Average Evangelion Enjoyer

[besotted-with-austen]

The Count of Monte Cristo: I have been preparing my plan for years and there is nothing I don’t know! This is MY Dark & Gritty Revenge Story, I am writing it and everyone else is only ink under my pen!

Maximilien Morrel: oh, so you know about my Romeo-and-Juliet subplot?

The Count of Monte Cristo: your what

[sir-vik]

I had this little series of sketches with WoW characters dressed as certain subcultures/fans of certain kinds of music. Here’s my interpretation of Illidan as a Thrash Metal fan, I also had Death Metal Arthas and Glam Rock Kael WiPs. If people like this one I can make more of those.

Drop your character + subculture suggestions in the comments!

[oneheadtoanother]

[shiningbean]

a cool cat

[flowergirlmiwa]

ending a social interaction with a friend and thinking "I think we grew a little bit closer today." in my head as if I'm a dating game protagonist

[notherpuppet]

Chaggie Week Day 1: Daily 🏨

[biancalattei]

dmc3

[tonyzaret]

Us fandom adults should really just go on strike. 3 months minimum where we don't post fic, we don't comment, we don't buy merch. Then we’ll see how fun the Lego Ninjago community is for anyone under 60 😂

[theintoccabile]

Will any triumph of the protagonist over her royal abuser ever be as savage as the emperor asking Zhen Huan if her son is really his and her answering, "Of course. ...All people under heaven are Your Majesty's children"

??? Iconic.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[prodepresanti]

I read "A Short Stay In Hell" more than a month ago and I'm still thinking about that damn novella and it still makes me sick to my stomach (shit is deadass keeping me awake sometimes). Absolutely terrifying, 10000/10 book, highly recommend if you want to feel some existential dread! What do you mean there are so many floors that you could FREE FALL for a million years and still not be at the bottom. What do you mean there are just as many floors above you, and they are each long billions of miles. Logically, the solitude and the sheer absurdity of this hellscape would have you lose your mind within a few years, decades at most. But you stay sane. You heal your wounds. The book you're looking for is still in there somewhere. You have nothing else to do. You haven't seen another person in a billion years. You haven't found a cohesive page in about as long. You can't escape even in the depts of insanity. You still look for your book. Humankind has long gone extinct. Your book is still waiting. The universe has imploded now. You are still looking. Really, are you even sane at this point? You still have to search. What are you supposed to learn? Doesn't matter, your book is waiting. Maybe you'll eventually find it in yourself to fall to the very bottom. You have to start from an edge and work your way methodically. You have to fall and start walking till you find the edge. Another billion billion years might pass until you even find your name on a page. You're still looking for your book. There's nothing else to do. You don't know why you're even trying. If there's a Heaven waiting, what difference does one impossible long stretch of time differ to eternity, wouldn't infinity, even in bliss, be torture regardless. Your punishment won't be eternal, as long as you keep looking. You'll find your book. The library isn't infinite. There's a floor, a ceiling, walls. Billions and billions of miles away. Stretches of bookshelves that seem impossibly long, but they do indeed have a length that could be measured. Books that should be countless, but they aren't – there's a number. It's more than there are atoms in our universe to the power of a million, but they aren't infinite. Your book is there. Find it.

[sacred-portal]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

This is fucking killing me. Like what

[hamrikaa]

[violetbridgertonstan]

the way huan'er visually transforms into consort hua when she returns to the palace, only slightly subdued,, oh it gets me every time. my favourite part has to be her headpiece, which has the same blue and red colours used in the centre, but shilan's was extravagant and large, hanging out over her head, showing her domineering nature, while huan'er's is close to her headpiece, smaller, showing her talent and preference for handling things quietly and staying understated to avoid conflict

[baiwu-jinji]

Having waded through enough sloppy and uninspired performances from recent xianxia/wuxia series and feeling the general decline of the quality of acting in Chinese entertainment in recent years, my mind kept going back to Chen Jianbin's performance as the emperor in Empresses in the Palace (甄嬛傳, 2011) and wondering if there has been any acting in cdrama in the past 10 years that could even remotely approach that level of excellence.

When I watch actors in these dramas, I usually have an ideal version of line deliveries in my mind and rate their performances against that ideal version - nowadays most performances couldn't get a grade higher than 70 (out 100) in my marking scheme. But Chen Jianbin's performance in Empresses in the Palace renders my marking scheme meaningless because you know he's gonna turn in the perfect answer every time and it's gonna be more perfect than that ideal version in my head. His acting is precise, nuanced, and never over the top, and I felt I was in such safe hands being guided by his performance - I say "safe" because his acting is so precise that I feel very safe to hinge my interpretation of the character on his every change of tone and every micro expression; with lesser actors, sometimes you'd doubt if you could understand the character solely based on their performances since they might miss the mark.

There's this one scene where someone said to the emperor (Chen Jianbin's character) something along the lines of "it's so touching to see your majesty missing the late empress so much, you must have loved each other very deeply." Chen Jianbin replied with an absent-minded and perfunctory "嗯" (could be translated as "yep" / "emm" / "sure"), and you just know from that half-hearted grunt that the emperor knows very well that his love is actually one-sided and the late empress never truly loved him; that this whole narrative of "alas, I have lost my beloved wife and soulmate and we'd have been perfect for each other if she had lived" is only a fairytale he tells himself and performs for others.

[vivziepoparchives]

Charlie pride prints available June 17, 2025. Art by Kanomareki. Signed by Erika Henningsen.

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