(Mostly) Harumi centric doodle page for a friend

New Dad™ Astarion who insists he has to put on his nicest outfit when Tav/Durge goes into labor because he “has to make a good first impression.”

being a despair sisters stan in the danganronpa fandom is like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by a plane

so ... demons coming right after elegy, in the middle of the cancer arc is a crazy choice and i know it means something. please share all your big brain thoughts on mulder & demons?

well...it's kind of like...in elegy, they're being haunted by the future (omens of scully's impending death), in demons, they're haunted by the past (visions from before samantha disappeared). both are highly metaphorical, and both are intrusive, even though he sought out the second. the first is too much. the second isn't enough. and after elegy it's becoming clear that...nothing will be enough. she is so close to death that she can see it. she can't...hide it from him, anymore. she's been dying for a long time. and she doesn't make him face it. she never has that moment where she tells him to just get over it. she never has that moment where she tells him to just accept it, stop avoiding it. she goes to all of her appointments alone. she bleeds alone. even in elegy when they almost argue over it, she tells him that she is fine, and then she goes outside and cries in her car.

but she's not fine, she's so close to death that she can see it, and he knows that. he's so eternally aware. mulder's fatal flaw is that he can see the world, he understands every underlying system, he knows people and how they think. and when he says "i refuse to believe that," he knows that doesn't make it go away. in elegy, he tells her that he's afraid, and she tells him that she's fine. it is a system established long before this particular death sentence.

in the script notes for the last scene of never again, it is remarked that: “if it were ever going to happen, it would be now. as they maintain the silence.”

the way i see it, never again is when they knew. they are not escaping each other. they are dying together. you are coming down with me. (hand in unlovable hand). and then, in the very next episode, comes a diagnosis. they are dying together. and they are dying now. silence is maintained.

so what does she do, after her diagnosis? she buys a journal, and she writes. she writes him letter after letter after letter. begging forgiveness. begging grace. begging courage.

the page that he found, that he read, this is what it said:

“mulder, i feel you close, though i know that you are now pursuing your own path. for that i am grateful- more than i could ever express. i need to know you’re out there if i am ever to see through this.”

i need to know you’re out there. a few months later, in demons, a gun to his chin on the floor of his childhood home, does she feel that he’ll be “out there”? she finds out she doesn’t have much longer to live, maybe weeks, in the next episode, and she doesn’t tell him. she maintains silence.

there’s so much discourse over the choices that mulder makes in demons…it was selfish, it was stupid, it was confusing…i see people ask all the time why he would willingly do something that causes everyone to kill themselves. the answer, of course, is that mulder wants to kill himself. that’s not new, we all watched pusher. (scully watched too). in redux it’s revealed that the “gethsemane” of the episode directly following demons is not scully’s inevitable and closely impending death, it’s mulder alone in his apartment with a gun.

i’m really uninterested in attempting to moralize these decisions…what’s “selfish” at the end of the world? i think demons makes people uncomfortable. to watch a dying woman care for her reckless partner. i also think that’s…the point.

demons is desperate. there’s an obvious desperation in mulder, of course, but also in scully.

throughout season four, we’re watching scully die. she’s getting smaller. she’s getting weaker. she’s getting sicker. but as it progresses, scully is realizing that mulder is dying too. and it all culminates in demons. and what can she do but be afraid? what can she do but get down on the ground and hold him? what can she do but write about what she fears will happen to him? she won’t be there.

nothing will ever be enough after elegy. and there’s nothing that he can do that’s enough. he can’t save her (so he thinks). and…he can’t solve the quest before she dies. he can’t give her the answers that she’s dying for. demons to me is such a last ditch effort. such a hail mary. she deserved to know the capital t Truth, before she’s gone. and i think they both know that maybe, when she is gone, it will never be found.

badwolf/hood sisters headcanons !!

- ramona HATES rollercoasters and physically cannot go on them while cerise absolutely lives for them

- cerise is a momma’s girl to her very core. as a kid she had to be yanked from her mother’s arm, you would not catch her more than ten feet away from her mama

- ramona’s a gamer :|

- they scream at each other all the time; it is physically impossible to have them in the same room without them insulting each other every ten minutes

- that being said after they fight ramona goes into cerises room and asks if she wants to get food

- they bully each other for who the other has a crush on

- they both CANNOT cook (they’ve set multiple fires off and red has banned them from the kitchen)

- ramona was shocked to find out that raven and cerise weren’t dating

- “cerise i think she likes you” “she has a bf” “you mean she’s dating a man??🤨”

- (edit) THEY WERE LEASH KIDS

oh man what’s really funny about reading that webtoon is that it’s really not a markably different experience than most movies for me. Human figure (features redacted as a literary device) and Any One Of Seven Conventionally Attractive Men are the EXACT same amount of discernible for me. Possibly that’s. not usual.

anyways the blonde one. I’ve seen him twice and I do NOT like him.

i dont actually believe this because i know that humans are multifaceted nuanced beings who are capable of both great intellect and lapses in judgement, but posts like this make me think you people are genuinely too stupid to listen to taylor swift. like come on don’t be an idiot, in context the line is in a song about dating in high school, it’s supposed to be a little ironic and funny.

same with this line it’s in a song about how nostalgia is poison and how we always want to escape the moment we’re in bc we ignorantly forget that all of human history has pain and violence it literally comes before the line “everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now/seems like it was never even fun back then/nostalgia is a mind's trick/if I'd been there, I'd hate it” like this is either the most bad faith reading of these lines possible or you need to go back to 6th grade english class

Why didn’t we get an episode about Lupin trying to steal one of those hidden picture paintings but only Jigen and Goemon can see the hidden picture and Lupin’s so pissed he can’t that he fucks up trying to steal it

— bodyguard mikasa’s apartment aesthetic!

(clearly i’m having a lot of fun doing these lol)

Aromau and Amber the one and only. The first girl failure to ever walk this earth. I love her with all my heart.

ok requests for characters are still open but in the meantime I drew Bebe 💖

some of the characters that aren’t in tfbw are based heavily off of phone destroyer, but i just love medusa Bebe so much, i had to

anyway she’s a lone supervillain called Medusa (i’ll think of something more creative later and edit the post) and a pretty dangerous one too when she wants to be. The main team of heroes (Craig and the gang) don’t go up against her much, but she often faces off against Call Girl. Call Girl is one of very few listeners heroes, and is one of even fewer who works alone.

Bebe knows her best friend Wendy is Call Girl, but when Wendy got her hero job, she didn’t see Bebe as often anymore, hence why she became a supervillain: to spend more time with Wendy. Also because Bebe is madly in love with Wendy but refuses to actively confess.

Wendy is like 70% sure that Bebe is the supervillain that she keeps fighting. After all, Medusa only commits crimes when Wendy is on patrol, and only specifically where she’s patrolling that day. It’s not subtle. Plus, Medusa sounds a lot like Bebe. The only thing keeping Wendy from finding out is that Bebe can hide her snake hair, snake eyes, and scales when in a civilian form and Wendy doesn’t want to believe her bestie is a supervillain.

Mostly it’s just them fighting and Bebe occasionally flirting. They have a very Lego Joker/Batman type beat.

Hermione cries when she finally moves out of Grimmauld Place, after the war, into her own home.

“I can’t believe I’m gonna have to find a new couple to cockblock.” she sobs and Harry’s eyebrows shot up as Ron groaned.

“What—“

“I have already told you this a million times! The beds are just too big! It’s totally platonic!”

“Uh, yeah, total friend cuddles,” Harry mutters quietly a ‘friend snogging, too, I guess’ but it goes unheard.

Extremely cursed au idea: John dies when Sam & Dean are still kids, and Azazel just happened to be checking in on them around this time and well. I guess now he’s got to raise them.

some ccs are just straight up nuts there’s no other explanation

nothing more morally reprehensible than a cleric (checks notes) using the key features of their class…? surely that can’t be where we are regarding analysis of character actions in cr at this point.

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The Sun and The Void

Venezuelan inspired high fantasy

follows a young outcast swordswoman taken in by her grandmother, the dark sorceress for a noble family, who relies on the magic to keep her alive after being attacked by monstrous creatures

and a young noblewoman who’s the shame of her family because of her mixed heritage and desire to use magic

both are manipulated by those with more power than them into a plot to free an ancient evil god

mineral based magic, politics, nonhuman MCs