#totally yeah i swear

[umblrspectrum]

i got lazy in the second panel and didnt feel like coloring or whatever bite me

#i think she'd be petty enough to do this if rebecca actually lived #flirting with her man. unacceptable. eats #the trend of uzi in the suit and n in the dress is the funniest shit ever to me. n would be so willing to wear a dress #and she'd totally wear her combat boots over the pants. they're not going anywhere #she should be allowed to say fuck #art #murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones n #serial designation n #i can finally tag it myself exclamation mark #biscuit bites #uzi x n #murder drones nuzi #lizzy was recording it to send it to v i swear shes not just playing subway surfers #i dont understand outfit design in the slightest im just making it up as i go #ill figurre out a speechbubble design for uzi later im tired #oh yeah uhhh #murder drones rebecca #murder drones lizzy #hope i didnt forget anything ok bye

[mblue-art]

aaaa

#utmv #cross!sans #mblue art #criss cross applesauce <3 <3 <3 #(puts this alternate thing from the fangs post on a separate one bc i like it...) #(guys im so normal about cross i swear) (lies) #'are you gonna be done soon...' - 'Yeah uh. Almost. Yes.' #(totally not continuing to examine his teeth uh huh) #(the cheek holding is totally not a mere distraction from the thumb that is tempted to trace the edges and feel how sharp the tooth is-) #(/totally/ totally not having a flushge moment abt the thought of leaning in and having a gay kiss in a dark closet- YEAH NO haha whaaat) #(also ???WOW that cross fangs post was a banger huh it got passed around lol the ppl rlly like fangs)

[frodo-baggins]

20 years of The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (released in the US December 18 2002)

#lotredit #tolkienedit #filmedit #filmgifs #userhaleths #thcrin #southfarthing #userlindir #userfrodosam #usermal #userleah #* #yeah i made two sets #i swear i'm totally normal about this film

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #the case of the very long stairway #im sorry this really IS the short version of my thoughts i swear #i didnt want to get long and rambley backing everything up and mentioning everything else this forces me to reconsider #i just feel like i've barely interacted w this fandom and still seen quite a few odd duck takes on this moment imo #i dont think he wouldntve got the nerve to say it otherwise #(he was already going to! & if anything his new experiences in hell only cement that being the right choice) #and as much as i get what fear can do to a person i still definitely dont think he was resigned to staying in hell if charles reacted badly #i truly think he just couldnt keep it to himself any longer #the show is upfront about his escaping hell being a testament to his own strength rather than a lucky break of some sort #so i think even being on the receiving end of a rescue mission getting out still must take a lot of strength in this universe #and telling charles that definitely made him stronger/in less pain #so yeah totally necessary it happened where and when it did in my book #also i hope it doesnt sound like im being dismissive of anything charles says in this scene #but the way i see it those were all things they both already knew #so reaffirming them just adds to the idea that the act of Telling Each Other Things is what's so important here #rather than counting as a truly separate thing this conversation achieves #just my two cents

[dazesanddoodles]

the vibe we bring to the function

#they're up to no good fr #billy is scandalized but not by the murder #guys hear me out on sapphic stuilly this is going somewhere trust me #put down the pitchforks i swear its not the fumes #soft launch for yuri stuilly fic in the drafts rn #totally following canon (so unbelievably not canon its hilarious) #dazndoodraws #stuilly #stu macher #billy loomis #scream 1996 #yeah this TOTALLY takes place in 1996 and not the summer of 1995 #i said like a liar #tns1995 #that tag is a surprise tool to help us later #butterbee #also a surprise tag ignore for now

[fluffypotatey]

“Yeah, I don’t give a fuck about Wukong,” the Sixed Ear Macaque said whilst completing all four volumes of Journey to the West

“Wukong’s full of shit,” he says while he creates a wonderous play solely about the two of them

“Ugh, I guess I’ll save his sorry ass,” he says, even though nobody prompted him to

#i know what you are #lmk #lmk six eared macaque #shadowpeach #listen he makes it too easy i swear #edit: *coughs* yeah uh that typo was totally on purpose #edit 2: huh? what typo??? wdym

[copias-juicebox]

how is he cute but also hot at the same time?? 🤷🏼‍♀️

#this is day 3 #his expressions are so cute #but i swear i can imagine him going totally dom on me lol #even though i imagine him to be a sweet cute lil bean #i would drop in front of him #and yeah the gloves guys..... #get a man who can do BOTH #ghost band #ghost #papa emeritus #tobias forge #ghesties #myedit #ghost sweden #papa emeritus iv #the band ghost #copia

[mieowkoid09]

Honestly, the best ship dynamic is:

Naïve Savior, who wants to help the other, yet never tries to understand what they need

X

Jaded damsel, who knows that the other can't help, yet they dont try to stop them

bonus points if the Jaded damsel actually saves themselves with the only thing the Naïve savior gave them, hope.

#I wont be able to ever stop thinking bout Utenanthy and CinnaPhos #ship dynamics #ships #I swear Ichikawa has totally taken inspo off of Utena like look at this #and both Akio and Enma being named after the ruler of hell and being called 'prince'? #yeah I dont think thats a coincidence #unlike Steven Universe and Houseki No Kuni #Phos #cinnabar #phosphophyllite #CinnaPhos #Utena #Utenanthy #anthy #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya

[skittlebugart]

This is based on @crazylittlejester's links meet au! It's super good :)

#art #my art #linked universe #hyrule warriors #legend of zelda #links meet au #lttc #lttc mask #linked through the centuries #fanart #I will work on consistency i swear #sketches #digital sketch #lol I can totally do digital art yeah probably

[youngyoo-apologist]

OG Choi Han they could never make me hate you cause if some random rich boy was yelling at me and telling me my family deserved to die like a day after it happened and all I wanted was to know how I could get help I’d beat him up too

This plus the added fact that the Harris Village people were the first people to take Choi Han in and take care of him after years and years in the dark forest. Like he’s obviously not going to be mentally stable after all that, and he was so young when everything happened to him like I cannot blame him at all. I don’t think I can ever hate OG Choi Han like ever, he’s flawed, he has problems, but I love him dearly. He deserves the world. This kid who had to fight for his life, was taken away from his family, and in the process had to give up parts of his own humanity to survive, and like went to war two years later, they could never make me hate u OG Choi Han…

Like yeah violence is bad I guess but OG Cale had it coming(saying this as an OG Cale fan, I love him, but he was mean as hell when he was younger!)

If I’m honest, I think they were both in the wrong to an extent. Like OG Cale shouldn’t have said all that no matter the circumstances, and OG Choi Han shouldn’t have beaten him up so much. But u say mean shit and you get hit, that is how it will work when you’re talking to the guy who just saw his entire village get murdered like idkkkk man

I understand where OG Cale was coming from, but he had many issues and while he wasn’t an awful person, he was capable of doing bad things because of his own internalized pain and emotions that he never got to properly process because of his emotionally distant childhood and relationship with his father who should have been there for him more when he was younger.

Okay speaking of his childhood, Deruth isn’t the WORST father in the world but there are a lot of things he could have done better. I think a lot of Deruth’s flaws come from his fear of failure and messing up. He’s scared of doing the wrong thing, and so he sticks to doing what he knows and using what he knows best. That’s why he uses his money, that’s why gift giving is his way of showing affection, he knows that it is one thing he cannot mess up.

The problem is that money and gifts is NOT what OG Cale needed. I think what that guy needed the most was a parent who wasn’t afraid to talk to him, to ask him questions. Not to say that Deruth gave up on OG Cale, but I think in a way he gave up on OG Cale by giving up on himself. Deruth didn’t trust himself to have the capabilities to talk to OG Cale, which is why he never did. It’s because that Deruth was scared, and didn’t trust himself, that he could never face OG Cale

If Deruth was able to trust himself a little more, and pull himself together, I don’t think OG Cale would have turned out the way he did. As a kid, he probably thought the only way he could help his family without relying on anyone(no doubt this whole ‘I have to do it myself’ thing came from the fact that he couldn’t rely on his father when his mom died, and instead was acting as a pillar of support for his father when it should have been the other way around) was to sabotage himself, the only heir. If he was shown to be unfit to be heir, then everyone else would have no choice but to direct their hatred towards him instead of his family.

If Deruth had talked to his son at least ONCE when he was a kid, asking him why he was upset or why he did the things he did, I think OG Cale would have told him. Why? Because he’s a kid!! A kid will obviously want to rely on his father, if he just had one sign telling him that he didn’t have to do it alone I’m 90% sure OG Cale would have said something.

Basically, while Deruth isn’t the worst father, he’s not really a great father either. I think he does do his best, but he has issues with communication lol

OG Cale and OG Choi Han are both complex characters and had their own reasons to behave the way they did. The thing is with people is that they’re complicated and have layers, so the situation with them would have layers behind it as well with multiple co-existing truths and stuff

#guys I’m a big fan of Choi Han #and I get sad when people bring up this scene and all the blame is on him #like okay he was wrong but if YOU saw your entire family dead and some random rich boy started yelling abt how their lives were worthless #you’d be mad too no? #like his feelinsg were totally justified cause OG Cale was REALLY mean in that scene #‘their lives are worth less than the bottle in my hand’ OHHHHH OKAY OG CALE THATS ENOUGH THATS ENOUGHHHH #I love OG Cale but u have to admit he wasn’t very nice when he was younger #like the statements ‘he had his reasons’ ‘being trash was an act’ ‘he wasn’t a bad person’ ‘but he did say bad things’ can co exist #yes being trash was an act but he is ALSO capable of saying mean things and things that are wrong #LIKE TELLING THE GUY WHO JUST GOT HIS FAMILY MURDERED THAT THEIR LIVES WERE WORTHLESS #HE WAS NOT INNOCENT FOR THAT #Younger OG Cale is not a black and white character #and neither is older OG Cale but this post isn’t abt him #okay I’m gonna bring up someone who isn’t from TCF #but take Eunyung Baek from no home as an example okay #eunyung did bad things and was a bad person because of his childhood right #the reasons to being a bad person do not take away the bad things he did #but just cause he did bad things and was capable of them did not mean he could not change #I love OG Cale a LOT and I just think that his character has a lot behind it #Older OG Cale is obviously very different from his younger self #years and years of war and tragedy have matured him and like he’s not the same person he was anymore #okay back to Choi Han I love that guy I will defend him with my life #beating up people is wrong yeah but with the circumstances I’d say OG Cale had it coming #like okay it would be different if it was unprovoked but it was very much provoked #I swear I love OG Cale I just think he was very wrong for that #not to say he can’t change or isn’t capable of change he definitely is #idk I guess my point is that OG Cale was wrong but he changed as a person #and OG Choi Han was wrong for beating him up so much but it wasn’t unjustifiable #tcf #lcf

[loki-cees-all]

Can anyone else not stop thinking about this neck crack from the Loki promos, or are y'all normal?

#loki season 2 #Loki series #Loki laufeyson #can’t decide if I want to help fix his neck or have him crack me open like a glow stick #you cant see it but im actually down on my knees off camera #I’m fine I swear #yeah i made this instead of packing but im totally normal about him

[front-facing-pokemon]

#zangoose #lots of folks don't think about the fact that this pokémon‚ along with zoroark‚ only has like 3 fingers. two big claws and a thumb #i dunnoooo there's not a lot to say about this pokémon i feel like. i just read a bit about them and APPARENTLY it prefers to stay on #all fours and only stands up on two legs when it's angry? even though i have NEVER seen zangoose depicted on all fours #i only ever see zangoose depicted as bipedal. i think their body type on bulbapedia is even listed as bipedal #i was gonna talk about how like no evolution and a normal-type is kinda boring but like hold the phone this is happening now lemme look #yeah it's classified as bipedal with tail. “despite being classified as bipedal‚ it usually walks on all fours” THEN WHY DO WE NEVER SEE IT #there's not a single image on bulbapedia that contains a zangoose walking on all fours. this is not something that happens i am sure of it #this is a total lie i swear. if you are a zangoose reading this can you confirm whether you tend to walk on all fours. thanks

[longdaytogo]

casually waiting for the day my writer friends will drop me with a "hey I had this idea" so I can say "omg that's so good" and give my input too so we can work together on it in a way that it also (suspiciously) happens to aligns with all my personal tastes and then I drop in with a "btw I made this artwork for your fic" so it can be included together for visuals when they post it.

#this is totally not directed at a specific group of individuals #i swear #yeah fanart is fun but i want to draw for it before anyone's read it

[angeliteonfridgeduty]

something something cube content

#internecion cube #art #silly #yeah that's right my brain told me to watch internecion cube like a few days ago and i listened #i am now definitely totally very normal about it #i also discovered that Y is accidentally unintentionally very similar to kirie in terms of many things #literally second member of the c262 trio that turned out to be stupidly similar to an already existing character by pure accident lmao #whats next. who is L gonna end up being stupidly similar to. #aaanyway uh yeah um cube stuff uhhh umm #I.C-0n #i know its literally impossible to tell but yeah uh it's her i swear to you #soup jar. that's it. that's all i'm willing to say #fun fact im putting the darn cubes into FT. you cannot stop me. must add internecion cube into silly anomaly-filled fandom mash au.

[pieceofcec]

Ever wonder how many fics a ship has?

Well, wonder no more! For I have spent the last... 3-4 hours creating a chart to show how many fics a pairing has romantically and platonically!

Some things to keep in mind: fics can have multiple pairings, so the totals per character may not add up perfectly. This also means the averages aren't exact either, but they'll give you an idea of how rare a pairing is. The totals also give an idea of how popular a character is.

Only 2-character pairings are listed - I didn't want to figure out how to list every possible poly combination. I may add poly-units in the future though, but I won't include them in the averaging at all.

Also, fun fact An is the most annoying to search up because her name is within Kohane and Kanade's, so I had to use Shiraishi to search for her instead.

#ramblings #resources #project sekai #colorful stage #rui and tsukasa are such outliers I swear #touya and akito are too but not to that extent #yeah today I learned how to use functions and that I love sheets #but I am now so very tired because this took so much longer than I expected #but to be fair I had to search for 400 numbers and set up 42 formulas lol #really hope someone finds this helpful #that would make me very happy #but yeah I keep thinking a rare pair event would be super cool #and that made me wonder what a rare pair really was #since the number of fics varies depending on fandom size #I'd prolly consider it anything under the average #just for simplicity #actually wait I need to add an average of all the pairings not just character totals #will add that after I post this LOL

[kanene-yaaay]

Me: I got a new favorite character!! You know what that means, right? New tickle fanfic time let's gooooo!!!!!

Brain: HECK YEAH LET'S GOOO!! I got inspiration, I got the idea and now your reader got like 3000 words and a new trauma :D

Me: Wait what

Brain: What what. I mean, it's like a scary game right? We kind of need a context for like the story to begin sooooo 3000 words and a new trauma :D

Me: WAIT! This is like! A light and fun tickle fic!!! The context doesn't need to be so much!!

Brain: Hmmmmmmnothing I can do. Already estabilished the interaction between the characters based on that beginning. Kind of bored to start again. Max I can help is adding like 1000 extra words of cute fluffy time between them.

Me: ...okay, sounds nice to me. What about the tickle part?

Brain: Oh yeah! So, I was excited to write it so I jumped the rest of the context to start it and then I wrote a bit but got un-inespired. kind of want to sleep now

Me: So we have an unfinished context AND an unfinished tickle scene

Brain: Yes BUT GUESS WHAT

Me: Please tell me you didn't start the tickle scene again with neck tickles

Brain: THE TICKLE SCENE START WITH !!!!!!! NECK TICKLES!!!!! AHA! ISN'T IT CUTE AND FUN!! WHAT DO YOU THINK

Me: We need to start focusing on other spots fr........................................... tehee neck tickles :]

#Yeah you guessed right I stopped writing the fic to make this post shhhhhhh art can't be hurried u gotta feel it #Also I kind of created a parallel between the maincharacters and other characters from the game that was totally accidental but I am Lookin #I SWEAR that I don't even realize that I am starting the tickling part of the fic AGAIN with neck tickles #but then I blink and suddenly BOOM there they are once again #kanene being kanene