december in movies [16/31]: the holdovers (2023) dir. alexander payne "Your only task is to ensure the boys' absolute safety and good condition. And at least pretend to be a human being. Please. It's Christmas."

I'm supposed to be asleep but I was requested to draw Luz and I couldn't resist whoops :')))

I've gone full cringe mode but shhhh it's fine

Sun is experiencing Emotion™

Bonus:

my ipad broke again so shitty ms paint captain <3

So, this parallel, right.

That parallel and the 4x11 shadowpeach fight as a whole:

Macaque: "No that's YOU! You're the one always running off! Looking for more power, more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while were were ahead! Not the great sage, he's got to drag EVERYONE else into his mess!" Sun Wukong: "You're not in this mess, you're still free! Everything I did was for us!" Macaque: "You did it for yourself! You've become like this, obsessive demon! I told you going against the Jade Emperor was a bad idea, but no, Wukong doesn't listen to anyone! He just does whatever he wants! You put yourself here, not me."

(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)

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A large part of Wukong's motivation to keep getting more power was the freedom of it—the more power you have the easier it is to do whatever you want. It's easier to ignore everyone else and focus solely on yourself. It's also easier to ensure yourself and your loved one's are protected and have the ability to do what they want.

So, a punishment where the great Monkey King is imprisoned and trapped for hundreds of years? It's effective and tragic and fitting. Wukong wanted to have the freedom to protect the people he cared about, and in trying to reach for the power to do that, he completely had his freedom removed. He went from the mountain, to then the circlet, and then all of a sudden he had morals and was bound to those.

And then I think about his end of s3 choice to go face the Lady Bone Demon alone. Once again Wukong was trying to protect his loved ones (not to mention the whole reason he went after the Samadhi fire to begin with was to have the power, the freedom to stop LBD (which in itself is another case of SWK believing he needed to be stronger for such freedom)), but he also wanted to make sure MK and himself both had agency. He didn't want MK to have to fight LBD, and he didn't want LBD to end the world.

This is exactly the sentiment he tells Macaque in the 4x11 flashback:

Sun Wukong: "It's so we don't have to worry about anything or anyone ever again! Just living a lazy life, sitting in the sun, eatin' fruit, and doing whatever we want!"

But where does it all lead him?

To possession, imprisonment. Once again Wukong no longer had the freedom to do what he wanted (which is to protect the people he cares about). Once again in his attempts to help his loved one's, he only hurt them.

This can be applied to his relationship with Macaque, to MK in s2, hell, even Wukong trying to get the map in the first place left him powerless, which then led to him and the gang being imprisoned in 3x02. It's a familiar pattern, one we see with antagonist and protagonist alike.

MK in s2 trained to become more powerful, which in the end only strengthened LBD and forced him and his friends on the run. Mei in 3x12 protects MK by letting herself get captured and placed into LBD's crystal. Mei in 4x05 goes to protect MK, breaking her sword and leaving her vulnerable to being captured by Kui Mulang ("How am I supposed to protect everyone without my sword?"). DBK reached for more power and then became possessed by LBD, hurting his wife and son. Azure reached for the Jade Emperor's power and bound himself to that role, jeopardizing Peng and Yellowtusk in the process.

It's a cycle of reaching for power, endangering others, and then being imprisoned.

So anyways, here's why MK is going to lose control (his agency) next season and hurt his friends with his own- *get's shot*

sakuatsu fic recs

ace-spec recs for @bbyboyakaashi

into the tides by ftld

completed | E | 16,657 words

“I’m not that into sex,” Sakusa says without regard for the public setting or the strangled noise that erupts from Atsumu’s throat. He hooks a finger through the handle of a delicately patterned teacup, arches an eyebrow, and waits. // this whole series >>> i'm love them

build me up by kromotriga

part 7/? | E | 37,100 words

Atsumu’s fingers involuntarily twitch as he types ‘strap on harness’ in the search bar of a favorite sex toy site while he waits, wondering what Kiyoomi has in store for him. He has his own toys he likes and is used to but he’s never seriously thought about the harness part before, about what a hypothetical partner might wear. Then Kiyoomi emerges from the bathroom and he doesn’t have to wonder anymore, phone slipping from his hand to be lost in the sheets. // fem omi fucks atsumu for most of this series, as she should <3

anytime, omi omi. by deliriious

completed | E | 2,156 words

what's better than fucking your boyfriend's thighs, or between his cheeks while he sleeps? kiyoomi thinks for a long moment. reaaally gives it some thought, before coming to an irrefutable conclusion. nothing, that's what. // consensual somno is like. catnip for me

lay me down by kromotriga

part 3/? | E | 13,563 words

It’s been almost six years since she’s last heard him say her given name. Atsumu may not need memories, experience become muscle become memory instead, but memories of standing huddled together in a deserted hallway after their last high school match still flood through her all the same. Sakusa— Kiyoomi had tenderly cradled her face as gentle thumbs wiped away tears of frustration, over Inarizaki's loss to Itachiyama, over Kiyoomi's rejection after months of what she’d thought was mutual romantic build-up. "I want to kiss you but I can't, yet," he'd whispered, knocking his sweaty forehead into hers. "The next time we meet I'll be different, but if you still want to I'll kiss you then as much as you want." With that promise Kiyoomi had reluctantly pulled away and Atsumu hadn't understood what he meant until he'd made news a few months later by joining his collegiate men's team. He may have missed her, as she did him, but that doesn’t mean he wants anything more than friendship now. Atsumu still reaches out slowly, his eyes following her movement, to lay a hand over Kiyoomi’s, fingers brushing his wrist bone where another pair of symmetrical moles stand out on his pale skin. “I missed you, too.” // skts reunion fics my beloved, they're everythingg

part 1 | part 2

Five years late (typical me) but I finally watched Rocketman and I'm OBSESSED, IN LOVE, CRYING, DYING, HAVE REACHED NEW HEIGHTS OF FANDOM FOR BOTH ELTON JOHN AND TARON EGERTON

#MiqoMarch ‣ Day 2 ‣ Home

There was a day, long past, where U'lohi found the thought of his tribe to be anywhere but home. Where the expectations of a Tia were strength and an aspiration to one day succeed the Nunh.

And while escaping to Ul'dah led to incredible things for him, allowing him to flourish into the man he is today;

He cannot help but feel the warm, desert winds on his skin, the rising sun at his back, and the sounds of his tribe living their lives around him, and feel at home.

ok folks this lives and dies between us but i swear to god with every passing moment and every new fact i learn i am more and more convinced that had i spoken portuguese at age 11 when i got into minecraft youtube the first time i would BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT have had a tiny little baby 11 year old celebrity crush on pactw

i like it so much when there is a spider :`) it makes me so happy to be able to see a spider and watch the spider and know that there are spiders nearby. and when i am stressed or worked up i can just look at a spider and calm down. spiders <3

wake up babes, my favorite horrible little man is back in town <3

★Parallax [OC]★

WOOOOOO!!!!

Break time from canines. The Transformers brainrot is BAD. So bad to the point I actually designed this dude and made him a car LOL. All of my Transformers OCs in the past have been beastformers!! So this is a big jump!

Anyways! Meet Parallax! He's part of the IDW verse, more specifically MTMTE and Lost Light. (Technically after actually, he is introduced after the LL hops dimensions in the end of LL25!)

His alt mode is based off of the Ford Mustang GTR 2025, I fucking LOVE that car. So, I made him. And I don't know where this kind of personality came from but I'm rolling with it LMFAO.

You can view all his deets and full ref on my ToyHouse! (Same username!)

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happy birthday to Rock Star RUBYYYY 😚😚😚 mmWAHH! i hope you had a fabulous day! may this next year be even more interesting and awesome for you <333

mads!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you u angel!!!!! i am sobbin ur so nice to me i hope YOU have a rlly good year and a rlly good life okay <3

[ID: A stylized full body digital art of my Fallen London character Dola Hallowrove. They are framed by a neon green and purple background, aiming a harpoon gun off screen and standing with one foot back as if bracing themself against momentum. End ID]

Happy 1 year character creation birthday to my favourite monster hunter! Seemed a fitting time to experiment with a different art style :)

So :eyes: is there any fic/masterpost for the BOE Harrow AU?

I kinda made one a while back but I've lost it and it also wasn't the greatest so fuck it just gonna make a new summary of the idea because heck it. Massive spoilers for if I ever end up writing this out as a fic. (For those not in the know this is basically a summary of the big ol idea in my head for a BoE Harrow AU I came up with with a friend and it has possessed me body and soul ever since) SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON - G1deon manages to catch Wake just a little earlier than he does in the regular timeline. He ends up discovering and taking baby Gideon before kicking Wake out the airlock to her death. So Gideon is Kiriona from the get go and raised by John from her baby years. Insufferable Crown Prince to the max. In addition, in this timeline Kiriona is a necromancer as in the Nova AU. - The Rev. Parents still try their 200 soul murder sex gambit. However in this timeline, as with the Nova AU, Harrow has absolutely ZERO ability as a necromancer. When she's about ten all hope is given up that she is just a 'late bloomer'. - The Rev. Parents summon the surviving Ninth and tell them all what they did. That they went all in on their gamble, that they killed the ninth, and that their (in their eyes) failure of a daughter wasn't even a success for all that sacrifice. The Ninth basically erupts into chaos after that with most of them killing each other before the Rev. Parents and their 'side' win. They decide the ninth ends here. The survivors all hang themselves, including child Harrow. - As the ninth chokes its last, one by one, all their constructs start falling apart. One, though - the one made from Wake's bones - is freed enough for her revenant to take over. She walks through the halls of the dying until she finds a choking Harrow near death. On the brink of passing out and utterly delirious, Wake saves Harrow and then slips into the back of her mind as Alecto did in the normal timeline. Biding her time there. - During the chaos of the ninth tearing itself to pieces a shuttle attempting to flee crashed into the prison higher up the shaft. Caused enough damage to give the prisoners there a chance to stage a breakout. - Most of the prisoners just flee, but a small amount (A BoE cell, specifically Ctesiphon Wing) realizes that with everyone on the planet dead and the ninth already being such a backwater that they can just take over and use the place as a secret base within the Dominicus system. Just send out reports now and then to convince the rest of the Empire that it is business as usual. - We Suffer finds Harrow, near death, having been saved from hanging. After having Harrow held in containment for a long while she is eventually released and adopted in all but name by We Suffer. - Harrow grows up under the BoE on the ninth just festering in rage and spite and hatred. For her parents, for the ninth, for the empire, for the emperor undying. Wake squatting in the back of her skull only makes matters worse. She ends up taking the BoE name of Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War One True Pop to Lead you in the Summer to Join the Black Parade. Or just Havoc. - Because Harrow has massive sensory issues with having her face bare and nothing will convince me otherwise, but she also doesnt want to paint her face ninth style anymore, she digs through BoE's scattered archives of old earth and finds out about 'the ancient warrior poets - the Juggalos' and takes up their paint for herself. (More in a reblog, ran outta space... damn you tumblr)

me when I see sad, poorly treated, and or tragic fictional men: "oh baby- sweet sweet baby- come here I give you kiss kiss"