#this is one of my favorite topics

[amber-laughs]

no offense to the general public but when people say catelyn knowing about R+L=J would’ve changed her and jon’s relationship i know they don’t get catelyn’s character.

if ned had told catelyn the truth about jon it would not have made their marriage stronger it would have ruined it. telling his wife he puts jon’s safety above her children’s (which is exactly what he was doing) would put an end to the love in their marriage she would hate him. catelyn would’ve hated jon even more if she knew who he was because he was an even greater danger to her children. ned made traitors of all the starks without even telling them, if anyone ever found out they would have all been executed. she would’ve slit jon’s throat herself and maybe ned’s too

#‘but he never cheated on her’ BUT she doesn’t give a fuck #she’s got bigger shit to worry about #this is one of my favorite topics #R+L=J #catelyn tully #jon snow #ned stark #nedcat #house stark #catelyn stark #game of thrones #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire

[septembersghost]

Hmm, speaking of musical interests- I remember seeing TS as Annie in SNL skit about musical theatre. I’m sure that genre has influenced her (childhood MT training & audition- Les Miserables). It has also been sampled- Jay-Z Hard Knock life (in a genre she listened & collaborated with- Like B.o.B.). I remember thinking of the ‘82 Annie film when I listened through Rep album. Also in folklore or evermore- another song tune made me think of that movie again. TS tours are like MT staged.

this is another thing a couple of friends and i have discussed a LOT, and a firm belief i have that being a kid who loved musical theatre had a massive formative influence on her writing and the fact that she's so adept at storytelling. (this is why one of the very first things i'd ask her about, in the make believe universe where i could ask her questions!, would be regarding stephen sondheim and whether or not she's familiar with some specific pieces of his work). there's no doubt in my mind that she has natural skill in regards to theatrical composition, i've long wished she would try her hand at writing one (and she still could someday!), because it would be such a natural fit. her time with ALW through cats underscored that too, he made it clear how admirable he found her talent and her ability to write to the form. i get so excited about the prospect of this because it's a crossover of my favorite things lol

I remember thinking of the ‘82 Annie film when I listened through Rep album. i know that film by heart from childhood. this is amazing and SO intriguing to me, i'd love for you to elaborate if you want to!

my mom and i have had conversations about how much taylor uses theatrical staging in her tours, and she has from the very start! look at the speak now tour, it's full of set pieces and story vignettes. she does costume changes. the rep tour with the dancers, the snakes, the various set design, tells a very specific story, and i remember she said once that was her intention, and that's why the album clicked much more for people when they saw it fully staged. she doesn't just go out and put on a concert by singing (which there is nothing wrong with at all!), she puts on a SHOW. she has pure musical theatre sensibilities in the presentation of her art (even her music videos have this).

#this is one of my favorite topics #anonymous #letterbox #taylor swift #i may not be here to see the swiftian musical but i am quite convinced some day it will exist #and it will be original (not a jukebox) and it will be glorious #i also need to ask her about hamilton for one very specific reason #and it's the connection between that would be enough and peace #thrown out speeches

[payasita]

#2: Golden fleece

#cult of the lamb #cotl #doodles #my personal favorite for Fucking Up Everything #hi i got steadily drunker for the entirety of this one so it'll be interesting to look at it in the morning when the queue posts it #also this is accidentally turning into 'also draw the coolest looking crownform weapons' #theyre so slept on bro some of these weapons look SO COOL #and some are so weird #shoutout to bane sword. thats just a baseball bat that gives you tetanus #genuinely 10/10 #ALSO BEFORE I FORGET i spent a hot topic giftcard i got like two years ago this morning and they had cotl merch #i now own a graphic tee with narinder on it thats also just a thinly veiled parody of catholic iconography #what a time to be alive

[dailykafka]

#my two favorite topics in one video! kafka and translations! #also if you are nerd like me about old and rare books you should follow this guy i love his videos #franz kafka #daily kafka #metamorphosis

[ccarrot]

what are your hcs/theories about chuuya's past? feel free to go wild with your thoughts 😽

I have a few. .. A lot actually but i felt like making some art so here's what i have the stamina for right now.

Mom Nakahara

So i've been thinking about her a lot considering she's the parent he would have spent the most time with. We know basically one line about her but we can learn that she and her husband have a lot of political sway in town, she's of samurai descent, and has a lot of decorum "like those of the upper class". That didn't really translate into the design I made for her bc for some reason i was very fixated on her being a farmer lady but I imagine she has a very polite and respectful personality. I think her past involving some form of samurai heritage could indicate she's a socialite of some kind and rather wealthy and well known in the village, which could attract a lot of disrespect when the Dad is at war and she's raising Chuuya on her own.

Apart from the mostly baseless farmer vibes i DID want her to seem very soft, and very tired. She's effectively a single mother, her husband's at war, her child is "unruly" and gets into fights and she's might be getting shit from the people she knows around her. It's stressful.

2. Gender

So here this might be diverging from canon, but this is very very important to me. i headcanon Chuuya as FtM transgender, like this is just super ingrained in my mind. Projection mostly. (Also why whenever I draw genderbender art of him, Girl Chuuya's body isn't particularly feminine, maybe she hasn't gotten her tits yet. I want the trans/nb reading to be very available.)

So anyways when i was thinking about his past, i was wondering if he even started considering gender that way. Maybe, maybe not. I think he might have gone for a more "tomboy" type attitude when he was a kid, begging his mom to let him wear "non-girly clothes" instead. Maybe she lets him to that because wearing shorts instead of a skirt isn't something that really matters in her eyes, cutting her kid's hair short isn't a big deal. So i think mom would be accepting of the idea that her son's trans, but maybe other townspeople aren't. And they spread rumors about Chuuya's mother "for raising him wrong."

Cue some kindergarten Chuuya out to bat for his mom's honor.

3. Professor N.

This is a really obvious one to me, but I believe that Chuuya knew N before the lab. Two versions I bounce between: N being a friend of his father's during the war. If N really does stand for "Nakahara" maybe N is his uncle on his mom's side. Either way I think some kind of accident or risk was involved with Chuuya's ability manifestation, and contact N who they know is involved with some secret ability research and they trust him enough to send Chuuya to the lab with him to "get him fixed"

If chuuya's original ability was the self contradicting power enhancement ability, maybe an accident involving him over powering something and it like. exploding or something. Or maybe he used it on himself and some kind of singularity opened up (black holes maybe??) Either way something really dramatic bc Chuuya's ability is dramatic.

Anyways. theres something very insidious to me about N knowing Chuuya as a kid. As soon as he was given the chance to, he not only faked his death, experimented on him, but systematically abused him in order to make him lose his sense of self/sense of humanity. essentially forcing him into an object/weapon. Not a person anymore. It's sick, N is honestly one of (if not THE) most genuinely evil characters in all of bsd.

Overall I'm hesitant on the idea of Chuuya's parents being awful but it is possible. I've got several different fluctuating versions of his pre-lab backstory honestly.

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #doodles #ask #chuuya #mom nakahara #professor n #yeah yeah yeah yeah #CHUUYA BACKSTORY may favorite topic to maladaptive daydream about #HAVE SOME ART!!!! mom's design is subject to change but honestly i just want her to look like a soft older anime mom version of chuuya. #and that handshake with N and kid chuuya is probably one of my favorite things i've drawn in a while.

[pitayaparty]

i have hired this yellow mage to rip your limbs off

#this is my only art account so forgive me for going a lil off topic #it'll happen sometimes #anyways o'saa is my absolute favorite. i am fascinated by his gap moe #i even forgive him for ripping off one of my arms before i recruited him. he was just a bit too silly #funger #fear and hunger 2: termina #fear and hunger #o'saa #my art

[nerdetiquette]

Idk if this is a hot take or anything but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Jon didn’t have any friends (besides Martin) basically the entire series.

Sasha was nice enough but she was strictly professional. Tim was reasonable in the beginning and I like to believe they were friends but honestly he’s pretty wary of Jon s1. Melanie hated Jon the whole way through. Georgie was there for a bit before things got too messy, but the way she treats him s5 is like a time bomb. Basira treated Jon like a stove with a broken gas release, and Daisy, my god Daisy. I could go on and on about their relationship but it was really clear after the trauma she inflicted on Jon he could never truly trust her.

They all feed into the theme of Jon’s inhumanity, but I remember listening and being confused because I always saw ppl treating this like a found family when they never were.

#4 am podcast analysis #i’m not projecting you’re projecting #Jon’s inhumanity is a very interesting topic to me #it makes me very sad because Jon tries so hard #definitely not projecting #but also this is why Basira is probably my least favorite #I love her I do but she really treated jon more like a chess piece or a child she had to keep in check #web Basira????? #I should look that up in the morning #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #melanie king #basira hussain #daisy tonner #georgie barker #on found family #amazingly the silt verses feels more like found family and one of them was literally kidnapped

[rizzlegukgak]

so i’m watching a court of fey & flowers (i know i’m long overdue) and it is SO funny to watch brennan at the table in a regency campaign while nOt being a spellcaster

aabria says “you are all at the beach having a tea party. every table at this event has a smattering of potions on them. the purple one is a potion of detect thoughts”

the person who accidentally drank it decides NOT to push farther into another player’s mind and you can SEE the vein in brennan’s forehead bulge before he narrates his character IMMEDIATELY downing one himself and walking DIRECTLY to that player while thinking “tell me your secrets right now” as hard as he possibly can

i mean props to @quiddie for shutting down the attempt to bypass the detect thoughts roll but come on girl. you put detect thoughts potions in front of brennan lee mulligan in a regency politics campaign what did we expect to happen there 😭

#brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #a court of fey and flowers #d20 acofaf #acofaf #truly my favorite moment of the season so far #AND NO ONE MENTIONED IT IN THE ADVENTURING PARTY FOR THAT EPISODE EITHER #there were More Important topics tho

[thepurplecapr]

Morro design I finally got finished! I will give info on him soon

#ninjago #ninjago art #ninjago movie #ninjago movie au #ninjago Movie morro #morro #morro wu #ninjago morro #i will give lore on him soon #he’s literally one of my favorites #he’s friendship with Lloyd is favorite too #the wind ninja #wind ninja #fun fact #off topic #but in this au Zane’s ninja name is #the moon ninja

[divinemiracles]

#I’ve been wanting to use this scene for something #Yeah I see people calling Lunter fans ‘p3dos’ which wtf??? They really want us to look bad huh #lunter #huntceda #goldenlight #goldenluz #Luz x hunter #Hunter x Luz #Hunter x Luz noceda #Luz noceda x hunter #Luz noceda x hunter deamonne #Hunter deamonne x Luz noceda #toh lunter #toh huntceda #toh goldenlight #toh goldenluz #lunter validation #lunter memes #Off topic but Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies. So sad that sensitive people call it ‘too offensive.’

[cozylittleartblog]

cute clothes ✨

#ootd #outfit of the day #fashion #art #doodles #1940s #1960s #dat me #(that i all own. because i got cute clothes for christmas. as i should.) #continuing to be the cutest bitch at target and i will always be the cutest bitch at target #unless its the day of the week where i dress like a hot topic employee #in which case im still the cutest bitch but like. edgy edition #third one is now my second most favorite outfit ever #behind the outfit with the red vest and frilly shirt #a lot of my energy the last many months has gone into shop work but i have made a lot of new stuff and i think #im gonna let my shop idle for a bit and not add anything new really. so im gonna focus on making more fun art again :) #just gonna relax and get back to doodlin #i just put in an order for washi tapes and sticky notes though so that's really fun those will be in in a couple months

[goldevolution]

i love exit pursued by a bruised ego bc the way its set up makes you go "oh are they trying to establish hosea as the other hunter of the group" and instead he just goes and gets attacked by a bear like a loser. and its even funnier when you unlock bison hunting with charles a few missions later. this cringefail old man sucks at hunting and almost got his ass mauled by a bear bc hes convinced he knows what hes doing. go hunting with charles he knows what hes doing for real

#like while were on the topic of hosea being stupid today. i need to bring up one of my favorite cringe moments of his #so embarrassing for him. personally if i was raised in the mountains and was 'practically weaned on bear meat' and i fucked up that bad #i would simply never show my face again. i dont know how arthur doesnt bully him for it more i would its so funny #i <3 the folly of man #rdr2

[individuating]

i literally cant stop thinking abt lambdabern in ep 5. imagine you write a love letter to your crush invoking the interest you shared begging him to see you through all the obscurity you’ve shrouded yourself in and two lesbians read it decide thats boring and not only scribble all over it in crayon but also cut it up dada style and rearrange it into self insert fanfiction

#umineko spoilers #.me #umineko #topic: narratives #ep 5 is one of my favorites and least favorites at the same time but the warped aspect of it is so freaking fun to me #also the actual story lambda’s telling on the gameboard using sayo’s pawn is sooooo. accomplice battler……giggles #I know I know game without love not what sayo would have wanted etc etc. still loads of fun to me. and lambda…hehehe

[florentz]

i can’t sleep i made exactly 3 memes that have probably been done before but take them

#pathologic #pathologic classic hd #pathologic 2 #artemy burakh #daniil dankovsky #pathologic2 #clara saburova #the changeling #eva yan #i love eva she’s one of my favorite characters btw #im terrified of the bachelor p2 route #okay that was off topic sorry

[i-wanna-show-you-off]

tdroti except when Scott gets eliminated he does not take it well. He doesn’t go “oh haha Zoey good job” no. He breaks down in front of Chris when he gets to the catapult (bc he sees fang or whatever) and begs him to let him stay

he’s like “PLEA SE DONT MAKE ME GO HOME” and Chris is like “wtf” and chef just looks mildly uncomfortable

chef’s like “I kind of feel bad even though he’s awful” and Chris is like “I have to send him home I have to get my revenge”

the other contestants hear him bawling from the campfire or whatever and they all just sit there in silence

then lightning nervously smiles and goes “do you think maybe he’s a little sad”

#total drama #tdroti #td scott #td lightning #td chris #td chef #i think about this too often. Why did Scott take his elimination so well #it’s so ooc for him. he should’ve screamed and cried to the very end #say what you will about Scott but for all his flaws. Toxic masculinity is not one of them. He cries/fake cries several times during roti #and is UNASHAMED to be a simp during all stars #off topic but. seeing him excited is one of my favorite things ever. “we kissed! 😄 I was kind of stinky though 🥲” #drafts

[mail-me-a-snail]

what i really enjoy about the beginner's guide is that davey (the character) does not play any of coda's games as they were meant to be played.

he is always finding some way to subvert them because he either has 1) no patience for coda's antics and/or 2) he already has an assumed idea of what the game should be about, and he forces that idea onto the game. it's like coda says: davey puts lamp posts in all his games, bc the lamp post symbolizes a meaning.

the lamp post does not mean anything; it itself is a symbol of meaning. davey projects hard onto coda, supposes that because he sees himself in coda's games, coda must also be depressed, anxious, he must also hate himself.

that must be the only explanation for any of them.

and it just. boggles my mind how the beginner's guide is always taken very literally, when it's really just an exploration on the relationship btwn a person and the art they're consuming; how someone who likes something can see that thing not for what it is, but what they think it to be.

#the beginner's guide #i have a lot of thoughts about this game. easily one of my favorite games of all time #its just #davey wreden's writing is phenomenal #i dont think coda is a real person. not truly #i think coda is a persona created for the game #it calls back to the stanley parable honestly #a weird game that features strange antics and topics of depression loneliness anxiety and etc all presented in a mystery #that cannot be solved right away? #sounds familiar #my post