yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

Nine's deterioration while using the Paradox Prism

🪞 Fallen angel... who do you see staring back from the Mirror? 🪞

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Galacta Knight and my personal interpretation of his Mirror World counterpart. GK hovers above facing slightly to our left, his feathery wings spread wide, shaded in lilac and tipped with gilded wing talons, a swallow-like tail visible. He holds his shield forward in his left hand (our right) and his lance to the side in his right (our left), a single magenta eye leering at the viewer through the visor of his mask. A halo of heart spears floats and shines angelically behind his horns. Below him, M!GK hovers in the same pose but flipped horizontally and without the halo. Visually, M!GK has mostly the same features as GK, with his color palette being darker and less saturated (dusty purple body, dark gray armor, gray mask, maroon lance, rose-gold horns and weapons accents). His eyes are not visible in the shadow of his mask, but there are signs of erosion running down the metal surface in rusty orange lines, almost like tear tracks. Instead of feathery wings, M!GK has wings composed of jagged shards of pink crystal, glittering and lit from within by a luminous glow. A few pale feathers can still be seen peeking out from his back. END ID.)

Hey, so... what if... I went a little insane for a minute? What if I just... concepted a character... for the sequel... to an AU... I've told no one about... and haven't even finished writing yet? What if I then... pulled the salt shaker labeled "ANGST" out of the pantry and just... unscrewed the cap all over this poor lad? Oh, and Galacta Knight's here, too, I guess.

Sketch started 02/21/24, render started 03/01/24, finished 03/06/24.

he need some mim XD (i'll maybe continue this meme later lol)

Welcome Home belongs to partycoffin Reboot!Wally and the Reboot AU belong to @bloodrediscream Audio from Snapscube

I know I've made my stance on the issue qUITE apparent. But just to reiterate

and what say you jaybird !!! does it rain in southern california ?

The renfield hyperfixation Is going so strong I can't stop drawing him In paint

FROZEN

Death of Zargothrax

O.w.

Another one, right now it belongs to oir mighty wizard. As we know, je was captured manny times into the tomb of Frozen liquid ice. But what if.... He actually died there...?

So in the King merc au, avm season 3 happened before now, so the color gang all met King before? Just wanted to clarify

So when Chosen got Second to fight against the mercs, Second recognized King, right? Wonder what they thought about that

yep! they all know King already, and i imagine that season 3 happened sometime between ava 4 and 5 since there's a big gap that wasn't really defined with anything happening, at least in this au because i just bend the timelines to whatever fits best at the time lol

by the time that ava 6 began, King was on pretty good terms with them in this au; he's doing better and even though he usually only visits the computer when Purple drags him along, he's been on much better terms with everyone.

(drawing from a little while ago)

that's why Second Coming is so majorly freaked out by him initially, to be honest. King HAS had a genuine change of heart, but seeing him with the command block staff definitely makes it look like he's just turned on them.

King tries his best to explain but there's not really an opportunity to do so until after SC has already been captured by Agent.

King more or less tries to make it as painless as he possibly can, mostly by keeping SC still... but because of him avoiding fighting and debuffing SC instead, Chosen starts targeting them (because if SC is stopped, there's no way either of them could get out of this--)

If it wasn't for Agent, King wouldn't be so worried about it-- but I think that when he sees the Glitch Gun, he's IMMEDIATELY reminded of how painful it was to be in the destruction beam of the Minecraft² staff.

gyllenchains: the question was what would he want to see for billy. i didn’t record the other part but he said billy had to die. so i’m gonna walk into traffic

dacre @ stranger con, chicago (9th oct 22)

Society if Dean had more than one (1) haircut for 15 years

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how does iv do it

I think if you are the sort of person with Big Feelings when it comes to a certain piece of media (or just in general) you may have a tendency to read every post someone makes - and even posts they simply reblog - and assume they also have Big Feelings about it. Assume they have some sort of... dark agenda, are attempting to stir up drama, however you wanna frame it. The truth is, a lot of the time, people post things with very little feeling, and sometimes without much thought.