Witch of the Northern Lights

A water-bender in training, and reincarnation of a bear, do not expect me to do anything in the winter. My ao3 is Dramatic_Squirrel, and I mostly write Maribat/ Daminette. Asks are always open.

[likepetalswealleventuallyfall]

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

[creepymutelilbugger]

hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that

[luna-azzurra]

FACIAL MICRO EXPRESSIONS FOR WRITERS <3

[emeraldspiral]

[dramatic-squirrel]

They Rickrolled us during the film. Without the music. This had to be deliberate.

[ladyloveandjustice]

I really like that ANY has a trend of girls being the main political movers and shakers right now, literally jumping into the fray and getting shit done.

And the other princesses Yona meets represent different aspects of herself and she helps them balance those aspects. 

Lili is a lot like Yona in that she’s naive and sheltered and scared, yet she’s more recklessly proactive as a princess than Yona ever was before The Incident. While Yona was forced into action and was able to slowly develop the skills she needed to deal with it because she had to and had tragedy to give her perspective, Lili wasn’t forced into action by betrayal and tragedy- she was just gung-ho to help her kingdom even when she wasn’t sure what was going on. She rushed into action without any skills or perspective, and therefore she needed Yona to bring that for her, to make her aware of what she needed to succeed, where she needed to improve. Lili’s passion inspired Yona, but also reminded her that caution and perspective are necessary. 

Meanwhile Tao and Kouren represent different aspects of Yona and how Yona needs to balance them. Tao is Yona’s compassion, but she lacks Yona’s warrior nature or strategic planning. She wants peace, but isn’t sure how to get it. She doesn’t realize you need to go into the fray sometimes to get stuff done. 

Kouren is very much what Yona could be if she gave in completely to her warrior side. She’s an excellent fighter, but driven by revenge and blind to other options than fighting, she rejects her sister’s talks of peace and compassion. She’s what Yona could become if she’s not careful.

By bringing the two sisters together, Yona is learning that she can balance two very different aspects of herself and that they work best in tandem. Yona is taking lessons from how to rule from these women. Kouren becoming queen with Tao backing her up seems like foreshadowing for how Yona will be a true queen when she has perfect harmony with both sides of herself. 

I’ve noted that Yona is the middle ground between her father and Soo-Won’s ways of ruling, and the way she is able to balance out Kouren and Tao is a real illustration of that.

[detectivejay]

This is a very silly poll that's been bopping around in my head since I started making these, but I could never settle on the options. But I don't feel like working right now, so here goes (yes this is biased heavily towards detectives from media I follow, apologies but hey it's my blog xD) -

Which of these sleuths would you want hired to solve your murder? Bonus points if you explain why in the tags/comments. If they have a partner or team, assume they have their help as well.

Sherlock Holmes (choose your version)

Conan Edogawa (Case Closed/Detective Conan)

Shawn Spencer (Psych)

Hercule Poirot

Miss Marple

Ron Kamonohashi (RKDD)

Maomao (Apothecary Diaries)

Any lawyer from Ace Attorney (specify who?)

Benoit Blanc (Knives Out)

The Only Murders in the Building trio

Morgan Gillory (High Potential - can also choose the French version)

Other (mention in comments/tags?)

Voting ended onApr 10, 2025

Now, you can just go ahead and choose your favorite of these sleuths, OR you may have some other criteria for who you'd want hired for the case. The fun part will be hearing the whys!

Please reblog/share to see as big a sample size and as many fun answers as possible. :)

[guerrillatech]

[jollywasnthere]

Am I the only one who noticed this? I think Mao Mao also fits in on the aroace part, what other characters fit in?

[dramatic-squirrel]

I mostly agree but with Dr. Stone, I think it's more of the audience than the show. One of the characters in season 3 literally says that their relationship isn't romantic. But if two characters exist they will be shipped.

Love each other? Ship.

Platonic friendship? Ship.

Rivals? Ship.

Mortal enemies with opposing ideologies? Ship

Boy and girl? Ship

Two people of the same gender? Ship.

A human and a concept? Ship.

[resnawhy]

how i be feelin the last 5 years

[thegaylibertarian]

[lycorogue]

[ID:

Mastodon post from Erik Uden [peach emoji] (@[email protected]). It reads:

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library".

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

/end ID]

[you-need-not-apply]

Bro I just nearly fucking died

[you-need-not-apply]

My throats fucked but I like inhaled toothpaste and my throat seized up and I couldn’t breathe worst part is I spat toothpaste everywhere trying to get it out of my mouth and my throat is like fuzzy now?? Water did not help honey tea might

[you-need-not-apply]

Dude I was dry heaving into a sink barely breathing and my brain went “this is gonna make a sick ass tumblr story”

[epistleii]

is this accurate

[you-need-not-apply]

Absolutely flawless how did you get these photos?

[epistleii]

I drew what I would’ve done. also I really don’t want this to be my tumblr claim to fame; it’s been posted for about ten minutes and three people have already reblogged it

[gracefulchristiangirl-deactivat]

what was your first book obsession as a kid?

Harry Potter

Percy jackson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Hunger Games

Classics (one you think of that’s not on here)

A Fairy Tale Collection

Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm edition specifically)

Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson specifically)

Rangers Apprentice/Brotherband Chronicles

The Hobbit

I didn’t read, I watched movies

Other (please reblog and specify)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2024

[dramatic-squirrel]

Wish rewrite idea

I haven't watched Wish (I'll never watch it because I value at least decent storytelling) but watching videos about people recreating and fixing the story is truly inspiring.

For instance, someone mentioned an idea about how if Asha was actually a princess (adopted by Magnifico) which got me thinking about a different idea. (like to source for this idea here: https://youtu.be/XrdDddX5ddI?si=xrSfwDEYk_RjrR4A)

Story begins with fairy tale book style opening, like original Disney movies, about a man visiting a small kingdom for the first time and seeing the citizens living unfair/unjust lives. Helping the citizens the man overthrows the corrupt royal family and helping the citizens of the kingdom, eventually being crowned king himself. After being deposed, the old royals hide in the mountains to escape the unhappy towns folk and live the rest of their lives in peace. This is Magnifico's story about how he became king and the old royal family is Asha's family. All of this would happen before Asha was born or when she was an infant.

Cut to when Asha is a young adult. She grew up knowing the truth about her family, about how they were royals and how they were overthrown. And while her family has no desire to go back to the old ways, when they ran the kingdom, Asha can't help but feel the injustice of what happened in the past and feel like Magnifico is the true villain of the story. Cue "I want song" about how she wants to take back the kingdom, more specifically, take back the role in life that she feels is right for her. But not knowing where to start she first and feeling lost, she wishes on a star and thus the star character helps her with her wish. But the main reason why this happens is because she is the first person to wish on a star for years. (More on that later).

Also, the star character would be the shapeshifting star boy from the concept art, but the star mainly stays in star form unless he needs to blend in with people.

With her new friend, Asha goes to town to get an idea about the situation and to see how bad the town folks lives really are. Which, at first, doesn't seem horrible to begin with. No one's angry, or hungry , or violent. But the more she sees the more obvious it becomes that no one is happy. Not a single smile is found on anyone's face and it confirms to her that she was right all along about Magnifico being evil.

And she's right, Magnifico is evil. The plot point about him taking wishes is going to stay, but Magnifico does it without the town people being aware and he does it to more easily control the towns people. Without hopes/dreams/wishes, no one strives for more in life. They just go about their days, same as the one before, working the same jobs as their parents, the same jobs as expected of them.

So Asha, finding out that she was right, tries to get the towns people to help. Initially they brush her off and don't listen but then the star starts goofing off. Playing with the children, making their work seem more fun, and suddenly, it's like an evil spell has been lifted and a few people start to have dreams/wishes again which lead to star granting those wishes.

Meanwhile, in the castle Magnifico would be teaching his own daughter, Brill (a new character that I'm introducing) about how to run the kingdom. And Brill, sees nothing wrong about what her father (and mother) are doing until she goes into town herself and sees what Asha sees. Brill also sees what Asha and the star do and how it helped the town folks and she beings questioning her fathers rule. So, Brill asks her father about the previous royals, something he never disclosed the truth about before but seeing as how Brill's going to inherit the throne he tells her the truth.

Here I am leaning towards Asha's family being bad rulers for two reasons. One, it's less cliche than if Magnifico had simply framed them as being evil. Two, it would make Asha's character development and self-discovery more impactful and meaningful. Only I don't know how Asha's family were bad rulers. Only that thematically, it should be something that, by stealing the dreams/wishes of the towns folk, the problem was solved, at least on the surface. Maybe something like, chaos reigned as a result of everyone's wishes being granted.

Brill thinks her father is exaggerating or lying, because she's seen Asha help people. So, she secretly decides to help Asha take down her father.

Asha continues to free people with star's help and gives people wishes/dreams again, this time with Brill's help, with Brill releasing the stolen wishes back to the people. And all of this ends up overthrowing Magnifico just like they planned, but it also ends up causing the same problem as before as chaos reigns over the town. And Asha realizes that she was wrong about everything and Brill realizes that while Magnifico went about it in the wrong way he was right.

So Asha convinces star that they need to stop granting everyone's wishes and with his help and they remove all of the wishes that came true but not the aspirations themselves. And in that moment, Asha's heart breaks a little because after seeing the joy that came from granting wishes with star, it hurts her to see all of that joy taken away. And this is when Asha realizes that she doesn't want to rule a kingdom, that she wouldn't be good at it anyway. What she truly wants is to help make the lives of other people better. And she also realized that the best ruler for the kingdom is Brill. So, Asha leaves the kingdom with star and they go across the world granting wishes for those with kind hearts but unfortunate lives (i.e. they become fairy godmothers).

[ya-vanna]

One of my favorite scenes from “I Need a (Girlfriend) Hero!”  

[dramatic-squirrel]

I think my favorite part of the Blue Beetle movie is when they summarize the plot 30 minutes in.

[animentality]

[the-bluespirit]

[catchymemes]