#some gears are turning

[dykealloy]

the catholic rejection of it all

#one piece #op #trafalgar law #monkey d. luffy #gear 5 luffy #song is big god by florence and the machine #religious symbology? in my shounen anime protagonist? it's more likely than you think #im 24 years old it's the end of 2023 it's MY turn to finally make a cringe amv for christmas #to be clear. i dont think law sees luffy as his god. but i definitely think he's helped law regain some faith #i.e. catholicism (yeah hardy-hah one piece character is an ex-catholic its all very silly but let's take it unironically for a second) #it would've drilled into law as a child to believe in one true cause (that cause being god). and that will supposedly carry him through lif #give hope purpose etc. but a lot of former catholics choose instead to find that in something else. in law’s cause: #the freedom and hope corasan gave him #the freedom that luffy brings. the will of D. the goodness in the people around him #it's a transfer of faith that feels real and tangible #it's a neat concept and I don't see it talked about much #CJ's op watch-through #corasan #donquixote rosinante #sun god nika #CJ's edits #op analysis #amv

[steveyockey]

it’s uber annoying that diablo cody was interviewed about her attempts to write the script for the barbie movie and the pull quote was just “I couldn’t write barbie as a girlboss” when she said a LOT of really interesting things about how a movie this earnest would have been laughed out of the theater if she had written it in 2015! weird to think about the changes in the media landscape over a relatively short number of years that margot robbie’s barbie is being heralded (by SOME) as a Feminist Icon

#I have to go get quotes from the piece but it really made some gears in my head turn like huh. not sure what THAT means but interesting!

[1000sunnygo]

Always gets me how visually similar these two panels are:

And how they're exactly 200 chapters apart.

#*cracks knuckles* did you know #someone on reddit back then predicted the chapter number for gear 4 reveal by reversing the chapter number for gear 2 reveal #and it turned out to be a correct prediction (387 and 783) #that said I don't think they're planned #other than series milestones (100 or 1000) oda probably doesn't care about chapter numbers #but when you're writing a long series - some unintentional number games are bound to occur #one piece #trafalgar law #monkey d. luffy #dressrosa arc #marineford arc #mine #shitposts

[shima-draws]

I finally got to the Sulong episode CARROT LOOKS SO GOOD LET’S GOOOOOOO

Also I love that the FIRST thing Nami says is “So beautiful 🥺” *points* LESBIAN

#Shima speaks #I got spoiled to the whole Sulong thing so it wasn’t a surprise but #IT’S STILL SICK AS HELL TO SEE #SHE LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!!!! #There’s just smth about characters turning all white that is just. Chef’s kiss 👌 #Oda likes doing that huh //sideeyes Gear 5 Luffy #One Piece #GO KICK SOME ASS CARROT #She’s boutta fuck shit up for my mans Pedro 😤

[darubyprincx]

when it comes to ghosts and demons and hauntings on the mortal plane, i'm a skeptic by default. i grew up not really interacting with ghost stories- i was the sort of kid who read books about science for fun -and as a result the scare stories never really did more than scare me for a short amount of time.

however, despite that, i'm still enraptured by the intersection between folk tales like these and modern science, which often have a reasonable explanation for them.

your house is haunted and you feel on edge constantly? well, you just installed a new AC last week and it's been emanating these signals that you can't hear but your body can feel and it scares the shit out of you because back when humans were living in jungles hiding from large beasts we evolved to hear things that we couldnt really hear to keep ourselves safe. that sort of stuff. that's what gets me.

because these tiny subsonic noises that we evolved to hear? maybe the wind is blowing weird through a crack in the wall in the haunted house. maybe the foundation is a little shaky. maybe that cryptid in the woods you saw at 2am was just a deer that had chronic wasting disease and/or rabies (poor thing).

and it's so easy with the supernatural to immediately assume ill intent and get spooked, but those ghosts that wail in the night? maybe they needed their bones to be put to rest. i think most of them are nice but if i had to be stuck in the same place for 200 years with my fuckin skeleton in the wrong place i think i'd have a short temper too!

i hold that everything has a logical explanation even if we don't know what that explanation might be but i will listen to your campfire stories nonetheless because that's just what humans do. and i think that's so cool

#ray's tag #writing #idk just some thoughts. i helped quara out with her headset that was picking up fm signals and the convo we had got some #gears turning

[basicallyjaywalker]

Good LORD they are working this boy

But wait

What's that in the corner

Ah, it's Wu having complex parental feelings

AHHHHHHHHHH

#ninjago #lego ninjago #the book of spinjitzu #yeah im writing some first gen stuff soon #this book is making my worldbuilding gears turn

[dragonkick-bootshine]

hypothetical hilson dynamic: not monogamous, not polyamorous, but a secret third thing (mutually, semi-consensually cheating on each other and then having crazy intense jealous possessive sex about it)

#🐡🚫 #house #hilson #definitely not my primary read of the relationship. but that one post about Wilson and cheating set some gears turning in my head #its important to note that this is not regular poly/open relationship having-sex-with-other-people. its much worse and infidelity-flavored #in my goopy gay romantic heart I want them to be soulmates and devoted to each other etc but I also love the idea #that they get 10 seconds into having a stable relationship with each other and go #'hm what if instead of being normal we turned this into a sick and twisted little game actually' #its enrichment for them #slugs posts

[puppydoggraham]

I fucking love stalker Hannibal

#hannibal #hannigram #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #need to write about him again #that one scene where he’s going through will’s house is in my brain rn #rotating it around in my mind #imagining Hannibal smelling will’s clothes #trying to see how he lives #will has no clue that Hannibal makes these little visits #Hannibal watching Will through the window and Will has no idea #things being moved slightly bc hannibal wants to see if will notices #he’d love to see the gears turn in will’s head as he tries to remember if he moved the stuff himself #imagine him sending will letters at some point #that look like those ransom letters bc he can’t write or Will would recognize the handwriting #omg imahine if Hannibal took sneaky pictures of him and mailed them to Will #so many thoughts

[sunarctus]

you’d think the safehouse was big enough to not run into each other....

....you’d be wrong, Rudy is tired...

based on photo under cut from @ihatemyself-lmfao​​

I’m probably gonna finish this so ppl pls lemme know if I should actually draw Rodolfo or just leave him in blocky form to convey his fatigue

#I had to do sooo many muscle sketches for these two... #turns out two tall buff military men coverered in tactical gear dont have the same phyique as some skinny young asian boys who knew \ '-' /? #also now have some kinda spicy sketches of them from that now.... #ghostsoap #soapghost #mw2 #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare 2 #cod #cod mw2 #mw2 fanart #mw2 shitpost #kinda? #simon riley #simon ghost riley #john mactavish #johnny mactavish #john soap mactavish #johnny soap mactavish #mw2 ghost #cod ghost #mw2 soap #cod soap

[iridaceaeart]

pre alpha bridget… pre bridget bridget

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #bridget #ggst #bridget guilty gear #i wonder if the concept of the floating blades eventually inspired rams swords #also i wonder if she was meant to have some alice in wonderland elements? the cat face on the hilt really reminds me of the cheshire cat #and if the design was supposed to be blue with blonde hair like how bridget turned out #maybe she was meant to be an alice in chains or alice cooper reference or something #alice in chains would especially make sense since she soon got the handcuff but. idk #overall tho. yippee! yippee! etc

[jaydencoolguy]

George's Relationship with his Father

I have some thoughts about the relationship George McFly has with his dad, Arthur McFly. I'll put it under a cut because it's gonna get long. And I mean long.

Okay, while watching a playthrough of the BTTF game I noticed that George says this:

"Hey, sometimes you gotta go out on a limb for the ones you love, right? I wish MY dad had understood that."

I'm like, "Woah, what? What's his relationship with his father like???" So I head over to the wiki and find THIS:

"Here we see that Arthur is about as wimpy and spineless as George since he gives his son many pathetic reasons not to attend such as college being hard and his grades that he received in school. He even tells George that he will never succeed in life with his current grades and such which could be the primary reason why George becomes a pushover in the original 1985."

Furthermore, he's described to be "a dead ringer for 1955 George in looks, voice, and personality."

Obviously George doesn't (or didn't, since he's implied to be dead) have a very good relationship with his father. But what's really interesting about this is the fact that they're practically the same personality-wise. (They're both pathetic, pushovers, doormats, etc.) Do you think that George sort of resents himself for acting the way he does (or did, in the case of the new timeline)? Because he hurt others the way his dad hurt him, since his actions reflect his father's? God, that's sad to think about.

You would think, in the case of the original 1985, that he would actively try to stray away from being like his father, but obviously, he failed. This is true to real life generational trauma, in which you swear you will never end up like your parents, but you do anyway because the way they treat you and act sticks with you. Yeah, you get the point right?

George's dreams got shot down by his father, and in the original 1985, he didn't have the courage to stand up for himself. Arthur never stood up for him either; and George ends up just like him, albeit more passive... at least he lets Marty do whatever he wants for the most part. Speaking of which, I think Marty serves as an interesting parallel to George's relationship with Arthur, since Marty actually gains a lot of courage and confidence due to the fact that his father is a pushover. George loses more of his sense of self worth because of his dad, since he never believed in or helped him. As a result, he never tries to achieve his dreams and remains unmotivated.

Now let's switch gears to the new 1985. Because of Marty's help, George gains the courage to stand up to his bullies and thus, becomes a more confident person. He gets motivated to do better. I'd like to think that because of this, George also stands up to his dad as well, becoming more successful in the process. I think that he sort of wanted to stick it to his dad, to prove that he can be successful and that he could do anything he set his mind to. This probably pushes George to work harder, which ultimately pays off as seen in the ending of Back to the Future 1. He had achieved his dream as a writer and had a better life overall. However, it seems that George's success hadn't changed his father one bit, as seen in the clip I included above. Even though George ended up happier and wealthier, it didn't mend his relationship with his dad. I don't think Arthur is necessarily a bad person, but he could've definitely been a better father.

This is an almost tragic part of George's character, even in the fixed timeline. It demonstrates how you could be similar, yet so different from your parents. How the way they treat you impacts the way you act, depending on your circumstances and the way you view yourself. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this worthless ramble!!!

#Hopefully this turns some gears... if you ever make anything based off my ideas I'd love to see! #Feel free to add onto this post too!! #back to the future #bttf #bttf the game #back to the future the game #george mcfly #arthur mcfly #marty mcfly #bttf analysis #writing #jayden speaks #jaydens postings

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Okay, but like

As someone who personally disliked the fandom characterization of Mangey as a child who is basically a wild animal

Which of course meant that (even though this standard was not applied to other equally feral boscage maze characters) if you even dared to have ships involving Mangey it was considered "beastiality"

Season 3 was so vindicating for me. Like as someone who always characterized him as selectively mute/largely nonverbal and with less palatable autism, it was so great to see the proof in the pudding that he is just as capable of being more than just the group dog thought like any other mobian and the hilarity of him being surprisingly adept with technology. Like god those few Sails/Mangey interactions were so so good

#Yes I believe S3 could have been better if it had more episodes but there is also still some GOLD there #Nothing like a single episode to make me committed to the possible relationship dynamic between Sails/Mangey (even though I already liked #the idea of shipping the variants together) #What's funny is that I've been considering doing a breakdown of why I think fandom unfairly characterized Mangey vs the others in the #Boscage Maze gang and why I personally characterize him the way I do #but instead I watched S3 and posted this instead😂 #Also on the point of topic I would have killed for more Tails variant interaction #When Sails and Nine saw each other at the end of season 2 the gears in my brain turned hard #And like are we not gonna mention Nine's 'there can only be one' in S3??? #Like the level of insecurity he's at where he just has to be the only one of him but also HOW HE LITERALLY MOVED TO KILL MANGEY AND SAILS #BECAUSE HE KNEW JUST HOW MUCH IT WOULD HURT SONIC #You jealous identity crisis having fox you😂💖 #sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #mangey sonic prime #miles mangey prower #mangey the fox #sonic prime s3 #sonic prime season 3 #sonic prime s3 spoilers #sonic prime season 3 spoilers #i just be ramblin

[p0rchc0ll4ps3]

and all the time the world unwinds i can't deny the way i feel and all these words they mean nothing at all

it stays in stella maris

it doesn't leave that room

but dawn comes, warm light over the east, warming the ruined streets of home. you were meant to be with me, here, for we are built, trained, conditioned to disappear

what comes next needs everything we got. elysium must wake

#my art #disco elysium #de #jean vicquemare #kim kitsuragi #kimjean #jeankim #dunno which ones the right one but. yeah. #this is based on my fic. btw #which i hopefully will post soon. #okay sure some sort of just nice little sappy fic well. it's also part of my casefic and this fic takes place two months after the game #there's politics here. the world is shifting. things will be different #sure it stays in stella maris. sure you can try and forget. sure you can say it means nothing #but the truth of the matter is the gears of conflict still groove and turn #and a new dawn is coming. elysium must wake #okay? #and if you are here with me and you are also here with me and you and you and you and we stick together... #and if we all hold hands as the radio plays... the violent erasure of the world can be pushed away. all of this belongs to us. #and we will fill her lungs with air. #IDK LIKE IT WAS JUST A DOODLE bc i wanted to show how they dress differently #but ive been feeling very strongly about the hinted return. revolution. #its just been in my brain #btw there's lyrics here. #it's lonely carousel by Rodrigo leão #and uhh #accidents of gesture by Rome #and then in the tags I reference #lol. the day the world died by miracle of sound #and electrical kittens by British sea power

[bagel-muncher]

Okay so like. In my mind Yosuke totally came out to Kanji first when he got over his internalized homophobia shit, apologizing to Kanji and asking him for advice and shit. Kanji makes a couple jokes and stuff just to get back at him, but is overall very supportive because he's a good dude overall and knows how hard this is for Yosuke.

So imagine Yosuke being all "I don't know why it ended up like this, but I met a guy I really care about and before I knew it, I really liked him..." only for Kanji to just immedietly say "It's Yu, isn't it?". Yosuke worries about it being that obvious, to which Kanji assures it is to literally everyone but Yu. This would be all nice and funny but I'm a diehard Soukan-er so.

Yosuke gets all embarassed that Kanji could tell, and Kanji kinda just shrugs and is like "Eh, I like him too." Yosuke just blinks and before he can say anything Kanji gets a sad look and tells Yosuke he doesn't have to worry about him trying to get between them or anything, because he can tell Yu likes Yosuke way more than he likes him.

#hi nero if you see this this thought was your fault #what we were saying in the akimina server got the gears turning but i didn't feel like i could say it for some reason lol #hashtag my brains wrong #persona 4 #soukan #kanji tatsumi #souyo #yosuke hanamura #unrequited soukan hurts but tastes so good. kanji wanting his friends to be happy and supporting yosuke knowing he'll be sad because of it

[icycoolslushie]

Why have I not seen a single person talking about the fact that Jace is half-French?

There is so much potential to use this fact somewhere!!!!

#fanfic writers gears turning #its me i'm fanfic writer #except i'm too lazy ig #but seriously #not one person has mentioned this?? #there is so much potential to use here!! #why are we letting it go to waste?? #jace herondale #jace wayland #the mortal instruments #tmi #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunters #jace lightwood #how many jace names am i supposed to tag #ace clicks post now (for some reason)

[commsroom]

something really gets to me about eiffel and hera talking to themselves while addressing each other - in am i alone now? and the watchtower in particular. i can't say this to you, but you're still the person i want to tell it to. i know there's no way you can hear me, but if you can...

eiffel talks to himself a lot, and he is very used to being alone with no one paying much attention to the things he says, so i'm not sure he ever realized exactly how much until he was on the hephaestus. in the early days of the mission, i imagine hera responded to a lot of eiffel's asides and sort of embarrassed them both. and then that sort of... shifted. their relationship shifted, they got comfortable being around each other, and eiffel's conversations with himself started including hera, too. i like the idea of that as an establishing moment: that, at some point, there was a first time eiffel said something in an empty room, and hera was so used to him talking to himself that she didn't realize it was meant for her, and he asked her, "hera? are you there?"

i imagine hera still talked to eiffel, too, when they all thought he was dead. with each day increasingly longer and more difficult, that she would vent her frustrations to the empty comms room the same way he would've encouraged her to when he was there. she can't talk to anyone the way she can talk to him, and they just... keep talking to each other, even when they can't. they are so much a part of each other, the voice of encouragement and comfort in each other's heads. for so long, all they can really do for each other is talk, and they maintain that connection even in absence. they ask each other "are you there?" like reaching for each other's hands in the dark.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #hera wolf 359 #eiffera #was talking about the middle part of this with beth hephaestuscrew earlier and she got the gears in my head turning #this kind of feels like multiple posts mashed together but i just. mm. #the importance of communication in all wolf 359 relationships but especially between eiffel and hera because it's so much of what #tethers hera to everyone and everything else. that even if she's annoyed sometimes by eiffel asking if she's there. it's also #a comfort in a way that he wants that affirmation. he's reaching out to her in the best way he knows how. and she does it too #i said some version of the last line of this in the tags of another post once but i think about it. i think about it. #there's something about how. hm. #eiffel drives conversations in the show. he's the communications officer. he gets people talking #and hera is the type of person who. goes quiet more often who shuts down and internalizes #that she's as much defined by the things she doesn't say. #and then. that some part of their relationship then ends up defined by things that couldn't be said #'hera i ---' but also that she calls him doug when she's 'talking' to him #but never directly never actually to him #i know not everyone will agree with me on this but i sincerely do think eiffel/hera is a canon romance it's just. an incomplete one #and something about that compels me very much.