#we love without reason

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

#911 abc #911edit #chimney han #911 gifs #madney #kevin lee #maddie buckley #glmdedit #jee yun buckley han #albert han #henrietta wilson #karen wilson #john lee #anne lee #eddie diaz #evan buckley #ravi panikkar #bobby nash #look i hope people are as emotionally damaged by this as i was making it #we only had kevin for like 25 mins but i've never gotten over him #this guy has every reason to be a horrible miserable character but no #no he's the coolest cheeriest funniest caring man alive #sick dead mom at a young age and abandoned by an absent father and taking care of sick after her diagnosis #ideas constantly shut down for owning a business and losing his brother on the job #and also sorta losing mr lee who couldn't bear to see him without being reminded of kevin bc they were so intertwined #failing in love and getting stabbed and left for dead #oh and the rebar accident where he almost died again #losing the love of his life and then finding her but not being together with her #911 edits

[moeblob]

Does anyone remember when I would draw Glenn being a lil shit to his dad? Anyone?

#fe three houses #rodrigue achille fraldarius #felix hugo fraldarius #glenn fraldarius #glenn govan fraldarius #bc that loser got a middle name in thropes so here we go payin respects to that #fraldarius family #anyway i loved drawing silly lil stupid meme type situations with these three a while ago and #for some reason remembered YOU KICK MIETTE? today and had to do this #as someone who needs a wheel to spin to tell me what to draw most days the fact i knew without a doubt i had to draw this today? #balling thank you brain for suddenly hyperfixating on this stupid idea #here you go fe fans i hope you appreciate it

[turtleblogatlast]

No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.

The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.

And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.

He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt splinter #rise splinter #he’s not perfect as I’ve said #and he’s got a whole slew of flaws and faults #but he’s a person - we are all flawed #he loves his sons dearly dearly dearly even if he struggles along the way to show that #parenting is not easy! especially as a traumatized mutant who is forced to do it alone #side note but I think this is one of the reasons why it kiiiiiinda ruffles my feathers to see so many people assign parentification to Raph #and in turn make Splinter out to be way worse and way more distant than he is in canon? #like idk I just don’t see what so many others see ig but maybe that’s just me #i guess my thoughts are like- let parents have flaws without villainizing them? #they’re still parents even if they mess up? #we can discuss the repercussions of a parents actions on a child while not casting that parent as an awful person #parents are peopleeee #I could go on but yeahhh #idk it bothers me seeing splinter’s efforts undermined when he’s been through so much #idk if ppl realized this by now but I love me some flawed characters #tho I do think in this fandom the ones whose faults are discussed the most are like #Splinter mostly then Draxum then Leo #of the main cast #and in Splinters case in particular his faults are made to cover his good qualities which makes me sad #because he is SO INTERESTING #they’re all flawed characters and tbh so interesting because their flaws are ALSO their strengths in many aspects

[thespoonisvictory]

also idc I love the citadel and all its wizard hubris I love the intersection of innovation and horror and progress and crushing others underfoot AND also clothes that magically put them on themselves and Citadel Made bouncy balls and secret societies and universities!!! and espresso and arcane discovery and and and

#worlds beyond number #yes citadel bad ALSO you cannot condemn the citadel wholeheartedly without understanding #that we are the citadel #(if you live in the 'west') #and I adore the depth of the depiction of wealth and excess but also knowledge and curiousity #the citadel is not the gatsby mansion. it is any college in the US #it is my university giving out free food and trinkets for no reason other than it is a wednesday #and there is beauty and joy in the science I study I try to understand and the resources available #AND there is abject horror in what has been crushed for millions of people to have this #and I am OBSESSED I love it as a setting in all its brutal honesty #wbn #anyway

[emry-stars-art]

Got sharkdrew on the brain (thank you @sade-of-spades 😌)

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

I’m issuing a “find the artist” below the cut:

Now maybe I’m just being stupid bc I don’t know how wattpad works but I don’t see any artist credit on this collection, it looks like the person went for a “none of this is mine, all content belongs to the creators :)” 🥲 at any rate this is my immense inspiration here so if the style/art looks familiar I’d love to know who it is

#big boy #I realized very recently that if the reason sharkdrew is so beefy is to be able to swim efficiently #without the stabilization or whatever from the two dorsal fins #then he’s probably not noticeably more beefy than anyone else at the start #he’s just A Mer #but of course he grows into the Andrew we know and love him to be on this blog #anyway #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #mer au #sharkdrew au #sharkdrew #neil josten

[kittykatninja321]

if you’re looking at it with purely watsonian in universe reasoning, yeah Jason is the “holding onto a grudge for years” guy, but if he wasn’t also incredibly forgiving he and Bruce would’ve been no-contact years ago

#From a doylist perspective there’s a bunch of different reasons why the batarang thing is never mentioned and other fucked up stuff Bruce #does gets brushed past. We can have Batman be toxic for drama but we can’t linger on it too long because he’s a Hero. The Hero in fact #But even without that Jason is the CEO of forgiving and having unabashed love for parents who let him down #Jason Todd #dc

[itachanta]

Vash's face when he was reaching for the rope Meryl threw at him is hilarious.

Bonus:

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #girl you throw lassos like a pro #where did you learn to do that #also #i love how that rope is used throughout the show #first meryl catches him #and even saves him with it #in this scene #and then is vash who saves her from knives #like a lifeline between the two #and the rope is also among vash's things in the cover of the vol.1 of the bluray #so i guess is an important parallel & detail? #we know orange doesn't do things without reason #they save each other in different ways #and that's what makes me feral about those two #vashmeryl #tristamp

[mw-draws]

I love that crowleys idea of "running a bookshop" is cutting about just ??? carrying books and suddenly when something comes up, you just launch them

#first of all #he cuts about without his coat on which brings up so many emtions #second of all #both times we see him in the bookshop hes literally just carrying books for ??? no reason??? #i love him for it #like crowley why are you csrrying they books #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #crowley #crowley good omens #innefable husbands #aziraphale #aziracrow

[crowlore]

man. been thinkin bout this sleeping arrangement

do you think the twins slept in rem's bed the entire year or only after tesla

#i hesitate to call this a bed because we don't really see the whole thing. the only other angle makes it look like a duvet on the floor 😭 #look. i've just been thinking about their family a lot #rem loved her boys a lot obviously. it's clear #she wasn't prepared to be a mother but she wanted to be one for them #and she made mistakes like any mother does. the difference being she didn't get the time to make up for it. she had one year #i'll be honest i've been rambling in the tags hoping i'd hit the point where i could tag them all without it showing up in the search #because i need to maintain my personal tagging system. archival reasons #but i don't have much else to add here #not right now anyway lol #trigun #rem saverem #vash the stampede #millions knives

[nymphiess]

"Ada is so much more complex than Claire" this "Claire is a passive character she doesn't even do anything" that both Ada fans and Claire fans need to team up and realise that Capcom did them both dirty as hell and join hands. And maybe kiss.

#this is coming from resident claire defender thank you #can we talk about both of these women. without leon. can we drop kick leon's ass #also the claire is a passive character argument is DUMB AS HELL she takes the initiative to do so much #and she's then reduced to being passive because capcom loves stripping claire of her agenda for some fucking reason #this is the same woman who survived raccoon And saved a child and was the only survivor with no militant training #also ADA is done so fucking dirty they keep reducing her agenda #they're BOTH main characters damn. #ada wong #claire redfield #resident evil

[tai-janai]

ok im going to say this as a prisoner and drowned grey lover.

her cutting off her own head leading to the drowned grey doesn't feel like it works

maybe its just the voice of the cheated in me, but that is sooo not our fault. she expected us to bring up her disembodied head for one reason or another; and if we don't do that, that's us betraying her??

no wonder drowned gray never gives us much of an explanation, im sure if she voiced her complaints she'd realize she sounds crazy

she shouldnt want us dead because we didn't instinctively know to take her head as we left the cabin.

#she expects us to be skeptical i guess #but in what world does being skeptical equivocate to keeping the head of a person who killed themself #and i mean. just because shes skeptical doesnt intrinsically mean we are too #that is of course what happens but theres no reason she would know that #also SHE KILLED US FIRST ANYWAY #SHES LUCKY WE GAVE HER THE BLADE WITHOUT KNOWING HER PLAN #i love her. i do. but that chapter progression just doesnt sit right with me #vague thought

[moeblob]

I vote for Argenti! I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you ! I do feel much better (though I admit I hurt a little for very much my fault reasons but it's mostly manageable through light pain meds).

Take an Argenti o7 I got lazy and didn't draw the roses I was gonna draw to the left so there is now a wide open blank spot.

#honkai star rail #argenti #i managed one of the things i owe and this isnt it but here take a doodle #im a ding dong who told someone oh no its starting to pour i should draw someone quick #and then proceeded to draw him way past the rain .... so that.... was a thing #i mean luckily we didnt lose power but still #ALSO OMG THE REASONS I AM AT FAULT FOR ISSSSSSSSS #we have obtained as of yesterday a mama cat and a lil baby boy #and so i heard him mewing under the bed and like a FOOL rolled over on my side with the recovering incisions #to check on him and hoo boy that was indeed a mistake #but lil guy was okay just wanted attention #im so pleased to announce he loves me most teehee #my dad has repeatedly told me idk where he is i hope he isnt stuck #and then i simply exist upstairs and then he bounds out from his hiding spot and lets me pet him and pick him up #truly a good lil bean he is so baby i - with v tiny hands - can hold him in one hand without any problems #none of this has to do with the art i apologize #but ty for the request uhhhh over a week ago ! i do still have them in my inbox and when i can manage i try to look over em #and try to consider one but then i sometimes just do not have energy and wanna do something easy and fast

[averlym]

ghostwriter (their grandma would tell them she'd lose half her soul)

#or smth smth. having a lot of Thoughts. anyways here's the piece i've been working on and sometimes u have to just say Done #there's a lot of thinks but i am maybe a bit tired and so tmr i'll come in and add all the Tags that i'd personally want to get from myself #maybe i'll reblog the extras tmr too. this is an incredibly self indulgent piece + it probably deserves a tag ramble essay or smth #ig for now we see how it stands for itself + in the meantime: #adamandi #beatrix valeria campbell #hello!! i'm back with belated tags yippee!! alright so for funsies i'm going to make it sound like i'm going bonkers over this :3 #the eye shine... the glowy eye... it's like phaethon shine but also smth about eyes to windows to the soul and like #there's two beatrixes here! half the soul. lost part doing things specific to the phaethon and here it's portrayed as tearing off her name #because that's really; truly; when it all starts!! also notable for the ghostly beatrix is i did it more painterly and cloaked in shadow and #fading into the bg. i think i was super duper specificish about where the glow comes from! front lighting back lighting beloved!!! like help #let's put it this way- beatrix face always glowy. important parts of paper also glowy. it's just that different elements are turned away #from the viewer by each beatrix!! also also. let's talk about the very gently implied blood and red etcetera #like the red string is canonical and i love personally the whole red strings of fate thing even though it's not Here Applicable exactly but #that definitely was an influence! and also the blood in the bg... i'm starting to think this is a recurring trend. but anyway shadowy bea #the other strings hang while the red string loops!! so like that one string feels almost alive. it's a sort of whimsical i put on the same #as metaphorical glowy eye!! also also the eye is lowkey influenced by the whole idea of Eyes and Spotlights within the show and also glow #as in power as in heyyy you ever think about writing as a visual medium huh #speaking of writing!! there is no beatrix thingy complete in my head without text sorrry but the black text overlays are always so >>> to me #and in the sense of art styles and overlays shoutout to all the black crosshatching outline thingys because For Some Reason in my mind #of all the characters beatrix feels like the bnw ink printed illustrations you get in books idk #fun fact! i spent so long rendering this and that was fine i liked it! but then trying to figure out text to go on the papers was a Thing #i tried to do. but then gave up on! sometimes i have to pick my battles and graphic design is indubitably Not my passion bc Fonts #fun facts about this is i Actually did start with a quick sketch in mind and there's been so many changed elements. in the og the front #paper for instance had 'ardess murders' written on it and the back one said phaethon interviews.. i like the nominee list better it feels #more narrative-esque and less passive than her just holding her writing.! other elements that got discontinued were that #front beatrix was supposed to blur into the other ghostly beatrix but i couldn't do it without sacrificing clarity so... no... no blurry #oh and the red string morphing at the ends to smth more abstract was always there from the start!! og had more floating papers #and also a silhouette of vincent and a scalpel bc 'one who pulls the strings' but that (pun intended)! got cut (hahahahahahaha) (sorry) #used also to be a lot of print room clutter but that got cut to bc compositionally i made beatrix larger (learned lesson from last art)

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Space AU eclipse is a normal and well adjusted robot-love interest best friend

#he’s been alone and without people for so so long #and the humans he knew before were nothing like reader and treated him like a tool but also a feral animal #aka they were kinda freaked n scared of him #for good reasons ofc but we ain’t gonna talk abt that #bones of a rabbit art #bones of a rabbit fnaf #bones of a rabbit au #space au #space ai au #space ai eclipse #space eclipse #fnaf au #fnaf x y/n #fnaf eclipse x y/n #fnaf eclipse x reader #clingy #adoring #he loves hims soft n squishsquish #some ppl in a discord im in have been calling pilot reader his comfort tiny and it’s so precious I love it #doodles #sketches

[scalproie]

Heichachi: So sad that even tho I love my family I had to put them down for being devils and destined for evil 😔 Alas there was no other way 😔

Jun, kissing Kaz and hugging Jin: Skill issue.

#like as much as I shit on heihachi it IS an interesting character flaw he has #like lets give him the benefit of the doubt: kazumi did try to kill him and his relationship with kaz was doomed as soon as he killed her #and neither kaz nor jin ever try to downright kill jun #but heihachi never like. tried. Like the cliff throwing is narratively important bc without that we wouldnt have tekken #but he just jumped to conclusion and doomed his own baby son to protect HIMSELF #and sure. mayyybe you can raise an argument for heihei with kazumi and kazuya. but WITH JIN? #unforgivable. to use his own grandson and to betray him in such an horrifying way JUST because jin is his father's son #smth about the mishima only knowing how to destroy... #meanwhile the kazama foster life. she loved kaz and raised jin with love. #and even tho tekken will shoot itself on the narrative foot to try and give reason to heihachi. it's jun who is objectively in the right #tagging later

[sophfandoms53]

I wish Hazbin had more than 8 episodes this season bc 1) the pacing is all over the place (outside of episode 4) and 2) it would’ve been so nice to actually see when and why Alastor started to genuinely care about the hotel.

The pilot and the first episode of the show characterize him as sticking around for the entertainment because of how silly the idea of redeeming a sinner is to him but then episode 5 has him fully backing up Charlie’s wishes for the hotel and even tells Mimzy she’s welcomed to stay if she actually wants to try redemption and was upset she had put the hotel in danger with her presence.

I think that turnaround in Alastor’s perspective is so interesting but when did that happen? Why did that happen? How did that happen? What made him care?

He clearly still has ulterior motives, there’s 0 denying that given his scene with Husk in the same episode, but he does seem to actually care about Charlie and her hotel. Which can be connected to the leash Husk claimed Alastor is bound by but Alastor is also the most distant from the cast.

We never see him around everyone for more than a few minutes at a time. Everyone went out to the club in episode 6 but Alastor is nowhere to be found in the entire episode.

That bond with anyone in the hotel, even Charlie, that would explain Alastor’s sudden support in the hotel has not been shown on screen and I really wish the show had more time to do that.

That’s really what Hazbin lacks. Time. Time to slow down and just let the characters breathe. Everything is moving so fast because they probably didn’t know a second season was coming until later which I can understand but that also means the plot takes priority over the characters and a majority of the cast is suffering from it.

Angel’s the only character who’s gotten an episode solely about him and exploring, expanding, and developing his character and his bonds in the hotel are what we see the most. This makes sense given he’s the main guest in the hotel but no other character has been able to have their own character and arc be explored the way Angel has.

The show needed more episodes like Masquerade to explore the cast before diving headfirst into the Heaven vs. Hell redemption conflict. That was always going to be the direction the show went in but they needed so much more time to do it because there are so many characters to juggle and so much is happening. Big moments that are supposed to matter don’t hit as hard as they should bc the cast is overstuffed and everyone is fighting for screen time.

This isn’t the teams fault, they’re doing a decent job with the limit time they were given but 8 episodes is not enough time for a show this ambitious with everything it’s trying to do. Doubling the episode count to 16 would’ve done wonders for the pacing and the show could slow down and take its time.

A lot of what Hazbin presents are good ideas. It’s all interesting but none of it is given enough time because the big Heaven and Hell plot has to take a majority of the shows focus. I do hope season 2 fixes this but that’s also gonna depend where the show is going after season 1 is over. We’ll see next week.

My main wish for the show going forward is each character gets their chance to be explored just as Angel has.

#hazbin has the millie problem of helluva boss but like everyone is millie #you understand who they are on a basic level but that’s kinda it #there’s not enough depth beyond what little we know #the show tries especially with Vaggie and Charlie #and i think Charlie is handled better than most of the cast outside of Angel #but oof Vaggie #i see what they wanted to do with her but again the pacing of it is a mess #everyone else in the hotel has their moments for sure #i utterly love husk and i wanna see more of him #but he needs his own episode that explores him and his whole deal with alastor #which would in turn explain some of alastor’s stuff #ik he’s supposed to be a mystery and that’s fine #but we can still learn more about him as a person without knowing all of his past y’know #anyway all I thought as i wrote this post was wow i’d get jumped on twitter for saying this #just wanted to talk about thisss #i love hazbin and helluva but they are never beating the pacing issue allegations #helluva’s pacing is actually more annoying for different reasons tho #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers