#the curtains have changed

[funkily]

i do think s1 fwhip has a crazy ridiculous dramatic four-poster bed with like blackout curtains and high-quality red and black bedding in the castle . i just simultaneously think that despite this he ends up crashing on the shitty little bed in his storage room more often than not

#ever since he left his starter house ive always imagined fwhip sleeping in the storage room #like . maybe he has curtains up at the front for privacy . i doubt he can really be bothered #other places that fwhip sleeps in more often than his actual bed: the desk of his little lair thing and the control panel of the forge #(he usually manages to turn the forge off before this happens . usually) #he does this despite his lair having a futon and the forge having a ratty little recliner . btw . #sausage and gem have tried to give him better options at every turn and fwhips habits have not changed even a little bit #babbleeng #empires smp #fwhip

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Everyone says they love a devastatingly painfully slow burn romance until I, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia—

#macdennis #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #text #pay no attention to the tags behind the curtain hashtag normalcore hashtag silly #meme #anmmbposts #*girl who still has faith in them and trusts the structure in spite of it all* #*girl who has thoughts on the tragedy of stagnation in the sitcom format and parallels and contrasts to waiting for big mo in the themes of #change and what must happen first in order for such a lasting change to occur* #meant to say waiting for g*dot but anyway #ignore my tags look at my post #it wouldn't be the gay gay*ss love story for the ages without the excruciating wait because of who they are and what the show is #and what they're trying to break and subvert #as long as there is eventually follow through which i again do still have faith in/think they're legit building towards even if it feels #like a tease because of how many ways other media has burned us but they still have time to make the build up mean something

[birdricks]

getting sooooo emotional abt how like. when rick and bp meet again during the federation stuff its like theyre completely different ppl from who they were when they last saw each other. but it almost makes them become closer instead of driving them apart… until of course their values clash in the worst possible way

#i cant word this properly my brain is mush and im trying to fight thru 1billion hc world #BUT LIKE. U UNDERSTANDDD. RIGHT #this happens every time they spend a while away from each other #one or the other or both chnage. but it still stays the same #ill have to draw or write abt it at some point. but i have exams in like a week 😢 #gyadddd damn tho… thw flesh curtains/federation time gap esp drives me insane #bc likeeee. rick is already kinda fucked up when they meet. but way better at playing it off #and it never comes up. like hes not in tht deep yet #but later on he Cant hide it anymore. so much so that bp Has to become involved in ricks issues #and while rick still has that smallllll part of himself that still cares. hes much less trusting and shit by that point #which makes it so much more meaningful to me to have bp become involved at this point #and on the othwr hand u have bp going from sweet and kinda naive #to much more … serious ig. and mature. due to his home being destroyed or w/e #but hes contrasts rick in being far more compassionate and liek. genuinely heroic #from his pov maybe theyve both grown up a bit. but from ricks pov its just bp thats changed #i see rick as being far less aware of his own slow downfall. while its more obviosu to others (esp bp) #gggyaahhhh….. they make me so so ill #birdrick

[just-another-linguist]

Au where Nerdanel went along to middle earth with her sons because she knew that theyre gonna fuck it up? What if she got some insane prophecy from one of the Valar saying that terrible things are going to happen to her sons and torn between love and worry for her sons she decided to journey with them?

Nerdanel is the only one except Feanor her sons would listen to. At Alqualonde, she would have tried to stop them and it even might have worked.

They would have never even gone to middle earth because her sons would never not listen to her (like they do with their father. Always listen to your parents, they are always right, don't even question it, honour them, what do you mean my father is in the wrong your father is in the wrong).

And even if she didn't get to stop them at Alqualonde (too much screaming, it was all too fast, she never would have guessed, she is so so confused, what are they doing, they are her baby children she sung to sleep, is that blood?)

,she had a deep friendship with Indis. She would have never let them burn the ships. Together with Maedhros, she could maybe have convinced Feanor not to burn the ships (for what? To spite Fingolfin? Feanaro, are you crazy?) or at least spare enough time in fighting for all the people who still were on board the ships (Amrod) to go on land safely. Imagine the drama, the constant fighting between Feanor and Nerdanel, Nerdanel regretting every decision to ever rely on a stupid prophecy (this is stupid, what great harm could her boys ever cause?) and still protecting her sons (from themselves) (from corruption), Feanor wishing she would have never tagged along (she is ruining everything, Fingolfin should have never followed him anyway, what are you talking about he is the problem he follows me everywhere, I dont care about his son why do you)

#silm #tolkien #the silmarillion #ive been thinking about this for a while #i think she would have made big changes in the narrative bc i genuinely think she would have them under control together with Maedhros #This randomly popped in my head while I was standing on a ladder putting attaching curtains to a window #brought to you by me #nerdanel #the sons of feanor #silmarillion

[dreampearls]

colleis personality functionally being left to the ether because her webtoon iteration is at such fundamental odds with her game iteration that any attempts to temper between the two just range so dramatically

#each collei is a beautiful macrocosmic specimen to be analyzed in its own right #i do think the best and most canon-adherent way to reconcile between the two though is to recognize her emulation of amber #in both personality and appearance #as pretty much an explicitly canon thing if albeit exclusive to the game #& while i think it was meant to be a like. cute moeblob marketing strat and not a genuine extension of how she might develop #post black fire incident #it does tie really well into the webtoon establishing collei's fundamental lack of self identity & her pathological need to assume a Role #as per lee @haidengjie's dissertation: shes always either the unclean or the plague or the villain. shes never just collei #the last time she was seen as purely just Collei was also the last time she ever heard her mothers voice.... #and ever since she has been denied the opportunity to exist even as a person w basic human rights #shes never been allowed to be simply just a child let alone herself #amber befriending collei for who she is & demonstrating she sees her more than just some street rat (who had KILLED TWO DIPLOMATIC ENVOYS #NONETHELESS) & insisting she would never abandon her #just changed. everything. for the first time there was no role to play no stage no script #the curtains fell... god i still love that scene Collei is just trying so hard to play the villain and amber obstinately refuses to let her #insisting that they are both friends and equals and wholeheartedly believing in collei's capacity for good and kindness #ITS SOOO INTERESTING BECAUSE OF COURSE AS SOON AS COLLEI LEARNS SHE DOESNT HAVE TO PLAY A ROLE #SHE'LL STILL SCRAMBLE NONETHELESS FOR A NEW ONE BECAUSE ITS ALL SHES EVER KNOWN #SO OF COURSE SHE WOULD TAKE UP THE ROLE OF AMBER!!!!!!! *WALKSINTO A LARGE PIT #god im still upset about windblume though they contextualized her amber roleplay as a coping mechanism #not for her identity issues or general ptsd but instead this like. palatable relatable version of social anxiety #which dont get me wrong i do adore and relate to that aspect of colleis character a lot but its coming from a framework that completely #disregards her personality from her source material and it really just feels like a flanderization to appear more marketable #Okay i have homeowrk to do byebye

[completeoveranalysis]

[9]

OOF you can see on this last page here that Kohane doesn’t get any joy from this, even though she deserves to. This pains her even as she has to do it. And in the final panel we watch as the mother herself vanishes from the frame - the crowd have consumed her and she is nothing but an empty space as the only thing she actually cared about crumbles away to nothing.

I’m LIVING for this

(Though, also, how vapid and empty the words of the surrounding characters are. They were just as happy to tear HER apart moments ago, but now that there’s a new target they’re suddenly on her side. Their sympathy means nothing, and Kohane knows this too)

And like, while the mother deserves to have such attention brought to her actions, once again the rumour mill surges to life and creates its own narrative based on whatever they want to believe in the moment, and the television crew not only encourage it but THRIVE off the drama.

OOP Ok now even I can relate. Kohane tells the truth again, that the mother never touches her, and again the crowd is horrified. 

BIG L for the guy who says “this might even count as child abuse!”. “MIGHT”. 

I will run him over myself. 

And then the mother herself runs on to profess that she definitely absolutely cares for her by *checks notes* doing the legal minimum.

#Hmm how familiar #Also please note just how much the lines of the curtains have changed #In that last panel #They’re no longer the straight lines of Kohane’s prison #But looping and darting lines #Line an acrid darkness seeping into any crack it can find #Like a narrative still shaping itself as it goes #Like threads snapping and flying apart under pressure #Not liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #xxxholic #xxxholic 80 #Kohane

[martyrbat]

instead of dangerous new year resolutions that capitalize off my insecurities or dwelling on any of the shit that happened today, im learning how to knit :) im awful at it, probably always will be because FUCK my hands are so shaky—and im having a blast in making the soppiest stitches known to man and that motion alone

[ID: twenty stitches of light pink yarn on a single metal knitting needle. END ID]

(^ guy who will go through all these before getting one (1) knit stitch on)

#metal needles probably arent the best but also im autistic and am sidney crosby levels of bad with change so. struggle now excel later >:3c #it is 12 though and i haven't slept in 2 days so im probably going to go to bed in a hour or two but in the meantime this is fun #for Christmas i got a cheap pack of needles and 4 balls of yarn (pink yellow blue black) & some dark curtains so that was nice at least :) #ransom note #not looking forward to seeing my family tomorrow. ended today in a procrastinated breakdown because im so tired and was overwhelmed #and my dad will be in until the 28th so. hunker down and push through #<- its kinda funny how i shit talk my dad more than my mother when shes arguably much worse but with her im more irritated and ignore #with him i have that 'this big man is pissing me off and being mean and gross at me so i need to fight him' instinct which plays into it #<- the rose wilson in me........

[xkuja]

I’ll do a little spring cleaning around this blog tomorrow now that I’m feeling more mentally alive. It’s a little claustrophobic as far as blogs go (and as much as I’d like to I can’t really just move to a new blog to start fresh haha), and I’m starting to feel pressure around it so I need to fix it.

A lot of people I had stories going with have moved to greener pastures, and a lot of new friends have popped up to form new stories with. So I would like to clean out my thread tracker and make use of it.

So here’s a checklist for myself :

Make new tags for connections and stories

Refresh my tags

Redo my rules page bc I can’t be bothered with trying to conform I don’t haaaave rules…

Put the threads in the thread tracker

Nap

Do some asks

#|| behind the curtain || #my vacation blog sings to me #it’s nice writing someone with such a contrast to Kuja #but Kuja never gets his claws out of me #it’s also nice and quiet over there #less pressure in ways #and that’s how I know I have to switch the blog here up #when I start to feel pressure #in a hobby #it has to change

[yomudkipo]

*crawls out of my hole in the ground* greetings Trigun fandom

#myart #fanart #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood #I watched this show for the first time the other day while sick and it fundamentally changed something in my DNA #I will never be the same #anyways sexy nun Wolfwood #his overwhelming catholic guilt and his warring desires to do good and harm for the people he loves have captivated me #btw sorry for no art in a while #college is long and hard and I’ve finally been drawing again for the first time in a long time #so hopefully much to look forward to! #also you can tell that I cued up my posts wrong cuz I had one before this even though I drew this first LMAO #I look behind the artist curtain (it’s empty) #there’s only beans in here

[frodo-baggins]

finally got my lotr plates on my wall!!!

#i have the minas tirith one / gandalf fleeing saruman / boromir’s funeral #also ignore the curtains my mom picked them but i wanna change them lmao #rose.txt

[sophieswundergarten]

It has always bothered me that we don't get to know very much about Milligan's secret agent work. I mean, I know that the series is about the kids, but I have so many questions!

Like, how did he get reinstated? Did they have to perform psych evals and talk to Mr. Benedict and everything once his memory came back, or did he just show up at the office to see how things were going and they all went "Oh, thank goodness Wetherall is back after dropping off the map for nearly ten years. We've been falling apart without you, please help"

#and obviously i am loving all of the details included in “Time a Half” #which is a fantastic fic by @mvshortcut!!! #(that i have yet to finish but am doggedly working on because i really like it) #but i want to know about how the government looked at this guy who presumably appeared on their radar after a whole decade #as a past amnesiac and obviously changed man #who is now associated with the guy everyone laughed off as a crazy paranoid scientist and his team of oddballs and children #(because in the books at least the government supposedly knows) #and. with all that going on. decided to hire him back #i'm split between wanting it to be because milligan is just super skilled and already has a good handle on the curtain/ten men situation #and wanting it to be because he's also the glue holding his department together and everything's been going up in flames since he left #the mysterious benedict society #mbs #milligan #milligan wetherall

[italianwhisperer]

Five things that would have made “The Mysterious Benedict Society” on Disney+ objectively better:

Curtain and Reynie eat manipulation spaghetti instead of manipulation salad

The society uses Italian to communicate in secret instead of Morse Code

During Curtain’s dance in season 2, he dances to “Bella Ciao”

The Institute colours are the beautiful white, red, and green of the Italian flag

Curtain and Nicholas have rival pizzerias and the season finale is a cook off between the brothers. Curtain tries to cheat by using his pizza to hypnotize the judges to get revenge for the family pizza recipe Nicholas stole from him all those years ago. The recipe was the only thing they had left of their birth family, and Nicholas took it with him when he got adopted and used it to build the pizzeria the twins once dreamed of starting together. In retaliation, Curtain started his own evil pizza cult.

#These changes would have been way more in line with what Trenton Lee Stewart had in mind when he wrote the books #If only Disney wasn’t afraid to take risks and push the envelope #At least we have fanfic #mbs #mbs disney #the mysterious benedict society #nicholas benedict #ledroptha curtain #ld curtain #tmbs #tmbs disney #reynie muldoon #kate wetherall #constance contraire #sticky washington #mysterious Benedict society #fan fiction #mr benedict

[bunnyb34r]

Extremely extremely wound up and I wish my body and brain would just shut the fuck up

#it's bc ive been crabby all day for no reason but also mom has been cleaning the bathroom since 1:30 and the sound is bothering me but i #cant complain bc im not trying to sleep and if i wasnt crabby it wouldnt bother me plus the bathroom really really needs cleaned #i mistakenly moved the bath mat with my shower chair today and it was so fucking nasty i wanted to scream ADHD makes life so fun #i love not being able to have opaque bath mats bc if i cant see the mold i forget to CHECK for it 😭 it was so bad like omg #she was like alright well i guess ill change the shower curtain and all that then like finally 😭 #anyway im in pain so im extra cranky