#the tides have turned

[xmfxne]

The Tides Have Turned

((Closed starter for @theothervonkarmagirl))

It’d been an investigation he’d gotten to see early. Apollo technically didn’t have a client, and he was technically... not working today... but he couldn’t keep his curious eyes away from a crime scene, and the police, having recognized him, seemingly, hopefully, let him in. Surprisingly, there wasn’t much around to look at, in fact, there really seemed to be... no one around. Was this even a crime scene? 

Then came the nondescript man. He bumped shoulders with Apollo, and that was the only time the off-the-clock attorney seemed to notice him. Before Apollo could say anything at all, though, he was too far away for it to be socially acceptable. Yeah, that was suspicious. He could have been a witness, but Apollo didn’t trust it, so he started walking in the direction he came from, towards the lake dock. 

#The Tides Have Turned #Apollo Justice #theothervonkarmagirl #Mid! DD #RP #((Hope this works!!))

[azulashengrottofan]

Okay soooooooooo

I wanted Halloween Jade since I didn't pull for him last year

I want all of my Octatrio complete and he's the only one missing

So I pulled with someone watching my horendous luck

And well....

I....don't know what happened

I was hopefully pulling when between 50 and 60 pulls I get that

I WANT JADE

So I go up to 100 and what do I get ?

I REPEAT MYSELF I WANT JADE

(he does duo with Azul, I want him)

So I'm depressed

I take some time off and I say to myself I'll try ten pulls with single keys (I'm usually luckier with those)

4 pulls I get another Jack and 5th is where I lost my shit

SSR LIGHTS

OCTAVINELLE DORM

YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS

Now I got 4 SSR in all of that and all 3 of Halloween part 1

I'M SO HAPPY !

#disney twst #twisted wonderland #twst #cater diamond #vil shoenheit #leona kingscholar #jade leech #octavinelle #THE TIDES HAVE TURNED #I still wish he would have come earlier #105 pulls for him to come #i still have enough for 200 pulls Masquerade Azul #i WILL get that card

[fratboykate]

i’m the OG and i said what i said. i still feel bad for her, i’m still team yelena, and i loved the drama i caused.

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team yelena for no reason other than i must always stand with my slavic sisters

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Team Jesus fucking christ what the hell is going on here

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Kate - 15 Yelena - 12 Both - 7 Neither - 5 Just make them fuck - 7 Team “Person who said ‘Just Make Them Fuck” - 3 “Jesus fucking christ what the hell is going on here” - 1

#yelena was losing points last night but she's gaining them today haha #THE TIDES HAVE TURNED #kyfbau #anonymous #answers #tomato war

[sepulchritude]

Another perk of libraries is that when I check out an audiobook and predictably fail to listen to it, it gets returned and I can rest easy knowing that checking it out at all has already benefited my local library. I can even do it again later and it will only bring further good things, for free, forever

VS buying an audiobook, failing to listen to it, and having to stare at it in my audible collection knowing I spent $10 on something I never used. And then imagine doing that again. Hellish. Get a library card and download the libby app

#literally the only downside is sometimes you have to wait your turn for the book #which: yeah life’s like that sometimes #and also: go find a different book that’s available immediately and use that to tide you over #sepulchritudinous #1k #10k

[i-lavabean]

A Tide and Bone masquerade

#my art #lavabean art #art #illustration #candela obscura #circle of tide and bone #rajan savarimuthu #elsie roberts #oscar grimm #cordelia glask #rajan x elsie #rajan/elsie #beauty and the bees #Cordelia is radioing Cosmo #i know there were no earpieces in the turn of the century #but let me have this okay? #i beg of you let me have my Oceans 11 thing #masquerade ball

[kedreeva]

I can't live like this, I made a post about how much the group still needs Eddie and @joseph-quinns made a stunning gifset of it which planted my ass FIRMLY back into seething rage territory over the damn flashlight. So hear me out okay, hear me out

That scene? Where he wraps up the flashlight? That's not just a flashlight and that's not just a one-off. Yes, Eddie protected a beacon of guiding light to send with Steve into the dark, but that's not random. That's a purposeful narrative act!!

In 4.05, at 38 minutes in, the party almost in full enters the darkened Creel house, the den of the beast. Lucas tries to turn on the light, and it fails. Dustin pulls out a flashlight and clicks it on- and here's the parallel. Steve asks him where everyone got them, and Dustin (Dustin, who point-blank told Steve "you die, I die" last season, Dustin who is closest to Steve next to Robin, Dustin who is closest to Eddie, the bridge between the two) gives him a reproachful look and asks him if he needs to be told everything, reminds him that he is not a child, and... tells him where to find a flashlight. Doesn't give him the light, doesn't turn it on. Expects Steve to be taking care of himself.

Which is fine, it's fine, he's a kid, a teenage boy. This isn't to speak on Dustin's character.

But it is to draw the parallel line right up alongside Eddie, who (in 4.06 on the lake) doesn't wait for Steve to ask. He doesn't ask if it's needed. He pulls out a plastic bag from within his clothing, dumps his own belongings on the floor, and uses the bag to wrap up the flashlight, to prepare a beacon for Steve. Eddie solemnly hands it to Steve, something I'm not sure it would have even occurred to him to ask for (they are all so used to the darkness by now). The light is already on, shining bright, when Eddie passes it off with the soft, mundane protection of a good luck.

THIS is what they need. In every war, there are medics. There are healers. There are the helpers, the support. There are those who are the home to come back to, the reasons worth fighting. The ones waiting with clean water and a hot meal and a soft blanket. Even in the midst of the worst days of his entire life, Eddie looks at the warriors around him and says "I can give them light, I can give them a home, I can give them protection."

He can wrap up a flashlight, he can steal a vehicle that is most like a home, he can build shields. He can buy them time.

And perhaps most importantly? Dustin, early on, didn't hand Steve the light. But... by the end, he is building a shield alongside of Eddie, learning how to protect others.

And that's why the flashlight is important.

#eddie munson #stranger things #steve harrington #dustin henderson #stranger things meta #I'm not sorry I hope you all suffer this knowledge with me #because I have been living with this for weeks #his message should never have been that he has to stop running and be a hero #his message should have been you don't have to be a hero #to have worth #to help #to be the turning point in the tide of war #ENJOY YOUR FEELS

[flowery-laser-blasts]

Drakken: You're a loser, baby... Shego: ...A loser, but just maybe if we, Both: eat shit together, things will end up differently. Shego: It's time to lose your self-loathin', excuse yourself, let hope in. Baby. Play your card, be who you are: Both: A loser, just like... me.

My friends and I watched the first four episodes of Hazbin Hotel and honestly this song is too catchy (+ I really really love this visual in the number). I'm weak for Keith David's singing voice.

#if you or a loved one are going through rough things don't give up hope. #Tides will turn eventually and you WILL get through this #you might not know it but you have the strength and spirit of a warrior and your future-self will be proud of you for keepin on going #the world is your oyster and you're at a all you can eat buffet! #show this shitty world who's boss!!! #kim possible #kimpossible #hazbin hotel #dr drakken #drakken #shego #drdrakken #drakgo #drakken x shego #shegoxdrakken #kim possible shego

[marypsue]

In that vein (hah), I just have to take a moment to gush about the costuming in The Lost Boys because. Have you seen the costuming in The Lost Boys. Like each costume standing on its own without anyone in it still gives you a sense of a whole character, which is important because some of these characters don't get, uh, lines. We have to be able to distinguish them immediately by visuals, and the thing is, we can, because they're not just dressed to look attractive, they're dressed with the purpose of establishing character.

Like, consider Michael. They kept it very simple for him, on purpose, he's a regular everyman kind of guy thrown into a Situation. But also, he's trying too hard. The white t-shirt, jeans, and leather jacket call back to James Dean, Rebel Without A Cause, but the leather jacket's brand new without a scuff or a crack, not broken in, and it sits uncomfortably on his shoulders. The earring doesn't suit him - it belongs to somebody else, a funhouse mirror version of himself that he's tempted by, but also it literally belongs to somebody else. Who gave him that earring? Star's implied to have done the piercing, for him, which also tracks - the earring's a little piece of someone else, someone darker and wilder, that's been dug right down into his flesh by his association with Star. It's tasted his blood.

It's also a little piece of the boys' uniting aesthetic bleeding over onto him. There's a magpie sensibility to all of them, but then each of them are visually distinct as themselves within it.

Star's clothes have 80s cuts but form a 60s hippie silhouette, solidified in time. She's the most colourful of them all, her white tops signifying a flash of innocence, but at the same time as she climbs on David's bike, she pulls on a big black jacket that almost envelops her, a little piece of his shadow falling over her and devouring her light. Again, it doesn't quite fit her, like she's playing dressup as a darker, wilder self just like Michael is.

And speaking of David. That boy is chin to toe wrapped up in black. The coat references batwings, which is a great detail. And those gloves! He doesn't touch Star; he doesn't touch Michael; he doesn't touch the world, except through a layer of darkness. It's real Old West, white-hat-black-hat level symbolism. Except.

The real villain of the piece isn't the dangerous, sharp-edged boy in black - although of course you need to look out for him, they don't call him 'dangerous' for no reason. The real villain of the piece is the most perfectly conventional, middle-class, unassuming, don't-look-twice take-him-home-to-mother normal guy imaginable. Grey and beige. Business casual.

It's the perfect camouflage for a predator.

(And then also like. I can't wax as poetic about it right now because my brain cells are otherwise occupied. But please consider how much character is there in, like, the Frogs' army-surplus duds and Sam's terrible, incredible shirts.)

#the lost boys #costuming is characterisation. thank you for coming to my TED talk #is any of this coherent. have i just been swept away on this movie's tide of sensuality homoeroticism and oily sax man music #this is why in my 'michael turned sooner and everything went to shit' fic I have him collecting embellishments left right and centre #he's really truly fitting into the pack now. not just playing dressup #also something something borderline anachronistic details something something timelessness something

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Omg idk if you talk Spanish or if it’s just XXC, but with that little and wonderful doodle you gave me the amazing headcanon of XXC being bilingual and just randomly speaking Spanish out of nowhere and nobody understanding him

[TL: XXC says "don't do coke in the bathroom"]

Shout out to the Spanish speaking MXTX fans. I don't think this is remotely what you wanted. (bonus below cut, TW: Drugs)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xiao xingchen #xue yang #Ask #bonus comic #I'm not confident enough in my Spanish to really integrate bilingual XXC into the comic #but I love the enthusiasm and there are at least two ppl leaving spanish tags on my comics so...its soft canon here. #if spanish speakers want to throw good spanish memes at me for xxc I will do my best B*) #Maybe he transmigrated and tried to turn the tides of the story but met a even worse fate.... #I like to think he teaches Song Lan Spanish to have a secret language like the SVSSS transmigrators with (broken) English. #The bonus joke here is that it doesn't matter what language the sign is in. XY can't read. He has severe dyslexia #Its not even real coke its just sugar. He's about to have a dreadful time. But the TW is just for the visuals #EDIT: THE QUEUE BROKE and I was outside with my hands in the dirt digging (around) tubers for my mum's garden. So i didn't notice #Happy Mother's day! To the mums and those without one this year <3

[loosingmoreletters]

“Oh, how big are your fandoms?”

Small.

#I WAS REALLY OUT HERE #THINKING SEE YOU MY KING WOULDN’T BETRAY ME #weapon creator #turning #low tide in twilight #see you my king #‘my fandom is so small’ shut up do you have more than 100 fics on AO3? #anyway can’t wait for tag wrangler positions to be open again I’m gonna volunteer for my small little fandoms

[hussyknee]

Tfw your favourite faux-leftist liberal shill turns against you. 🥲

#WE HAVE VOX #hahahahahhahahahha #you don't understand look at the Vox stories promoted on their twitter feed the last six weeks and now look at this #this fucking bootlicking shill turned against Biden #although now I'm thinking the Dems are setting him up to be fall guy #as though this is his circus instead of a bipartisan collusion with the military industrial complex #still it's a sure sign of the tide turning fast #ideally I want Vox bombed along with CNN but. Baby steps #Can't wait to see which dick-riding rag turns next #media manipulation #free Palestine #genocide Joe #fuck Joe biden #us politics

[wundrousarts]

Any Nevermoor fans in Adelaide??? I am desperate to know what Jess might mention about Silverborn at the Adelaide Festival 😭😭😭

#nevermoor #such a global fan base ….. except when you need to find an australian that isn’t in melbourne #as an American who notoriously lives in a large country that people (Brits) can’t fathom #I am flabbergasted every time I look up Australian locations and distances lol #anyways. I neeeed to know what’s said I need stuff to share and also tide me over 😭 #also to add it to my interview database bc I am insane and have a spreadsheet of all that stuff that I turned into a tumblr page. lol. #I emailed asking if it would be recorded in any form and idk if I’ll get a response but I kinda doubt it idk #but who knows! maybe I’ll be surprised! even if this is just like a 15 min talk I would listen to anything Jess says abt nevermoor even lol

[marlenacantswim]

hey gang, do we all agree that ten's massive ego and god complex (or rather those traits being especially prominent in his regeneration) were a direct result of what happened in Parting of the Ways?

"marlena what the fuck do you mean" okay well think about it; ninth doctor. fresh off the time war. thinks himself unlovable, unworthy of love. just did a double genocide, including against his own people. he's returning to his old ways of lallygagging around helping humans in a more-than-desperate attempt to repress his feelings and try to mimic the person he was before the war. he's so vulnerable.

enter rose tyler. to him? she's the most amazing person in the universe. he loves her, full stop. she makes him feel like maybe he's still capable of love, but does he really trust her love for him? after all, she doesn't really know him, does she?

all that comes to a head when rose tyler becomes the bad wolf. in that moment, she sees everything. everything everything. the doctor's past, and the doctor's future. every horrible thing they did and will do.

and in that moment, with all this truth streaming constantly into her brain, most amazing person in the universe rose tyler looks at him and goes "i want to save you. you are worth saving."

bro no fucking shit ten has a motherfucking god complex, jesus christ i would too!!!

now personally i think nine would have rationalized it and been relatively Normal 'bout all that noise had he survived onwards, but unfortunately he didn't, and so when the doctor's subconscious and the universe were holding hands deciding what their new little guy should be like... well, we're already making him just for her, and she loves him.

rose tyler loves me. she loved me even when she knew me.

i'm just saying, that "Bad Wolf chose to save me" to "the laws of time are mine to command" pipeline is a straight vertical drop only a few feet long.

#there's also an argument to be made about the time vortex being responsible for his death #and how that might have contributed too #yeah sorry the inpenatrable waves of time lived inside your boyfriend and killed him #yeah and it kinda fucked up his regenerarion #so sorry girl your boyfriend's new life is tainted with the pull of ultimate power over one's domain #this won't actually mean much to you since your boyfriend will split in two #and the one you'll get to keep is too busy having a human brain and being warborn #but this will have horrible consequences for him after he turns six #and will emotionally devastate just about every other person he crosses paths with #but hey that's alright; remember that drunk guy who foretold good tidings on new year's? #yeah that was your boyfriend. he went back to see you as he was dying from the results of his god complex. #he came back to be with the reason he did everything— the reason he was— one last time #okay i'm making myself cry right now i gotta chill #running my mouth #doctor who #nuwho #tenth doctor #10th doctor #ninth doctor #9th doctor #the doctor #rose tyler

[iknowicanbutwhy]

Monkey King VS Monkie Kid! Who will win? Probably not the kid who doubts his ability to win and has the lives of everyone in the world resting on his shoulders.

I looked at @xynnoix 's AU and went "oooooh, angsty," and I thought of this idea and went "oooooh, angsty," and I looked at how many panels I couldn't keep from drawing and went "oooooh, angsty," which is really just my thing, you know?

#kinda went ham on those backgrounds #fbdkvnf couldn't help it though this au has me excited #and I got to practice backgrounds to woop woop #i was just thinkin when i drew this about just how horrifying it is to have such an amazing weapon with great powers that could i dunno #turn the tides of the world ending #and then have those powers negated and your own weapon used to trap you #like... ouch man. wounded pride. #dunno what MK would be trapped for though because ive listened to the playlist and its like.. quite a few songs about MURDER #I guess LBD was all like hoo hoo hoo you look so pitiful i cant believe i thought you were a threat and MK is all :( so LBD just ices him #but.. non-lethally IDK #art #fanart #monkie kid #Throne of Bones au #xynnoix #kitscribbles #lmk fanart #lego monkie kid #monkie kid sun wukong #monkey king #possessed monkey king #lmk sun wukong #monkie kid au

[scintillyyy]

anyways, out of historical curiosity after finding those old ship manifestos, i went searching through the archive of the dc fic index lj (last seemingly updated ~2006), to see a bit how fandom landscape has changed. so without further ado, here's some numbers:

dick/babs came in at 47 fic entries archived (tho z tells me that at the time dickbabs shippers had their own yahoo archive)

dick/kory at 9 fics archived

dick/donna has 3 fics

dick/wally has 6

dick/roy at 112 fics archived

dinah/babs comes in at 38 entries

dinah/ollie at 8

kon/bart has 39 entries

kon/bart/tim has 39 entries

bart/tim has 44 entries

bernard/tim 22 entries

booster/ted 61 entries

bruce/clark 96 entries

bruce/talia has 1 entry

bruce/selina 27 entries

clark/lois 15 entries

steph/cass has 29 entries

cassie/kon 7 entries

cassie/kon/tim 8 entries

cassie/cissie 8 entries

cissie/greta had a whole 4 entries (good for you, girls)

dana winters drake has 7 fics under her name (people used to remember she exists!)

jack drake has 14 for him

and janet only 1 (and i read it, it's only 100 words and she's called cathy in it agsgajsjs but at least she doesn't seen like a bad mom)

timkon as the juggernaut at 290 entries

and finally tim/steph has 47 entries

now a lot of the lj era heyday was during the tt03 run & infinite crisis and OYL and all that, which makes sense as to why timkon was so huge in particular. also in fandom in general m/m fics do tend to outrun het and f/f pairings by a mile, so those having much larger numbers doesn't surprise me. a lot of these numbers also reflect the status quo of comics at the time--wally and dick were merely seen as best friends while dick was having a ton of UST with roy in the outsiders and that wouldn't change until yja. i don't particularly ship timber, but bringing bernard back didn't actually come out of nowhere--there was some past precedence in fandom (as much as i wish it were ives, instead).

#anyways it is interesting. to me. to see how some of this has changed #and i do have some inklings on how fandom tides may turn again in 15 years when kids who are consuming current dc media #grow up and enter fandom

[hopexhappiness]

BREAKING NEWS!

Tumblr doesn’t know how to react to real LGBTQ+ representation!

Years of queerbaiting, half assed tastes of what they desire from their favorite media and delusional hope have not prepared the ecosystem for progress in representation!

#this would have been more timely yesterday but whatever #it just feels like the current vibe rn lmao #long live the era of validation #if we start our prayer circles now in this current explosion of queer we might be able to turn the tides of everything #tumblr culture #destiel #supernatural #good omens #wwdits #ofmd #many many other things this references but im blanking on what to tag #tumblr lore