#thoughts like fireflies

[flingza-roller]

firefly squids or something idk

#splatoon #my art #art #my ocs #suri #conure #thought of this at work and was like. heheh #we stay silly #but yeah yknow how firefly squids get all glowy n shit and gather in masses during mating season #yeah #btw suri is using auslan

[shimexi]

simpler times

animals avoiding malleus while they adore silver... ok aurora and maleficient parallels but have you considered malleus' fireflies settling on silver -> symbolizing malleus' fondness & sense of protectiveness towards him // creatures gathering around malleus when silver is here bc they know silver trusts him = the animals can trust him too daytime: silver's practice sword (which you can barely see) + a flower crown malleus made while silver was training -> nighttime with malleus' book

#shimexidraws #twisted wonderland #twst #malleus draconia #silver vanrouge #🍀 #don't tag as ship please! i don't think anyone actually will (this isn't shippy at all ??????) but i'll put it here just in case #art #if you want to read into it there are four animals (symbolizing death) and seven fireflies (? what does it mean) #i put seven fireflies because i like the number seven . and then i didn't want to draw seven animals so having four was just a coincidence #but <- free thoughts! if you want them #also note that there are four fireflies on silver . yeah whatever that was also unintentional

[kaeyaphile]

✨ the duality of aventurine ✨

#🎮 kayleigh plays honkai: star rail #honkai: star rail #honkai star rail #hsr #aventurine #aventurine hsr #hsr aventurine #the quality is questionable on these but i can’t zoom in like. at all. while playing on the ps5 so #alas i must take close–up shots of characters on my mobile device instead and the graphics are nowhere near as good 😭 💔 #ANYWAYS this was taken at the place firefly took us to; the sky is gorgeous there #and i thought that our beloved aventurine looked especially magnificent with the backdrop of the shooting stars 🥹 💕

[ahkylous]

Bit more on @twilights-stuff’s tlou x gf au

I also got a new sletchbook a bit ago and i’ve been trying to make it all sexy like the shit you see on pintrest. So all the art i’ve done recently have been a part of a bigger scrapbook page like this

the only reason I haven’t posted a whole page before being that it’s very different to the normal stuff I post and I don’t want my reputation to change too much if that makes sense

#my art #fanart #art #also I did like a fireflies cipher cult mixed symbol thing #I dunno I thought it was cool #gravity falls #au #gravity falls au #the last of us #the last of us au #gravity falls crossover #tlou crossover #gravity falls x the last of us #gf x tlou au #mabel pines #gf mabel #gravity falls mabel #gravity falls stanley #stan pines #gf stan #scrapbook #other ppls design #others au #other ppls stuff #others stuff

[mymarifae]

me: i finished the latest trailblaze mission in hsr so i can look at what other people are posting now! oh boy i hope it's discussions and theories about the story. i can't wait to see what everyone thought about firefly (what was going on with you sweetie...) and A Child's Dream - that segment in particular really left a profound impact on me. like who is mikhail? the voice we hear throughout is obviously misha's - did he have a twin? does mikhail have something to do with clockie? and from what we heard and saw, misha or... mikhail. encountered the embodiment of Death that lurks beneath the dreamscape. what's... the full story there...? i can't wait to see other people's perspectives it'll help me piece a more coherent theory together-

other hsr fans: *thirstposting about aventurine and/or dr. ratio, trying to cancel sparkle even though the entire point of her character is that yes she's a horrible person because it's high time we see how DANGEROUS and CRUEL the masked fools can be - no more reducing them to the silly wacky hijinks sampo pulled on jarilo; you should be scared of these guys; the game's story never wanted you to make sparkle your next skrunkly blorbo babygirl lol, heated discussions about whether dr. ratio displayed the same racism towards aventurine that sparkle did and if that makes aventurine/ratio a bad thing to ship (??????????), more thirstposts about aventurine, 500 billion generic yaois of aventurine and ratio that don't even maintain either of their characters*

me:

#HONKAI STAR RAIL IS SO GOOD AND YET NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT MAKES IT GOOD #I FEEL ACTUALLY INSANE #I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE STORY!!!!! AND THE CHARACTERS AS INDIVIDUALS #NOT ABOUT HOW HOT THEY ARE OR WHO THEY CAN BE SHIPPED WITH #aventurine isn't even that sexy his eyes are the most interesting part about his design (HIS DESIGN. HIS CHARACTER IS MORE INTRIGUING) #the rest of it is just kind of ... like. yeah he's a blonde man. ok. #and my thoughts on aventio are i think ratio would betray aventurine for a single corn chip. and aventurine would do the same #i do not see a romance ever blossoming there. not even an enemies to lovers kinda thing. they're both too busy playing 5d chess for that #i want to talk about FIREFLY. I LOVED FIREFLY :( #i want to talk about acheron. and MISHA. SWEET BOY WHAT'S GOING ON? #there's so many interesting things going on rn and aventurine is not one of them. #like ok he knows some things but he's such a sleazy businessman about sharing info that idgaf i don't want to learn anything from him #he's always going to leave something out. because he needs to always have an advantage. for this reason i ignore 80% of what he says #i've gotten more context and clues out of everyone else he is nothing to me. i'll eat him.

[feroluce]

Sampo & Caelus are so important to me, I love them. To me they are bros. Buddies. Partners in mischief making and chaos. Caelus is a total weirdo and Sampo is always getting Up To Something, and they both hate being bored or stagnating, so they regard each other as an endless source of entertainment and amusement.

They're the kind of friends that just kind of see each other when they see each other, and when they do cross paths they greet with that funny hands-clasped-between-them-and-one-armed-hug thing that guys do. Then they go to a bar, annoy the local population, kick up a ruckus or cause some kind of mischief somewhere, and go stumble into a hotel room to sleep it off.

They did this a few times in Belobog, and Gepard once found them on a morning patrol passed out in a gutter together. Sampo was sacked out with a newspaper over his face. Caelus was sprawled out next to/on top of him in the most awkward and uncomfortable position a human body could possibly contort into. Both refused to explain anything zkzkkskd

#sampo koski #caelus #hsr caelus #hsr sampo #sampo&caelus #honkai star rail #hsr #They're just very cute and funny to me #my silly little guys uwu #I've finally finished Penacony so now I can start making hsr posts without getting spoiled woohoo!! #this is a promise a threat and a warning all three dmzkkskd #I have Thoughts about Sampo and Caelus after the Everything that happened with Firefly too #but I'm waiting until I play Sparkle and Black Swan's companion quest to cement it into a post #so this is just kind of the ground layer. setting them up. the basics of their dynamic and how I see them haha #I wish tumblr was easier to navigate with multiple tags so I could search both their names together #i have no problem with them as ship I just. don't particularly ship them. #I like them best as this. as buddies who have a lot of fun together. they're wonderful. ♡

[beebatrnn]

which mychael are you?

truck freak

crazy ass

Ужасы за пределами человеческого понимания.

Steve!

#mushroom oasis fanart #mushroom oasis vn #i just wanted an excuse to post the first two lol #the second one was actually based on a thought i had in the mo server #about there being a scene where mychael hunts us #i think that would be pretty cool #we need more genuinely horrifying mychael tbh #the first one was just me going like #haha Firefly in a jar....... i can draw this #tag rant over

[heckyeahponyscans]

Mmm, that pixelation!  I made these back in the day, scanning in pictures from MLP storybooks and editing them in Microsoft Paint.  I’m sure this is exactly what Dylan Thomas intended his poem to convey.

H.O.O.F., aka Help Our Obselete Friends, was the petition to bring back My Little Pony after their cancellation in 1992.

Then the G2 ponies were released and a lot of MLP collectors were like “The fuck are those?”, which led to the H.O.R.N. campaign, Help Our Real Nuzzlers, which peititioned for ponies in the G1 molds to be brought back.

I’m not sure if the H.O.O.F. petition was ever sent to Hasbro . . . I know the H.O.R.N. petition wasn’t, because after G2 was cancelled in the US some collectors blamed the petition organizer, who said as much.

#My Little Pony #G1 #petitions #HOOF #HORN #G2 #Firefly #Moondancer #old web #old internet #realistically Hasbro wouldn't have cared what a handful of MLP collectors thought about G2 anyway #like the outcry of older TF fans against Transformers Beast Wars at the time was OFF THE SCALES #but Hasbro happily kept making Beast Wars because kids loved them #G2 MLP just did not sell well in the US

[yellowymellon]

was doing research for some elio crumbs and I realized that if hoyo doesn't decide to mess their already established lore then :

Kafka and Sam both recruited blade to join

Blade in Kafka's companion quest tells us he saw TB following Kafka around

Sam joined before blade

FIREFLY KNOWS TB WAY BEFORE PENACONY

#now watch hoyo completely slide over this fact #like pretty sure TB's was a bit different under stellaron hunter's custody #sam threatening and all watched TB and thought “i wish i was their friend >\\\<” #honkai star rail #hsr firefly #hsr penacony #hsr #hsr spoilers

[infectedbrains]

(shinpei and kotaro are brothers in an alternative timeline)

#hotaru no yomeiri #firefly wedding #i burst out laughing at the ‘dont lick it’ #kotaro is def older first born responsible brother #and shinpei is younger slacker brother #thoughts? #x))))) #or or shinpei is the goofy older brother who runs from his duties while kotaro is younger brother left to clean up his brothers mess #ive said this before but i really like their dynamic ahhhh i hope they can grow to be friends

[qualityrain]

i am thinking. about firefly wedding and being a tool v a person. rambling abt satoko and shinpei and throwing ideas at the wall. (some chapter 28 spoilers btw)

they are all tools to something. satoko being a tool to her family and shinpei and kotaro being a tool to her(albeit in slightly different ways).

initially satoko uses shinpei as a means to leave the island and shinpei uses her as a way to feel needed. this ofc changes over the course of the manga and theres alr this post abt how shinpei doesnt see satoko as an object considering the different reactions to her scar i think more obviously is the talk he has with her on the boat as they are leaving the island in chap 16 where he says i want to know more abt what kind of girl you are.

he wants to get to know her more as a person. understand her better. know why she is like this. what kind of girl is she. her likes?dislikes? and its mutual in chap 28

ever since chap 24 there is this explicit mutual commitment because this relationship isnt a short time thing on the island anymore. they’re stuck together now and its ok to have this mutual curiosity abt one another and they’re both able take the time to know more abt each other now. they’re not tools to each other anymore but somebody to have a long term relationship with

which makes me think abt kotaro. kotaro who brings satokos medicine and brings her favourite sweet. he learns these things abt her and obviously sees her as a person but encourages satoko being a tool to her family. its not his fault because its what satoko herself thinks she wants. i wonder if satoko knows kotaros likes and dislikes too. satokos whole dilemma of marriage for her family or for herself. does she want to be the tool or her own person. i think this is something shinpei(and kotaro) have to address in the future too since shinpei thinks of himself as a tool and it hasnt been addressed yet. lots of things to think abt and see what happens this year

#yk i was rambling on disc abt how we actually dont know a lot abt shinpei which makes sense because theres no reason for satoko #to learn that since its short term and how going forward we will learn more AND THEN IMMEDIATELY. #CHAP 28 gave me that i cried #i havent read it yet actually fhese r screenshots from ppl on twitter… #they invented love in 2023 and 2024 #firefly wedding #hotaru no yomeiri #claude txt #like im soooo chap 24 was such a turning point #i thought abt how shinpei is just happier after 24 andhsjjssjjdsjjjsjdj #urhgghhh shinpei has always thought abt them long term and now its mutual!!!!!! #and i scream cry and throw up #starting the year right with a cute first date chapter … #i saw the editor say that on twitter i think

[taconafide2]

I feel like hsr is overdoing the self insert fanservice if i'm being honest

#saw firefly leaks.. ughhhhh #i say this as a lumine harem fan sorta kinda but it's because traveler ships are like #90% delusion. i don't actually want them to happen dnsjdjdjdjdj #i was raging over shenhe leaks & thought she seemed fanservicey to the extreme before actually doing her interlude quest

[alchemiclee]

been trying to figure out what exactly it is about aventurine that feels perhaps relatable, or what it is that makes me want to study him like a bug...

and camr to the thought that he's pretty pessimistic for am optimist...but also ob the other side of the same coin, he's optimiaric for a pessimist. kinda both at the same time,.or depending on the day or how you look at him maybe.

he's an optimist becuase he knows he's going to win. he always wins. he has always won his gambles. he knows it will happen again and again. his luck, or gift, or blessing, or whatever you want to call it ensures that. but he's also a pessimist becuase he knows that "win" also always comes with some kind of suffering for him. he wins all his gambles, but at what cost? a lot, actually. so is it really a win? he knows he will win, but he also knows he will be used, abused, sacrificed, broken, or in pain. he expects those to be a consequence of his winning luck, to the point of making sure it happens and becomes self-destructive because of it. he acts calmly like it's ok and is the outcome he wants and calls that a win because it's what he plans and expects. he bets on it and it happens.

but at the same time, he's slowly breaking and seems to want it to end. he tests the limits of his luck to see if it's a real "gift" or if it is all a coincidence and has an end. he probably wants to meet the end to end the pain and suffering, but knows his "luck" won't allow it. he wants to be against the luck and see if he can win. a whole contradiction it itself. his luck kept him alive so many times and continues to do so. it will always do so, unless perhaps his end is the goal. what if he bets on losing this time? bets in meeting his end? he needs to get lucky enough to achieve that goal. flip his lucky fate by turning his luck around, make his end the final lucky win.

but it seems like he either lost for once and didn't meet his end....maybe his luck truly does intend on keeping him alive...or he changed his mind in the end and got lucky enough to get out of meeting his end once again...

he's still a bit of an enigma to me and i'm not sure exactly what happened. but he's for sure a complex and amusing character (even if I still want to put him into a snow globe and shake it as hard as I can) and this whole penacony story is too complex for my soggy trashcan brain lmao but i'm enjoying the ride

#hsr #hsr aventurine #hsr spoilers #kinda spoilerish tbh #words #i could be very much misinterpreting him but this is just my brain trying to work things out so its not too deep #its a ramble for brain to try organizing thoughts #this quest left more answers than questions #like. FIREFLY?! is she even real! what is she who is she. why did they leave us on TO BE CONTINUED there! #also not to be a rock nerd but aventurine is a very pretty rock. i enjoy that pretty rock #also i reread this and its basically a nonsensical ramble and doesnt really make sense #its vague and doesnt really grasp him. hes too complex to fit neatly into my rotten worm brain so dont mind me and my rambles lmao #am too sleepy to use brain. make me do dailies and go to bed #ah. a thing i forgot to add to my ramble: hes always been alone ever since his sister left him. he only has himself to rely on #hes a very lonely character who doesnt have anyone to trust or rely on. no true friends. everyone uses or betrays him #perhaps hes afraid of this and further chooses to not trust and rely on anyone too much. he only has himself in the end #that part of him is very relatable. i also find it hard to trust and rely on anyone and am forever alone.....

[red-eft]

i think love is like catching fireflies. you have to get out there and wander in the dark until find what you were looking for. you have to be gentle with it. if you try to keep it bottled up or force it to stay in your hands, it dies or flees in fear. but you can guide it and hold it close without hurting it. it might not always be there but it does always come back. and it glows

#txt #really sleepy but i had this thought and wanted to put it somehwere before i forget it #been working rly hard on putting myself out there and not bottling things up anymlre. its so awesome #i feel like i have a lot more love for everything.. myself. my crush + her partner. my friends. my family. eee #and i realized with this silly little firefly metaphor that i cant force good feelings to stay BUT they'll always eventually come back #and i can hold onto my good memories while waiting for them to return #tbh i miss catching fireflies. and just standing in my parents yard watching them in the field.... theyre so beautiful #idk if this makes sense. eepy. goodnight <3

[toadyscorner]

cute cute cute cute cute

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#they all have bug wings now!! i gave them bug wings! #fawn has beetle wings they are folded up and i thinks that maybe they even a cover of sorts they wear when they work with animals as to #uh prevent any wear and tear on the job #tinkerbell has ant wings bc i see the tinker fairies working so well like they all have jobs and skills and move about one another so well #snd shes rlly strong i think and i also think that the reason she is wearing shoes and the others arent is both #a fascination with the mainland and to cushion her feet when working because she cant always be floating around #silvermist has dragonfly wings bc i see them by the lake all the time and i love them dearly #rosetta has butterfly wings specifically european peacock wings bc ik they eat roses and i thought it was funny and also bc i like them #and iridesa has firefly wings bc shes a light faerie and working with them alot #it just felt right #toadstool does a draw #fanart #Tinkerbell #Disney #pixie hollow #fawn #silvermist #rosetta #iridessa #redraw #illustration #digital art #artist on tumblr #commissions open #clip studio paint

[churchofthecomet]

I haven't watched Leverage in a while, see my last complaint post about their Stuxnet episode. But in the meantime I've been consuming other media, and it just struck me how equal the dynamic is between all of the Leverage characters.

Every character in this show is competent. They each have Their Thing that They Do, and if one of them is absent for an episode, the rest of the team suffers until they get back. I complain about them short-changing Hardison by making the tech stuff unrealistic and incomprehensible (so you can't get a feel for how good he is at it, like you can with Eliot punching people -- although if I knew more about fighting I'm sure I'd be complaining about Eliot's scenes too). But at least within the narrative he is really good at his job, and the other team members know it. Likewise for Eliot, Parker, Nate, and Sophie -- they're each at the top of their respective classes. They have separate specialties and they're amazing at those specialties.

And what's more, the interpersonal dynamics reflect this. Nate is an asshole to the rest of them, but there are FOUR OF THEM so it balances him out -- they can commiserate with each other, sit him down and have a talk with him, threaten to strike, whatever, and their side of the relationship is treated with importance because the team couldn't function without them.

Hardison and Eliot's sniping is just friendly banter, and they know it. Everyone is so supportive of Parker's social problems. Sophie is the one with the most traditionally-feminine skillset, something which might be demeaned in another show (and I have some complaints with Leverage's treatment of her), but she's taken seriously both in-universe and by the show itself. They all work wonderfully together. They balance each other out, and they become more than the sum of their parts.

Contrast this with the dynamics in a bunch of other modern media. Let's grab my favorite punching bag of late, BBC Sherlock. Sherlock is far and away the more useful member of the Sherlock-and-John team. The narrative places incredible weight on his intelligence, and John is stuck in a support role. Sherlock is also mean to John, and since John is one person (without much of a spine for standing up to Sherlock!) it feels utterly abusive. The "friendly banter" isn't banter. The "aww look they really DO care about each other" moments were enough for me when I was 13 or 14, but now it just feels like a cycle of abuse. The dynamic is fundamentally not equal. If I'm watching a TV show and I start to think "man character A really needs like 6 months of therapy to stop hating themself and they NEED to leave character B," when the show's message is "character A and character B are a match made in heaven you guys," the show has failed.

See also Our Flag Means Death season 2 with the relationship between... honestly Ed and the rest of the crew, but mostly Ed and Stede. Ed is the best pirate anyone's ever seen -- the rest of them are pretty good but no match for him. The one guy who had a chance of standing up to Ed and equalizing things got killed off at the end of the season, and Stede (as we've seen) lacks a spine to stand up to Ed. Controversial take but Good Omens might be heading in this direction? They defanged Aziraphale and made him into way more of a softie than the book or Season 1 imply. Meanwhile Crowley is Competent and Right About Everything by comparison. The general pattern here is that couples (or whatever the fuck was going on with BBC Sherlock and John) are worse off. I don't know if it's lasting heteronormativity or "two-person dynamics are hard," but the urge to make sunshine-and-stormcloud pairings where the stormcloud acts like shit towards the sunshine is just... too strong.

Leverage is this rare show that refuses to shit on any of its protagonists. Everyone's in the loop, everyone sees some character development, and it fucking RULES. I wish they could make more TV shows like this in 2024.

#leverage #ofmd critical #bbc sherlock critical #good omens critical #(only slightly) #found families #i need leverage but with like even better politics pleaseeee #i think Firefly is also good at this #or maybe i just thought Mal and Wash were hot? can't tell #i should go rewatch it