#shes his right path

[courtmartialme]

i'm not late for royai day if every day is royai day to me 🔥🪶 also for royai week day 1 - raison d'être

#riza hawkeye #roy mustang #royai #fma #royaiweek23 #posting in the fuckhours of the night bc i spent so long on this #ive been wanting to draw something with this idea for sooo long it was rotting my brain #something something about how riza is supposed to keep roy on the right path but the moment she says shes glad she decided to trust him #its when he will know he truly is on the right path it all comes back to riza #shes his right path

[larissel]

#bg3 #shadowzel #shadowheart #lae'zel #single parent au #i need that single parent au where once shadowheart finally meets lae'zel #she's all like 'okay i get it now' #not saying lae'zel would be a bad parent #bc clearly #she's not #and even in the game it shows she's caring and is raising xan right #wanting him to choose his own path #but she's also young too #so in this au she would be a young single parent as well

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i've seen a lot of spop stans use the zuko and iroh reconciliation where iroh says that he was never angry at zuko, and do the same thing for catra and the people that she has hurt.

i've seen a lot of fanart and edits where scorpia or adora or one of the princesses tells catra that they were never mad at her, they were just disappointed and wanted her to start doing better or something like that. and??

it makes sense for scorpia, i guess, because she was shown to still care about catra after she left the horde. but adora? glimmer? it makes absolutely no sense that glimmer was “just disappointed” that catra killed her mom lmfao.

#spop critical #spop salt #spop discourse #spop criticism #spop #she ra #anti spop #also you have to keep in mind that zuko actually apologized to iroh and begged for forgiveness #and iroh immediately knew that zuko had chosen the right path on his own and had already made amends for his actions #unlike a certain catgirl who only decides to redeem herself after being backed into a corner #and regressed into her previous behaviour as soon as she was safe

[faeymouse]

I was kinda iffy about Vikings at first, but when they actually had the hot viking dude and his hot viking wife invite the priest into a three-way as I was typing their names into the AO3 searchbar I was like okay iffy rescinded

#babbles #faey watches #vikings #ripping my hair out in chunks when Athelstan is like ‘i have taken a vow of celibacy. i cannot touch a woman’ #as Ragnar Lothbrok and his rippling six pack is standing right there naked as the day he was born?!? #i feel like some physical logistics couldve been worked out here sir #also if you’re wondering yes watching the eagle (2011) led me to watching this show #it was a very roundabout path but looking back makes some sense #im also on the first season please no spoilers everyone ill discover on my own if it suddenly takes a turn at some point #my favorite part aside from whatever dynamic Athelstan and Ragnar have going on #are all the times they really obviously edit Ragnar’s blue eyes to literally glow the deepest blue imaginable? #i cant take it seriously i laugh every time they do it it reminds of that blue eyes meme #floki’s pretty cool too i love me a good fidgety weasel character #opinions about lagertha: i understand on a deep personal level why Ragnar goes into immediate malewife mode the moment she steps into a room

[ultravioart]

roughing out ideas for a "goth/punk chick" disguise that peepers wears so he isn't shot on sight by Dominator lol

#woy #dominion au #commander peepers #ultravioart #I think the upper right gets at a more neutral design which i like #probably different shoes tho idk #my art #rough concepts are rough concepts #dressing up as a cheerleader worked on hater so dressing up as a punk girl should work on dominator right? right???? #Dominator can tell something is off with this 'cherry bomb' chick but she thinks its hilarious so she goes along with it #when she learns it's not just any watchdog but PEEPERS she nearly looses it #I can't decide if dee would be angry or burst out laughing at the cartoonishly pathetic attempt to impress her #because what the fuck dude lol #who does that #(Peepers does. he's desperate enough.) #(And not in a romantic way he's desperate to save the galaxy/hater from dominator's wrath) #(malewifeing his way into her friendzone and taking her down from the inside so maybe she doesn't obliterate everything.) #(and okay maybe it's a little payback on Hater for choosing Wander and good guy nonsense over Peepers and the path of evil) #but yeah dom and peepers are strictly platonic and are the WLW / MLM solidarity we deserve #lmafo #'The gal pals' more like THE MAL PALS #hehehoho

[aaandbackstabbed]

Goldie: we’re lost

Scrooge: no we’re not.

Goldie: yes we are

Scrooge: no we are not.

Goldie: fine then mr navigator where tf are we?

Scrooge: well er…we are uh right here

#this happened more time than Scrooge would like to admit #like he’d get cocky and distracted #(by Goldie because she is VERY distracting) #(he’d so blame her for it) #and then when Goldie would read him like a book and realise they were lost #she’d call him out on it #and he’d give some bs response #which she would roll her eyes so hard at #but he would continue on their list path #until one of them recognised something #then he’d claim this was his plan all along #just a test to keep her on her toes #she’d see right through him #goldie o'gilt #scrooge mcduck #ducktales #incorrect quotes #they don’t mind getting lost together #wink wink #scroldie ways

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Yeah my brain is having all sorts of thoughts over Pepa meddling in Eddie’s dating life after Margaret brought Buck a new couch that doesn’t fit (and is going to meet a bad ending) and the fever dream that was Buck on Eddies couch and a new kitchen scene in 6x12

In an episode called performance anxiety and after whatever the poker thing turns out to be and the couch of it all

I am squeeing over it so hard!!

#meddling families is just so juciy to me #and especially because Pepa has literally been there since the beginning of it all #I can’t help but feel like it comes back to the stick of it all #Pepa being the one to give buck the background info he needed to bring Carla into the mix - helping Eddie get unstuck #and now Pepa meddling in his dating life when we could argue Eddie is ‘stuck’ there - with the whole repression of it all etc #so Pepa doing the thing that will help get Eddie on track is so interesting to me #I love how she’s always been there in the background as his advocate and I don’t think we talk about it enough #- she was the one standing up for him in a lot of the Diaz family scenes we’ve seen #it’s like she knows when to push and when and who to give information to to get Eddie’s path corrected when he’s got himself kind of frozen #or stuck in a way of thinking or being #so her being involved here is so so interesting to me because it’s clear her appearence will help put Eddie on the right path #and I can’t wait!!! #911 spoilers #911 on fox #911 fox #911onfox #eddie diaz #tia Pepa #eddie #buddie #s6

[itspileofgoodthings]

I know the movie doesn’t want me to ship Ken and Barbie but unfortunately they are one of my favorite dynamics because he’s overflowing with personality and glee and mischief and absolute certainty of himself with a steadfast heart underneath that and she’s sweet and soft and caring with a sense of being adrift and lost that only love is going to steady. like sorry not sorry but underneath the doll personas the human version of themselves belong together

#I should NOT make this post I will get destroyed and/or lectured but #Lakekekekekkejejejejjejejejjeej #I ship it! sorry not sorry but her story is not compelling enough for me to think that she’s on a non-romance path #If you don’t want me to ship them give me something better for her #there isn’t! not in the world of the movie #You think her vague Greta gerwig coded girlbossery at the end of the movie is more satisfying than being loved by a Ken who has become REAL #And how funny that would be and how good it would be for her? #no. and I liked that scene where she forces him to have his own identity! #she’s right and that’s so good and valid #but the story doesn’t end there #break apart the false and forced narrative of romance to let it be real! #also it’s just funny they would be SO funny together

[traitorsinsalem]

this is a funny as fuck dialogue option for when you're playing a dead-birth-parents-rogue who just so happens to be mixed. get gathened idiot.

#succ speaks #i just think it's funny that wotc constantly has NO idea how to handle half-elves from a mixed lens. #as much as i WOULD be happy that larian devs were there to say 'hey man people can be proud of their mixed heritage' #it's just funny as fuck to me that the first time i'm seeing this line is with mo fucking gathen. #the only funnier option is 3. this bitch is withering away there's nothing sexy about him unless u ask his actual party's paladin(s) #baldur's gate 3 kind of sucks especially early on but it's worth it to me to be funny while playing with friends who know this character #'hmm. i can't seem to recall what happened to elturel.' [finished the descent into avernus adventure path. was one of the adventurers.] #'the zhentarim? i think i've heard of them somewhere' [is a zhent ardragon with specialties in legal dealings and investigations] #the running joke is that he got mind flayer brain damage after a stat scramble and cannot find the right people for the life of him #this is so funny though. imagine i just became a small local hero and some nice girl i helped one time says she'll sing a song about me #and she's like 'what should i sing about' and i'm like. 'how about my mixed heritage.' LMFAOOOOO that's so out of pocket #like my friend is so curious and wants me to choose it because he wants to know what alfira's even going to DO with that like ????

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So you know this party banter between Aveline and Carver?

Aveline: I don't like some of the people you've been associating with, Carver. Carver: Talk to my brother/sister. He/She's the one in charge.

If you're on the rivalry path with Aveline, she says:

Aveline: Who says I don't mean him/her too? This city's full of people who are dead set on ending badly. I don't want to see you end up the same way.

I just- Aveline, you- you're so- hhhhnnnngggggg

I always rival Aveline when I play a mage, and if you think Edgar Aristide Hawke, who practically raised Carver and Bethany after Malcolm died and Leandra became a distant mother in her grief, wouldn't stop dead in his tracks at Aveline heavily implying he's a bad influence on his brother and Carver shouldn't hang around him so much since apparently Ed's someone set on ending badly...? Absolutely not.

This is another case of me wishing Hawke had the option to jump in during party banter with different options, because Ed would've chewed Aveline out for that.

Oh, and then there's:

Carver: Would asking you to stop spying on me help in the least? Aveline: No.

Aveline...................stop it.

#da2 #dragon age 2 #carver hawke #aveline vallen #da2 hawke #edgar hawke #listen all of aveline and carver's party banter and their relationship and the fact that they're pretty much foils DRIVES ME CRAZY #in a good way but then i get party banter like this and i stop everything i'm doing just to scream #like ed and aveline are on fairly good terms in act 1 i mean the rivalry is there but it's not too bad it's more like they just butt heads #but after leandra's death the friendship just rots and deteriorates like by the end of act 3 ed is genuinely surprised aveline #didn't turn on him and side with the templars but i guess even aveline knows what's actually right #or maybe she just doesn't want to face ed in a fight sksksks hell ed AND carver in a fight so it's easier to side with him and the mages #but anyway aveline saying that when ed's in earshot is bold but also the fact that carver doesn't actually acknowledge it #like he doesn't agree or disagree he just changes the subject to be like 'can you stop spying on me PLEASE' #like he already has no privacy while living with gamlen and now he has no privacy when he's by himself because apparently aveline's spying #also i always max out carver's friendship so he and ed are on good terms they're the brothers hawke and carver loves him #even if he doesn't outright say it you know that's what he's really saying in the last straw #when he says that he's proud to call hawke brother/sister and that's gone unsaid for too long like............ screaming sobbing throwing u #like the carver and hawke dynamic on his friendship path is sooo good that i hear aveline say that and i'm immediately ready to throw hands #btw if you're on aveline's friendship path she says 'maybe but i know you get around' instead which...........gets around where aveline??? #aveline my list of beef with you grows with every playthrough i hate you but also i love you but also i want to throw you in the ocean #until you get your head out of your ass like this is a case of her being a FASCINATING character but as a person? while i'm playing ed? ugh #my lady warrior hawke adored aveline but ed is ready to fight her 24/7 sksksk

[movementsofmylife]

there's this level of desperation and tragedy woven into this show. all the teens are stuck in little boxes made by their parents and the other adults around them. phum says, "It's business between adults. I'll let them handle it." and it's fucking tragic because, if only.

nlmg shows the extremely compromised position of children and teens in society. the lack of agency and pressure and expectation and strictures; a 'protected' class which is very often an oppressed class. the classification of a child as not a person, as simply an extension of their parent or guardian. and the different ways this plays out due to wealth and class status.

all these teens are being moulded and put under pressure to become an object of their parents' desires and crises, both purposefully and through the vagaries of their circumstances. the adults with power and money get to choose and direct their children's paths. the ones without get fucked and changed by those that do, and this falls onto their kids and influences them regardless of their parents' true desires. capitalism makes the position of child an even more precarious one for those not in power.

and it's clear that the teens are all aware of the situation. palm goes around his dad by hiding and lying. nueng by manipulating his mom. only chopper seems to be pushing back in a straightforward way: by becoming financially independent with his crypto (sigh) stuff and telling his father where he stands. (i want to say that whatever chopper implied happened between him and ben was part of the reason he started to push back against his dad's expectations? maybe?)

i hope they all get a chance to push back and remake the world and themselves in their own image. and don't let the pressure and circumstances lead them to destroying each other instead. (although that's clearly already begun. thus, the air of tragedy.)

#i'm so curious about ben's backstory #also literally even maggie is following the path set out by her parent's #does she want that? #i hope so #i feel like their dance studio is going to get pulled into the whole renoviction shit #and that's going to be bad times for everyone #and i can def kind of see ben pulling nueng into the studio for just the purposes of showing him how his parents are fucking things up #for everyday people #but i could also be entirely wrong and ben is just a wholesome boy #chimon is playing him as shroedinger's betrayal right now #and i am stressed #never let me go #nlmg ep 3

[ryssabrin]

what gets me about the way most gale girlies seem to interpret gale vs the way larian seems to have wanted his arc to be interpreted is that all of the other core 6 tadpoles have arcs about overcoming an abuser, someone who manipulated them or took advantage of them. they get to find their own agency and make their own choices about what that freedom means to them. but apparently gale's arc is one of fuck-around-and-find-out wizard hubris for which he needs to redeem himself and be humbled? and then larian is surprised that people have a hard time reading it that way? that they don't see him making the ultimate sacrifice at the end of the game to be a good ending for him at all actually?

like i personally like to be exploring nuance and so forth so i do think some of the gale girlies do over-correct on gale and mystra a little too much but i fully understand why they would want to do that and feel protective of him. why wouldn't gale's arc have the same overall themes as the other origin characters? it's just a really strange choice writing wise. larian clearly keeps trying to correct course with patches to make gale's arc look more like what they intended and it just pisses his fans off more.

one of the biggest complaints people have about his act 3 quests is how much the game pushes seeking mystra's forgiveness as the "right" and "good" path. no other character has to do that and larian puts no effort into explaining why mystra should be any different. and they could! they could have gale explain more about their relationship and about how mystra treated him and what agency gale really had with her. the way he talks about her is really only about himself and how bad he feels about it all. there's some brief mentions of him realizing that he was only ever a momentary amusement to her and there really should be more of that! let him unpack it! that would actually be a really cool angle for him because all of the origin characters (other than shadowheart) come in to the story knowing how much they were mistreated and react accordingly. i'd love to see an arc for gale where he slowly (with the pc's help) unpacks how mystra did him dirty and his human ending is about him getting closure rather than redemption.

#madelyn rambles #if you don't want to paint mystra as an abuser make her motivations more clear #they should lean more in to that whole angle #of mystra seeing gale's prodigious talent as a threat #and that's why she fixated on him #to try to guide him down a less destructive path #that's juicy and nuanced! #she would have been doing what was expected of her as the mother of magic #her mistake was in allowing the relationship to become romantic #she molded gale into someone who was TOO devoted to her #his ambitious drives were channeled away from bog standard wizard hubris to something worse #seeking the singular approval and devotion she could never give #but a mortal lover like tav can! #and that's why they're the one who can steer him in the right direction finally #they can show him he can be loved and adored without constantly needing to prove himself

[basimibnishaqs]

au where tfa starts the exact same way with luke skywalker having vanished. and then it cuts to rey on jakku with luke. like luke is just there he's not missing. but she doesnt know that that’s luke skywalker- that’s just her dorky dad owen whitesun and they are each other’s whole world in that barren wasteland. cue leia sending one of her pilots there to follow a rumor about someone seeing luke- and when a droid meets luke and rey at their home and when finn recognizes Commander Luke Skywalker and Grandmaster of the Jedi in the market, rey discovers who exactly her father truly is

#obviously a lot would have to change but idk i could see Luke leaving his jedi in leia'shands in order to protect his daughter #even if it means he has to moisture farm he'd do it for her #luke skywalker #rey skywalker #Luke never wanted rey to have to deal with the same things he did but learns she hasto forge her own path #and rey having to grapple with Luke Skywalker the myth having chosen her over being a legend ought #just a little baby au right now bc I like to imagine worlds where the sequels were good and Luke was in character and rey got a family #sequelsposting #SHOUT OUT TO TUESDAY FOR OWEN WHITESUN MEANS EVERYTHIGN 2 ME

[lightandfellowship]

#khdr #kingdom hearts dark road #kingdom hearts #rambling about dim path #making kh photosets #ch tag: xeh #I feel like this is what was going through Xehanort's head when he said these lines #Player's death was inevitable and so Xehanort had no choice but to move on #He left the island behind and took the first step toward new worlds...new experiences...new relationships #If he could do it then so can Vor. Is what he thinks. #He's giving her advice based on his own experiences with change and separation #Of course Eraqus doesn't understand why Xehanort would say this. Xehanort never talks about his past. #And Eraqus has yet to come face to face with the inevitability of change. So he insists that Vor doesn't have to worry about it #Xehanort knows better though. He can't lie to Vor about something like this. Blissful ignorance won't help her in the end. #But Xehanort isn't entirely right either. He's way too quick to suggest discarding relationships in service of the new. #Unfortunately Vor won't realize the balance she needs to strike until it's far too late #khdr spoilers #long post

[capricornsicle]

"I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe it will sound familiar." Visionary x Insatiable x Status Asthmaticus x The Wolves of War

#this is really a show about coming of age in a vicious and unfamiliar world more than a show about werewolves #think about it. scott is sixteen and to him losing his first love is as incomprehensible and unfathomable as the supernatural. #and we're constantly reminded of how being sixteen and in love goes -- 'you're not in love you're sixteen and a child' etc. #these three characters make for such a good parallel to one another in how they werewolf + seeking guidance #especially + sudden change of worldview/stakes when confronted with sudden and unexpected loss and grieving #of course derek loses paige and becomes cold and jaded (see: literally becomes cold w/ blue eyes) #scott loses allison and commits harder to saving all of his friends even though one of them (or someone possessing him) killed her #liam is stopped from killing because of hayden's death #here are three werewolves who were sixteen and held their first love's dead body in their arms #and each of them took a different path. do you close yourself off? refuse to? do you change completely because of it? #and ofc it's teen wolf so everything always comes in threes #I have a lot of issues with the writing but the use of death (barring 6b) is not one of them. they really went hard on meaningful death. #also consider: lori holding brett's hand so he doesn't die alone and theo responding to tracy kissing him by killing her as she does #teen wolf writers went is anyone going to bastardize the original narrative to ponder new ideas about it and didn't wait for an answer #also women's deaths are always about love/for a man (thanks hollywood) but goddamn if they don't kill their women wisely #and the thing is they are all running. they're running from death and what does it get them? it gets them here. #derek wants to turn paige so she'll live forever. scott wants allison to live happily even with someone else. liam wants to save hayden. #none of them consider that cheating death will catch up to them until they run right into its arms #and all three die because of getting involved with the supernatural. all of them would presumably not have died otherwise. #coming of age into a world that takes and hurts and destroys and where you are now old enough for people around you to die. #this is not a show about werewolves. #teen wolf #twedit #teenwolfedit #my edit #derek hale #paige krasikeva #scott mccall #allison argent #liam dunbar

[leatherbookmark]

luv that person for pointing out nhs had a "cultural obligation" to avenge his family BUT ALSO thinking nmj wouldn't be ashamed of nhs for *squints* ruining the sect's good name, being known as the useless sect leader who doesn't know shit and doesn't help at all, using scary gossip to keep people away from their saber tombs instead of building actual working defenses, blackmailing, using teenagers as bait, cozying up to jgy for over a decade while secretly plotting his downfall, paying off the witnesses, carelessly allowing collateral damage, and finally, last but not least, finishing his revenge not by killing jgy in the exact same way he killed nmj, not looking him in his face and stabbing him in the heart with a saber, but manipulating l fucking xc to attack a defenseless, injured jgy in presumed self-defense. lol

#shrimp thoughts #yknow. this nmj who pushed nhs towards a cultivation path that would eventually end in nhs's miserable death BUT it was what their ancestor #all did. this is their cultivation path and it MUST be done. this nmj. o k a y #tbh i'm not sure what nmj's thoughts on qs would be. because i think he'd be convinced she needs to know but at the same time he'd #have to be aware that if she knows she has no other option than to kill herself because yknow. she's a ruined woman. tainted etc #but still. if he thought jgy had no right to kill his dumbass 'whatcha gonna do? kill me?' soldiers then maybe he'd extend this to qs