#those tags 😌

[ilumin]

I'm crying, they're so silly

#genshin impact #furina demo #Furina #Neuvillette #wriothesley #lyney #lynette #childe #HE'S THROWING HIMSELF ON THIS POOR MAN #i can't #I'll probably add more later #and i love the part where Neuvillette kicks someone in the balls #or when Lyney and Lynnette is kicking the shit out of some randon guy #and furina is there sitting like 😌☕ #wriothesley goes :DD YIPPE #I'm not planning on wishing for Furina but God dammit #her demo is one of my favorites now. #AND THE MUSIC #okay those tags got too long #imma stfu for now #thanks for listening (reading???)

[satellite-starss]

LITERALLY the character ever

#i will always be an alphys fan honestly #messing arounf with a slighty pixilated brush which was funnnn #drew this absolutely tiny on a canvas so excuse thr bad quality HAHA #didnt want too draw arms so pretend they are under her coat or something 😌💕 #alphys #undertale alphys #ut alphys #undertale #ut fanart #utdr #satellitesart✨ #urmm urmmm those are all the tags i think

[pocketgalaxies]

C3E37: marisha + nonverbals

#critical role #criticalroleedit #laudna cr #marisha ray #gifs #* #*cr #cr3 #angst tag #cr meta #nova shh #marisha ray supremacy #scheduled #2h45m c3e37 #i almost went blind staring at her face to pick scenes for this. worth it :) #sorry matt for making you look so red in the last one. it's bc your wife is pale and i wanted her to look good 😌 #OK FIRST. THE NODDING. listening to imogen...burning those words into her mind and playing them on loop....... #bc they are the only things that have brought any semblance of hope for what feels like an eternity of being trapped in this space #even if she doesn't believe them she can pretend to. a bandaid at best but something to ease the fear #and then 'can you get out of the tree' just the sliiightest hints of a head shake. a gulp. a 'god have i tried. god i wish i could.' #'god god god i would do anything to get out of this tree. how do i tell her that i can't.' #and then blatant doubt when it comes to fighting delilah #LIKE...after sharing this space with her for so long...of COURSE it chips away at her confidence like this...makes her feel weak #even if she thought she could fight her off in life everything is distorted now. has she ever even gotten close to fighting her? #it feels like an impossibility now. of course not. never not for 30 years has she been able to fight her. #and then as the cage closes...the flinch...the hyperventilation... #it's the hopelessness /everything/ here feels weak and scared and tired. like she was about to give up. like she still might give up. #i think marisha ray wants me to die <3

[cleric4vampire]

There's something in this life left to live or, giving these two fools a soft moment because they deserve it. not gonna lie, I got a bit emotional when making this. I wrote something from Astarion's perspective to go along with it:

Once upon a time we pressed against an unyielding tree trunk, just like this. Once upon a time we hid ourselves in the obscuring night. Now, the moonlight paints your smile bright and boundless. We were not unwilling back then, though an ocean laid between us. I pressed my body atop yours and went somewhere else. How could I have known that you would follow me there? You were the one who was supposed to be under my thumb. I was the trickster moved by your silver song. You were the cradle that held me safe when all I wanted was to fall into the abyss. You were the gentle voice that beckoned, Open your eyes. See what could be if you loosened that white-knuckled grip you keep on your fear. Sometimes I find myself slipping into the old movements — a flutter of lashes, a dangerous smile — and then I remember. I remember that you were with me at my darkest and ugliest and most utterly heartbroken, and still you told me, It is an honor to witness you. It is a privilege to be by your side. And I let that ancient rhythm fall away. I was free to walk off that tired path, and now, everything is new. How will life surprise me when I allow myself to participate? I was struck with wonder to know that there are people in this world like you. Could you have ever guessed we would end up here, back when we were strangers on the hillside? I didn't have the strength to imagine it. Now, I find myself thinking: Where will we end up tomorrow? What wonders will we behold? There will be such love and such joy, and such hardship to balance it. But for the first time, I feel I am courageous enough to face it, because I am not alone anymore. I will be with you here, beneath this moonlight, beneath this canopy. And afterwards, I hope you will imagine with me all the life we have left to live.

#astarion x aune #my art #astarion x tav #tavstarion #bg3 fanart #oc: aune #astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 #the setting for those who care: this is post-game. these days aune mostly works as a ''solitary agent'' of eilistraee but she still needs #to check in with the church every once and a while. mission debriefings; rituals to run; that sort of thing. astarion tags along this time #of course aune just struts into the camp/settlement like hey yall long time no see. here's my vampire lover. everybody say hey astarion #as always they don't really know what to make of aune and her antics so they're just like “...okay...” #but astarion keeps to himself during the day on account of the sun. UNTIL night descends of course. which works out fine because #eilistraeeans really come alive during the night anyway. unfortunately for them aune and astarion are insufferable #constantly pawing at each other & being cloyingly sweet with one another. #flirting. teasing. talking and laughing loudly. eating each other's faces. just the worst. that's what's happening here 😌 #also aune is not a spawn but she purposefully doesn't heal the bite marks despite being a cleric — PURELY to antagonize any priestesses #who might not approve. ''cmon and say something to my face :)'' #also aune stays wearing tied up sheets of cloth lol listen. in her defense eilistraeeans are in varying states of undress at all times sooo

[gaytedlasso]

boyfriends ❤️

#beard got a second sweatshirt. by popular demand cuz of the tags on my prev drawing lmao #re this pic of Ted I was immediately like ‘he’s so stupid I need to **** him’ #yes obviously those *’s are meant to be draw what else would I say 😌 #alright k bye here you go #tedbeard #sketch.art

[venusdebotticelli]

I was tagged by @follovver , @daria-meoi and @merricatblckwood to do this picrew of what I really look like:

And what I wish I looked like:

And I'm tagging @libroseitm @insteading @jaskierx @blakbonnet @ourflagmeansgayrights @elizabethrobertajones @ginadora , if you're up for it :)

(as well as anyone else who feels like doing it, you can say I tagged you)

#no there is no mistake with the order I put those pictures in I really am a forest goblin creature 😌 #The Me #tag game #picrew

[stabbystiletto]

It's a pretty small part, but I dunno I always liked it lol 😅

A strange woman has been seen eyeing the Vicomtesse's car, but it's probably fine 🙂

(wait is that a crowbar)

It's fiiiiiiine 🙃

#the phantom of the opera #the opera ghost #erik #eris #genderbend #rule 63 #stabbyscribbles #i tried to write out my thoughts on this like two different times but the tags just kept getting ridiculously long lololol 😅😅😅 #like 22+ tags long lol 😅😅😅 #so to be brief it's a very short passage in the book but it always painted a very vivid visual lol 😆 #when you consider the events that happened right before and then what happens right after lol #also in a modern setting the phantom would have 100% planted some sort of explosive device in raoul's car lololol 💥💥💥 #you cannot convince me otherwise lolol😌😌😌 #what does that have to do with her holding a crowbar in the pic?? #✨️💖aesthetic 💖✨️😌😌😌🤣🤣🤣 #also the background is not super clear but it's *supposed* to be a parking garage like one of those underground ones lol 😅

[jeysuso]

"Young fella, y'see, I'mma give you a little advice. There's always an older, bigger, badder badass waiting around the corner. You just met the baddest of 'em all." THE UNDERTAKER MAKES BRON BREAKKER FAMOUS. WWE NXT, 10TH OCTOBER 2023.

#the undertaker #bron breakker #wwe nxt #nxtedit #wweedit #mygifs* #jeysuso #wrestling tag #* #nobody talk to me. they couldn't have made this any harder to colour if they TRIED #because bron why are you the colour of the ex-president #what the HELL are you doing in those tanning booths bro. goddamn #anyway the chokeslam was clean as usual. 😌 that's my king taker

[deathbycoldopen]

I finished the first season of the live action ATLA, and I have to say my reaction is… mixed.

I went into it determined to have an open mind, and there was definitely a good chunk that I enjoyed! For one thing, I love what they did with both Suki and Yue, taking advantage of the longer episode lengths to give them both lives and motivations beyond just “pretty girl that Sokka crushes on” (Suki obviously gets more depth in the og show during seasons 2 & 3, but Yue has always struck me as a rather one-dimensional character).

The best (if traumatizing) choice was to actually show the Fire Nation attack on the airbenders. Doing so gave a real emotional heft to Aang being displaced a hundred years with the weight of failing to prevent a past genocide, and the pressure of having to stop another without any idea how. Not only that, but it did a great job of indicating, right at the start of the show, that this was an adaptation indenting to transform what was fundamentally a kids’ show with complex themes into an adult series with the ability to really expand on that depth and complexity.

…and then it didn’t.

Oh, the show pokes at the repercussions of Iroh having waged a long and deadly siege agains Ba Sing Se, and it does a decent job at deepening the fuckery that is Zuko’s backstory. But so much of the more ambiguous or complex parts of the original have been flattened in this adaptation—and not in ways that can be explained by the compressed narrative. Instead, it feels like the sanitized story and characters are a direct result of a purity culture that demands all things black and white, never shades of gray.

Let’s look at Zuko, the villain-turned-hero with an iconic but bumpy redemption arc in the original series. Part of what makes Zuko’s story so goddamn compelling in the original is that he begins as a true villain, who does some horrible things and is led astray more often than not by his explosive temper; and yet his horrifying backstory and desperation for a loving family that never actually existed compel us to view him with some sympathy, even as he acts against our protagonists.

Yet in the adaptation, Zuko is consistently painted in a softer, kinder light than he was in the original. He has no hand in burning down the village on Kyoshi Island; he hears Aang out and even seems to consider Aang’s offer of friendship rather than immediately lashing out after the Blue Spirit reveal; he is notably more respectful to Iroh and loses his temper much less frequently and violently.

Even the change of Zuko fighting back against Ozai in the agni kai can be construed as him recognizing that Ozai is the bad guy, especially when it means that in order for his exile to make sense he has to defy his father again after he’s already been burned.

This is a pattern that is repeated with nearly all of the characters with any degree of ambiguity. Pakku is depicted as kind of a decent person who’s just being held back by his deference to tradition, rather than being pretty much an asshole regardless of whether he’s following tradition or not. Hahn is a nice guy who is in love with Yue but accepts her decision not to marry him, instead of a dick that sees her as a trophy and is more than happy to marry her despite her disinterest.

Sokka is a huge victim of this flattening of flaws. His early-show misogyny is entirely absent, making his stumbling with Suki a little odd and ungrounded, and his dismissal of Katara’s skills even more so. The narrative doesn’t allow him to be anywhere close to as boneheaded and stubborn as he is in the original—this version of Sokka would never angrily slash through the swamp despite the warning signs, or blatantly lie to Won Shi Ton and then even more blatantly steal from him.

Sokka isn’t even allowed the most understandable tactical mistake from the original show: using the air ship in the fight at the Northern Air Temple, and inadvertently delivering the Fire Nation’s greatest asset. That honor is given to a generalized “spies” that are distanced even from Sai himself.

If the heroes aren’t allowed to have flaws, the villains are even worse off, without anything that might make them sympathetic. Jet, who in the original sits in a similar in-between place as Zuko, is pushed firmly on the side of villain over the course of his two-episode arc. Instead of Jet fighting dirty against Fire Nation colonists who are nevertheless civilians, he bombs buildings in Omashu; it’s easier to denounce him when he’s hurting Earth Kingdom civilians with his tactics, rather than people who may or may not be complicit in the war. He’s even labeled a terrorist, an easy buzzword for a largely usamerican audience to point to and say “ah yes, that’s a bad guy.”

The main villains— Ozai, Zhao, and even the brief scene of Sozin— are ironically even more cartoonishly evil than in the animated show. Ozai and Sozin both declare their evil plans— out loud, with villainous aplomb— to use one major military movement as a distraction for another, even bigger movement. (Sozin’s plan at least made sense, in that the distraction was “leaked” intelligence rather than an actual deployment of troops. How the hell did Ozai have enough troops and a decent supply line to attack both the Northern Water Tribe and Omashu at the same time? And it’s not like the distraction actually served any purpose, since it’s explicitly stated several times that the separate nations don’t send aid to each other anymore.)

Ozai’s treatment of Zuko is even more abusive than in the original, especially with the aforementioned change where Zuko actually does fight back as ordered. His choice to burn Zuko and then later banish him then must be explained by Zuko showing compassion, a much more typically “evil” motivation than the more complex (though no less abusive) notion of Zuko dishonoring himself.

Zhao gets an even worse character lobotomy, which is impressive given that his original character is pretty unabashedly villainous. But rather than a devious, powerful, and ambitious commander looming over everything Zuko or Team Avatar does, this version of Zhao is cartoonishly incompetent. (It doesn’t help that the only thing I’ve seen Ken Leung in is Person of Interest, where he plays a similarly buffoonish character constantly in need of rescue. When held up against Jason Isaacs’ mesmerizing but intimidating voice in the original, there’s no comparison.)

Zhao is no longer a respected military leader but a backwoods commander who barely passed the exam to become an officer; his rise through the ranks isn’t due to military successes or a commanding presence but because Azula finds him easy to manipulate; cutting Jeong Jeong means that we don’t see Aang get the better of Zhao by playing on his temper and lack of control; even discovering the secret of the moon and ocean spirits seems more like blundering luck than actual determination and intelligence. You can’t take Zhao seriously as a threat in this adaptation, even when he’s killing the moon spirit and destroying the balance of the world— he’s a nuisance at best, with Azula as the real looming danger.

Disliking Zhao’s character changes might just come down to a matter of taste, of course. I’m always going to be more interested in intelligent, competent characters, whether they are heroes or villains. But it forms part of this pattern of flattening characters and plots and arcs, and brings me back to the fundamental question that kept hitting me over the head while watching the series.

Why?

Why make an adaptation? This is a question that comes up whenever an adaptation of anything is made: what does the adaptation bring to the table that the original did not? Often the answer to this question is money, but there’s usually an attempt to point to a different answer, if only to distract from the greed.

Sometimes the answer is simple— a translation, for example, is an adaptation made to reach a wider audience. Sometimes the answer is more complicated— changing Lord of the Rings from books to movies, as another example, took advantage of the music, acting, and visuals to pack more emotional punch than the books did.

I would argue, as I began to at the start of this post, that the benefit of adapting ATLA from an animated kids show to a live action series is the bucking of those “kids show” limitations. ATLA deals with a lot of serious, heavy topics that don’t get fully explored because they are too complicated and intense to be greenlit in a network show aimed at 10 year olds. In addition, ATLA (and particularly Legend of Korra after it) faced an uphill battle to portray some more sticky topics such as queerness, in part due to the time period when they were produced.

A live action show produced by Netflix seems to bypass all those hurdles, allowing for a darker and more socially progressive show than what the original was able to accomplish. But despite showing onscreen the destruction of the Air Nomads, the adaptation of ATLA seems more sanitized than the original, playing to the lowest common denominator in a way that the original never did, despite the latter being a kids show and the former ostensibly being for adults.

I came away from the new series with a bad taste in my mouth, even with some things that I really enjoyed, and I think this is the crux of why. The adaptation didn’t update the original; it stripped it of anything that might be deemed problematic and replaced it with a black and white worldview that is, in fact, antithetical to the themes of the original show.

After all, the creators seem to have reasoned, who would root for Zuko’s redemption if he actually needed redemption in the first place?

#atla #negativity #this got long so it’s under a cut #thinky thoughts #not main tagging for the new show #I don’t think it was egregious or anything #but this was really bothering me #anyway free palestine don’t forget to buy esims for gaza and contact representatives #and also trans women are women terfs can gtfo 😌 #those tags aren’t relevant to what I wrote I just thought I’d remind people

[tommarvoloriddlesdiary]

Pinterest Game: type your name + "core" and use 6 of those photos

thank you @reggieblk for tagging me 😊 yours was so nice with bright pops of colour! i feel like i have learned more about you 😌

my feed was moderately dark 💀 but as you can see, my personality sums up to: snow - drink - records - stupidity 😂

tagging (if you'd like): @i-dream-of-libraries @alenablack @2sidesofthesamesoul @mishqua @raehb336

#knights meeting #tag game #this was a lot of fun #it was hard finding photos that weren't the equivalent of phone background screens but i guess that is also my personality 😂 #me 🧍 📱 〰️ #sorry it took so long to post this 💀 life #to those i tagged please feel no obligation but i'd like to get to know you better too 😌

[cloudiness]

Fan: You almost called him Carlos?!! Lando: I did, almost.. Daniel Ricciardo: That’s alright. Lando: I miss him.. DR: ✨ Their friendship was a little more than friendship ✨ Lando: Yeah, it was. Fan: A proper bromance, it was cute. Lando:  🌷 A lot more actually.🌷 [x]

for @hibiscus-vroom

#for hibi because she wanted carlando edits after all those other ships edits i made for anons and she promised me fanfictions in return 👀❤️ #carlando #carlos sainz jr #lando norris #f1 #f1blr #i started this project like a year ago because that 'a lot more actually' just hits me every single time and i hear it but then #I abandoned it and got back to finishing it just a couple of weeks ago #dedicated to hibi also because she's amazing 😌😌😌 #the flowers thing was kinda a last minute addition but i guess i'm a romantic at heart guys #and btw..whenever Carlos touches Lando flowers do bloom inside and outside Lando 😌🌷 #hope you guys like this..i find some parts a little bit busy/messy but I just needed to finish this #anyway..enough with the tags #made by me #tag:carlando #tag:f1 #typos in some tags but im not gonna edit them..too much work #mine

[lovesomehate]

Help this crush is now an obsession - 20/??

#electric callboy #kevin ratajczak #kevgifs #ecgifs #mine #things I should be doing: writing #things I’m doing: making gifsets and watching horror films 😌 (while coughing up my lungs) #DAT SMIRK #HELP #KEVIN IS SO HOT HELP #THE FACT THIS FUCKER IS EVEN HOTTER IN PERSON BOGGLES MY MIND #I’ve been saying this so much that it’s becoming an actual tag on my tumblr but #I want to live and die between those thighs

[letthebookbegin]

Choose Your Own Adventure

Things happen in threes, people always seem to say. Well, so far today you've been yelled at by your manager and soaked by the ol' reliable collaboration of a bus and a puddle, and you quite fancy passing out in your bed so you're fully unconscious by the time the third thing manages to find you. You look down as you fumble with your keys and pause - there's a rumpled bouquet shaking on your doorstep, clearly blown out of someone's arms with the wind.

#i never comtinued the other choose-your-own-adventure story i started but now i know how to reblog with polls so we're off!! #im gomma have fun deciding the character's personality based on the options that win #& will also try and make this a lil spooky in honour of the season #flexing those atrophied writing muscles let's go folks!!! #* #mine #spooky cyoa #wow thwres a lot of typos in these tags #as long as theyre not in the main post idc 😌

[good-beansdraws]

Happy Valentine's to ME 😤

One of those last Fuutas and the last two Lukas ones are traces of other art -- I don't have the originals on hand but I can try to find them for credit if people want👍

#retroactively tagging for organization but if you find this in the main tag oops #i hope you enjoy 😤👍and. sorry. 🙈🙈🙈 #ive actually got up the nerve to post some of those fuutas normally but i figure id add them to this collection hehe >:3 #the other lukas one was from a cosplay reference if im remembering right? i can find that too if needed #i had a few others of lukas from a while ago but im not as happy with them -- #if im gonna expose myself i at least gotta use my best art ya know 😂 #my ace ass gets one (1) suggestive post. as a treat. 😌 #milgram #fuuta kajiyama #fe echoes #fe lukas

[thatswhatsushesaid]

“in cql lan xichen did not decide to stay behind and die with jin guangyao because he loved him, he stayed because he was facing a life lived utterly alone if he survived, this was a decision motivated by despair, not love”

friend idk how to break this info to you but human beings are capable of feeling more than one emotion at a time

#rattles the bars of my enclosure #why why WHY do you want to make this story the most uninteresting possible interpretation of the text #why do you want to turn this novel into some kind of christian-adjacent morality tale #lan xichen can feel deeply betrayed by jin guangyao AND still love him AND still choose to stay with him #because he did!! and he started openly weeping once he realized he’d likely stabbed jgy for something he did not do! #those tears may not be just for jgy but they sure burst out of him as a result of what he did to him #xiyao #not dropping this in the main tags #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #flute solo 🎶

[lover-of-mine]

Eddie giving Buck his turnout sounds like a great start for some whump with mistaken identity 👀

But like are we saying both of them got lost? Someone finds Buck, assumes he's Eddie, Eddie is still lost? Because I have this weird thing with fics where Eddie is presumed dead, and to have like, both of them disappear, Buck gets found and taken to a hospital that doesn't know him, they call Bobby thinking he's Eddie, Bobby gets there and it's Buck, so Buck is gonna be fine, but where is Eddie? And then Buck, who can absolutely find a way to blame himself for absolutely anything, is losing his mind because he can't help look for Eddie and Eddie is out there without a layer of protection because of him. Then they find Eddie is perfectly safe at another hospital, just unconscious, obviously, because we want tension, not actually kill anyone, and a very emotional scene in a hospital room where Buck just breaks down crying when he sees Eddie. Yeah, I love that.

#whump where both got hurt yk #like those can be fun #911 #anon 😌 #i really need a tag for asks