeper when i say this #but some people just wanna see funny badass who should be feared and will not comprehend how empathetic and adoring he is #and that's ok. that's an ok character to want and love #and i will not be the person to burst the bubble but also the bubble chokes me alive LOOK AT HIM /j #explaining the intricacies of his character takes so long and its so fun but also some mfs jsut dont wanna hear it i need mfs who need it #scissor seven #wu liuqi #seven