I love the H German boy story bc it’s his way of saying shit without saying anything, ya know? Which is pretty much his public default. All performers have their stage bits but he coulda let that one go or just change it into amorphous holiday talk but NO! He’s going to name check his German summer boo in 2023!

[if asks had tags / does this story still piss L off lol - I love a petty moment / why would L be in Germany anyway - shouldn’t he be prepping for US tour? I can’t wait to see the big bowl of nothing L serves larries, he’s so done y’all - I do enjoy all the fan pics of him surrounded by men and hope he’s enjoying himself - he does seem to be in his Ariana revenge dress/thirst trap moment on IG, spicy]

For real, it's the EXACT same stage patter, same story, go on, girl, give us nothing cloaked in something that seems major but only has a dash something because you're in your script era! I love the concept of asks having tags, THIS would be something I'd be way more into vs. badges, I'll just answer in REAL tags lol

Love this bitch for having multiple gender filters on. He’s transmasc, he’s a woman who’s a man, she’s nothing at all

Mr. & Mrs. Folke

Just a girl who wants to be her mother’s daughter in the ways that matter

Each art is based off a different theories for the future of Cassie and the story.

What is it that the Rat Grinders actually want exactly? Or at least, what does Kipperlilly want since she's the one we know the most about.

At the top of the season it seemed like she wanted to Be The Best at school and Be Recognized in a very Tracy Flick/Sara Berry kind of way and was just going to crazy lengths to get there because this is a world where you help a dragon kidnap girls so you can be Prom Queen and life goes on. But now we know that the Rat Grinders are a part of Porter's larger plan and one of the major steps of that plan is completely abolishing Aguefort as an institution.

It's clear what Porter gets out of this. He gets to be a god and he gets to continue his imperialistic family legacy. And I would maybe get what Kipperlilly would get out of this is she were the Cleric/Paladin of the plan. She'd get to be the new god's champion, like she was gushing to Lucy. That's maybe worth something to an achievement hunting, Type A individual.

But she's not gonna get to be the best student at Aguefort if Aguefort doesn't exist anymore. Hell, Elmville won't really exist anymore. Is Porter planning on opening a new Adventuring School in Rage Elmville and she gets to be the god Principal's pet? Does she think he's gonna make things "fair" for her somehow? How? Retroactively killing her parents? Does she want to use the powers she cheesed from the easy XP he drip fed her to be a renown adventurer? Kinda hard to pull that off when everyone knows you were part of the plan that doomed the town. Maybe she thought they were going to get away with it without being implicated? Does she literally not want anything other than a chance to kill the Bad Kids? Or even pettier, to just to be stronger than Riz? Is that worth it to her? To damn the whole town just so she can say that she beat Riz once? Did she want something concrete at one point but at this point she's just lost in the sauce and doing whatever the next task is without knowing what she'd even do with a victory if she got it? Did she already get what she wanted in the free XP and now she's just paying her end of the bargain?

I'm just very unsure about what her version of a happy ending is here.

madoka magica teaches us to never lose hope even in the face of absolute and definite failure bc there is nothing worse than succumbing to despair. it teaches us that there is always a way out and that the only way to truly overcome overwhelming fear is by continuing to shine through it. there is always a way out if you just keep believing that there is one

SPIDERMAN OC!!!

i made her back when across the spiderverse came out but i hadn’t finished the art till now 😭 i wanted to make an oc based off beijing opera

her name is yang mengyao (last name first name) and i absolutely gave her the saddest backstory sorry bbg (if anyone wants to hear more abt her please ask 🤭🤭)

Franziska’s insistence on perfection is an attempt to live up to her father’s legacy despite that legacy being built on lies and ruining countless lives including that of the person Franziska loves most. Accepting that she is not and cannot be perfect is a major step in her development into not only a better person but a happier one. And despite all of this, every time she declares her own perfection my immediate impulse is to agree with her

when sonic willingly is corrupted by the cyber energy its all blue because thats still him hes doing this for his friends and he will make sure theyre ok even if it means going all out. because he loves them

Self-indulgent b-day gift to me 💖

It's probably significant to remember that Jonathan and Nancy didn't expect to kill the Demogorgon. They hoped, sure. But that wasn't why they went to Jonathan's house and set up the bear trap and strung the lights and cut their hands. Maybe that's why they bought the stuff, to try, before they knew the whole picture, but that's not why they go.

They go because Nancy sits on the floor and thinks about Joyce and Hopper going after Will, and she knows, she knows, that they're going to need help and she can't go with them. But. She can be bait. She and Jonathan can draw the monster away, distract it so that the way is clear. Steve is accidentally dragged into that by virtue of showing up at the right place at the right time.

And I know that the fandom likes to give Steve guilt (me too), but also it's the kids that see Nancy doing that, and then what happens in season 2? The kids go into the tunnels to distract the demodogs, pull them away from where the action is, to keep El safe while she faces the actual problem- the gate- and to protect Joyce and Co while they try to oust the mind flayer from Will. Steve is only dragged along because he's literally unconscious and has no say in it. He goes along with it, because his MO is to protect whoever is there while they're doing whatever the plan is. Doesn't matter what the plan is for everyone else, Steve's remains "protect them while they do it."

Then in season 3, it's basically the same thing, except the teens and the kids are teamed up to take on the big meat mind flayer, while the adults go to close the gate to end this, save everyone.

Is it any wonder that this was the plan again, for Vecna? It's worked!! They got the job done three times now. And they lost Bob and they lost Hopper, but they weren't on the distraction team, so it's the forward team that's in danger right? It's Nancy and Steve and Robin who might not come home the way Hopper didn't. And they lost Billy, but he wasn't on the team- until then he'd actually been the enemy. The distraction team has always come home alive. Safe, even if not in one piece. Nancy's plan, enacted repeatedly now, has always worked.

Until it didn't. Until both distraction teams came home broken, lost. One too many rolls of the dice.

And as much as I do love a guilty Steve, this was Nancy's plan. This started with her. She has been the tactician from the beginning. It was almost certainly her call this time. They had a choice (they didn't), all of them could have walked away (they couldn't have), but they had faith in her. They trusted her plan. They had no reason not to.

But I can guarantee she's not going to forget that it was her plan that lost them. There wasn't anything else they could have done, but it doesn't matter. She's still going to blame herself. It won't stop her from going forward, won't stop her from making the next plan. But oh will it haunt her.

one must imagine candace flynn happy

Can we all stop calling brick and jo mlm/wlw solidarity because she is too mean to support that man in anything he does. They’d be hostility

ladies of the wastes — the vault dweller, the lone wanderer, the courier, the sole survivor ☢️

Do you ever think about how Starline task failed successfully™ with Surge and Kitsunami?

Despite the hours of hypnotism, training, making sure they answered all his questions correctly, there was something hollow about it all. Surge could say that she hated Sonic, but she was more into the idea of rebellion and chaos and wrecking shit for fun than the idea of replacing or killing Sonic. Kit said he would support Surge no matter what. This wasn't necessarily a lie, as he would put Surge's wins first, and yet he doesn't seem as excited or passionate about it or driven as he does at the end of his original hypnosis cycle. He gets the job done as Starline asks, he helps Surge finish the training fast, which she wants, but he's just sort of playing the support role in a sense.

I think about the scene where Kit and Surge fight Starline after watching his video footage, and Starline says that this has all happened before, yet there's this implication that Kit is fighting this time.

Starline forgot about Kit during the battle.

Do you think that all those other times they found out more about themselves in Starline's files Surge was there alone, or perhaps Kit stood aside and watched as Surge fought Starline (choosing not to intervene, opting to allow Surge to face the consequences of such a move)? Do you ever think about how despite all the resets Surge and Kit managed to have a growing bond? Do you ever think about the possibility that Surge won this time because Kit was here? Do you ever think that Kit was here because their fabricated bond began to become real?

Do you ever think about how Kit is at his happiest when Surge includes him? When everything they're fighting for his about the two of them? Both of their revenge. Both of them getting to say "fuck you" to Starline, Eggman, Sonic, and the world?

Starline couldn't get Surge and Kit to work together as a team the same way Sonic and Tails do. He couldn't get Surge to perform a job to completion and efficiently rather than just trying to have fun and win, much less get her to understand that she needed to appreciate Kit as a partner and support (that it meant nothing if they didn't finish the training together). Perhaps part of it came from how he made Kit to be fixated on Surge, while Surge was meant to be fixated on replacing Sonic, meaning that by design (by even refering to Kit as support rather than a partner) they were not going to turn out like Sonic and Tails.

And yet, even by the end of Imposter Syndrome and by issue 50, they'd changed. When they were under Starline, answering to him, and doing what he wanted, he could not make them fit his designs and he could not understand why. But when Surge and Kit chose to be together. When Kit chose to support Surge, when Surge chose to keep Kit as her ever loyal support, and when they chose to pursue a goal and work together

How ironic it is that they became more like Sonic and Tails in that moment than they ever were before

They could never be who Starline wanted them to be when he was alive, but now that he's dead they're fitting the roles he'd designed for them more than ever. Funny, isn't it? Ironic.

And I think about Kit and Surge of the present. The idea of Kit, who wants the best for Surge, who wants to be by Surge's side forever, who wants her attention and wants nothing more than to wreck shit and create a life with her outside of "good" or "evil". The idea of Surge, who has gone from seeing Kit as a mere tool in her shed to someone that's hers. At the beginning it meant nothing to her, but now it means something to her that Kit was practically made just for her. Surge, the tenrec who wants Kit by her side, who wants his help, who sees him as her partner and supporter, no one else's.

They're a package deal.