fallen leaves, adorn my night . . .

he/him, 18+, i know way too much about way too much, my hyperfixations are a carousel that i can't dismount. currently focused on: marvel !

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figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

[unculture]

mods are asleep, share hacks that make the site usable against its will

[campyvillain]

being the Resident Batman Enjoyer is soo so HARD every day EVERY DAY people miss the point!!! OF IT ALL!!! Each day 12 filmbros every hour go “why doesn’t batman just kill the people doing crimes” or “why is x version of batman not brooding and serious 24/7 when batman symbolizes fear or *insert equally as dumb statement*” like NO!!!! ITS ABOUT THE HOPE!!! bruce wayne’s entire origin story is that he lived thru a tragedy and WORKED towards the goal of making the world a better place anyway!!! batman not only represents the hope people in gotham hold for the possibility of a better future BUT ALSO THE HOPE HE HAS FOR OTHERS!!! EVEN AT THE WORST POINTS A PERSON CAN GO TO HE STILL DOESNT KILL!! BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE TO HIT ROCK BOTTOM AND HIS VERY EXISTENCE IS LIVING PROOF THAT EVEN UNDER CRUSHING HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR, NO ONE IS EVER TRULY LOST!!! ITS ALL ABOUT ENDURANCE UNDER DARK CIRCUMSTANCES BABY!!! ITS ALL ABOUT THE WILL TO KEEP GOING!!! ITS ALL ABOUT THE HOPE ITS ALL ABOUT THE HOPE

[fandomstuck]

this screencap must look so confusing to people who havent played this like what situation could possibly cause all three of these answers to be relevant at once

[cheesytexaroni]

[pandoa]

rook hunt is ripped with muscles and here's why

because some of you guys don't give him enough credit and my brain is rotting; let me live

i'll get straight to the point, i've tried out archery to see what it's like in the past—learned the basics and such—and for those who have never held a bow in their life, let me tell you it gets extremely tiring after shooting for more than an hour or so. so imagine how strong you must be to be shooting bows and arrows since you were a child. that is Rook Hunt, who was practically born from the womb with an archery set in his hand /j

bows have different draw weights that affect the speed, force, and distance that is needed to shoot an arrow. typically, children use bows with a 10-pound draw weight, as young adults and adults use bows with 20 pounds or more. to put this into some sort of perspective, i remember my stamina with the 20-pound bow lasted me about half an hour until my arms began to weaken and shake with how out-of-shape i am but anyways 💀

i've heard that the typical draw weight for hunting is about 40 pounds. and assuming with how long Rook has been an archer, i can imagine that he is physically well-fit enough to exceed the 20-pound draw weight and move onto more efficient bows for hunting like the 40-pound.

think about how developed your muscles must be if you began shooting with 10-pound bows since you were just a kid, moving onto 20 pounds as you get older, and eventually using the 40-pound draw weight as you gain more strength and hunting skills. knowing with how much Rook uses his bows and arrows, it's safe to assume that he most likely hones these skills by practicing archery quite often (i can see him going out to practice at least once a day; don't quote me on that though, this is just a thought i have considering that other hobbies also require daily practice to maintain a person's skill).

there are so many muscles involved in a human body's shoulders, back, chest, and arms that you must use when drawing a bow. exercises focusing on the muscles needed for archery are often done to strengthen an archer. this is where Rook's very toned figure comes in lol.

with the numerous muscles needed to carry out his hobby on a constant basis, Rook would need a strong set of biceps and shoulder muscles to keep up with the bow's general weight and stamina for however long he goes out hunting for. bro has built up muscles, man. built up muscles.

in game, though, i will admit his body does look on the more slim and slender side. i can see why some people in the fandom don't see him as a character with buff arms, but i would like to respectfully disagree. Rook Hunt has scrumptious arm and back muscles i'd shamelessly stare at as his magic hands do whatever wonderous things they do with his bow OH AND GUYS HIS LEGS I MEAN-

ahem. anyways.

i know many in the fandom tend to bully this observant hunter—with his questionable haircut and uh huntsman habits of his—however, these targets for harmless memes cannot overshadow the fact that Rook Hunt is ripped. from head to toe, this man is most likely relatively high among the list of twst characters that are incredibly strong (with Jack trumping them all) and is probably covered in toned muscles, which he maintains with his hunting.

this isn't even me simping anymore; it's just simple logic if we all go by what we know about the Pomefiore vice housewarden. i'll defend this man with my life—and that includes writing a useless essay on why Rook is more muscular and buff than we may think lmao

so in conclusion, Rook has beefy arms that the world is not prepared to talk about just yet. the end.

[cruel-arrogance]

According to the art book, Rook “is secretly very well-muscled” and “his neck and arms are thicker than Vil’s. When weighing himself it was discovered that he is actually heavier than Trey, and he feigned surprise.” In Epel's CR Vignette, Rook basically drags him around like a ragdoll, and Epel feels like Rook is about to snap his arm from what is presumably not even that much effort on Rook’s part. Almost immediately after this post I found this one by leviskokoro about Rook’s strength, so hey, more appreciation for the funny Frenchman’s strength!

On top of that, Rook has a downright freakish amount of control over his vitals, monstrously good eyesight, and may or may not be a bloodhound (in all fairness, one could definitely argue he was genuinely joking, but considering one of his labwear home voicelines is him determining medicinal herbs by scent alone, I’m inclined to believe there’s some truth to this). Depending on how much you believe his little story from Endless Halloween, he also has that going for him.

In other words, Rook is one hell of a force to be reckoned with.

[insertsomthinawesome]

WHUMPTOBER 2022 - ALT PROMPT 7 - PROTECTIVE

Did I draw Jack too big here? Probably. Do I care? Not really. Let him be a big terrifying woof woof who can dwarf his Dorm leader. As a treat. Leona has many thoughts going through his head, several he will absolutely bottle up and never talk about. But one of them is probably equivalent to D:< ASDFSDFSDFSDFASFSDFSDFSDFSDFSDF

(Jack is being a good Freshman leave him alone) -NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-

[lynune]

It’s been a while since I last drew Malleus,,

[onyxedskies]

the blue lions are all so incredibly complex and i wish people would stop dumbing them down to their base traits

[onyxedskies]

i told myself i wouldn’t elaborate on this but fuck it i do what i want

sylvain is not just a flirt. he’s had a rough childhood and shoved his negative feelings out of the way in favor of jokes. his self esteem is awful and he doesn’t believe himself worthy of love, and so he never lets himself get truly attached to the people he lays with. he’s incredibly fucking smart - he figures things out at a glance that annette has been working on for hours without understanding - but sells himself short because he can’t deal with the expectations that are put on smart people. he is more than just a philanderer.

felix isn’t as cold and emotionless as he claims to be. he misses glenn dearly, and he wants to love his father but can’t forgive him for saying what equated in his mind to saying “his death was a good thing”. he says, point blank, that he’s not immune to emotion in his a support with dimitri. he is incredibly kind when it comes down to it, even if he isn’t good at showing his emotions and how he cares. he’s not just some emotionless swordmaster.

ingrid isn’t just some stick-in-the-mud. she knows how to have fun, even if she’s incredibly duty bound. she cares for her friends and family, and she cares for galatea. she hides her pain and inner turmoil about her dreams versus her duty because she feels bad burdening other people with her problems. she does what she can to help in any situation, even if the person she’s helping doesn’t realize in the moment that’s what she’s doing (see: sylvain and his flirting, bernadetta and staying in her room, felix and avoiding lectures). she knows the people she cares about better than even they know themselves, a lot of the time. she doesn’t just care about knighthood, and she isn’t stuck-up.

ashe isn’t just some soft uwu bean. he’s been through hell and back, survived on the streets with two younger siblings for years, watched as his classmates killed the man who saved him, and still manages to persevere and keep smiling. he was the only one in the blue lions who didn’t already have someone in his corner and three months in his father attacked the church, and he still kept smiling. he faced his future king despite knowing the crimes he’d committed to survive, and he still kept smiling. he cares deeply about his siblings; they are always his first priority, regardless of the situation, and he would do anything to guarantee their happiness and safety. he dreams of being a knight to help those in need, to protect those in danger, to ensure that situations like his don’t continue on forever. he helps in the greenhouse and kitchen, often putting those things above his own needs. he sees things that remind him of his loved ones and immediately wants to gift it to them (see: his a support with ingrid). his main drive is to make people happy, even if that comes at the expense of himself. he’s more than just your uwu soft boy.

mercedes has also been through hell. she watched as her mother was used by bartels to get a crested child, and then was sent away with her. she ended up with a manipulative adoptive father who just wanted to marry her off to get good standing for himself. she lost her brother and then found him as the death knight before killing him at fort merceus. she always lends an ear to anyone who needs it while rarely talking about her own problems. she takes on the role of elder sister for all the lions (see: literally all of her supports with the lions except ashe). she loves to learn (see: her supports with ashe and dedue) and is always ready to try again when she doesn’t get it right away. she’s not just a ditzy anime girl with a big chest.

annette isn’t just an overachiever. she’s one of few who allows herself to be silly, allows herself to act her age and fool around a bit. she’s highly artistic (see: her supports with ingrid, felix, claude, and kind of mercedes) and very competitive (see: her supports with lysithea). she has low self-esteem and beats herself up over her mistakes (see: her supports with byleth and caspar, how her preferred method after getting a “bad” is to console her). she’s always happy to help and loves teaching people (see: her supports with ashe, her supports with ashe in three hopes, her solo ending, and her endings with byleth, claude, linhardt, non-CF caspar, non-AM felix, dedue, mercedes, hanneman, and gilbert). yes, she’s a hard worker and has a strong drive, but that’s not all there is to her.

dedue isn’t just a stoic shield. he cares deeply for everyone who involves themself with him. yes, he would do anything dimitri asked of him, but he cared about everyone else too. he’s always happy to help annette with her various mishaps, he’s happy to satisfy mercedes’ curiosity, he understands ingrid’s hesitance. he’s deeply sentimental, even if he has a difficult time showing it, and loves deeply, if quietly. he has emotions, despite what many people think.

[zorua-adorable]

This the one you were looking for?

[babylemonart]

Leona may be a depressed catman, but a catman nonetheless 😔

[wildbasil]

ruination

[snailsnfriends]

humanity and the non-human (i made you this way)

maritime morse is tapped out (wired) / eternal silence (jamie clements & nick millar) / (reddit) / (guggenheim museum) / can't help myself (sun yuan & peng yu) / (youtube) / opportunity (rover) (wikipedia) / opportunity's selfie (NASA) / (youtube)

[hellsite-yano]

Me: "If you want to be loved, you have to love yourself" doesn't mean you're inherently incapable of being loved. It means building positive and loving relationships has to be a conscious and active effort on your part. Expecting someone to come along and "fix" you isn't healthy and puts unfair pressure on your peers and potential partners. The change has to start with you.

People who think feeling sorry for themselves constantly is a personality:

[xlandloud]

i don’t really know what inspired this but. angry timmy

[blogwizard]

admittedly I don’t spend a lot of time on reddit in general so ymmv but the ftm fitness subreddit is literally that “bodybuilders responding to forum post by skinny dude” meme. like every reply is genuinely good advice and/or “you look amazing, king” 

[blogwizard]

[evercelle]

i feel my heart shake, come ease this ache

[evercelle]

you’ll find your wings again

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world