trees in her eyes, stars in her heart

• i tend to suddenly post about new things so i apologize for that • (staleboat)

[sevens-evan]

since “what are those” exists in the marvel universe, it’s safe to assume that vine does as well. the “it is wednesday my dudes” vine was posted in 2015, and civil war was released in 2016, so it can be argued that the vine has an entirely new layer of comedy in the marvel universe, as spiderman didn’t exist when the vine was posted, and the man in the vine is just wearing a bizarre costume with no cultural meaning or reference. it can be concluded that peter parker designed his costume based off the “it is wednesday my dudes” guy. in this essay i will—

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

OP. W H E R E ’ S T H E E S S A Y

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

I don’t know what it is about Star Wars but even if it’s not your biggest fandom, it still has the funniest memes by a long shot I mean “look at all the fucks i give anakin” and “your poncho is a piece of junk” and anakin hates sand it’s all just 1000% pure class

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

YOU CAN’T BEAT THIS SHIT

[d-exclamation]

And my new favorite:

[enoch-art]

*Magic Brian voice* I’m so proud of zem!!!

Decided to put all the very good adventure boys together. :,,,,,,) I had to squeeze these out before the finale. I’m not ready for the Balance arc to end—it’s been a very rocky year and a half for me, but the show has been such a fun and safe mindspace to been in, and listening to it definitely made things easier to cope with. But the boys do deserve a happy ending, so I’ll just hang onto that for now.

[ Commission Info ]

[wlwvoltron]

sometimes i remember that pidge has canonically like…committed treason or something like it when she was 13 or 14 years old and hacked into the garrison’s computers and just think…that’s my girl

[kravkalackin]

so taako canonically does a show of sizzle it up with taako in raven’s roost, and magnus remembers him from it 

you think that when magnus eats the food from the show, he’s just like, floored by it, for the next couple months he keeps asking around if anyone knows if that elf is gonna come back and do a show. eventually julia asks him ‘what’s with you? that food was good yeah, but you’re like obsessed’ 

magnus just shrugs and says ‘I don’t really know, that food just tasted like home’ 

[lunenari]

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

HELLO I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING WEBSITE FOR WORKING ON CHARACTERS AND WORLD BUILDING YEET FUCKERS SEE YOU IN 8 YEARS

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

If you have been struggling with world building and finding a way to keep track of everything PLEASE GOD LOOK AT NOTEBOOK.AI

Notebook.ai has different categories for different things:

And then once you make something each category has different questions for you to answer about your world:

This website is literally a blessing

[electricate]

y’all just literally saved my life what the fuck

[kroliakogone-deactivated2021091]

*cracks fingers* Right. There’s been a lot meta about this scene from whether Keith unintentionally made Lance feel worse because he dismissed Lance’s concerns to why Lance chose Keith – of all people, to go to about his insecurities when he easily could have gone to anyone else on the team. But this here? This is what stands out for me.

Keith might not have said the most comforting thing initially (which…I think has more to do with him not being the best at the whole comforting others thing which is understandable considering his backstory) but when the first mission after Lance confessed to feeling like he doesn’t belong on the team and doesn’t have a lion to pilot, this is what Keith does. Keith offers to sit out of the next mission, and lets Shiro pilot the black lion. Furthermore, he doesn’t ask Lance to return the Red Lion back to him signaling that Keith more or less handed over the Red Lion to Lance.

Keith has gotten a lot of flack for his leadership skills both in canon and in the fandom for understandable reasons, but this is a great character and leadership moment from him. He took Lance’s concerns to heart, even if he couldn’t comfort Lance properly, and then took action to remedy the conundrum without putting anyone else but himself on the spot. It’s unselfish and caring all at once.

More than the bedroom scene – which was a great Klance moment, the scene that followed it truly cemented what a great scene the former was. Without this scene, I think the bedroom scene would have felt way more lacking for me.

[dysfunctionalpurpose-deactivate]

Kya, canonically a lesbian, tells Korra and Asami about same-sex relationships and coming out in the four nations. We also find out that Kyoshi was bi!

[holyromanhomo]

My aesthetic is seeing my bisexual icons, Korra and Asami, discussing LGBT issues while the sky is painted the colors of the Bi Pride Flag behind them.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This is the most important comic book release of the year <3

[cheskamouse]

This is Cannon? O_O

[millyblank]

Yep. It’s the official sequel comic written by the creators. <3 <3

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

And it is SO GOOD

the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

Some ideas for bad things that are white/light:

lightning, very hot fire

snow storms, ice, frost on crops

some types of fungus/mold

corpses, ghosts, bones, a diseased person

clothing, skin tone, hair, etc. of a bad person

fur, teeth, eyes of an attacking animal/monster

bleached out deserts, dead trees, lifeless places

poison

Some ideas for good things that are black/dark:

rich earth/soil

chocolate, truffles, wine, cooked meat

friendly animals/pets/creatures

a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.

a pleasant night

hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person

undisturbed water of a lake

the case/container of something important

valued wood, furniture, art

velvet

Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ THIS

Get rid of the idea that ‘Dark’ is bad or scary

[roaninlynch]

Imagine Adam

Imagine the first time Adam is mentioned in the papers: Aglionby Academy student Adam Parrish graduates valediction on scholarship

Imagine Adam rolling his eyes when Ronan cuts it out and keeps it in his wallet

Imagine Adam getting mentioned in science journals for research he does at Harvard

Imagine Adam being reported on by both Cambridge’s and Henrietta’s local TV news stations when he graduates Harvard top of his class again

Imagine Adam’s valedictorian speech where he talks about living in poverty and working hard to achieve dreams (If you never saw the stars candles were enough) circulating Facebook and other social media sites

Imagine Adam signing a contract right after graduation to work for a company that creates medical technology to treat hearing loss and other disabilities 

Imagine Adam getting his own research published in science journals

Imagine Adam and Ronan’s wedding being reported on by Henrietta’s TV news stations: Aglionby alumni Adam Parrish weds Singer Falls farming company founder Ronan Lynch at St. Agnes

Imagine Adam’s satisfaction in mailing that wedding invitation to Robert Parrish

Imagine Adam making it on Forbes 30 Under 30 (science section of course)

Imagine Adam’s Forbes profile being reported on by Henrietta’s TV news stations that urge the public to buy copies and read it 

Imagine Adam being reported on by Henrietta’s TV news stations every time an invention of his breaks new ground

Imagine a framed picture of Adam being hung on Aglionby’s famous alumni wall so that every teacher and every student can’t ignore or forget his accomplishments 

Imagine Adam being able to afford his own car, his own house, his own clothes

Imagine Adam being embarrassed when Ronan insists on saving every journal and newspaper he’s mentioned in and hanging them on the walls of their home

Imagine Adam being incredibly embarrassed when Ronan insists on buying physical CD copies of the segments he’s mentioned in from TV stations

Imagine Adam being recognized by other engineers and scientists on the street and being told how his research inspired theirs 

Imagine Adam being acknowledged at fancy events where he gets to wear nice tuxedos that he doesn’t have to worry about affording

Imagine Adam being begged by other companies to come work for them

Imagine Adam starting/giving to charities that give scholarships to low-income STEM students

Imagine Robert Parrish seeing Adam every time he turns on the TV

Imagine Adam still being humble even with popularity and fame

Imagine Adam Parrish finally getting the recognition and life he deserves

[ikimaru]

it was so good to see them grow into their roles!!

[articianne]

i fixed it

[kxlance]

y'know what i was thinking, that the “leave the math to pidge” line makes a lot sense in the context of the episode bc few scenes before that pidge was talking all sciency and we see that keith immediately turned to lance for an explanation about what she had just said (and we know lance explains inside jokes and stuff like that to keith before he even asks now) but he was clueless as keith was. it almost felt like keith was saying “you and i both saw we’re not that good at math before, leave that to pidge and don’t worry” which makes it even more friendly teasing than it was before to me

[yyorozu]

haggar betraying voltron because she was obsessively seeking knowledge and immortality? and zarkon betraying voltron because he was in love with haggar? and not to seize power (it was implied he’d like power but it was ultimately haggar that became the catalyst for his betrayal)? destroying the stereotype that female characters only become villains out of love for their male counterparts? and that male characters only become villains to further their own selfish goals? dreamworks coming through with that good shit

[ezran]

everyone: Lance is so adorable counting with his pinky

me: Lance is referring to himself as the pinky because it’s usually the smallest finger and most people believe it’s completely useless…although what most people don’t know is that without the pinky finger we’d lose 50% of our strength in the hand…so without Lance we’d not only lose half of Voltron’s strength but the heart of the team

[mustlovelance]

another point i want to make–

i’m not a big langst fan, because i feel like a lot of it relies on vilifying the other members of the cast for the sake of making lance look less appreciated/loved. i know people have fun with it in fanfics, and all the more power to them (i mean this sincerely; i know there’s a push-back against langst, but i have nothing against it as long as it doesn’t seep into canon analysis), because fanfic is a free-for-all-playground, but it’s not my thing. 

in terms of canon… 

while we as an audience know that lance is super insecure, not everyone else does. you can say that pidge is mean for labeling lance as a “goofball”, since he internalizes this and starts to genuinely believe it–or you can realize that she meant it all in good fun and had zero intent to seriously hurt his feelings. assigning malice to her casual, playful insult isn’t really fair to her. she cares about lance a lot. remember when she completely changed her tune about leaving in season 1 because lance was hurt? remember when she screamed for lance in season 2 after he got hit at beta traz? remember that she specifically thought back to lance trying to befriend her at the garrison when saying that she wanted to be closer to her teammates? 

the team likes lance as a person. they enjoy having him around. he’s their friend. it’s why they mess with him like this. do any of them look like they’re making fun of him because they dislike him? no. 

hell, keith sincerely tried to cheer lance up by joking about him being bad at math! and it kind of worked! 

now, does lance interpret a lot of this in the worst possible way because he’s insecure? absolutely. does this mean everyone else is to blame for how he feels? no. they simply don’t understand the extent of his issues. they’re fighting a war, as lance himself reminded keith; they don’t have the mental energy to devote to fussing over lance’s feelings all the time.

it’s complicated because you can’t blame lance for being insecure either; it’s all just a series of misunderstandings, really. if lance were to run off because he thinks he’s the unnecessary seventh wheel, i imagine they’d all be shocked and really upset. 

but blue?

blue has no such excuse. blue understands the situation perfectly. she knows exactly what lance is feeling. if anyone in the universe would know that lance is insecure, it would be blue. she can send ideas directly into his mind without any effort, and yet she chose to remain completely silent and shut him out instead. no explanation, no reassurance, no goodbye, nothing. she basically just slammed the door in his face and let him figure the rest out. 

she knows exactly what kind of assumptions lance would make after being shut out. she knows that he feels like a seventh wheel even when he does have her support. she knows that he hinges his identity on her (”mrs. blue lion”). she knows that he’s very possessive of her (’we’re very happy together! very happy!”). she knows that he calls himself lancey-lance. hell, she can probably name every single member of lance’s family. 

it’s no coincidence that blue finally responded to allura when she expressed self-doubt. that’s something that blue recognizes quite well since lance doubts himself so much.

it’s one thing for someone to be clueless about how lance feels and say something that accidentally upsets him–keith in particular, since he’s a “loner”–and it’s another entirely to be 100% aware and let him suffer anyway. she’s supposed to be his lion, his old girl, his best girl, but she left him out in the cold in such a pointlessly cruel (and dangerous, honestly, considering how much it delayed lance entering the battle) way. 

this right here is canon langst, from the last source i would have thought of. 

we’d better get a damn good explanation for her behavior in season 4.