#wish this scene had been longer

[troublezoey]

“Thinking about your Brother?”

“We’ve never been apart this long.”

Here’s a moment I don’t see a lot more of people talking about, the devastated look in Mario’s eyes just kills me. He probably feeling so much guilt over losing Luigi after he basically forced him down into the sewers just to try and prove to their father wrong. Not to mention how utterly terrified he also must be, not knowing if Luigi had been hurt, or if he was even still alive.

He must be remembering the last interaction he had with him, wondering if that would be the last memory he would ever have of his little brother. As well as his father disapproving words:

“And the worst part? You're bringing your brother down with you.”

#super mario bros spoilers #smb spoilers #Mario and Luigi #angst #brotherly feels #Mario is a good brother #look at his face #he’s so worried #he loves his little brother so much #he’s on the verge of tears #wish this scene had been longer #Mario #Luigi

[elitadream]

Mario was always a knight at heart. 🤺😊❤️   

(Now including Peach’s side!^^)

#Mario #Luigi #Mareach #I've been wanting to draw them as kids for such a long time omg #I couldn't resist any longer 😭 #just a little scene I kept thinking about and HAD to draw #what if Mario had always secretly wished for this? :3 #a chance to protect and save a lovely lady 💖 #Who knows?^^ #headcanons #Super Mario Bros #fanart

[petricorah]

Sokka was used to the cold.

He’d spent his whole life in it. He was born into frigid and bitter temperatures. He was used to breathing burning crisp air into his lungs, used to walking when he could barely feel his feet, used to sleeping surrounded by ice, and used to the coldness that struck deep into his heart while staring out over the empty tundra. He loved it. Just the feel of winter winds whipping through his hair made his spirits soar, smiling despite the pain of icy gales against his teeth.

And then.

He melted, slowly. Traveling the world had been quite the culture shock, and he had taken some time to adjust to no longer being surrounded by snow, but he grew to love the pleasant lukewarm air and the ability to wear short sleeves. But the firebender was another thing entirely.

Being close to Zuko was as uncomfortable it was so hot. The man’s very skin was a furnace that radiated heat, and somehow, it made Sokka’s own cheeks and chest burn for reasons he didn’t understand for years. But he got used to it. Despite how stubborn he was, Sokka was good at adapting. He was still from the water tribe, after all. Soon, the heat pulsing off of Zuko as they brushed shoulders or fought side by side wasn’t unnatural. It became welcome, especially…

Well. It was purely strategic to put their sleeping bags side by side, because once the campfire died down, laying by Zuko with their shoulders almost touching was the only way to stave off the brisk night air.  

He wasn’t sure when it changed, when the embers of their friendship sparked into something more. They’d travelled the world together, trying to rebuild the world ravaged by the Fire Nation. Zuko refused to stay behind a desk, and Sokka refused to let him go at it alone. And slowly but surely, Sokka forgot what it was like to be cold. What it was like to not have Zuko by his side, to feel his warmth surround him like he was the center of a fire, the comforting lull of heat as he hugged him, that fiery, caring temper, and blazing hot fingers interlaced with his own.

And now, he was back in the Southern Water Tribe.

Alone.

And he has never felt so painfully…cold.

#uhmmmmmmmm no thoughts on this other than i wish i had time to do an in-scene longer fic of this but. anyway have this cringy poetry #zukka fic #myfic #lately been thinking about doing a longer atla fix. i need to get their voices down more but i feel like if i do a nano-type just write #a lot! it could be fun #notmyart

[picturejasper20]

For all the mess that is Phantom Planet, there is something i really like about it and that is the fate of Vlad Masters when he tries to turn the asteroid intangible.

What i'm refering to is the conversation that Vlad has with Jack before leaving the spaceship, which is pretty well written in contrast to the rest of the episode.

Jack: ¨How could you hold the world hostage like that Vladdie? And after the good fortune you've had in your life.¨

Vlad: ¨Good fortune?! You infect me with ghost DNA then steal the love of my life and you call that good fortune?¨

Jack: ¨I infected you? You mean…¨

Vlad: Yes fool! It was your bumbling that made me what I am today!

There are plenty of aspects that i like about this conversation, but the part that gets me is ¨It was your bumbling that made me what I am today!¨.

Because that's basically who is Vlad at his core. He blames his bad actions on the accident and Jack. He doesn't see himself as a villain. He believes that his justified in his own actions because of his own victimization, in the sense he is never at fault of why others leave him or why things go wrong for him, it always someone else's fault, or Jack's.

Vlad's villain/antagonist arc in the main series is bit by bit loosing everyone that cares about him, either because he pushes them away or they find out what type of person he truly is but he never realizes that he is the reason this happens. He is so absorbed in his own delusion that he can't see what he is doing wrong. In result he ends up more frustrated that he already was, and thus more alone.

When Jack tries to explain to Vlad that he didn't intend to hurt him and what happened was an accident there is a moment that Vlad... stops walking, turns around and listens to what Jack is telling him.

It is interesting because it is almost like there is a part of him that wants to know what Jack has to say, even if moments later he doesn't care about that.

Jack: I never meant to hurt you. What happened was an accident. I'm your friend, Vladdie. I've always been your friend. 

Sadly for Jack, he finds out that ¨his friend¨ has become a very different person from the one he knew back in college.

Vlad: I'll remember that when I steal Maddie from you and make her my queen!

Which leaves Jack rightfully devastated that he has been friends with someone who was lying to him all this time.

Vlad flies to the asteroid and finds out that he can't touch it because it is made out of ectoranium, a sustance that ghosts can't touch and get hurt by it.

Then he realizes how screwed up he is because 1) The Earth is really doomed since he can't make the asteroid intangible and 2) he revealed his own ghost identity to the whole world and he ¨will be forever hunted¨.

Vlad: Ecto-ranium? Then I can never touch it. No ghost can. That means…the Earth is doomed. And even if it wasn't I could never go back. I've revealed…my true self. I'll be forever hunted.

Seeing that he is in real trouble he happens to ask Jack for help, minutes after he revealed what type of person he is to him, leading to one of my favourite exchanges in the series:

Vlad: Jack, you have to help me. You wouldn't turn your back on an old friend, would you?

Jack: An old friend? No. You? Yes.

And just like that Jack punches the fire jets control and leaves Vlad stranded in the middle of space, almost as a final ¨screw you¨ to his ¨best friend¨.

Desperately Vlad calls out for Jack's name only that this time there isn't anyone to answer him back. That is the moment Vlad realizes that he finds himself truly alone now, that he ended up pushing away the person who cared about him the most and that everyone on Earth hates him now. Or as he says it in ¨A Glitch In Time¨ novel: He has nothing to return to.

Then he flies away, not having the courage to get to see the Earth getting destroyed because of the asteroid.

I personally like this a lot because Vlad wasn't defeated in a epic battle, put behind bars or anything of that stuff. He was ¨defeated¨ by pushing away someone when he needed his help the most, in a sort of karmatic way.

Due to his obsession with controlling everyone and forcing people to ¨love¨ him he ended up in the way he hated the most and tried avoiding all this time: Completely alone, with no one that wants him around.

And to me, that's a satisfying way to end his arc in the main series since, again, his arc wasn't about him taking over the world or the Ghost Zone. It was about the way he treated others and how his obsession with power drove everyone away.

What it is more, i think it is one of the scenarios that makes the most sense to me for the development he gets in ¨A Glitch in Time¨ because he has to lose everything or being shown that his actions wouldn't get him what he was trying to achieve.

#danny phantom #vlad plasmius #jack fenton #phantom planet #I wished this scene could have been way longer #Because it is a very cathartic moment #Tbh this scenario could have been applied in any other type of plot #That involves just Vlad...losing the last thing to a real friend he had

[lesbiradshaw]

liam doesn’t remember theo helping hold him back from nolan. he doesn’t remember theo repeatedly keeping him from doing something he’d regret. he doesn’t remember theo carrying him to the truck and placing him in the passenger seat. he doesn’t remember theo wiping the blood from his knuckles before starting to drive. all he remembers is waking up to theo smiling at him softer than he ever has before and doing his best to offer him comfort.

#wish i was normal an them but here we are #do yk how hard it had to have been for THEO RAEKEN to figure out how to be nice/kind without having it come off as a manipulation tactic #like 😭 #the tone he takes at the zoo while asking if liam is ok and the genuine concern when he tries to offer explanations so liam wont have to #when ur trying to bare ur souls to one another but still cant admit you no longer hate each others guts #triggers ​car scene will remain in my mind forever like there are many layers here guys #thiam #theo raeken/liam dunbar #theo raeken x liam dunbar #theo/liam #theo x liam #6.16 triggers #teen wolf

[kessilover]

The day after : a season 3 Mergana AU

#mergana #merlinedits #katie mcgrath #colin morgan #frontier #merlin #morgana #bbc morgause #bbcmerlin #mine #aus #another title could be how these two will never be happy #i had a different version in my mind but this one seemed the most logical #I wish there more of the bed scene with katie in frontier #this could have been longer #mmau

[ruledbytheseasons]

#mysterious skin #does wendy get a last name i honestly cant remember #its probably in the novel #michelle trachtenberg #filmedit #gregg araki #all of wendys looks go so hard i wish some of her scenes had been longer :-(

[writing-good-vibes]

Summer requests! 28. Polaroid photos! Charles Lee Ray. Pretty please!!! I know you are going to nail this.

bex, my love 💕 thank you for requesting !! i think this is my first request for you ?? so i tried to go hard af,, it's been a while but chucky is always my ride or die 🙌🔪 WARNING for mentioned/implied/mild smut and for chucky being shady (specific tw in notes, as it is a spoiler of sorts)

[☀ requests for summer prompts are still open, and will be all month ☀]

charles lee ray (polaroid photos)

Charles Ray was nothing if not obsessive.

Obsessed with ritual, with knowledge, with control. Single minded at worst and devoted at best. And right now, you couldn't quite tell which.

After a long, hot summer of fun -- because being with Chucky was fun, the most fun you'd had in a long, long time -- it was then that the rose tinted shades came off.

You were no stranger to a camera. Chucky had had a fixation on taking porno photos (or "erotica" as he had once defended it to you) for as long as you'd been sleeping with him.

He kept the stack of polaroids in a draw, bringing them out to flick through when he was in the mood. Dozens of photos of you, naked and sweating. Blurry shots where you moaned or writhed at the wrong (or right) moment. You looked up at him with wet eyes, lips around his cock. You posed, tastefully in underwear he bought (or stole, you didn't like to ask) for, before it was ripped from your body.

At first you didn't know what to make of it, when he pulled away, just on the precipice of your climax and went, "Smile for the camera, doll." But now you were used to it, used to the way he framed a shot or watched you, closely, for just the right expression.

These photos were different though. Kept tucked away in an envelope at the back of his bedside cabinet. These ones were something else entirely.

You'd met Chucky just as the dampness of spring was turning to the dryness of summer, as the days grew longer and the hot prickling of your skin made it easy to succumb to the heat between your thighs.

These pictures -- the ones he kept at the back of a drawer like a dirty fucking secret -- were downright ordinary. You were crossing the street, unlocking your front door with an armful of groceries, waiting on the platform for the tram, smoking outside the bar closest to your apartment where you spent maybe too many night. Candid photos. Photos where you weren't smiling, not because of any overt sadness but because you were simply going about your day.

In all of them you were wrapped in your coat, the breath visible at your lips. Each photo captured not only you but the bleak sharpness of Chicago's winter. Winter.

Your summer romance was much more than that. At least, it was for Chucky.

Charles Ray was nothing if not obsessive.

#charles lee ray #charles lee ray x reader #child's play 1988 #bex !! at last i post this !! #i hope you enjoy !! #i wish it was longer but a few of my summer prompts have been a bit short and abstract this season #thank you so much for requesting !! and i gotta give back because you do us all a service with your own work !! 💗 #behind the scenes: i had a whole other fic that i scrapped last minute and wrote this instead lol #tw stalking #ahhh only mild stalking and its more implied than anything #i wrote so many soft polaroid request this season the spirit compelled me to make chucky a creep #he deserves it though

[yourqueenb]

I remember you saying that MAH would've been better as a short slasher, so are there any other books that you think would also have been improved if they were significantly shorter (like if they cut out a lot of filler chapters/scenes)? Or for that matter, are there books that you think would've been better if they were longer than the usual 16-18ish chapters that Choices usually does (to make the story feel better developed and less rushed)?

Bachelorette Party definitely would’ve been better as a mini book instead of a regular length one. And I’m really not sure why that wasn’t something they considered. There was no reason for it to go on as long as it did, especially because it was neither entertaining nor funny. It was just really stupid imo. Courtney was annoying as hell, and her smiling sprite was terrifying. And I couldn’t stand Aisha and that damn briefcase. IIRC, that was the main reason the story dragged on for so long. The best thing to come out of that book was Ash Tanaka, but I feel like people forget about him because he was unlucky enough to be a part of BP.

Witness and MTFL both had the issue of an unlikeable MC. But I feel like that issue wouldn’t have been so pronounced if both books were shorter as well. All Witness MC and Cassian did was screw and argue for like 25 chapters. And they literally had MTFL MC wait until the 100th damn chapter to decide who she wanted to be with. Not to mention that god-awful first person narration along the way.

I think this last one is controversial, but Immortal Desires was also far too long. It just dragged week after week because the first 9 or 10 chapters were the same thing over and over again. Hang out with Cas. Hang out with Gabe. Oh no, our Mom’s sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong so we have to stand trial in front of the council again! Rinse and repeat 🙄 If they hadn’t wasted so much time on all of that, the ending wouldn’t have been so rushed and awkward now that they’ve decided to make a book 2

#choices #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices app #choices ask #maybe ID would’ve been more bearable if I had spent diamonds on it #but I had absolutely zero motivation to because of how boring the base story was #I liked Gabe as an LI but not enough to wanna get extra scenes with him #and I wasn’t interested in making MC stronger through the talismans #all of this said though I still don’t think I personally would’ve enjoyed any of these books even if they were shorter #bc they had more issues that just length #anyway though I don’t think any of PB’s books would necessarily benefit from being longer #of course there are books that I wish had gotten sequels but that’s different #I think there are lots that are at the right length #they should’ve just used certain chapters for character/plot development instead of filler if that makes sense #so basically instead of removing chapters altogether just change the content of them

[eyes1nthewoods]

watched nimona. it was ok.

#(i'm very mean in the tags sorry :() #i havent seen the comic so my criticism is purely of the movie. #idk just kind of a mid kids movie. balister is very cute i liked him. #nimona......i want to like her but idk. i think her backstory should've had more attention put towards it. more hints about it #instead of the really abrupt scene near the end that explains everything. that was stupid. #(honestly better yet don't show anything have a big heartfelt outburst where she half explains what happens #(gross crying optional but preferred) #and leaves the rest to the audiences imagination. maybe a scene with voiceover that doesn't quite reveal everything) #the setting is pretty cool. story didn't make much sense to me. #''the wall is there to protect us against monsters!!'' but there's literally only one monster and it's nimona. #which could have been ok if the movie had been...better written i guess?? #like do the guards just sit around doing nothing. is it a police state?? i mean obviously they're cops but. they don't do anything. #they aren't even shown to be especially bad or anything just incredibly incompetent #uhhh the romance is cute. it's nice. i wish it was more fraught and bitter. #the passage of time isn't clear it seems like it happens over the course of like a day??? #balister learning to accept nimona was clumsy and rushed #the message of the film is nice. would be better if the movie was good. #i think the movie could've been longer and it would've fixed most of these things #i REALLY liked the animation though. the eyes being permanantly dilated was ehhh but forgivable on account of balister being very cute.

[hella1975]

guys i have my trial shift tomorrow and ive never had it before when im actually bothered about the job in a specific way like in the past it's always been about GETTING a job and not really giving a toss where im working so long as im working but this is a place i actually really really want to work and will bummed if i dont get. like it's right by the river and it's a really upmarket bar kind of scene so hopefully i might even get proper training in that area and it'll be my first non-minimum wage job AND i'll get tips (every other job i've had i dont even SEE my tips bc the managers take it even if it's given directly to me) and the hours will be super good and it's fast-paced and yeah. im not actually stressed so much bc a trial shift is a trial shift and yeah it's hard getting used to a new place but i can waitress in my sleep but i just reallyyyyyyyy want the job

#do NOT get me started on the tip thing my god #because basically one thing about me is that my customer service is IMPECCABLE #idk what it is idk if it's just bc my mum comes from a waitressing background and basically trained me up behind the scenes #or if im just naturally good at it but i can really switch it on for customers #the only time i start slipping is when customers are rude but luckily the jobs ive had so far kind of let me get away with that #bc they hated rude customers as much as me and kinda used my temper as their own buffer to get the customers to fuck off lol #but when customers are behaving i absolute SHINE like im being so arrogant about this bc i know for a fact im good at it #like they used to purposely put me on till/front of house bc i had the best customer service out of all of them #including the middle-aged workers who'd been there longer #and my fave barista once told me that he did a little experiment and compared how many tips we got when i was working #vs when i was away at uni and it was actually RIDICULOUS how much more tips i got us #and you know what? my boss would split the tips every few months (whenever he remembered) and he'd weight them #depending on who did what jobs. despite tips being PURELY bc of customer service and nothing to do with jobs #so the chef who could barely grunt at people would get a bigger share of the tips i almost singlehandedly earnt us than i did #so yeah i know for a fact this place does it differently bc they're a lot more professional #and also ive been going there for years now it's just genuinely a really nice place #wish me luck besties #hella slaves to capitalism

[natpetersoncore]

damn that went fast. maybe it’s nit picky but that episode felt so much faster paced than any other. and like there was SUCH a sudden leap between joel and ellie’s friendliness between the last time they weren’t under immediate threat of death and this. and this is definitely nit picking but i wish they had left the water scene where ellie almost drowns before the fireflys instead. still liked the ep tho!

#tlou #tlou spoilers #it just felt so sudden tho #like ‘oh hey btw here’s the ends lol bye’ #wish the hospital scene had been just a liiiiitle longer too #maybe a few extra shots of joel’s aftermath or smth #loved the score tho that was still amazing #and the last shot on abby’s dad #joel you have no idea the consequences of your actions #anyways

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Asia Kate Dillon as Lucifer again in Opus For All, Opus 4, Our Better Angels

#call this Confusing Compromise for all...focusing on shots of akd & adding text. these are sequential but not continuous moments lol #i.e. hope it's disjointed enough / it is clear there's other shots & more dialogue b/w these #might be possible to fit this whole video into one gifset lol. make them smaller; longer; combine some side by side into one... #just wanna give a lil taste of that dialogue / enhance visuals with Some context. evocative enough i hope #asia kate dillon #lucifer our better angels #could've put a caption like [resolving heavenly chord] lol if i knew what chord it is exactly...not nearly knowledgable enough to guess #the [ending on that chord and cutting away just as lucifer looks like they're about to cry]....chefs? kiss #there's just so much to dig into here and then start speculating about in your own continued story for it lol so fun truly #like i said: boy i love when the devil is a dynamic character atheistic satanism style i.e. exploring the / A human experience through them #and like i said b/w the mysteries lucifer and this lucifer we can have it all / cover so much ground w/akd lucifers.... #the other night i think i had a dream that it was just a fun fact they'd also been lucifer some third time lmao...i wish #speaking of wishing one of these gifs is 9.9 mb and i'm just making it tumblr's problem. so i hope it actually works #sooo embarrassing if it's frozen on the first frame and i gotta fix it lol. don't look at me...but tell me fr if i don't notice #potentially tricky b/c it's like ''is it just my slowass connection On My End or is the gif broken'' like added layer of mystery #when sometimes even if you have a fine connection you gotta ask the audience like how's it look on your end... #jlsdf JUST noticed they're sitting by that tag ft. 666 #the new satanic symbol? backwards Cool S. more on that in the next post #yeah someone might get stuck trying to decipher this as though it's walking us continuously through a scene lol but alas. c'est la vie

[pagesofkenna]

Spenser is such a breath of fresh air on Candela Obscura, I'm go glad he got to GM this season. I don't have as much time to watch actual plays as I would like so this past year has been just Critical Role and Dimension 20 and while there are a variety of GMs these shows rotate through Spenser's the first actually fully new-to-me GM I've seen in a while. and I'm really enjoying how he's running these games

#critdice #more GMs please #love getting introduced to new players watching new shows but gmings ROCKS and I wanna see how more GMs play #spenser's clearly coming from the school of 'direct the game like you're drafting a tv episode' and it works SO well for this game #matt does that as well kinda but... he gets so into the weeds on describing things and trying to dazzle with his scene setting #and he's been gming nonstop for SO long that all his descriptions are pretty rote and repetitious now #no offense - i really just wish he'd had a longer break tbh. but also GMing rocks so i get it if he just wanted to jump back in lol #conversely spenser is setting the scene and then moving through the scene dynamic way its *chefs kiss* #part of that is probably that the cold opens are pre-drafted so it's not all improvised but even in improved scenes #he doesn't let one thing hog the shot for too long he moves on to consequences and responses. its very good

[rue-bennett]

I think one of the most interesting unexplored aspects of Sharp Objects is Wind Gap’s racism, we know that the town holds a confederate pride day annually but I think Gayla Adora’s housekeeper is a interesting too cause even tho it’s set in the present it’s kinda of jarring to see her in her crisp uniform as if time and progress froze back to 1946 and even tho she has a couple of scenes with Camille I wish she had more.

Yeah I think that's very much the intention and would've definitely been interesting to explore more.

#i'm not sure if that was camille's story i mean it would've been if she'd stayed there longer #but agreed wish we had more scenes w her. a very very interesting character #asks #anonymous

[aromantic-pantyanarchy]

It's me. I'm the cis, heterosexual, aromantic man. I will never marry, I will never be married, I will grow into middle age and elder age and I will die unmarried. I will be forced to support a household of myself on only my wages alone for the rest of my life. I will be asked about women and marriage and children by my family for the rest of my life (or men, the progressive ones might say). I may not ever come out to them. I feel like I burned my coming out on something stupid. I don't want to explain it. I don't want to run them through the definitions and intricacies. I don't want the acceptance without understanding, placating me with ceased questions and poor explanations to other, drunk adults.

I like my hair to be long, I spent a year with it dyed a golden blonde with dark roots because I like the trashy party girl aesthetic. I want to dye it again with pink tips. I like painting my nails, black and blue are my favorite colors. I like wearing chokers. I also like wearing baggy jeans and ratty hoodies. I like having stubble. I like having chest hair. I like having a square jaw and broad shoulders. I wish I had a flatter stomach and a thinner profile frame. I don't know what this makes me, perhaps this is something no more GNC than Machine Gun Kelly. I think about this a lot, how queer my appearance truly is. I should think about it less. I have thought long and hard about if I could be trans or if I could be non-binary or if I could be genderqueer and the conclusion I ultimately came to is that I most enjoy being a man open to whatever self-expression I want.

I don't date, but I've thought about it. I would like to meet people, and I would like to have sex with them. But I don't want to hurt them. I fear if I explain what I am beforehand it'll scare them away. I fear if I explain after they'll feel manipulated or abused. I don't know how many people in the dating scene want what I want. I fear my own lack of experience will make me a bad lay, an embarrassing story to tell to confidants in hindsight. I fear my own virginity, a boundary to those I wish to be like. All of these fears are baseless, as I've not been able to even begin a single relationship in my life. Despite this I still heavily identify with terms like "slut" and "manwhore" and "thot" because my interests lay so deeply within casual sex, sex without great intimacy or emotion. This may be some form of stolen valor. I hope the true sluts are not too mad at me.

I made this blog several years ago because a mutual of mine reblogged memes making fun of aro and ace people, making fun of the concept of aphobia, and in addition well known aphobes. I didn't feel comfortable talking about aro stuff on my main blog, for as little as I talk about it. Living through the ace discourse of the 2016 era has largely caused me to cringe in embarrassment any time I am forced to discuss my orientation with people who aren't aro or ace themselves. I no longer follow this person. I unfollowed many people I was mutuals with from that time, most of them because they posted too often about how much they hated men and I didn't want to see that, some because our interests simply drifted too far apart, only one for explicit aphobia reasons. (Also one because they became a "both sides are bad, any vote is wasted" libertarian, but that's unrelated.)

I guess at this point I don't care deeply about what strangers on the internet think of me. If a trusted friend told me that they don't think I'm truly queer that may hurt. But I am going to continue to use the word for myself. I take up no resources. I go to events that are open to me. If an event was not open to me, I think I'd not want to go anyways. I am not a hypothetical, I am not a strawman, I am a person with lived experiences both within and exterior to the queer community. If you hate me, I will permit you to continue to do so. But ultimately, I am who I am, I cannot change these facts, and I would not choose to do so even if I could.

#aromantic #aro #aro positivity #reference to aphobia