#they dont approve but they love them

[tubbytarchia]

I don't know what this is all I know is that LimL Joel makes me really emotional

#I know he has a tendency to go deranged on his red lives but idk something about him beginning to lose it after Jimmy died and killing Grian #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans fanart #trafficblr #Again its his red life shenanigans but... If only Jimmy had known how affected someone was by his death. I'm choosing to believe this #and him then going out like a sad pathetic wet cat even with Grian's sacrifice... He really deserves a win one of these days lmao please #Also I cant stop thinking about how Jimmy wouldn't have left him. Grian was sensible to and most players probs would have #Joel really does become a lost cause so its fair and Grian did still care (and went to say goodbye as well as sacrifice his time for him) #But Jimmy would have stuck by even if Joel were in this state (and they'd both get themselves killed pathetically but) #And Joel having shown such genuine care for Jimmy and concern over his limited time... man anything w Jimmy makes me so emotional lol #I love them so #oh Ig about the art itself. I dont like it but hey thats how it tends to go when you try smth new. And no shame in trying #but if one person likes this then yayy I will still feel accomplished and happy #Im looking at this again and hey its not that bad actually yay I love to approve of my own art. self love hell yea #tubby art

[foxx-queen]

thinking about the way shadowheart, lae'zel and minthara deal with breaking away from a god/god-like figure they've dedicated their lives to. shadowheart immediately latches onto rescuing her parents as her new 'mission'. lae'zel immediately dedicates herself to freeing orpheus with the vigor she served vlaakith. minthara fixates on obtaining the power to make sure she's never controlled again.

its like. breaking away from gods/god-like figures leaves a void to fill. they're trying to fill it, and trying to choose what they fill it with. and they know that's what they're doing, in some ways, maybe to avoid the enormity of what it means to have broken away. maybe to avoid working out what they'll do as individuals. shadowheart doesnt know her parents, and they dont know her anymore, but she has to save them. you can ask lae'zel why she won't focus on herself, and she acknowledges there's no time for that. not yet. minthara wants you to use the power of the brain, but has dialogue/approval when you speak to ravenguard and she realizes hes still in there beneath the tadpoles influence, just like she was.

'my deference to him is a habit that will die hard, i fear'. minthara still calls the elder brain the absolute, even after she knows the truth. lae'zel still calls out to vlaakith in battle. shadowheart still wears the symbol of shar in her hair after dyeing it. indoctrination/ingrained beliefs are hard to break.

they've broken away from what was controlling their lives. they're free. they've lost everything. shadowheart can save her parents and but will always have that mark. lae'zel has been declared a traitor and will be hunted until vlaakith is overthrown. minthara can never go home, and would be executed if she tried.

they've broken away. they've lost everything. they're struggling with what that means. they're free. they wouldn't have it any other way.

#baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #lae'zel #minthara baenre #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #i just. i love them #i love characters breaking away from religion and dealing with the religious trauma #i love when its not simple and easy #i love when the time is taken to show that its not easy #that theres a void thats not always filled with something 'good' #minthara wants u to use the power of the elder brain. maybe shes ignoring that means using people in the same position she wa #maybe shes telling herself she doesnt care #but when u meet ravenguard and reach out with the tadpole and find out hes still in there #she approves when yuo tell him hes being controlled #and says that hes still in there just like she was. that we should help #i dont know if lae'zel still calling out to vlakkith in battle is a bug or a mistake or something but it /works/ #she hates her shes rejected her but thats been her entire /life/. its not discarded easily #same with the shar headpiece. i dont know if thats an oversight. but it works. shadowheart is still shadowheart. #like she says when she rescues her parents. she can't just forget shadowheart. thats not what she does anymore #i have some gripes about this game but god this is all so good

[cemeterything]

why is it that i love socializing on my own terms and go out of my way to talk to strangers (when my paranoia isn't seriously acting up at least) and get excited when my friends message me or ask to arrange to hang out and love dressing in weird outfits that i personally think look nice even if everyone else finds them weird and judges me but the second i get invited to a party my brain goes full carrie white about it

#🐉 #i guess its probably because being invited to a party means i owe it to the organizer and the person its for #not to make them feel uncomfortable or draw attention away from them by being weird and strange and myself #whereas in public people have the option to ignore me if they dont like my deal and my friends of course accept me and love me for who i am #but still. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #like i dont need social approval but i DO need to make sure i dont 'cause a scene' at someone elses special event #ALSO!!! i hate the concept of overdressing why the fuck is that a thing im gonna kill you just let me wear my little outfits

[s0fter-sin]

ghost having absolutely no self esteem until he joins the military and pinning his self-worth on his performance in the field, seeing his only value as a weapon which only gets worse when he’s legally dead and all but owned by the military makes me want to eat glass

#just this kid who was abused and neglected #also tormented by his little brother who he tries to protect from their father #hed be so starved of everything praise kindness touch #then he becomes a soldier and gets approval from an authority figure for the first time #and the better he is in the field the more reckless and ruthless the more praise he gets #he takes that confidence home #kicks out his abusive father gets his brother clean sees him make his own family and finally gets a crumb of happiness #then roba happens and he loses everyone hes ever loved in one fell swoop #and he kills simon riley right along with them #all he has left is the military #so he leaves behind his humanity and becomes an extension of the army #and theres no more praise no more approval bc you dont tell a gun its done a good job #until he joins the 141 #and they slowly unearth simon riley from the grave #and they like him for who he is not what he can do for them #not who he can kill #and for the first time in his life he feels valued for who he is #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #simon ghost riley #ghost cod #soapghost #ghostsoap #we’re a team. ghost team

[hegrowth]

listen. if you are passionate about your muse then people will notice, and they will be drawn to it. it's hard not to deny that positive, excited "this is my blorbo" energy ! I fcking love seeing folks talking about their muses on my dash, it gives me life, it makes me excited for them and excited to see more from them.

so quick shoutout to the highlights of my dash this week, giving me the meta and discussions I love to see: landis on @shiitb4lls with benoit blanc, melody on @spiderwarden with minthara, and ernest on @whiteyed with their oc ouk.

please know I respect your passion, and I'm so excited to share it with you. please please please keep it up, and never ever worry you're talking too much or that nobody cares... because you aren't, I will find your post and I will care, because you made me care. sending you all so much love for you and your muses !! <3

#《 ° selkie.exe 》 oh im trash just not approved trash #im not fucking lying guys it makes my day when i see yall talking about your muses #and if you are not following these gems PLEASE DO #its so rare to see people so genuinely enthralled by their muses and pumped to talk about them #i cherish it greatly. yall are awesome. pls dont stop i am here just *chinhands respectfully* while you love your blorbos

[stiltonbasket]

tumblr: what if you made your followers pay to see your blorbos?

us: no! bad!

tumblr, now sweating: p-pay to inflict your blorbos...on strangers who don’t follow you?

us:

#memes #on a serious note @staff yall have got to start checking the blaze posts #i saw a post full of medical misinformation targeted at type one diabetics earlier #telling them that they DONT NEED INSULIN if they eat right #the cat pics and hobbit love are great and I endorse them #but blaze is essentially advertising and i'm assuming tumblr ads get some kind of human approval #which blaze posts do not #anyway that's my two cents #stilton squeaks

[hanzajesthanza]

it kind of bothers me that witcher fans don’t really unite under sapkowski’s name like other fans of fantasy authors do (e.g. “tolkien fans”).

in practically any other fandom of fantasy books, save for the particularly rancid authors known for their disappointing and shameful behavior or views (e.g. jk r*wling), it’s just regular business to say the author’s name. but sapkowski’s name is treated like a dirty word in the witcher fandom, for really no good reason…

it must be asked — what is stopping us from doing so?! why don’t we call ourselves sapkowski fans. it would be much easier than saying “i’m a fan of the witcher, but only the books, i don’t consider the various adaptations canon, etc. etc.” … “half a hundred words, when three are enough!!”

#i was just thinking about this today. can we call ourselves andrzej sapkowski fans beginning now or what #note that i said GOOD reason #meaning that it’s not like sapkowski is a conservative #the witcher books #txt #like sapkowski has done and said stuff that i dont approve of or like #the alcoholism at cons for instance hem hem (though ive also heard that type of behavior was standard) #he’s said a few cringey things about women and lesbians but nothing worse than your typical old guy would #specifically i’m referring to the ‘i dont hate women i - he he he - positively love them!’ which is actually just everybodys granddad lmao #and the ‘i dont know about why my characters are lesbians - though i can be sure im not one’ #that kind of stuff just makes me shake my head and laugh #but its not like he has done heinous shit like some of these authors running around loose out here #i mean i think it’s mitigated in part that he’s a private person with no twitter account #i also disgaree with his points from there is no gold in gray mountains but i also dont know enough abt what hes talking about to understand #understand FULLY at least. i understand some but not all. i think i understand just enough to disagree #but he has expressed a lot of progressive points which also come through in his series #what i mean is: hes not a terrible person. so why do people act like he is #ALSO i think if we united under his name then there would be more inter-series fans #ive always wondered where the fans of the hussite trilogy are (online). is there an online fanbase? #and if we do that then we can get more and better translations hopefully #like theres still no official translations for a ton of his short stories

[bg3thots]

If there is any companion I wished had more DUrge specific dialogue like A*tarion is would be Lae'zel. I can't stop thinking about it

Lae'zel who teaches DUrge how to control their urges and redirect them in battle. To, as she fucking says, savor each kill (and if that doesn't help, they can go bash goblins together). Who is the only one who can wrangle a murderous sleepwalking DUrge. Who would love some rough sex from DUrge but also they learn together how to do the soft touches and cuddles. Who knows what it's like to just be labeled as a killer and weapon. A route where both of them learn there is more to life than blood and slaughter. Or go down the path of blood and slaughter together

Lae'zel/Dark Urge forever and ever amen

#i need to do more lae'zel plot lines because i dont know shit #but i love her i love her so much #i hate those stupid bitches who called her mean #protag saying shes prickly is right because she is but shes not cold or abrasive #she answers your questions she responds to critique #WHEN YOU MEET THE GITH IN ACT 1 AND TELL HER TO NOT TELL THEM ABOUT THE ARTIFACT SHE LISTENS AND APPROVES OF YOUR LEADERSHIP #i get her approval super fucking fast no matter who I'm playing as #lae'zel #the dark urge #lae'zel/durge #bg3

[boyfhee]

❝ the colour green strikes a balance between head and heart, ❞

#—approved. #—moods and boards. #i dont like green but they make me want to like it #it looks good on them and green is like . very hard to pull off bc it's such a vibrant colour #love how i have three shades of green there helppp #heejay #enhypen moodboard #enhypen #kpop moodboard #moodboard #lee heeseung #jay park #park jongseong #heeseung moodboard #jay moodboard #anyway hi guys i was bored and saw greens so i did it 👍

[dhmis-autism]

i WOULD say im sorry for interacting with the official ______guy accounts so much but im not at all theyre all so hilarious and fun to talk to

#my dhmis postings #THEYRE VERY FUNNY OKAY #anyways i also love that the RG one keeps getting hate its so funny ok. i cant not bully him ok. #also half of its not even me anymore #anyways. love it so much love checking in on my funny little favorite guys and. then harrassing the big huge guy #its not even. listen. i love all 3 of them but RG is like. my least favorite son. #hes like my estranged son that i dont understand and whos career i dont approve of #ANYWAYS YEAH SUPER FUN

[pearlpool]

MAN! AHH!

#its so crazy to realize that like #you actually do have a life you can go back to after removing yourself from a space that was actively making you miserable #i fucking love my friends so much. been talking to them a lot more lately #i feel like ive been neglecting them because ive been spending so much time lamenting the relationships that havent worked out for me #and just not even thinking about the ones that HAVE and actively DO #and its like. why do i hesitate to dive headfirst into the friendships that i already have and already feel secure in??? #i think part of me thinks i dont deserve relationships where i dont have to prove myself #but im realizing that i can draw a distinct line between friendships where i feel loved as i am vs ones where i have to earn approval #and the latter is not where i should be focusing my energy #idk! love my irls. rubyrainacharlie forever #feels like im coming back to who i was pre-all the horrible shit thats happened to me in the last year and a half #like even just after the last two days alone #diary

[gayleafpool]

(Chucking hcs at you because I am unreasonable levels of bored BUT) I Feel like Quirin's opinion changes very quickly on Hugo. He's like "Well, he's a good boy :)" And then Hugo has a bad day and yells at Varian on accident and Quirin is ready to bring manslaughter into this. He loves Hugo but also he's seen Varian get hurt before and he will go from best boyfriend's dad to holding Varian and patting his back while hissing at Hugo while Hugo's like "Okay now you're just being dramatic" He can't handle his alternative bisexual son's alternative homosexual friends with ten ears piercings and a random tattoo that he thinks is so cool (it isn't)

wheres that post thats like varigo is basically just the lion king 2 bc it’s so real and this kinda fits right into that. i think they should be soap opera levels of dramatic. hugo throws rocks at varians window in the middle of the night so varian can let him sneak in but one of the rocks hits him in the head. its beautiful

#asks #varigo #theyre so stupid i love them #i have shall we say mixed feelings on quirin so i tend 2 just not have a lot of headcanons involving him oopsie #but i do like him being ur basic ass overprotective dad its so funny #son i dont approve of this boy. but daddy i love him :(

[erumai-maadu]

you know, i think tenten will also give them good luck charms for protection like how she gave her tsunade-sama one in sd.

she totally would, with her penchant for fortune telling, she’d handcraft three good luck/protection charms and give them to each of them.

I like to think she gives them to each of her team at different times.

Lee gets his first, after Tenten overhears him telling Gai-sensei about how he has almost lost hope in his dream to beat Neji.

“Perhaps just hard work isn’t enough,” he sobs to Gai-sensei as Tenten walks away, her heart heavy. She hands him a little good-luck charm at training the next day, a carved dragon, quietly telling him that he should never lose hope.

Neji may be a genius, but Lee is a genius of hard work, and she will protect his boundless hope until he achieves his dream. Perhaps it comes from a place of selfishness. After all, Tenten is no genius herself, and Lee’s hope is her hope too.

Or maybe it’s not selfishness, but relatability.

Whatever it is, Lee thanks her with a huge hug and many, many tears. Tenten protests loudly, but deep down, her heart swells.

He always keeps it in the hidden pocket of his jumpsuit, and never forgets to take the charm out before washing it. He shows it off with pride to everyone, much to Tenten's chagrin.

Gai-sensei receives his next, after both Tenten and Lee end up in the hospital after the Chunin Exams.

After Tenten is healed, she finds her sensei standing over a sleeping Lee, tears rolling down his face. He immediately puts on an act when Tenten walks in, but she knows what she saw, and it weighs on her.

The next day, when Gai-sensei pops into her physical therapy to check on her and offer some good old Gai-sensei encouragement (motivational shouting), Tenten pulls him aside. She hands him a small charm she’d made the previous night, a little wood turtle carved with the symbol for luck.

“Don’t worry sensei, the people you care about will always be okay!” She smiles brightly at him as she sets the charm in his hand. “It’s for protection—”

Gai-sensei’s thanks is also in the form of many, many tears and shouted declarations of his sweet lotus flower’s kindness and compassion. Tenten’s response, as usual, is loud and embarrassed protests, and a secret smile muffled in Gai-sensei’s broad shoulder as he hugs her tightly.

Gai keeps his charm in the safest pocket of his jounin vest, going as far as to ask Genma to give him a seal to make sure it never breaks or gets damaged. After all, his lotus gave it to him so he could protect her and her teammates, and he would rather die than let her down.

Neji is the last to receive his charm, after his fight with Naruto in the final round of the Chunin Exams. He sits in the hospital room and tells her about everything, his clan, his uncle apologizing to him, his restored faith in the future.

"I will change my clan," he insists to her. "I will better it, for all of the Hyuuga."

The next morning, through the rubble of a torn-apart and betrayed village, in the wake of the Sandaime Hokage's death, Tenten walks to the Hyuuga compound dressed in her mourning clothes and deposits a small carved phoenix charm in his hand.

"What's this for?" he asks, turning the charm over in his hand and studying it.

"Good fortune, protection." Unlike the rest of Team Gai, Tenten always keeps her stories to herself. For some reason, she finds the words tumbling out of her. "My mother used to make them for me. They were for protection and good luck."

Neji nods. He runs a thumb over the carved bird's wing. "Protecting what?"

"My hopes, my well-being, whatever it was she thought needed to be protected."

Neji finally looks up at her, understanding filtering through his gaze. Tenten turns around, ears burning. "Come on, let's go. They'll kill us if we're late to the funeral."

Neji stows his charm in the pockets of his clothes and jogs after her.

Several years later, when Lee surpasses everyone around him, his taijutsu a shining beacon of his hard work and dedication, he is ever aware of the wooden dragon in his pocket, the way his hope is a reflection of Tenten's. He vows to work harder, to prove to her that she can do it just like him.

He will protect her hope too.

On the battlefield facing down Madara Uchiha, Gai quickly moves the little turtle charm to the pocket over his heart. To protect the village, to protect his precious students, he can do anything.

"Eighth Gate of Death, release!"

As medics work to stabilize Neji in the emergency tents, they find a blood-soaked phoenix charm clutched in his hand.

His full recovery is nothing short of a miracle.

#asks #tenten #neji hyuga #rock lee #maito gai #team gai #erumai writes fic sometimes #can't ever keep a consistent spelling of hyuga/hyuuga huh #yes the charms DO have symbolism behind them hehehehehe #this whole thing lowkey makes no sense but also. thats ok. #it's about the strength that comes from the feeling of someone else caring about u idk #cause each member of team gai knows what its like to be lonely. to lack love. #gai lives with the void in his heart from watching his father die #lee was bullied for his whole life about not being able to do ninjutsu and taijutsu and hes probably an orphan too #neji's clan doesnt give a shit about him except for as death fodder when they need to protect the main branch #tenten... we dont know anything about her but we can sense that her need for approval comes from a lack of love in some capacity #maybe shes an orphan too. i like to think she is #ANYWAY all of this team lacks love in some capacity. so when they get it it's gonna stick with them for sure #honestly i coulda thrown nart in here for orphan solidarity or themes or sumn but. this is about team gai. #they ARE each others family dont u see #im gonna shut up now lol

[pagesofkenna]

what all of you people who haven't romanced Lae'zel don't get is that romanced Lae'zel is obsessed with Tav. she gets ahold of their body just one time and cannot stop thinking about them. the first time you go from 'casual sex' to 'committed relationship' is when she challenges Tav to a duel, because that's how she was trained to show compatibility, except that for me after she got just one lick in she immediately stopped and said no I can't do this, I can't hurt you, I don't want anything bad to happen to you ever, and isn't that strange for someone trained to be a weapon in a society that only prizes how good you are at killing??

she gives you a series of petnames over the course of the relationship, from 'source of my bruises' (/affectionate) to 'object of my obsession' to 'my everything'. in her last romance cutscene (that I've seen, at least) she takes Tav to watch the sun rise over the city and tells them how beautiful she thinks it is, and how before Tav she never thought to look for beauty in the world

and also, when I was looking up the romance options for this game, basically everything I saw assured me that you can really only do one romance 'path' but if you want to sleep with Halsin certain partners will be OK with that, including Lae'zel. I didn't get Halsin's offer until fairly late, and went to ask Lae'zel how she felt about polyamory; she immediately clocked that I meant Halsin, agreed with me about hot he is... and then said no. gave me a possessive 'you're mine and if you want to sleep around I'm breaking it off'. which, like, I'm a bit disappointed by but also something about her being so possessive of Tav that she doesn't want anyone else to touch them, even when the internet was under the impression that she 'doesn't care'? it's so endearing to me. she cares SO MUCH

do you see what I'm saying here? Lae'zel is OBSESSED with Tav

#i need more people to romance her so i don't have to keep seeing 'haha laezel is obsessed with murder' jokes everywhere lmao #is she? obsessed with murder if you let her pursue her false god path? #i found a reddit thread of people pouring love out for her which I super appreciate #where everyone's pointing out that her disapproval of any 'goody two shoes' stuff you do in act 1 #is almost entirely due to the fact that you're WASTING TIME when youre supposed to be GOING TO THE HOSPITAL #which got me thinking that... yeah i dont even remember what disapproval I've gotten from her since act 1 #im sure there's been things but I don't remember them?? #i need to find that script utility people have been using to check what her approval sets are lol

[catgirlkirigiri]

Mica and Olive they are in lesbians... I love you minor alphas

#Mica and Olive are so so important to me btw. I love being a little obsessed with guys nobody knows or cares about #animal jam #aj #ajc #animal jam classic #jamblr #olive #mica #micolive #<- my ship name for them. idk if theres another one cause. i dont think anyone else cares about them tbh #if anyone wants a copy in aj jag me at prinsessstrongfox it'll be 10 dims. not gonna stock it cause i doubt anyone will tho lol #<- it is still in approval process so it might take a bit btw #zoracontent #zora arts

[july-19th-club]

my favorite kinds of people who come into the library are the ones like the guy this morning who made some copies at the machine, watched me check out someone's books, leaned conspiratorially on the counter and said "So do people come in and get books?" and when i said "Every day" went "Really? People still read huh?" and then walked out without getting anything

#possibly cause i had a tism moment and when he said that and i didnt know how to reply i just .... stopped talking to him #if id said something like 'is there anything else i can help you with?' things mightve been different #but it didnt occur to me to say that until about ten minutes after he was gone #anyway i love when people are theatrically shocked that readers still exist in this far-distant century of the high-tech future #but also despite seemingly approving of these rare specimens. dont actually join them