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[tblsomedoodles]

The Preferable Alternative- Prologue - Part 1

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New au. I can't explain the main thought behind this without spoilers. And since i'm jumping straight into a multi-part comic, i won't be giving out any.

Basically vibes for this is that it's kinda creepy and maybe suspenseful with eventual hurt/comfort (if that doesn't make sense, im sorry, i have a hard time describing things). I'm also pretty mean to Donnie. Not "Donnie vs" mean, but unfortunately this idea wouldn't work with anyone else.

(for those that get anxious, like me. There is no main character death. (might not be death at all but we shall see. that depends on one character and even i'm not sure exactly what they'd do yet.) and no one's gets serious physical injuries. Definitely more hurt/comfort than plain angst. b/c that's how i roll. I can't do straight up angst.)

I'll write a proper summery once the prologue's done. I don't want to spoil it too much. For now, just know it's a PB&J duo story that happens during the 6 weeks before the Krang invasion.

#tmnt #rottmnt #preferable alternative #my doodles #rise donnie #rise mikey #this is my friday update #and it's actually on friday! #i can't wait until i can talk about what this whole comic is about #and why i wanted to do it #and where i got the title #b/c the title is in reference to a line found in a different series #and it fits the base of this story so damn well #but that's spoiler territory #so i will wait until later #and hey look #the ''So Not A Nintendo Ripoff'' company shows up again #in the form of a purple see-through Not-gameboy advanced #and yes i had too much fun with that #(i was just going to draw a generic device) #(but then i was like ''but what if gameboy?'') #(and now it's a gameboy lol)

[pondphuwin]

bed friend, episode 3

middleman's love, episode 3

#kinguea #middleman's love #middleman's love the series #the middleman's love #bed friend #bed friend the series #until i was writing this caption it did not fully hit me that these are both episode 3 #i think about them more than is probably clinically advised #anyway have you thought about how these lines are such a perfect depiction of their relationship #king. lying through his teeth saying that he doesnt like uea #because he knows that is the only way uea will let a fwb relationship between them operate #king protecting them both because neither of them have it in them to be honest #to uea proudly and happily and easily declaring their love #not just that he loves king #but acknowledging that he knows king loves him #something that uea had honestly come to believe was impossible #but it is king's love and honesty and support that has allowed uea to love himself more #and to realize he is capable of being loved by others #no more lies no more hiding in order to protect their hearts #just their love. simple plain and honest for everyone to see #they are ..... so perfect #*

[weizhiyuan]

they’re 100% gonna kiss next episode….. WEI QIAN IS GONNA ACCEPT HIS FEELINGS NEXT EPISODE……..

#CAN THIS PLEASE POST ITS MY FOURTH TRY #OMG IT FINALLY WORKED #unknown the series #anyway I RECOGNIZE THOSE OUTFITS FROM THE PREVIEW & THE TRAILER!!!! #PLEASEEEEE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #and I love their red line of fate going strikingly through the frame in each one of these shots hehehe #unknown the series spoilers #spoiler tagging just in case even tho that’s just a screenshot from the trailer⁉️ lol #b.txt

[kazoosandfannypacks]

I like to think that Force Ghost Anakin ships Sabine and Ezra for a number of reasons, and one of the biggest ones is because he loves drama and knows that Force Ghost Mace Windu is horrified by the idea of his great-grandpadawan marrying into the Disaster Lineage.

I also like to think that anytime Sabine and Ezra are talking with each other or thinking about each other after Sabine begins her Jedi training, their respective force-ghost-master-ancestor will stand behind them and give them advice. Mace Windu is giving Ezra a whole ton of advice about How To Not End Up With Sabine, which Ezra has to ignore because he Very Much Wants To End Up With Sabine. Meanwhile, Anakin is giving Sabine a whole ton of advice on How To End Up With Ezra, which she also has to ignore because Anakin Is Terrible At Starting Healthy Dating Relationships.

#it's like you're getting ratatouille'd through your first date by a ghost who want you to dump them while you're date is #getting ratatouille'd by a ghost who wants you together but thinks that a pickup line is talking about sand and/or genocide #sabezra #mace windu #anakin skywalker #sabine wren #ezra bridger #ahsoka series #otp: im counting on you

[lowpolyshadow]

seeing if someone makes sonic a book enjoyer/reader or not is like such an easy litmus test of whether or not they Get him

#the answer is that YES he enjoys a good book he likes reading!!!! he's a lil book nerd #the adventures he can read about are sometimes as cool as the ones he gets to run through irl the storybook series is just both at once ok #there's a handful of things i read where like sonic is all 'i dont have the patience for that' or like another character roasts him for #not reading and it's like Okay. But Like That's Canonically Incorrect #sonic boom sonic i can believe is not a reader tho look at him. look at him #movie sonic i can believe is only a comic reader that's like an 11 year old but #game canon sonic is a booker lover there's a whole line in frontiers for it that never triggers probably #speaking

[salemoleander]

For he to whom a watcher's doom   Is given as his task, Must set a lock upon his lips,   And make his face a mask. Or else he might be moved, and try   To comfort or console: And what should Human Pity do   Pent up in Murderers' Hole?

The Ballad of Reading Gaol | Oscar Wilde

Martyn looks at the ground. If he looks at the sky, he'll see-

judgmental remnants of friends / wisps of cloud sailing by / an endless sea of eyes / theater curtains drenched in blood / stars beginning to come out / his own clock, numbers in freefall

So he looks at the grass. The smell of charred flesh hangs on the air, disturbingly close to the steak they'd all been sharing.

He won. Is the thing.

And now Martyn's not sure what he's meant to do with that, with this clawing nauseous sense of victory. With the silence. The feeling of a trap kill elevated to a million, because he pulled off a betrayal none of those bastards would've ever tried to pull.

Except maybe Grian, but Grian never knew when the time was right to drop the act - too used to driving the knife to have access to many unsuspecting backs anymore. Martyn clicks his tongue, remembering Scar's naïveté earlier in the day.

"Fool me twice," he mutters, voice still too loud for a world gone quiet.

Martyn glances across the arena at Scott's armor. It lies abandoned on the ground, grass torn up and marshy from spilled water and blood. He considers the phrase 'a fair fight'.

Rightfully, Scott won- rightfully, he'd been the winner for the entire episode. They'd all been walking dead. Scott was just egregiously better than most of them at PVP. The only reason he'd even been at 4 hours was due to constant, benevolent deaths to allies.

The idea of being handed a win, of Scott letting him win, was repulsive. Incredibly patronizing, really. Martyn has a great deal of respect for Pearl - if Scott had pulled that stunt with him in Double Life, pulled away the chance to prove his victory in any way that mattered- Well. He'd have hunted him down here immediately, Green Life or not.

And how unfair, that everyone else had to claw and bite and scratch for victory. Alone, afraid, hunted - and they would get to calmly fight as equals? Children, smacking at each other to see who would win a game?

No, that didn't interest him at all.

Winning used to mean something; it demanded everything from you. Somewhere along the line- between Scott refusing to Boogey kill and refusing to fight Pearl and refusing to kill him and Impulse, refusing refusing refusing, like this is something you can just turn down like a bad fucking potato-

Winning this game is going to matter again. And if the only thing he has left to pay that cost is friendship, well. Grian paid just as much; and- his lips curl- he's just seen what friendship gets you.

Martyn cranes his head back to smile coldly up at the sky, and the sky strikes down to meet him.

#limited life #limited life spoilers #24lsmp #24lsmp spoilers #fic #traffic life spoilers #traffic fic #life series spoilers #life series fic #salem tag #martyn #i think this is as close to canon as ive ever strayed bc im trying to think through the thought process from a character standpoint #anyways. been hanging onto those lines of reading gaol for a while lmao glad i found a use for them #salem fic

[kazoo-the-demjin]

Kind of feel bad for people who head into the books after having already engaged- even passively- with the aftg fandom. like there are so many things that are meant to surprise you. the 'oh's. The looking at everything with neil's pov and only after completing the series realizing what a fucking idiot he was at times. The kisses. Those reveals. The thunderclap of "Doesn't mean I wouldn't-***". Somehow, those guys already know all this. They know at the end there's gonna be a pairing, and that kinda takes away the beauty and surprise of it. They know about a game, the deaths, the characters. It's kinda sad they're never gonna enjoy it the way we did

#im so happy i knew nothing about the books when i read them #because if i knew about andreil i would've cried #because once you fully give yourself to neil's pov #it's such a fucking surprise #they already head into the books with an opinion and it's so sad #because i remember reading the first few lines of tfc and thinking what the hell is going on here #people will know a part of neil's shit already before reading #robbing away the beauty of knowing basic information about the main character like his real name and his hair colour in the LAST BOOK #of the series #sigh #i might've spoiled it for people too #as a wise friend once told me: never engage in a fandom unless you've gone through the whole of it #love her for that shit #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #the foxes #neil josten #andrew minyard #kevin day #tay shit #tay.aftg #myt #andreil #nora sakavic

[seagull-scribbles]

Tag, your it for @naivesilver

#TMNT #tmnt 2003 #leonardo splinterson #Usagi Miyamoto #naivesilver #ahhhh what’s these guys ship name #leosagi #is that it? idk #anyway shoutout to rena who watched ‘03 with me and witnessed these idiots Shang-ing their way through an entire TMNT series #so much fun #but also they had a dream with these guys in the background playing tag and kissing #so here this is #tried to get it to match my rasey one but also suit their characters more #I’d never met usagi before but I actually really like him may have to check his actual series out #I do think he should have big whiskers I just couldn’t get them to look right #messy by design again btw don’t attack me for going out the lines #it’s works v well with the white fur #katanashipping

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook, Ep. 40 // The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck

#the entire fucjing series. that last line was floating through my head. from eps 29-40 I couldn’t believe. how cruelty it held up #AND MERLIN BADE FAREWELL TO THE KING HE HAD CREATED #TO DIRECTOR DI’S ‘there will always be new legends’ & EVERYONE NOTICING FANG DUOBING’S GROWTH #AROUND THE EXACT TIME HE CHOOSES TO ABANDON THE GOAL OF RECOGNITION BECAUSE HE WANTS TO STAY WITH HIM #he wants. to live with him. SORRY BUTIT IS THE EXACT THREE AUTUMS FIC QUOTE ‘I want to be alive with him again’ AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN #ITS WHAT HE CHOOSES. AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN HE CANNOT HAVE IT. #because li lianhua believe his life is his legend & his legend is over. and it’s fang duobing’s turn & its. it’s. SOMETIMES YOU LOVESOMEONE #SO MUCH YOU END UP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEM #anyway u wouldn’t believe the ammount of screenshots in my album rn so yeah you’ll all b seeing a lot more parallel posts soon SO. THEY ARE #JUST. THE PERFECT TRAGEDY. YOU CAN DIE AND COME BACK BUT YOU DONT COME BACK AND YOU DONT GET TO DIE QUIETLY AND YOU ARE SO PRESENT YOU ARE #INEVITABLY REWRITTEN OVER AND OVER IN FROMT OF YOUR OWN FACE!!!! anyway. okay. okay. the End. for now #mysterious lotus casebook #li lianhua #li xiangyi #di feisheng #fang duobing #parallels

[commandercoriandersalamander]

two dudes... sitting in a hot tub stone wolf... souls mingled into one complete being but they're not gay

#fitz and the fool #lmao theyre so gay #has robin hobb recanted yet? she literally wrote this ending #with a callback to the 'no limits on that love' line #did she think that was a heterosexual conclusion to these nine books #i know people on tumblr like to call queer headcanons 'literally canon' and then when you consume the media its like #they talked twice and made eye contact and one of them wears a stylish coat #and so if you haven't read the books but have seen the fandom you might think 'oh so some subtext?' #'theyre friends who have an emotional connection which could feed shippers?' #no #this is textually canon across both their character arcs and the larger themes of the series #reinforced through repeated narrative symmetry and also the fact that they have kissed and confessed their love multiple times #robin hobb is FASCINATING to me like imagine someone writing a story about a guy with 'hair the color of autumn leaves abd foxes' #and then getting mad when people interpret him as anything other than a blond #bestie you WROTE THIS

[catwouthats]

Sylvie shipping lokius 🤝 Mobius shipping sylki

#selfcest doesnt exist #why tf do yall ship spidermen together #but draw the line at lokis? #and don’t give me the #they are literally the same person crap #they literally aren’t #they do not have the same DNA #One of them is a fucking alligator #some of them even have different names #they have different backstories #however they also have stuff that they’ve all been through #just like all the Spider Men #just say you hate the chemistry of sylki #don’t pretend to be on a moral high ground when there isn’t one #sylkius #sylki #lokius #loki series

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is really really good i loved it! #the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool #it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that #I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff #t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m #definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that #was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel #on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening? #that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 - #I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like - #a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!) #some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application #the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series! #also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺 #anyway. i really loved it! #oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture.... #To Shape A Dragon's Breath

[silverfoxstole]

As another week begins…

#there aren't enough blackadder gifs on this site #blackadder #blackadder goes forth #tony robinson #hugh laurie #rowan atkinson #my gifs #i can quote huge sections of this series #a colleague and i once started throwing lines back and forth to see how far we could get #and went through entire scenes

[okitanoniisan]

new rgg fans will never know what they missed back in ye olden days of the fandom (like, 2019), doubly so now that scott strichart's deleted his twitter and jon riesenbach's privated. twitter was so fucking fun and then whatever-the-hell at sega of america happened and caused a fucking snowball effect and now we have shitass localization and resulting discourse that makes every release nigh unbearable, misinformation, confusion, people complaining about "bad writing/mischaracterization" not realizing it's because of the shitass english loc, i'm sitting here like jesus christ these loc bitches massacred saejima's character voice, people will never see him as he was intended, as original yakuza 5 localization Correctly painted him, and now they're coming for kiryu. god help us. we used to be a proper fandom. before everyone was subjected to the remastered localizations and shaky eng characterization. no one had even played yakuza 3-5, people still called morning glory "sunshine" orphanage, kiryu was our only protagonist and people still called him "boring", it was beautiful...

anyway gaiden uses affective instead of effective because the current localization team is full of careless dumbasses who don't give a fuck about ensuring they're using correct english grammar and this is not an isolated incident

#ada speaks #ive been playing through the series again from 0-5 and. yeesh #it goes from LIFE IS GOOD. LOC IS GOOD. to. oh. #yakuza 5's original localization is near perfect and they couldve made it better but instead #they opted for the cost cutting approach and decided NOT to retranslate and instead #just fucking. re-localized the localization and SO much is wrong. so much. #im playing simultaneously with a friend (myself on ps3 them on pc) and seeing the differences #and it happens in y3r and y4r too where #the original line is localized > the remastered line takes it and runs with it bc they have no original translation context #ie. in 3 rikiya says he likes 'wild' dancers. (re: strip club) it gets localized to be him liking 'aggressive' dancers. #in 3 remastered he says he likes AGGRESSIVE DOMINEERING WOMEN and that gets his Gears Turning #or. in 5 shinada says that uno is 'a little sad up top' re: his hair. and 5 remastered he says 'kinda mopey' #because they misunderstood the original english loc and so. completely fucked up the line to mean something else entirely #its like broken telephone #the same is SOMEHOW also happening in 8... i dont know HOW but somehow it fucking is #meanwhile im revisiting zero and going OH YEAH GOOD CHOICE. THAT MAKES SENSE. GREAT WRITING. WOW THAT'S AN A+ INTERPRETATION OF THAT LINE. #i miss the old loc team so bad. bring me back. #its mostly frustrating because i can see the shitass eng writing and still enjoy the game beneath it (unless it's not voiced.) but #i feel so bad for everyone flying blind and forced to take the loc at face value #its been like this since lost judgment but the main story was Fine (if a bit rushed) because. scott was still doing his thing #the substories in lost judgment also felt like they were of the same calibre (shit.) as remastered and. idk. #it seems like its been a shitshow at SoA behind the scenes for Years #and it shows.

[whollyjoly]

BofB as Killers Songs - Ronald Speirs

Ronald Speirs - Battle Born

you lost faith in the human spirit / you walk around like a ghost your star-spangled heart / took a train for the coast up against the wall / there's something dying on the street when they knock you down / you're gonna get back on your feet no, you can't stop now come on, show your face / come on give us one more spark sing a song of fire / lest we fall into the dark (boy, you was battle born)

pt 4/? - band of brothers as killers songs

song rec for speirs by @ronsparky

playlist for the series

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Taglist: @xxluckystrike @ronsparky @land-sh

Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed!

Next up: Eugene Roe

#bofb: killers songs #<- the tag for this series #but yeah jessica was the most right about this song for speirs i couldnt NOT #also the lines about come on give us one more spark / sing a song of fire / lest we fall into the dark is SO speirs coded #something something being the meanest toughest son of a bitch in the whole eto to help lead his men #and to keep the flame lit within him so they could have a beacon through the dark days of war something something #also hilarious because spark/sparky #i think im funny #so thank you jessica!!! 10/10 #ronald speirs #ron speirs #band of brothers #bofb #hbowar #the killers #the killers music #mine #band of brothers moodboards #bob moodboards #me a few hours ago: omg blu i love your ron speirs moodboard cause it shows a soft side which we never really see! #also me: posts a ron speirs moodboard that isnt soft at all #this is a self callout tag #em's moodboards

[hamletshoeratio]

What if Chris doesn't show up at Clarisse's house pre botl? What if he's guided (maybe by Hermes) to Connor and Travis' instead?

Chris, who is to me at least implied to be unclaimed as yet in the show, who is suffering severely mentally as a result of what he endured alone in the labyrinth, shows up on Connor and Travis' doorstep. They haven't seen him in years now, not since he ditched camp to follow Luke to Kronos. He's clearly unwell and barely recognises them. They worry it's a trick, and that's when Chris is claimed by Hermes. The Stolls decide to take the risk, well Connor mainly does; Connor has more faith in Hermes than Travis ever did. They bring Chris to camp, where they and Clarisse try to help him, to keep him going until Mr D returns. Mr D does save the day, Chris' mind is restored, but then there's the hard part. The initial distrust, the slow and painful path to reconciliation and redemption. If done right, it could be a banger of an arc.

It gives a reason a better reason for why Katie accuses Travis of being the spy in tlo; "you brought your brother - who wasn't claimed until recently and only you and Connor saw it - to camp after he showed up apparently randomly at your doorstep? After he joined Luke - your other brother - and Kronos? After he went on a mission to try and use the labyrinth to destroy camp?" Travis, of course, wasn't the spy, but at least there's a reason for suspicion on the others' parts outside of 'he's Luke's brother' (which is the general consensus and interpretation from the fandom, which never really made sense to me as Luke had left camp four years before tlo and there's a high chance Katie wasn't even at camp at that point).

They've already started by introducing Chris so early, but I hope they expand his story and the Stolls' roles, especially in botl and tlo. Let them have complicated feelings about Luke. Let them mourn him, and let them hate him. Let the angst hit.

#pjo series #hermes pjo #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians spoilers #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #chris rodriguez #travis stoll #connor stoll #rick; *includes one line in hoh about connor burning m&ms as an offering to his dad & annabeth remembering that #me: this of course means connor has more faith and belief in hermes than travis does #me cont: which makes sense as travis is older & carries more of the responsibility they share as head counsellors #also rick: *again includes one line about connor being less jokey in toa tlo and apollo puts it down to travis going to new rome for college #me: oh malcolm is missing clearly connor misses his brother & is worried sick about his bf too #me cont: he's also head counsellor for the first time alone so he's under a lot more pressure my poor baby is going through it #also rick: *mentions travis is in new rome for college& there's no mention of katie but her sister miranda is the current c4 head counsellor #me: clearly Katie is in New Rome with her boyfriend Travis #I'm nothing if not delusional enough to fulfil my own needs lmfao