#this was sitting in my drafts since ever

[tennant-davids]

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 2x01 Impossible Birds

What demon is this?!

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #blackbeard #taika waititi #twaititiedit #usereena #userkristi #userisaiah #userleila #userelio #*laurengifs #userbbelcher #chewieblog #idk why this was just sitting in my drafts since 2x01 aired but here have it take it away from me #i don't think i like it lmao but when has that ever stopped me posting crappy gifsets

[silverfoxstole]

From the TV Movie's electronic press kit, 1996.

#there goes the eyebrow #the mcgann tongue needs its own tag #paul mcgann #doctor who #doctor who 1996 tv movie #eighth doctor #8th doctor #my gifs #i made these nearly a month ago and they’ve been sitting in my drafts ever since #mcgann monday

[10kiaoi]

Time slip AU (2-8/9)

Time Slip AU (1/9)

#chreon #Leon S. Kennedy #Chris Redfield #re art #biohazard #art by op #this thing has been sitting in my drafts since 2021 #I gave up the thought of ever finishing it #so tada #enjoy the lack of resolution lol #if anyone wants to write a fic i say go for it

[ignaciwhore]

are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

inspired by The post of all time

#i needed to get it out of my system #it's been sitting in my drafts for almost a year #lacho #nacho varga #lalo salamanca #bcs #better call saul #in another life i would have make three separate panels but eh #ever since i saw those dumbass tweets i've been obsessed with this idea #fanart #bcs art

[letsmakesomeonehappytoday]

Charlotte, 28/09/2014

#hlcreators #stylesedits #harry #my gifs #hs gifs #this has been here sitting on my drafts page since 2019 #remember that beautiful day the limit went from 3mb to 8mb? #and i couldn't stop making big gifs? #i felt bad i was posting so many gifs at the same time #so i started saving them to the drafts #and i've been making random gifs ever since #and they're all saved here #and nothing's happening now so i thought maybe i could post one? #ugh feel free to ignore

[botanautical]

"I don't understand what anyone's thinking! I'm scared! It feels like I'm surrounded by monsters! It doesn't matter what I say - nobody understands me! My parents were the only ones who did, and they're dead!"

#bsd ranpo #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #the untold origins of the detective agency #bsd spoilers #bungou stray dogs spoilers #eye strain #i originally drew this at the start of december after reading untold origins and it has been sitting in my drafts ever since #i can't believe so soon after reading it i am now seeing this story animated!! i hope everyone is enjoying it - they've adapted it nicely #ranpo is so dear to me - his feelings of alienation really hit me where it hurts :( #the quote is from pg. 121 of the english yen press edition of untold origins #botanautical

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

The way Chloe Gong pulls off fake deaths the way she does is an amazing testament to her skill as an author.

Usually fake deaths cheapen the blow of losing a character. You have to go through all of the emotional turmoil of losing a beloved character and watch everyone mourn them only for everything to be okay because actually they were kind of integral to the plot and the author needs them but also they also wanted to make the book sad for a little bit but hey everything is okay now!

But Chloe Gong doesn't do this. She gets you invested in what you usually know from the start is a doomed story. She makes you very desperately want to believe that the character that you know is going to die won't die. And then. She kills them.

And it's horrible. You mourn for them. You have to watch the other characters react to the death. But most of the time, it's a fake death. And even if you know or suspect this from the beginning, it still hurts, often just as much, if not more, than it would if the death were real.

And not just because of the way she writes grief, which gets more and more painful with each new book she releases. But instead of killing off a character for a quick gut punch and bringing them back because they were actually way too important to kill and she needs them for the plot, she uses fake deaths to create these absolutely insane scenarios that are often, at least in my opinion, more painful then just killing off the character.

When Marshall fake died, for example, she could've just had him die and forced Juliette to deal with the grief and guilt of killing her friend as well as the implications of Marshall's death for her relationship with Roma plus everyone else's grief and then created a weird situation where Roma can just,,, get over her killing Marshall and still like her. Instead, she creates this absolutely insane situation where Juliette is still grieving for the loss of her relationship with Roma, and Roma and Ben are grieving for Marshall all with Marshall still being alive. And rather than just using Marshall as a plot device to be sacrificed to make the other characters more interesting, she makes him more interesting as well. She forces him to watch as Benedikt and Roma grieve for him, making his relationship with both of them, as well as Juliette more interesting in the process.

And then when Roma and Juliette fake died at the end of OVE, even if you suspected it, it being fake doesn't take away from the pain very much, especially knowing what happens in Foul Lady Fortune. Alisa, whose only real family was arguably Roma and Benedikt, is left behind to raise herself and she is too afraid to check to see if Roma and Juliette are really dead. Because if they are dead, then she's truly alone, clinging onto the false belief that hope won out while everything she ever knew disintegrates around her. Plus, even though Benedikt and Marshall figure out pretty quickly that the death was fake, they're still forced to cope with the grief and guilt of having had a hand in the situation and forced to flee the country with only each other, thrust into a world where their best friends are dead and the hope that they are relying on to get themselves away from everything is based on the same sense of hope that ultimately lead to the "deaths" of Roma and Juliette. And then there's the cruelty of the sense of responsibility Rosalind feels for their deaths. And how after they died, she became deathly ill, but like them, was inexplicably saved. But she can't move on from their deaths and spends every waking hour and every unsleeping night of her immortal life trying to put the broken world they left behind back together. And Celia sees Alisa and Rosalind regularly. As she watches two people who she cares about immensely suffer for years after the deaths occurred, she can't say anything. Even though her first loyalty is to her sister, she's forced to watch Rosalind grieve and become a ghost of a person who seems to derive purpose solely from the pursuit of an impossible mission. And Roma and Juliette, who so deeply wanted to make the city better are forced to watch as things get worse and worse and the people that they seemingly sacrificed everything to save continue to suffer.

In Foul Lady Fortune, the fake deaths are a little different. So far, the only characters who have fake died are Dao Feng and Lady Hong, the later of which falls into this trope a bit more loosely. In Dao Feng's case, it leads to worry then betrayal on Rosalind's part. Her worry was all for nothing, and she's once again put in a place where one of the few people she dared to care about has left her and likely never truly cared about her in return (at least as of the end of FLF). Assuming that he did genuinely care about her based on As You Like It, I am very interested to see how this ends up playing out.

Lady Hong's case is somewhat similar. Although we never really think with absolute certainty that Lady Hong died, Orion suspects that his father could have done something to her and has no concrete explanation for her disappearance. He grieves her absence even though her relationship with him was always iffy at best. Only to find out that she never cared for him as anything other than a tool for her to take advantage of. Like Rosalind, he is left feeling used and as if all of his grief and pain were for nothing.

(Hiding the part below this because of huge Immortal Longings spoilers)

In Immortal Longings, you know that either Calla or Anton is going to have to die at the end because of the structure of the games. And as their relationship progresses, you dread the resolution more and more. You want a fake death. You want them to find some hole in the rules that will allow them both to survive. And Calla comes up with a plan that allows this. She gives you false hope. She lets you cling to the idea that the horrible ending you can so clearly see coming won't happen. And then that hope is snatched away, and you're even closer to the ending. And you know what's coming. You know that Anton has to die. And then the final crumb of hope is snatched away from you and they're in the ring together. And just when it's too late, Anton tells Calla that they could run for the wall together. He's finally willing to set aside Otta Avia, without who they wouldn't even be there in the first place. But it's too late. Because this is bigger than either of them. And Calla knows that she has to kill him. And she sinks her knife into his back in some of the most excruciating paragraphs I have read in my life. You see Anton realize that although he was willing to make a run for it with her, she has bigger plans. She isn't doing him a kindness by killing him first, and even though she may be planning on ending her own life as well soon, she cares more about killing King Kasa than she ever did about him. So when, at the very end, it is revealed that Anton somehow survived, it's somehow a million times worse than if he had actually died. Even though you so desperately wanted the book to not end in on or both of them dying, this isn't what you wanted. Now, he's alive and remembers just how willing she was to sink a knife through his back. And Calla must grieve for him all over again because even though he's alive, she surely can never truly have him back after what she did.

In conclusion, Chloe Gong is a legend and a genius. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk I guess.

#help i just realized how long this post is i genuinely have no idea how long i spent writing this i think i was in a trance #this has been sitting in my drafts since i finished immortal longings ooops #this is also a testament to how she handles miscommunication incredibly well #will forever defend 90% of the most hated tropes because usually they're just badly carried out and not recognized when done well #i think this is probably the longest analysis i've ever written oops #oh the things i will do to procrastinate my homework #chloe gong #secret shanghai #these violent delights #our violent ends #foul lady fortune #foul heart huntsman #last violent call #tvd #ove #flf #fhh #lvc #immortal longings #flesh and false gods #il #fafg #juliette cai #roma montagov #marshall seo #benedikt montagov #rosalind lang #celia lang #alisa montagova #orion hong

[charlie-rulerofhell]

as we say in Germany: Guten Rutsch und stolpert nicht!

#lord of the lost #lotl #remembered that these were sitting in my drafts since ever and this seemed kinda fitting #so: happy new year everyone! #chris harms

[hella1975]

tams is taking longer than i thought to finish (bc it's UPSETTING MEEEEE im not okay soz) so scratch what i said about updating it by the end of um. last week. the bulk of it's done but naturally i have to write an entire report summarising trade in nigeria this week... so there's that!

#i do think it'll be done in the next few days tho and that's not me rushing myself like ever since my lil hiatus ive felt much better #in ALL capacities including my attitude to writing so this is genuinely just bc /I/ want it out in the next few days #and i wont let myself start posting dog teeth until all my atla wips are freshly updated #so that ones been put on pause as well. she's currently sitting as a draft on ao3 and i am SO normal about that #she's taunting me... #tams

[revalere]

#zatch bell #konjiki no gash!! 2 #this has been sitting in my drafts ever since the chapter came out but i'm still not over it #im gonna frame this scene and hang it in my apartment

[ask-north]

[Continued From]

Finn: I'm really starting to wish those things would let me have something to do while I'm in there. Maybe a game or book... Heck, I'd even settle for a sudoku puzzle at this point! Finn: It just gets so boring floating around after a while.

✧ After a short moment of dusting herself off Finn eagerly began to look around in excitement. Just as North was about to start explaining the situation she was cut off by Finn's overly enthusiastic shouting.

✧ North only gave a sigh, shaking her head in disappointment. ✧ This day was just getting even more exhausting by the minute, it seemed like the more Pokemon she introduced the more tired she became.

North: Finn... I've never even had a Pokemon battle before. I don't know why you keep assuming we're going to fight someone every time I let you out.

✧ The Dewott looked suddenly disappointed at the reality.

✧ As the otter placed her shells back in their proper places, Atlas gave a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, he didn't want to fight a tiny otter who was clearly at a disadvantage. ✧ They obviously didn't know what Pokemon types were, if they did why would they challenge such an obvious electric type?

✧ Atlas' ears instantly perked up, he seemed very confused, didn't she just try to fight him? And now she was trying to shake his hand? This was something new, different and definitely not a proper truce gesture. ✧ Confused and unsure how to proceed the Zeraora nervously held out his hand as well, not quite meeting for a handshake but rather hovering his hand close to hers.

Atlas: {Ummm… Am I doing this right?} Atlas: {I really don't think that is the proper gesture for a truce, Isn't this a greeting-only gesture? Are our hands supposed to touch? I'm a bit confused.}

✧ Finn instantly backed up in surprise.

✧ North once again sighed, of course, no one ever listened to her, did they? Not even her own Pokemon.

→ Finn Volans profile has been unlocked! She will now be available for questions alongside the others. → North seems to be exhausted, she might be a little less lively.

#chapter 1: familiar faces #all chrono #Atlas Pyxis #North Varron #Finn Volans #THIS ART IS SO OLD YOU HAVE NO IDEA #This is from 2023 July/August and has been sitting in my drafts ever since 🎶 #I assure you new posts (minus one) are all going to be new art #Imma finally get to answer my Atlas stuff lets goooo (and anything new ofc) #Big thank you to Sleepy who made the design for the stats scroll always helping me w things smh /lh

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

infirmary incident nursezai. because i have brainworms

little bonus based off evers ♡

#HE SITS IN MY BRAIN AND JUST STARES AT ME FOREVER #GRARARRHRHRHEHHRHR #i thinj i hauve covid #i used a nurse girl figure as reference im no good at drawing bodies #so if somethings fucky wucky. thats 'cause i cant draw 😭 #its not the same outfit ever put him in but listen the point is its a short dress with a little hat okay. it's about the spirit #i feel like i should once again specify that im not even usually a nurse outfit person but like uhhhhh uhmmmmmmfhfhjfjf #dazai. 👍 #my art :d #later edit: this has been in my drafts since forever. be free

[pancake-stray-doggo]

No bc when you liked River Phoenix anyway before finding Banana Fish and then noticed the similarities after watching and/or reading BF and you're sad about Ash and then you find out he's heavily inspired by River you have your two sadnesses become one Big Sadness that cannot be escaped and sometimes you'll remember either or both of these men and risk dying of literal heartbreak or loss of will to live

#banana fish #ash lynx #aslan jade callenreese #river phoenix #manga #anime #banana fish manga #river phoenix movies #90s movies #my own private idaho #mopi #running on empty #current two fave movies that ive rewatched recently #someone put it so eloquently in a diff tag- #banana fish is my comfort show but id never rewatch #and i iust think that's so true #the fact that river died on my birth date (not year) also doesn't help #bc ive loved him ever since i was smol bc of my mom #i am so unfathomably sad #this was sitting in my drafts #for like?? #3-4 years? #posting now bc it's relevant to my state of mind #fucking agony #shorter wong #okumura eiji #asheiji #shorter x ash #shorter x ash x eiji #can't remember their ship names lol sorry

[fear-no-mort]

truly what i want most for season 7 is for something to happen that makes rick involve morty in his life again i guess. like idk maybe im wrong and this is the wrong thing to want but god i really truly just miss them so much and i miss the old ride-or-die nature of their relationship where they were the only people who experienced 1000% of eachother good and bad. they were literally eachothers whole life but since the last few eps of season 5 they just. Left. dont get me wrong i think it’s so beautiful how morty is literally the only person ever that rick would’ve purposely removed himself from purely for the sake of doing better by them but. that didnt work it only hurt morty wayyyyyy more than anything that would’ve happened to him by ricks side

#i did Really like how episode 4 touched on this a little bit #like acknowledging how rick is only shutting morty out like this bc he thinks it’s what’s best for him #the appeal to them for me is basically just like. how disgustingly selfishly they love eachother #both the show and the fans like to only portray that kind of thing with rick only but i think a lot of people forget just how mutual it is #idk i just got blasted with late-night angsty feelings u know the ones. i did a comic but blehhhhh #rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #im like irrationally nervous to post this its been sitting in my drafts since last night #but ill post it now wat ever #odiespeak

[born-to-run]

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#this has been sitting in my drafts since the summer of 2020 and if i don't post it today i don't think i ever will #my contribution to the fandom on this sad sad day #anyway them #perry mason #perry mason hbo #mine

[patternedlantern]

And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me And at every table, I'll save you a seat…

#my art #tim rockford #tim rockford x ofc #take (me) out 🥡 #hello meet my girl April #this has been sitting in my drafts since june (?!) and it’s still a bit wonky and unfinished but fuck it. it’s my bday I’m allowed #I’ve been listening to alex melton’s cover of lover on repeat I think it’s taken me hostage #‘take me out and take me home (forever and ever)’? Like I’m NOT supposed to imprint on this song?? Sure ok