#the one who waits wins all

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Obsessed with how pathetic you make Jim Guangyao look. The hat. I love it.

Don't let the smile and sweet words fool you, Jim Guangyao has lost everything in the divorce, and continues to lose.

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #mdzs au #modern au #this takes place in the same universe as Alan Zhan btw #I have been waiting for the day I got to meet him....Jim Guangyao..... #I think he won at least one divorce. But also did so under suspicious conditions. #you can 'win' divorce is your ex is dead right? #I like to think he wasn't even in the will and all the money and property went to another relative. #Who did he divorce? That's up to reader interpretation #Jim Guangyao is the busy dad who's never around except on the very rare occasional holiday. He cannot relate to his children #Nobody has ever seen him without his hat. In highschool it was a trilby. He's got baseball cap on in this drawing (I tried). #for casual friday. #He would burn everything at the grill. Half-bad luck and half distracted by work calls #Jim has nothing and no one. Despite this he always seems to land another hot spouse within a few months. #(Its his dimples. They are mesmerizing. You will look at them and sign this will without second thought <3)

[lil-vibes]

need me a fem! skk ballet and/or figure skater au so bad yall dont understand

#my mental illness is hitting and i think this will cure it #been spinning it in my head #imagine fem!chuuya in these beautiful outfits doing jumps and spins and being all graceful in the air IMAGINE it rn this is a threat #and my fav girl failure dazai being like :OOO n thinking thats my future wife up there !! #or dance duo skk grrrgrrrr #n the way the public catches on that there is something going on is bc when one wins first place they run straight to the other to #give them the medal or trophy #and ofc they r like 'just so u know who is better' and they they make out in the changing rooms #broooooooo i need i need this so bad #figure skater fem!skk au call that shit yuri on ice #... wait a second #bsd #skk #fem!skk #pebbles (me) ramblers #i need this so badly 😭😭😭 #honestly wasnt uuuuh the other side of paradise (?) chuuya a dancer ?? gotta check #gotta finish the fic actually #o7 mission received me im going

[time-is-restored]

btw not to make everything about My Fucking Guy but i honestly think one of the things that seperates q!phil out from the other islanders is the approach he takes to dealing with the lack of agency + control all the islanders have over whatever the fuck the federation's doing.

it shows up most prominently whenever tubbo is excitedly telling him about the 'progress' he's made with cucurucho or various investigations (ie: trapping him into a corner with the 'do you have free will' questions), and phil always shoots it down w an immediate 'that doesn't mean anything. curucuho will say anything to mess with you. you can't take anything he says as true.'

and it's not that phil is... a paticularly pessimistic character? he's just EXTREMELY practical. like, he's yet to give up on anyone EVER finding ANY answers (he was the one who initially gave the federation that one week ultimatum w the cage for a cage stream), he just doesn't trust the idea that curucuho is ever going to voluntarily give them. they're uncontrollable + senseless - you might as well argue with the weather.

and like, if that's how he sees the one (1) and only point of contact the islanders HAD with the federation for months, it explains a lot abt his characters lifestyle! ofc he sits on the wall all day, talking to his kids, and keeping his head down. he believes that the federation wants nothing more than to drag the islanders into sick games + tasks just so they can fuck with their head (ie: curucuho revealing he was the one cellbit gathered all that information for). and while he can't totally PREVENT any of that from ever impacting him, he can make sure his kids are well fed, well protected, and as happy + comfortable as he can manage. this is objectively not a perfect situation, there is a guaranteed amount of suffering + fear that he can't mitigate, but he can at least account for it.

like, he REFUSES to engage. whenever curucho shows up, he treats them with total ambivalence. he's not going to get riled up by anything they do, he's not going to get super attached to the guy, he's just gonna laugh it off and irish goodbye it when things drag on. the ONLY time he's strayed from that general guiding principle has been since he's lost his eggs, and can no longer afford to let the federation's fuckery go: those are his fucking kids.

hence the completely unprecedented levels of outward rage and sadness and terror he shows throughout the birdcage streams - almost all directed directly to cucurucho. it's all a completely fair + proportional response to the horror the islanders are being subjected to, but it feels so different bc until now, q!phil has been so dedicated to not reacting, and not giving the federation any sign that they're actually getting to him.

#qsmp #q!phil #LIKE. does anyone else think this! i genuinely believe its like one of the major #traits of his character i feel like u can trace it through Everything. #the man lives with the constant knowledge that sometimes all it takes is a tempting ravine and a badly timed creeper to end a life #whether that life belongs to a stranger or someone you love more than anything else in the world #you COULD rage against that. you could scream and shout and tear your hair out and grieve for the futility of it all #but what does that change? the days march on. death waits either way #and that's not to say he's a laizesfair kind of guy. anyone who's seen him stress out abt chayanne's risk taking + freak out #whenever his kids don't have enough autofeed grist can see that he cares DEEPLY. which resolves into his very distinctive #defensive + protective playstyle. the goal is not to win the fight the goal is to *survive* the fight etc #but the only way that mindset doesn't spill out into unchecked paranoia + complete agoraphobia is with acceptance #'shit happens: the philza minecraft story' #i also think it even manifests in the nightmare sequence w his last words to chayanne? 'they didn't want us to live. we were never supposed #to survive' or whatever the exact wording was #he is FURIOUS and deeply hurt and sad abt the deaths he says so explicitly later #but at the time the first thing he reaches for is. exhausted acceptance. it wasn't their fault. it wasn't his fault. they did their best. #they could only do so much in the face of the federation's Overwhelming Hostility. y'know? #mine

[nnjthndr]

I posting this as a WARNING to all my followers that I won't post anything tomorrow until I have watched Joel's POV of the Secret Life finale. After which I will come here to incomprehensibly scream like a rabid creature either in an uncontainable joy I've never felt in my life way over his victory or in an agonising pain that makes me read angsty fics at 3 am just to feel something way over his death.

All of this is to say that I WILL NOT BE NORMAL TOMORROW

#I am nervous and excited #I want to watch the finale right now to know who wins to rip the bandaid off already and be done with the pain of waiting #At the same time I don't want to watch the finale nor learn who wins just wanna keep adding more bandaids and for finale to never come #It's a real dillema I am in right now #Anyway all of this is to say that Secret Life has been a very fun ride #and I will like the ending no matter who wins because I love all lifers #I will just be “not okay” for a while if Joel loses but I will be fine afterwords lmao #Also let me try manifesting for one last time... ehem #JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOEL WIN JOE L WIN JOEL WIN JOE LW IN JOEL WIN JOWE L WIN JOEL WIN WOEL WIN- #secret life #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans

[wiclowmakers]

been thinking a lot about how odin weaponizes his abuse and emotional violence to keep his family in line,  to the extent that thor is both a victim of it and a further perpetuator of it.  literally in the very first scene where we meet thor and,  despite his anger,  thor is polite,  respects the rule of hospitality,  and while being a prolific alcoholic who has given up drinking,  offers mead as a gift to his host.

and then odin barges in and proceeds to  a)  insult thor’s dead sons to his  face,  calling modi and magni  “useless,”  and outright remarking that their deaths don’t matter,  b)  proceed to push alcohol at thor over and over and even INSULTS thor for abstaining from alcohol,  and then  c)  insults thor in front of everyone,  remarking he’s only good for his strength,  before expecting thor to fight kratos

it’s actually horrifying the more you watch because it’s just so insidious???  like thor pouring two drinks,  one for kratos and one for atreus         kratos immediately pushes one of the cups to thor,  implying he won’t drink first because he doesn’t know if it’s poisoned.  HE doesn’t know that thor has quit drinking;  thor grumbles about the temptation,  but otherwise resists.  when odin comes in,  odin helps himself to BOTH drinks,  and after he’s taken a sip,  he  pushes the cups at thor.  it’s not just that he’s moving them out of the way,  he very deliberately pushes the cups towards thor  BOTH  times.  then he remarks that thor  “is no fun anymore,”  needling thor for his refusal to drink.

like wow wow wow no wonder thor is passively suicidal.  no wonder he’s stopped taking care of himself.  no wonder mimir left and freya tried to run and tyr has been locked away.  odin turns everyone around him into bombs that he lights the fuse on for his own amusement and lobs at his enemies,  and he doesn’t care if he kills his own family doing so.  

#txt #god of war #ask to tag // #i waited until after christmas to post this but i've been thinking abt thor a LOT #i was so ready to hate him i was SO ready to absolutely root for his death based just on what mimir and freya had said in 2018 #and then i got smacked upside the head with grief and agony for thor i hate it here #the way he so angrily and desperately yells ''we are DESTROYERS'' to kratos bc fuck!!! that's all he's ever been!!! #odin used him to kill the giants he used him to eliminate anyone who threatened odin's rule #he was so desperate to win his father's love but it was NEVER enough it was NEVER going to be enough #odin would never love him!!! one act of resistance and odin MURDERS HIM #and thor STILL HEARD KRATOS OUT he STILL WANTED TO BE BETTER #FOR THRUD #FOR HIS FAMILY #when he so brokenly says ''sif was right about you. i just didn't want to listen'' #he wanted his father to love him so!!! badly!!! #cory balrog the BANE of my EXISTENCE

[rox-of-iu]

Mu Qingfang lost both his rounds and is now officially out of the side-character poll....... .............. ......... .do not @ me, do not hit me up, I'm logging off forever......there is no winning ever

#not even a crumb of a W for my specialest little guy #troops......how could we let this happen..... #fjhkjdhgkfk #but we did our bestest thank you everyone who fought for the cause 🫡 im giving all of you a kissy 💖💖 #the ones who even reblogged it to enable my shenanigans of the day deserve a medal lol (also some of those tags were the funniest ever hahh #btw just to clarify im not like actually upset its just poll its not that deep lol BUT- my boyyy boohoo hfhjdk #mannnn. we got robbed. robbed I say.. #fine. FINE. YOU HAVE FORCED MY HAND #I WILL BECOME EVEN MORE CRINGE ABOUT MQF #hjfkhdkkfjg #ive got things lined up just you wait. hahha (once i stop being busy) #damn my guy never winning anything i should just make a sideblog with my own poll and its all just different mu qingfangs hfjhkhfkjgk

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

#toronto maple leafs #HELLO EVERYBODY THIS HAS BEEN MONTHS!!! MONTHS IN THE MAKING BECAUSE i AM UNHINGED AND NEEDED THE PRECISE PICTURES THAT I KNEW I WOULD GET #like. seventy five percent of this has been done since the first time i posted this and while it has gotten better with time because #my narratives simply got more complex and there's so much of this that is For Me but don't worry i will explain but aLSO goddamn mitch coul #you have gotten married any later in the year. also willy you truly disappointed me by not getting an absurd haircut this year (now that #i've said this he's going to debut it on instagram like. tomorrow. but anyway that meant y'all got to enjoy my neuroses of #Loving Tyler Bertuzzi who is a goddamn leaf. the joys of having to wait to post this (was not a leaf at the time i started it) and anyway i #have at length i think had the breakdown about tyler in pigtails girl dad & how i got a bob & then tyler copied me which was rude. that's m #gender. ANYWAY starting from the top we got sheldon keefe documentation which was really just the personal decision that i wanted all the #coaching staff to be the markers in the poem/the bold & also at the TIME keefe hadn't re-signed &we thought it might be everybody out w/kyl #anyway the title of the scrap of an old lover's flannel is literally 'u think this is about sheldon & kyle NO it's about timothy liljegren' #bc. liljegren was on the marlies winning cup team & has had a contentious relationship w/keefe ever since & was healthy scratched in playof #& the narrative is sooooo. also at one point for the ryan o'reilly i was going to edit the stlb out of his grandma's shirt or cover it w/th #childhood dreams line but THEN i found the gio snapped stick one which was too perfect for 'crumbling copy' the ryan o'reilly To Me is so. #ur insane in ways u did not think for that one. like. how soft her hands were. his grandma you guys. he grew up a leafs fan. if he ever get #to lift the cup with her again i will lose my shit. the cup run a movie i remember nothing--OKAY the spezz one i knew i needed him stresse #but also i believe in the spezz/kyle narrative so. it comes up later don't worry ALSO SPEZZ FOLLOWING HIM TO PITT CAME AFTER I MADE THIS bu #the muzz tea one makes me a little sensy bc muzz was out with an injury for most of this season & it was a really scary spinal one & so yea #& then the simmer one just straight up makes me cry bc i love him so much & the work that he does for anti-racism in hockey means so much & #if you have that video open & watch it i promise you will cry i do every time it's so beautiful he had to be on comforted by beauty & sammy #boy is on the a man who doesn't know me because EYE remember the caps goalie tandems. baby lilya. the mo one is a little funny bc it is #solely due to wade's thread about mo rielly the coal miner homestead husband. that's why he moves to omaha also i think it suits him (quiet #OK NOW OLD MEN IN LOVE NARRATIVE this one's in contention for my fave bc it's spezz coping w/retirement fundamental meaningless of existenc #u heard abt tyler already that's for me the minchy picture was just too good i had found it earlier & i spent SO LONG looking for an empty #leafs rink picture for bathtub i have some cool construction photos but i wanted the melting ice ones (thought about tahoe lol) & the sprin #one i manip'd a lot bc i needed a spring picture bc playoffs clinch in spring & that one fit so coincidentally perfect bc it's 7 straight #seasons 7 guys so. :) & i KNEW i swore to god they did more milk advertising i knew i was gonna do this one from the minute i saw the poem #the milk patch & it took a hot minute BUT I FOUND THIS ONE this one's for funsies. AND THE PIC I WAITED SO FUCKING LONG FOR this is actuall #from kerf's wedding but i was like i know on god mitch is getting married this summer & that's about to be the drunkest shenanigans wedding #i'm waiting for the pics. & then i was BLESSED with this one which is beautiful & perfect & LOOK AT THEM. anyway the last one is bc

[familyofpaladins]

What's going to happen in the Monkie Kid s4 special/season 5? WRONG ANSWERS ONLY

I'll start:

the monkie crew releases those plant demon babies from Pig Pong Panic into heaven and Azure is defeated by Babies

Red son burns the scroll from the inside out

Macaque takes out Peng by hitting him with a car*

Azure actually runs to MK for help when it turns out theres A LOT more responsibilities and tasks he must do as Emperor, and its overwhelming. He doesn't want to be emporer anymore

We find out that Tang is the one who created MK, but he didnt even realize it

Mo becomes the New Jade Emperor

#I swear there was another one I was gonna add. But now I dont remeber what it was #I AM waiting for those demon plant babies to show back up honestly #Who would win: one lion with all the powers of the Jade Emperor? Or 10 mischievous demon plant babies? #Lmk #Lego monkie kid #Monkie kid #Lmk season 4 #Lmk season 4 spoilers #wrong answers only #Lmk s4 special

[variousqueerthings]

three just karate aikido-dropped three security guards and honestly id like to see some other doctors get into a fist fight occasionally, i wonder how they'd do

#doctor who #dw #im watching classic who #im watching the green death #im watching the third doctor #one woul feign a knee injury and then chop someone in the throat when they came over all worried #two would do silly flappy hands and be generally useless -- that or smack someone over the head with his flute #four would fight so dirty but also so badly -- hairpulling expected #five would espouse being above this and then kneecap someone with a cricket bat #im torn between six or seven as most likely to commit an actual murder based on what ive seen of them #but definitely six would throw an actual hard punch square in someone's face + scratch and claw #while seven of course uses a cane to devastating effect (with a bit of one and four tactics) #eight would be useless in a fight in the movie but far more capable later on BUT i think also least likely to fight someone physically #nine is a bitch-slapper ive decided. she's actually very unhappy with the idea of a proper fight but a humiliating slap yes #ten WOULD fight but would also lose and spit blood while acting like they're winning #eleven also does flappy hands but far more effectively than two and when you're not taking him seriously punches you in the face #twelve i think is most likely to win an honest fight through old-school fisticuffs but on top of that is also a bastard cheater #thirteen ive decided is most likely to have remembered some of three's martial arts but silly style -- gets halfway through a correct move #fucks something up and says *hold on i swear i used to remember this stuff now is it over the hip or shoulder...* before getting knocked ou #fourteen from what we've seen so far holds up their hands going *now wait a second-* and immediately gets knocked out

[witchwhaat]

it's time everyone. part two in honour of worlds 2023/24... last time we banned bolero. let's choose another one

(these are mostly suggestions you've left in the tags during part 1!)

#LET'S GOOOOO #i'm really curious what will win this time #bc with last one i had a feeling that bolero would win #but here? i'm not really sure #anyway. happy worlds to all who celebrate! #oh and feel free to leave suggestions for a possible part 3!! #won't tell you what to vote for. YET. #figure skating #polls #agnes talking #WAIT should i also do something like 'vote for The Best figure skating song'??

[acebabecd]

I'm surprised so many people seem to be taking "It's nothing personal" as meaning Hermie never cared, and not as him saying that taking the costume is unrelated to how he feels about Normal.

#That's usually how that phrase is used #I don't understand taking it as him saying 'btw I never liked you' unless you were unfamiliar with thay expression #Dndads spoilers #Oakworthy #If anything I see it as a 'rival spies who fell in love with their target' situation #But he's got a mission to do so he's gonna do it #I'm also seeing people be all or nothing on the 'it was a scam' thing about the ending #Like either the id and stealing was faked to get to goof realm or he was always going to screw them over #Idk why it can't be both #He was going to take it anyway but decided he might as well help them get to goof realm #Kill 2 birds with one stone #He dropped the (real) id on purpose and waited for them to find him so they'd know it was him #But he real ly was intending to stealing the mascot outfit the whole time #He might even see it as a way for everyone to win #Also I want ALL the 'falling for your target' hc about this

[redrobin-detective]

I hate the commercialization of Christmas centered around present giving, that I am socially forced to buy things for both people I love and people I want to choke on a starburst. I hate the forced, fake cheer around as people pretend they’re being good and charitable by buying overly priced junk just to tick off a box on their to do list. I hate that most of the time, people are too stressed by having to buy so many people gifts that often they just buy whatever just to have something to wrap which the receiver doesn’t even want resulting in a circle jerk of stress for everyone involved with no net gain.

#christmas wank #anti christmas #christmas hate #i hate the holidays so much #i got the last of my presents yesterday and like the palpable Relief I felt #like I've been lowkey stressing since october about gifts #i hate that I have to buy my mother (who I'm one step above despising) a gift or else she throws a fit #I hate that I find fun gifts for my friends throughout the year but feel obligated to wait for a stupid manufactured holiday #I hate that in addition to buying presents i have to coordinate getting them wrapped and sent so they arrive on time #it just sucks! I hate it! #every year I tell my family 'can we just fucking skip presents this year??' #and every year my mom is like 'Im gonna buy you the best present you're gonna love forever' #and proceeds to buy the lamest most unlike me thing ever that I hide away immeaditely #i want to hibernate to january #fuck christmas #(and yet I am Winning at presents they're all super attuned to what people want) #(I hate the culture of present buying but I think Im good at it)

[breezy-cheezy]

Color wheel challenge: LIGHT BLUE BRACKET

#the green one is still up but I have a pretty good guess who is winning LMAO #color palette meme #color wheel challenge #light blue bracket #color poll #breezy polls #breezy babbles #I could wait the 4 hours for green poll but i want the serotonin of poll now ysee #also preview Riddle appears.... #low res because yea it's all a wip

[best-iasip-episode]

I am so tired of Welfare by now

#i dont feel like waiting for the last one to finish #we all know whos winning #best iasip episode #charlie kelly #dee reynolds #dennis reynolds #frank reynolds #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #its always sunny in philadelphia #mac mcdonald

[axelotyls]

no one prepares u for the sleepy u get when it's exam season

#axel axelotyls moment #somebody sedate me!!!!!!!! #so far i have failed 1 test. waiting on the other one. have a test today which i also am so lost on #we did not win these 😔 #this is all my doing who told me to study engineering #(me i did bc my parents would rather me dead than studying smth to do w comunications or art)

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

what's harrison gonna do when old bf (lonan) and new bf (callahan) are in the same room together they're the same guy different colour scheme

#can't wait for when lonan overlaps callahan and becomes new old bf & then callahan becomes old new old bf who's now a Mortal Enemy #harrison's gonna explode but it's so funny bc his type is now painfully clear to me #otherworldly men like lonan??? JEREMIAH???? callahan???? #LIKE jeremiah wins to me <3 like not only is he ART he's also got a good personality <3 <3 sorry to the other 2 lol #btw just the existence of callahan in this narrative means we're getting at LEAST two more seventh virtue books #cal plot will probably take up all of book 3 and then if I like him sm I wanna redemption plot him minus redemption #he can commit any sin to me - book FOUR #I can't add jeremiah to seventh virtue bc in a narrative when jeremiah AND lonan are in it at the same time #is a narrative where lonanasona is NOT endgame LMAOOOO #but can we imagine tho.... all 3 boyfriends in one room heyyy jeremiah wanna come to seventh virtue town #I have ZERO support to add eliza into seventh virtue town but like the lonan girlfriends are like heyyyy #glenne is gonna come back wrong so we already have her && I wanna soooo badly write holly back in (his 2015 gf) #THE LONAN GIRLFRIENDS AND HARRISON BOYFRIENDS IN ONE ROOM THEY ALL BECOME FRIENDS