#successfully so

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

#autism #neurodivergent #adhd #fun facts #GOD I’m such an idiot #anyways now a 10 year old is out there looking up swear words online and it’s all my fault :( #I got so excited by the fact that I knew a fun fact #that I didn’t stop to think that maybe not everyone knows that fun fact for a reason :( #it’s like explaining how to successfully bury a body at a book club #or explaining the dangers of Scientology to your sister’s boyfriend the first time you meet him #or debating gay sex positions with your best friend in front of your mom #no matter how much I wish to be a beacon of knowledge in this world #sometimes there are things others just don’t want to know #and consciously that’s valid but the autism ? I does not care

[spookberry]

"i kissed a girl once when i was 12" is kind of a losing response anyways

#danny phantom #savant par #I've had this scene as a wip for ages tbh #i imagine the 'actual soup' note on the thermos was left by jazz for him #did i successfully capture how shit school lunches are? #i always just packed my own lunch rather than eat the school stuff so idk #tucker foley #sam manson #my art #fanart #phanart #cyber space

[vainvaiheart]

behind every sandy man is a woman rooting for his downfall

#do ants have integrity #sir crocodile #nico robin #one piece #I fucking LOVED the alabasta arc #crocodile simultaneously one of the stupidest and smartest villains #dude managed to successfully create a coup in a country that couldn’t be successfully avoided #but also he falls for telephone scams #I want to kiss him on the mouth #also NICO ROBIN MY BELOVED #SHES SO BADASS #wife for sure #she’s so dramatic #that entrance on the stairs? #SERVE

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

#it speaks! #sondheim understood this with into the woods; the deconstruction of narrative itself is able to happen because we are able to believe in -> #<- the fairy tale logic he employs prior to this. #its a kids book but adam gidwitz understood this with a tale dark and grimm!! #cant speak for the rest of the series but that first book uses the absurdity of fairy tale logic to speak about the absurdity of -> #<- adulthood and the pedagogy present in many fairy tales to discuss the ways parents hurt their children. #rule of threes is important but theres so much on my list ive yet to read; always welcome recommendations. #fairy tales #into the woods #<- this comes from musings on how successfully i feel that musical functions so it gets the tag

[dekariosclan]

Imagine Gale as a talented and impressive young man, able to compose the Weave at will, skilled in a way that few can match, and favored by the Goddess of Magic herself. Imagine that because of these accomplishments, he’s caught the eye of a few up-and-coming magic adepts, and he falls in love with one of them—his first real love. Gale isn’t one to toss the ‘L’ word around lightly, so when he tells them he loves them, he means it; he gives himself over to them completely.

And in return, they love him for his potential. For his status. For the magic he can command. They love the wizard they see on the surface, but not the man underneath. They are attracted to his power, but not to him.

So of course the relationship fails, after the thrill of his magic wears off. But because Gale is a resilient young man and he’s caught the eye of so many, he soon falls in love with another.

And then it happens again. And again.

And each time Gale’s heart is ravaged, his ambition to become a better wizard grows, because he’s being shown time and time again that his magic ability is all that matters.

So much so that, by the time Mystra decides to elevate him from Favored to Chosen to Lover, he welcomes her with eager, desperate arms. Because if all his worth is in his magic, and that’s all he has to offer, and that’s all anyone wants from him, who better to love him than the Goddess of Magic herself?

Except…there’s a nagging voice in the back of his head that whispers she doesn’t really love him. There’s anxiety in his heart as time passes, and he reaches both the limit of what his talents can do and what Mystra will allow him to do. And most troubling of all: a growing panic that, just like his other lovers, she will soon grow tired of him and discard him if he can’t improve his magic any further.

He tries pouting, and pleading, and begging her to let him take more power, to let him be more for her, but she refuses. Smiles patronizingly. Tells him to be patient. But Gale can’t be patient when his power is tied so closely to his self-worth; he can’t be patient when doing so in the past has only ever lead to heartache.

So he does what he believes will be a Grand Romantic Gesture, one that will finally put him on equal footing with the woman he loves. Instead, it turns out to be a folly that dooms him and destroys his talents. And just as he’d always feared, Mystra tosses him aside the moment his magical gifts are gone—because what’s left of him holds no value for her.

————

Imagine Gale in his tower, alone, afraid, the ever-hungry orb in his chest, with only his tressym there to help him. No other friends to speak of. His colleagues forced to keep away for their own safety. His magical talents utterly stripped down, so that even when he does try and distract himself with illusions, he’s bitterly reminded of what he used to be capable of. Waking every morning wondering if it will be his last, ending every day full of loneliness and disappointment.

…and then he meets Tav.

At the lowest point in his life, at his most vulnerable, when he knows he’s going to be considered a burden, he meets this stranger and their group. So he does what he can to be useful—assigning himself to be camp cook, offering up his (now meager) magic skills, turning the charm up to 11—as he desperately hopes this will somehow work out. He’s pleasantly surprised when, after providing only minor details of his condition, Tav agrees to help him. He’s even more surprised when they actually follow through.

Imagine how Gale feels as Tav treats him kindly. As he grows to trust Tav, and then grows to like them. Imagine his surprise as he opens up and shows them more and more of himself, and they don’t turn him away.

But then his condition worsens. And he has to reveal everything: the foolish mistakes he’s made, and how dangerous he is as a result. He clings to Tav’s hand as he shows them his folly. He’s at their mercy now, and he knows this might be the last time he’ll ever feel the touch of another being, if they decide—and Gods, why wouldn’t they decide?—to cast him out.

…but they don’t. They don’t. Instead, they tell him to stay.

Imagine the relief Gale feels. The gratitude. And perhaps…just a hint of something more. Something that he dare not name, but that flares to life every time he thinks of how warm their hand was in his. Something that feels dangerously close to jealousy, when he’s had too much to drink and sees Tav smiling at another…

But he knows these are all foolish thoughts, because he has nothing to offer Tav. They are wonderful just as they are, but he…he is an empty shell of a man, a discarded husk of a wizard, and while they might tolerate him, he could never believe they might actually want him.

And besides, he still thinks of Mystra. He still longs for Mystra. She who cast him out, but to whom he still feels tethered. Sometimes he needs to cocoon himself in the weave, just to try and calm his fears and bring some joy back to his life, because magic is his life. And sometimes he just needs to see her face, even though that hurts as much as it heals.

One night he’s lost in thought, having conjured Mysta’s image after settling down at camp. Thinking that even if she hadn’t ‘loved’ him—certainly not in the way he’d loved her—she’d given him enough otherwise, hadn’t she? She’d amused him and been amused by him, they’d shared countless pleasures, why hadn’t he been satisfied with that?

Gale is so lost in thought he doesn’t realize Tav has come up behind him. Until they ask a question, startling him out of his trance. He’s a bit shaken, so he tries to turn the conversation from Mystra to the weave itself. And then a wonderful idea occurs to him, something that he’d been toying with already: what if they were to conjure the weave together?

He can show Tav how important magic is to him, let them experience what he does, perhaps even impress them a bit. But most importantly, share a moment with them. As friends would do…

He’s elated when Tav agrees. He leads them through the steps effortlessly, and they’re a surprisingly good student, following his instructions correctly (if a bit clumsily). He’s as excited as they are—perhaps even more so!—when they succeed in channeling the weave.

It’s such a pleasant, familiar feeling for him, like coming home to his tower in Waterdeep. Even as the weave connects him with Tav and makes them one, he’s easily able to hide his innermost thoughts, because he’s done it so many times before.

…but he’s forgotten that Tav has not.

————

Imagine Gale knowing every romantic partner he ever had only wanted him because of how he could raise their status, or how he could amuse them, or how he could command magic for them. And, each time, he was happy to oblige them, even desperate to oblige them, because if that was the price of their love, then he was sure it would be worth it.

But it still all came to nothing.

Now imagine Gale connected in an intimate way with someone he likes very, very much—while being what he considers his lowest, most worthless, and most humbled self. As far from the powerful, impressive wizard he once was as he could ever be. And suddenly a vision enters his mind from the lovely creature standing next to him. Only, to his complete and utter shock, it isn’t one where he is providing them with a service, or wowing them with his magical ability, or granting them some kind of power from one of the spells he commands.

Instead, when he sees their desire laid bare before him, it’s a vision of kissing him. Of holding his hand. The two most basic forms of affection and physical connection. The two things that he would still be able to offer them even if every last ounce of his remaining magical abilities were stripped from him. The two things he could share with them even if he was no longer Gale of Waterdeep, and just plain old Gale Dekarios instead.

Imagine the embarrassment and trepidation he feels at first, because surely he is mistaken?…and then the elation when he realizes that he is not. So much elation that his concentration is broken, the weave dissipating as he forgets about channeling it, as he forgets about Mystra. Because all that matters to him now is the image before him—the most pleasant and welcome image he’s seen in a very, very long time.

Imagine how that would feel…and how besotted, enamored and completely devoted he’d be to Tav afterwards. To know that someone finally—finally—just wants him.

Just imagine.

#Please enjoy this huge dissertation about Gale #(which was unintentional) #I originally wanted to talk briefly—BRIEFLY—about why the weave scene is so important to him #And then I….kept writing lol #Please also note that while this focuses on successfully channeling the weave I also LOVE the talk you have with him if you ‘failed’ it! #The same themes apply there because when you tell Gale you still think about being alone together he replies that he hopes to embrace you #It’s all about Gale finally finding someone who appreciates him just as he is and being able to connect with them #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3 #gale x tav #bg3

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny, desperate to get someone competent to help him with his growing problems in Amity, travels to a dimension full of heros and villians and in true Phantom fashion, overshadows one of the first Heros he sees- Nightwing.

He immediately tried walking away to a more discrete location to create a portal but was interrupted by Nightwings allies who were very suspicious of Nightwings sudden change in behavior. Unfortunately for Danny, he wasn't fooling anyone and made a run for it. He wound up ditching Nightwing and disappearing.

Danny, seeing how amazingly competent these people are, only becomes more determined to kidnap them and take them to Amity...

#dpxdc #prompts #fanfiction prompts #batman #nightwing #danny phantom #danny fenton #phantom at some point overshadows the bat plane #the bats are freaking out cause this keeps happening and they dont know what this unknown wants #only that it keeps trying to take them somewhere #danny is from another dimension in this so if he successfully kidnaps one the trackers probably wont work #maybe a different universe?

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #:')))) #i saw that the doctordonnathon was going on this morning #so of course i needed to gif this episode today #3 MORE WEEKS UNTIL THEY'RE BACK!!!!! #also i successfully got sdcc tickets for next year!!!! very excited #edit: ah nooooo i just noticed a day later that i messed up the dialogue colours!!!!

[ok-pop-1]

a day by gut check rock

#legend of zelda #loz #linked universe #lu #lu warriors #lu wild #lu time #lu sky #lu twilight #lu wind #lu legend #lu four #lu hyrule #i know this will be lost in tags but for context #sky and time both did the gut check rock challenge #successfully! #but it was a cost for time LOL #wild is handing him a stamina elixir #and four didn't wanna take off his clothes #so wild gave him the sapphire circlet #i think that's about it #ledge will try to murder wind and four when he wakes up #hyrule is attempting to boil himself like a frog #the usual

[mettywiththenotes]

SHOUT OUT TO SERO FINALLY GETTING HIS MOMENT I LOVE HIM

#'so weak' afo thinks YET HERE HE IS #successfully sneaking up on the strongest supervillain and giving the others an opportunity to attack #look at him go! #bnha #bnha 419 #bnha manga spoilers #bnha spoilers #sero hanta #mettys posts #all caps

[olibensstuff]

this is their dynamic actually they told me

NO OKAY BECAUSE ITS ALWAYS PORTRAYED LIKE RISE DON IS APPALLED BY 12 DON and I need everyone to know that actually rise don wants to impress 12 don soooo badly. He just wants to be cool to his older more experienced dimensional counterpart. 12 don does Not know this

#I DUNNO I THINK THEYRE SILLY #I’m gonna draw 12 don and rise don when I’m not sleepy #So that I can successfully draw 12 don not frowning #When I’m sleepy so is he #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt donatello #rise donnie #art #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #donatello #eyestrain warning #Phone scribbles #Phone doodles #finger doodles #My finger hurts :( #apocalypse timeline #donbot #2012 donatello

[ardentpoop]

sam when his brother says something cruel to him: ok dean. you’re right. sorry.

sam when crowley, ancient and powerful demon, king of hell, says something cruel to him: I’m gonna gut you like a fish and watch you die slowly you sad little man. and you’ll thank me for it

#can’t stop thinking abt this Jajsjdjdbbf #sure crowley successfully made dean into his pet but deep down he wants to be sam’s pet so bad #AS HE SHOULD. #spn

[iwasbored777]

Their reactions are hysterical when Bruce says "we make it work" about his and Brandy's relationship 😂

John Dory actually asks "How?"

Branch doesn't understand shit.

Poppy is smiling and nodding, she doesn't care how it works, love is love.

#it's actually less confusing than donkey and dragon but I'm not even gonna try to create a mental picture #they successfully made a bunch of kids so it tells us that they found a way #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls brandy #brandy #trolls spruce #trolls bruce #spruce #bruce #trolls poppy #poppy #trolls branch #trolls john dory #branch #john dory #my gif

[lilianade-comics]

Dani is captured by the GIW. To make matters worse, Vlad Masters, her most hated enemy and the star of her nightmares, is also a prisoner. Although she wants nothing to do with him, they share the same predicament; they are the unwilling participants in Project Ivory Shroud, the GIW's brand new hybrid treatment program. It has but one goal: to cure the halfas. With few choices and no one else to turn to, the pair must work together to escape.

(This doesn't take place in my Cheese Melt AU. It's *shudder* canon compliant with Kindred Spirits and D-Stabilized. Not Phantom Planet though. this is cheese melt, but Vlad thoroughly sucks and Dani rightfully hates him but i put them both through hell and make them hug anyway)

#uhhhh AU where Vlad's hospital abandonment trauma is fully explored #and AU where Dani successfully punches him in the face #i had some more doodles of this lying around but i'm kinda tired so here's what we got for now #danny phantom #cheese melt #vlad masters #dani phantom #danielle phantom #comics #ivory shroud #guys in white #giw

[julykings]

the last bits of 2023

#the last months I’ve mostly been busy with work but can say that I got through my first semester teaching successfully although struggled #along the way. my anxiety is at an all time high + I’m dealing with some medical stuff so I’m just trying to stayyy appreciative of every #day I feel good u kno. ugh. #I’m working on quitting my excessive weed usage lol. otherwise working out and doing pole when I can. #and watching lots of movies and doing lots of art . at least this past week since school is out #personal

[didderd]

murder time trio shenanigans my beloved

(original video)

#(ty skelekins for th idea lmao) #i lov themb ur honor #looket these silly lil guys fuckin around #axe is behind th camera #had trouble wif th angle of dust's face #so void dust it is lmao #there were like two other screenshots i was gonna draw #but mby later #murder time trio #killer sans #dust sans #horror sans #undertale #undertale au #shit post #didderd art #successfully edited out th hair behind his head #it looked weird. 't was fuking with me lmao

[fear-no-mort]

favourite thing: his new habit of saying uhuh/mhm and also this

#the first time he did it in unmortricken i was like Fuck Yes and little did i know he would just keep doing it the whole time #DESPERATELY hoping they keep both of these things. i Love when characters have tiny little habits sprinkled in their actions #to me these things kinda sorta symbolise him no longer being afraid to really be himself #like he no longer has to hide certain things about himself that inside of the cfc wouldve made him appear ‘suspicious’ #since he IS like so much different than any other morty ever #also barely related but like. em is fundamentally such a good character bc everytime we see him he’s feeling something different #in his first appearance he was cold and distant because at the time he was new to being free and was strictly focused on his goal and wasn’ #even sure if it would work #in his second appearance he seemed hopeful and honest both of these things just being a trap to get the people of the citadel to trust him #and his old colder self unfurling near the end after he successfully becomes president #in his third appearance he seems giddy almost. he’s constantly giggling before and after sentences and he’s super eager to just Get The Hel #Out. and also to reveal the truth to morty prime. make it so that he doesn’t have to be the one to shoulder everything anymore. #and this fourth appearance. apart from a few little details he really just seems happy and comfortable. the entire episode he was just doin #whatever he wanted and nobody got in his way at all. and i could not be happier #normal about this character! #rick and morty #evil morty #rick and morty spoilers #odiespeak