#what did u expect lmao

[opera-ghost]

i'm kind of obsessed with this high school production's PONR blocking where the phantom reveals himself by guiding christine's hand to take off his hood in a sort-of caress???

#it's so different from anything i've seen #i can't form a coherent analysis on it rn but it's a really interesting change #the rest of the production is not super notable lol #there are some standout performances but also the normal issues with hs productions #but the comments on the yt vid are really funny to me bc they're all really critical and it's like #what did u expect lmao #don't get me wrong not every hs performance is terrible #but it's weird that people expect broadway-level sets and costuming and acting when these are children and the budget is probably like. #$10 and a safety pin #(safety pin reference for the managers <3) #also the rest of the PONR blocking is really weird and distant so it made this even more interesting

[obrother1976]

figures that the first time i draw in months is that old man as franz von assisi...

#dont know what else i even expected ... ugh #sw #did u guys know i used to have an art account... yeah. i abandoned that lmao #roughest sketch in the history of rough sketches lmao #funniest thing about this is the random squiggly beard lines lmao. u can tell i did this in 10 min

[postergadorart]

i said i love zelink

#why do these mfs have so many details in their clothing #bruh drawing this was a nightmare #na dont get me wrong i love them but wtf #zelink #zelda totk #zelda botw #zelda #link #lmao tagging link feels so unfair dude why do u have that nameeeee #anyways i love zelink #i did minor changes to zeldas boots and collar? what the heck is that called. anyways i changed some of it bc i can #and bc my eyes get confused by the lighter tone in her boots like. at first glance i always think her legs are exposed #like shes wearing capri pants or whatever the name #i cant read nor write #i could write an entire paragraph here like those AO3 authors about what happened in my life during the making of this piece #but theres a limit in these tags and id rather just laugh about it #i referenced the ao3 authors bc their life seems cursed and thats exactly how i felt during my own said events #but its ok im back again #until im not anymore #expect more drawings of them from me -needs the pressure

[andrewknightley]

Maybe is my very particular interpretation but for me gods are very much a Concept more than people so the whole gale/mystra thing is very much a wizard falling in love with magic itself as an artist falls in love with art itself. And oh man no matter how much you love it that cant never love you back. Not like a real person. But you feel something is missing and you dont know what it is (it is real human connection and people who actually love you) so you are like. "Ah i see i could become Better At What I Am I just need to Improve." And thats your thing ! and what people said you were good at since you were a kid thats where your value is isnt it!!

#mystra telling gale to kill himself its a metaphor of thinking you have to crunch and overwork in this essay i will #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #anyways i find gale/mystra fucked up thing fascinating narrativelly in like #oh This Really Would Fuck Up Someone Big Time Wouldnt It #in a loving gale way in a “im studying what happened here” way not in a shipping way u know #like this story its so good. #so many things that in the first game were like xd gale really loves u for doing the bare minimun haha lmao lol #are like. oh boy he didnt even have the bare minimun #sometimes in his romance he says such sad stuff like “its nice to feel wanted :>” #bestie thats the bare minimun in a relationship what did mystra did to you #a friend who just started act 1 told me “gale has very low standars for a guy who fucked a god.you would think he expected more from people #makes u think..... #he is like some colleages tried to contact/visit me at first #like colleages not friends gale?? did you had some friend apart fron tara before the game???? #gale of waterdeep #mystra

[lokh]

making friends involves showing up to places. i do Not show up to places

#im remembering that tiktok or whatever and like its tru i get it but also. #not even Places. i mean i cant even stay active on discord servers AKZNZNXXJD #but also realising its just. not. in my nature to like. interject in conversation????? #this is something im realising becos while sometimes i watch streams i realise i do none of what #people are like. there for. which is interaction #also im realising im not great at group talking. also less cues online #not that i know the cues or like. etiquette irl lmao #im also realising that part of it is obviously initiation like u gotta put urself out there and invite people #i will say that at least 60% is personal and its something that can be worked on #but growing up with the kind of parents where u couldnt go to peoples houses or bring them over #lets just say. i am not practiced at that either and it doesnt occur to me and i still like. #expect to be told no by my parents lmao #even when i did show up to places (uni) i didnt know how to Keep friends #simply because unless the topic of convo was being dictated (eg classwork) i wouldnt know what to say

[elminsters]

i love coming on here and finding out everyone lost their damn mind while i slept

#why are people acting like wotc are going to come to their houses and uninstall the game from their computer LMAO #and why are people acting like larian is washing their hands of bg3 when they literally said they have additional updates planned via patch #like did we seriously expect anything other than what we've been told? why is this news #wotc is shitty sure but no more than any other big corp. #this isnt a ya dystopian movie we don't have to defeat them ahsksfjk calm down #i also don't think we need to worry about how the characters are owned by wotc i feel like it's more for merch purposes #i do not think they're going to become the new poster children of dnd #that's not really how dnd is marketed #idk i think a lot of people gaslit themselves into believing that we were getting 2 dlc and bg4: astarion boogaloo #it's giving valentines day romance patch tbh #none of this is directed at mutuals btw u guys are normal ♥️ i just think in general this fandom needs a reality check

[xoalsox]

accidentally made the perfect shinee coloured cookie dough ?

#? i did use blue food dye but i did not expect it to turn pearl auqa green lmao....... #i have no idea what im doing btw i was decorating my dad's bday cake and got left with too much icing so i decided to make it into cookies #(yes the bowl is also shinee coloured. u know how the shawol life goes) #xlsx

[bylertruther]

not getting my hopes up but by god do i really really reeeeeaaaaaaally want at least One (1) scene between robin and either will or mike :(

#preferably mike bc will has jon but mostly bc i think it'd be funny if she did with him what steve did with her #like imagine watching mike try to sus out whether will - our canonically n obviously gay character - is gay or not. LMAO #and he applies the same logic to will that the audience applies to him: well... el said he had a crush on a girl... and he did make a #painting for said girl... and girls are always flirting with him... and he did dance with one... #and it's like . idk the word but like meta or whatever u kno. and it subverts the trope and expectation we'd #have that will should be the one doing tht to mike #do i make sense #i just want mlm and wlw solidarity!!!!!!! #even if it's not abt sexuality . let will and robin craft explosives together. gayly. BFHDJDBDJJD

[benetnvsch]

knkdz furries I drew when I should be focusing on something else pt. 2

#the something else is sleep it is 3 am WHOOPS #lmao what did u expect from me- #im sorry for so much fate posting lately - #have some furries as an apology y'all always seem to like them KHFJFHK which works for me bc I can draw em #perfectly balanced as all things should be #uhhh #kunikida doppo #kunikidog #kunikidazai #knkdz #kunizai #dazai osamu #kite draws #can I legit tag this as like #furry art #bc TECHNICALLY... #bwahaha #can y'all tell? have y'all picked up on the Fact That Im Primarily a furry artist? #have so many good requests I've been wanting to do but have to put aside More Time To Think abt them bc humans are hard </3 #maybe one day I'll share my other furry art DKJHKD #I am so tired but feel like I haven't drawn bsd in forever (which ?? it's only been like what? 4 days? ) #so have this #yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (said in tone of beast who handles deeds) #gn guys #aw fuck nvm forgot the bsd tags #Bungou stray dogs #bsd #that's it gn now

[qilyns]

long ass psychology hot take / personality notes headcanon / me rambling about my least favorite recurring joke within ganyu's background . tw for mentions of eating disorders + armchair psychology

psa: i'm aware it may be contentious for me to use the lens of eating disorders to make conclusions about interpersonal relationships, but i think many people who have gone through this for themselves can tell you that the two are intimately tied together.

ganyu's commitment to emotionally isolating herself is not only an expression of her qilin heritage but also a display of restraint as a warped idea of self–discipline (in reality this falls further on the scale of self–punishment) which is also mirrored in her disordered eating habits. wether it was intentional by hyv or not, i still see it as a theme that informs her personality not only in regards to how she presents herself but also in how she interacts and forms relationships (or doesn't) with the people around her.

the fandom likes to make fun of the monster choking incident from when she was younger, which the text also enforces by describing it in a very humorous tone. i can accept that it wasn't meant to be that deep but based on her behavior for the past 3000+ YEARS i think we can infer that it was a deeply upsetting moment for ganyu regardless of how humorous it may have been for the other adepti. many instances relating to her weight are described as being intensely embarrassing for her, like cloud retainer sharing her childhood stories with the traveler during her story chapter (fucked up fr... dumbass bird) and her literally running away in frustration from feeling humiliated by someone so close to her.

" another secret that ganyu is anxious to keep hidden is the fact that she is watching her physique. " ₍ ... ₎ " during the archon war, she once choked a giant monster to death after getting lodged in its throat when it tried to eat her.. " ₍ ... ₎ " for  ganyu,  avoiding  any  similarly  embarrassing  episodes  in  the  future  is  an  absolute  must. "

" whenever she finds herself being drawn towards some delicious dish, she will attempt to reassert her self-control. " ₍ ... ₎ " the difficulty of such a challenge is second only to finding a flaming flower atop dragonspine. " ₍ ... ₎ " but she is not one to give up half-way through the ascent. "

canonically having an eating disorder for more than three millennia is not only fucked up on hyv's part for.. coming up with the idea.. but i think it does show us her recurring tendency to deny herself of potentially enjoyable experiences (such as eating with others, which is a big aspect of socializing within liyuen culture.) to maintain a strict status quo. she worries about people distancing themselves from her if they find out the truth of her being half-qilin, she worries about people distancing themselves based on her physical appearance, and she worries about how people perceive her in a professional context, she worries about being replaced professionally and how that would eliminate her role within human society entirely.

the point of all this rambling is this: it's my personal headcanon that two big aspects of her personality are restraint and self punishment as means to control her circumstances and avoid embarrassment and how in turn this makes her averse to forming deep bonds with others. i don't read this as a matter of vanity since, in spite of all her efforts, there's no sense of accomplishment in keeping these secrets. only endless worrying and stress.

however, as someone who has experienced disordered eating for many years in real life, there is also an unspoken sense of accomplishment within this idea of discipline. the text describes her as " not one to give up half-way through the ascent. " which is notably aspirational in tone and tells us that this is something she sees as a good thing, not merely as a struggle to avoid embarrassment but as a pursuit of self–improvement. obviously this is fucked up and not the case but i think it's a very obvious coping mechanism to try and find a noble purpose within something you're suffering – otherwise the suffering itself may be seen as a source of shame and failure.

and on the aspirational note, the qilin in real life mythology is described as being lonely by nature but there's really nothing in the mythology of genshin to suggest this might be the case in universe. i see it more as a motif for her struggle than a definitive characteristic of hers, and perhaps isolation it's a way for her to aspire to embrace this side of her heritage which she obviously does not identify with on a deeper level? she does insist on describing herself as inhuman so perhaps it's also an attempt to delineate herself from others.....

so anyway, i believe that this idea of restraint plays into her loneliness as an inhuman. we don't see any examples of her being rejected from human society other than her own insistence that there is no place for her beyond her function. someone like yanfei is clearly able to live and thrive within liyue harbor, so why not ganyu?

i propose that this isolation is more or less self imposed. microdosing on (imagined?) societal rejection to avoid confronting loneliness and strife within actual interpersonal relationships. cloud retainer says that life as an adeptus in juyeun karst would be too lonely for her to cope with but ganyu insists that the loneliness she feels among other people is more personal and therefore harder to endure.

as a character, she often takes steps to avoid embarrassment and rejection but she doesn't necessarily shy away from suffering itself. if the writers truly want us to believe she goes without close friendships or romantic companionship for decades if not centuries at a time (she rarely if ever brings up anyone from the past other than the adepti and rex lapis) then i think the only reasonable conclusion is that she imposed those restraints on herself and that she probably does find some level of comfort within that loneliness, even if it's starting to wear on her by the time that genshin impact takes place.

many psychologists adhere to the idea of the cyclical disorder, which is essentially a process of using restrictive behaviors to exert control over negative feelings or dissatisfactions with life, which are recurring emotions for any person regardless of how long they live. i don't think she is a hermit though. i think that, similar to the cyclical nature of disordered eating, her disordered idea of relationships is to abstain for as long as she possibly can and then punish herself afterwards by seeking relief in familiar habits of isolation.

i imagine her restrictive eating began as a way to exert control over the way people view her, and i think the fact that she has maintained these ideas for so. fucking. long. implies that this mindset probably extends further than we ever get to see in our role as traveler within the story

thanks for coming to my tedtalk

#⟣ ┄ ─ 𝗉𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗒𝖺𝗅. #safe to say i care more about ganyu's psychology than hyv ever did lmao #the definition of “ITS NOT THAT DEEP” #i dont expect anyone to read this . but if u did idk what to tell you

[lavenoon]

Solar Lunacy Sona, fic by @bamsara for the unlikely case anyone hasn't read this piece of art yet

Sona is really just me post top surgery gsfvjk so gets fun perks such as a sun/ moon tattoo, sensory issues about pants, and an ironic obsession with healthy sleep schedules while struggling to sleep. He's autistic your honor <3

#post let luce #my art #solar lunacy #fnaf sb #daycare attendant #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #bamsara #this is a bit older bc i uh. i didnt think id actually start fnaf posting #thats on me #bc yea what did i expect #u hand me sun and moon themed jesters #with my nickname being 'light' and part of my name being 'moon' and half my wardrobe being celestial themed #and i expected to be normal about them? lmao #n e ways solar lunacy was my gateway drug and first fnaf anything i ever consumed and its so good ppl #love me some platonic love plus oblivious reader #and maybe some murder. sure thats a perk right #*points at sona* shortass

[airbenderedacted]

deathstar shippers stop going out of ur way to tell me you hate dominator being a lesbian and that you’re homophobic asf challenge (impossible, apparently)

#(cw: put under a read more for homophobia & transphobia 😬) #LITERALLY went ''lemme say the quiet part out loud'' BRO THIS IS LIKE THE 6TH(????) TIME I'VE HAD SUCH AN ENCOUNTER #except i will say that this is the first time it wasn't unprovoked. i did @ them first to ask why they were leaving replies on my posts- #-saying hater's crush on dominator is creepy bc they 'look like they have an age gap' meanwhile they've liked AND MADE #-comments elsewhere shipping her with men that are way WAY older than her and sometimes visibly so like. hater and her are the same agegroup #so i was like. what is going on here huh??? ANFD THEN THEY JUST SAY THIS SHIT why am i ever surprised anymore lmao #shout out to this person for adding transphobia to their shittiness for Spice ig /s 🙄 eugh... #i should've seen it coming bc they were referencing a page on the woy wiki THAT USES STEVENSON'S CORRECT NAME & PRONOUNDS #AND YET THEY WERE ADAMANT ON USING HIS DEADNAME AND SHE/HER PRONOUNS LIKE.. I SHOULD'VE EXPECTED THIS I SHOULD'VE EXPECTED THIS but still 🤢 #i dont ever wanna stop giving ppl the benefit of the doubt but oh my god do These people test me. every time. goes like this Every Single T- #on god only like twice or smthn have i seen [REDACTED] shippers be like.. very decent to me and literally just ignorant #and they were from here and i just ask them to not interact bc it makes me uncomfortable and they're like i dont get it but ofc #and i never see them again #AND THEN EVERY OTHER PERSON WHO IS INTO THIS SHIT I HAVE *EVER* COME ACROSS #FUCKING JUST... JUMPS INTO MY MENTIONS OUT OF NOWHERE. LITERALLY I DONT EVEN?? DO ANYTHING I DONT GO NEAR THEM BRO #THEY FUCKING SNIFF ME OUT OR SOME SHIT FOR HAVING A DNI ON OTHER SITES AND GO #''OH SO YOU THINK I'M WRONG FOR HAVING TO REIMAGINE GAY/LESBIAN CHARACTERS AS STRAIGHT SO I CAN ENJOY THEM?'' LIKE- WTF? YES? IT IS #also i kid you not this is an actual thing someone has gone out of their way to look me up and yell at me over for like an hour straiught #on twitter. it was unhinged. like they were convinced straight ppl are oppressed any time gay characters exist #bc gay characters existing makes them unlikable and unrelatable and unconsumable to straights like damn ok if u feel that way die abt it? #it's just so unhinged like bruh GO AWAY LMAO??? SHUT UP! I DONT CARE LITERALLY JUST KEEP UR FREAK BIGOT SHIT TO URSELF GET OUT #again that specifically doesn't apply to this person who technically WAS @ by me first bc i was like.. hey... hey what's going on here HUH #but oh my god they turn out to be vocally homophobic every single time. i was always hoping i was like... #over generalizing these people as being fucking homophobic just bc 1) the vibes r always like that 2) it's faster to say #BUT OH MY GOD THEY REALLY ARE HOMOPHOBIC AS A WHOLE WHAT THE FUCK I LITERALLY ALWAYS WENT OUT OF THE WAY TO BE LIKE aint no way ahah BUT NO? #BRO???? GET OUT OF HERE THIS SHOW IS NOT FOR YOU Y'ALL ARE CREEPS #THEY FEEL SO EMBOLDED TO SAY THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD EVERY SINGLE TIME WITHOUT PROMPTING. I ALWAYS MAKE FUCKING SURE TO NOT ACCUSE BIGOTRY #AT MOST I'LL JUST BE LIKE yeah so straightwashing is a thing that's homophobic so don't do that IF ANYTHING. I NEVER CALL THE PERSON THAT #AND EVERY TIMEEEE THEY JUST GO MASK OFF WITH ''BTW I DONT LIKE THE GAYS'' I OEIUFKGEJRHGUKJDFS EVERY TIME EVERY TIME WTFFFFF #usually being right about things is epic. not this THIS IS JUST.. GWORLS WHAT HE FUCK

[magnoliamyrrh]

bro can we please get over the "all work is evil all work is bad i do not dream of labour" sort of western "communism." fucks sake. you dont think someone's gonna have to clean the toilet in a communist system too timmy? what happened to each according to his abilities? what happened to one works for all and all work for one? hellllloooo?

#what do these ppl expect servants to do everything for them in a communist system lmao #dude even if we did like. rural communism like small community based. u think u wont have to make clothes? cook food? mentain the land and #crops and animals????

[reanimatedgh0ul]

#this how i feel everytime some wants to bring up that catradora is toxic and/or abusive #like it's a gotcha moment when it's like yeah it's enemies to lovers like what did u expect lmao #and it's crazy bc i've literally seen ppl describe catradora as the kidzbop version of villaneve which is literally what it is #anyways #robi rambles

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

what's that insane theory about archer juna's np?

ok. so

you know how this is titled pashupata and the game treats it as pashupata and everyone refers to it as pashupata?

i dont actually think its pashupata.

cause here's the thing: i KNOW that hindu mythology is heavily nerfed in fgo but arjuna never even used pashupata when he was alive. like not in response to ANYTHING. even when ashwatthama killed his unborn grandchild he used the brahmashirsha astra in response-that was still incredibly deadly and powerful, but it was also still LESS powerful than pashupata. this is the personal weapon of shiva and kali that he only managed to get through completing heavy penances-no one else in the mahabharata had it and in other texts iirc only rama and a sage, Vishvamitra, also possessed it.

it was easily leaps and bounds stronger than vasavi shakti, despite what fgo may say, and could literally destroy the universe if used carelessly. id honestly say if we were putting up a comparison to a fgo weapon to it ea would be the closest thing-it was basically unavoidable, unresistable, and destroyed everything in it's path. and he knew this and so didnt use it bc in the context of the wars he fought in it wouldlve been massive overkill, and he was pretty responsible all things considered with the weapons he used

but like, hes ok with letting mages potentially command him to use it against their enemies? this incredibly powerful attack gifted to him by shiva that could obliterate the universe? like ignoring the logisitics of the fact they'd probably need a boatload of mana, and that the earth has protections in place to prevent gil or whoever from going 'lol' and laser beaming it in twain, why would mr 'thanks for the wmd but i will not be using it' suddenly ok the use of it for a bunch of backstabbing self-serving mages who would sacrifice their own children for a chance at upping their magical power?? like 'oh yes zouken, i'll use pashupata to blow up that orphanage for you right away. clearly this is a good use of this holy astra bestowed upon me by the gods :)'

imo he looked at his legend, looked at the fact anyone who looked into him would know about the fact that he'd have that astra, and renamed one of his less potent attacks 'pashupata' so that when he was ordered to use it he could follow their command WHILE also not fucking. using pashupata for incredibly petty and asinine reasons. like do we really think the average mage can tell the difference between the different astras anyway? no. hes gonna do that so when they pop their command seals and yell at him to use pashupata he can be like 'of course master :)' while also not going against his principles as like. person who was given a turbo nuke and was like 'yeah theres no reason to use this against normal people' like COME ON

though tbh i do still think he has access to pashupata as an archer-like when he blew up the 18 demon pillars that. that seems more like something he might actually have used it for.

i know that this theory has no water bc every time he's referred to it there's been nothing to suggest his np wasn't pashupata, its been described and treated in his materials as pashupata, plus parvati ALSO makes note of him having it and it being pashupata. it just bugs me that they shoved it on him as his generic np and also massively undersold it when he has like 4000 other big explody attacks that couldve been slotted in just as well, and when its a legitimately interesting fact that he never used it in his lifetime.

#lasengle stop underselling juna challenge difficulty: impossible #youd think theyd at least make note of it in his bio like how they did w ash and his big wheel but nope. gotta devote all that space to k #my other insane theory is juna wrote his profile at 2am on a pstd-induced guilt spree which is why its #a) all about how he 'unjustly' murdered poor karnie #b) has a bunch of weird ass inconsistencies like it accidentally made him k's uncle and says duryo was like a dad to k when k was the older #im not joking about arjuna accidentally being made karna's uncle in his bio btw #it lists his dad as 'king kuru' which was like his grandpa which would have made him karnas uncle instead of his brother. his dad was pandu #i wish theyd rewrite bios tbh his is. a nightmare like why #but yeah my theory is 2am hell guilt trip he wrote while crying into his desk which is why its so biased #look if youre fighting a guy and ask to stop to fix ur tire and he says no #and you then stop and turn your back to him anyway to fuck w your tire #what the hell do you expect to happen? karna was a dipthong #'uh ik i beat up and murdered ur kid when he was in the same position w like 20 other guys but can u please give me 5 min?' #'uhhh (hey krishna what should i- (DUDE JUST SHOOT HIM TF-))' #and then no one shuts up about you shooting him ever again but conveniently they all forget about the shit he did #lmao if i were arjuna id be so tired #'yeah i was told it was my moral duty to shoot him but once i did no one ever let it go ever' #my asks #i did say this was insane. sorry

[kimmkitsuragi]

what else should i watch im so new to this cheesy movie genre 🤨

i already watched clueless, i wanna watch breakfast on pluto and romeo + juliet soon. and also mamma mia is one of my fave comfort movies ever. any cheesy af movie suggestions??? whatever u say no matter how classic, i probably havent seen it dont worry

#the way these few days soooo different from what i normally watch lmaoooo #i was not expecting to like mean girls and the devil wears prada so much tbh #both were well executed #me: i want to watch cheesy movies #also me: hmm yeah the movie was cheesy but well executed 🧐 #btw if my mom saw this she would be like girl did u fall in love lmao 💀 #what being newly graduated does to a mf #genuinely im doing anything but the things i should be doing hell yeah #🗒