LOOOK, LOOK WHAT MY MOTHER MADE FROM CAKE. AAAAAAAAAA-

Taylor on the red carpet

Video credit: @/11份面包 (cuz I was so busy screaming over his outfit that I missed it myself 😂)

THE LAST TWO BRACKETS OF THE @ultimate-submas-tournament RUNNINGS!!

well competitors, you have made it thus far! Can you hold your standings? Can you hold on to your principle? Will you go on to victory or defeat? We shall find out together!

ALL ABOARD!!!

[Image description: Panels from special episode 17 of the Natsume's Book of Friends manga. Sumi tells Natori, both out of frame, "There's a guest here for you." Natori: "A guest..."? Sumi: "Yes, a student." The door opens on a smiling Matoba, who says, "Hello, Shuichi." Natori stares at him, wide-eyed, and says, "Matoba...?!" Matoba's face falls and he says, "Huh...? You thought it was someone else?" Natori: "No...but why are you here? Won't there be a scandal if someone sees you associating with a fallen exorcist family like us?" /end ID]

[ID: Another panel from the same chapter. Natori looks down and says, "His name is Haruomi Tomita...He's a nice, cheerful guy. But I don't really know him..." Matoba watches him and says, "I see..." Suddenly, he smacks a talisman against Natori's forehead. Natori says, "OW!" /end ID]

matoba: i see you are thinking about people who aren't me. why is that

reread the rest thus far of lackadaisy and there's the both v easy & difficult task of gathering a shit ton but only a shit ton of excerpts (like every single page is a highlight i'm not exaggerating)

and every single element is superlative and the way it all only becomes More So....already mentioned the way the like smooth gradient shading made the successful evocation of 3D Shapes more noticeable, along w/the consistent geometries of character design & details in fabric folds; the way Lighting & Coloring only goes on to become more prominent elements only enhances that further. the compositions, backgrounds, pacing, angles....everything is so dynamic & expressive, such as including the expressions which you know i also Love / absorbed

going "hell yes for people to discover this superlative comic" then having to occasionally refresh past site traffic overloaded server errors like "nooo" but actually yes

whilest clapping & cheering for the fun of everyone who's been here a minute. My God the invigorating reward when again i started reading in '07 & the concept of rocky & freckle on a "proper" run had only manifested via fun official bonus art, then a literal decade later as it was actually happening in the comic like screeeeaammm i can feel it coming in the air tonight oh lord etc....i've loved following it, again, if i see another new comic page. i am going to be Enriched

i also really was right on the ball myself this time around like okay okay yep i have picked up on Everything, at least to the degree i can lmao. i love the mysteries. i love how Character Focused it is too ofc and there's no characters i'm uniterested in / dislike. you gotta point to one of them, truly, and i have been a [pointing at freckle] enjoyer these fifteen years but fr i am a connoisseur of everyone, i love that so many characters are a weird mysterious chaos element story driver in their own right. i considered mordecai more intently than ever, love his like ultra mystery (and that we leave off on him doing some detectiving even) and truly fun that like, the source of the more Immediate problems he keeps having in every damn interaction isn't the like [wow mordecai with the just diving into the hatchet murdering] factor so much as it's that he's generally like "i am just standing here" and is not nt in any way that matters and people insist on fucking with him on that front. the peak tragedy of him in a bonus comic getting bullied into having to dance with someone to Be Polite like i'm so sorry i wish you could be that ficus too. anyways intrigued with the marigold &/or mordecai mysteries including that it's like, how coincidental is it that he talks about marigold having a thorn in its side & the savoys' nickname for him is peekon = thorn. there is so much to consider, love that for us truly. and i'm rooting for mordecai & nicodeme's dynamic out here, is another conclusion....very enriched by comparing & contrasting that serafine nicodeme mordecai triumvirate with the rocky ivy freckle one, to be sure. im enriched

i'm also enriched by every footnote that's got like historical facts / research notes / [this is inaccurate for xyz prioritization but here's the disclaimer] explanations. i Love information. and everything else like i loooove this comic it's Soooo Fucking putting my hands to my temples and inhaling at length through my teeth

Tarjei Bø post race interview in German after his 2nd place 🥈 in the men's sprint at the world championships in Oberhof, 11th February 2023

Kicking my feet and twirling my hair as I read Makoto's comments whenever he inspects something. Also my god he wants to destroy the cameras so badly. LET HIM

genuinely going insane about this but AAAAAAAAAAAA the love of my life sage ( @grantsuccor ) made the prettiest icon border for me and its SOOOOO GOOD 😭💕 i'm in love with it!

about Obscurials and pre-Hogwarts Harry

this is your daily reminder that Harry could never have been an Obscurial, not because That Woman hadn’t created/retconned in the idea yet, but because of the actual definition, which is “a child who knows about their magic and tries to suppress it”.

Ariana Dumbledore knew she was a witch from the time she was able to know things. She was actively and knowingly doing magic when she was attacked, and afterward she refused to use her gift and it turned inward.

Harry Potter knew that strange things happened around him, but he did not know that it was magic, because he didn’t think magic was even real. One of the first things he says to Hagrid after The Reveal is something along the lines of “this has to be a mistake, I can’t be a wizard”. He also wasn’t trying to “suppress” any of the things happening to him, because he didn’t know he was the one causing them to happen.

so yeah, there’s no viable “Dumbledore knew Harry could have become an Obscurial when he left him with the Dursleys and still left him there” argument, because Dumbledore didn’t know the Dursleys weren’t going to tell Harry about his magic or even treat him like a member of the family (see: my 12-hour long post about this shit last month, along with The Books).

yet another big argument Dumbledore-bashers have that falls apart when you actually adhere to the story lol

Both of them hated the other's ideas, and gleefully expressed that hatred with unchecked vitriol. In retrospect, they might have started sleeping together solely out of conversational exhaustion.

Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs, 2014

Top 5 fav miraculous character go!

aww yiss here we go

felix - he's giving barbossa meets loki and i'm here for it. what does he want? what's he gonna do to get it? who does he care about? what will he do to protect them? by far the hardest character in mlb to read and yet i feel like i know him exactly.

luka - the clown. "sorry luka, i love adrien," says marinette. "that's cool," says luka, and dates her anyway. what an achievement, what a wackus thing to do. finds out lb and cn's secret identities--pretends he never saw a thing. he's the one who understands everyone except himself and it's really good. so good. there's no one more deserving of the snake miraculous.

marinette - after season 3 she became more interesting to me. talk about bearing the weight of the world on your shoulders! i liked the way she handled it, albeit imperfectly. of course the responsibility made her controlling, and of course she ended up with a panic attack. but she can admit her mistakes and strives to do better the next time which is what makes her worthy of being the protagonist.

adrien - if you look at him closely you see he has the most faith in people out of everyone in the show. he's always rooting for people to get their second chances and guiding others to be better than their worst behaviors. this is a rare quality among real people let alone secondary characters. out of all of them i think he's the truest hero <333

chloe - i miss s1-3 chloe so much. in all the fics i write, i just imagine that version of her and not the one they retconned. she was set to be such a good supporting character with the best redemption arc EVER but nah. NAHHHH. rip s1-3 chloe i'll see you in my fics.

In a very specific, feral mood thinking about the Mirror's Edge series. The visual aesthetic, soundtrack, the GAMEPLAY!! So many iconic things about it and the fact the general public has essentially forgotten about it is deeply saddening.

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Man the ending of Fiona and Cake made me cry so much but I’m so happy with what they did