#calling this

[imtunahex]

More of that spirited away au :o

[dawnschild]

Theories point to February 17th being an important date because of Lunar New Year, but this year it's also Shrove Tuesday, a day in which Christians are called to repent of any sins they might have committed, and participate in the rites of Confession, making a point to focus on self-reflection and to choose a "Lenten sacrifice", renouncing to a pleasure or luxury for the period of observance of Lent, which starts the next day with Ash Wednesday. It's also a day of indulgence in richer foods, as they will observe a fast until Easter.

It's also the date of Mardi Gras, the last day of Carnival, a festivity that predates Christianity and has its roots in Greco-Roman festivals, but eventually blended into the Christian timeline. Carnival is a time of public celebrations, parades, entertainment and street parties, often blending elements of a circus. It is a time of role-reversal, as common folks wear masks to hide their identity and behave in ways they wouldn't normally be allowed, erasing social boundaries. It is a time of satire, to mock and highlight society's contradictions and promote change.

The Carnival of Venice is tied to Commedia dell'Arte, a form of theatre that utilises standardised archetypical characters, shared across all productions and identified via their names, costumes, and functions in the comedy. The characters are masked and usually represent fixed social types and stock characters. These archetypal characters are common in carnivals and street games to this day.

February 17th calls for confessions, honesty, and the shedding of masks that hide real identities.

[sunshine-of-rebellion]

ok but has anyone considered baby/rumi/jinu where it's literally just baby and rumi screaming and scratching at each other with jinu in between. it starts off as 'hey this is my bf, and that's my bf's bf' before the genuine fights turn into petty banter then to domestic cuddle piles beneath the same comforter with the sun setting skyline as the view

they both start getting along great bc they love making jinu squirm and cry under them btw

[items-objects-gizmos]

Trying to get people excited about my fic so that im motivated to actually finish it. Its au poppy that grew up at meeple with mephone4 as their brother and is now looking for him to reconnect after helping him escape back in 2011ish, but otherwise follows the plot of season 4 faiiirly closely, with changes of course due to poppy actually being raised by cobs to inherit meeple and everything that comes with that. Douglas Adams is one of my absolute favourite writers and I try to emulate his sense of humour in my writing (though of course I could never truly compare to the legend himself)

(Note poppy is trans and transitions during the story, so since it’s from their perspective they use he/him pronouns and their deadname for themself for the first third or so, in case anyone is confused about the “he”s in the snippets below. Also they tend to deadname/misgender themself when dissociating or under stress because thats a thing i do and im projecting)

(Also i put a stupid amount of thought into their deadname [not depicted here], because theyre a billionaire celebrity’s child, of course their birth name is gonna be just stupid and pompous and oh my god steve what were you thinkinggg and also i did some research into steve jobs’s actual children and sort of made poppy a bit of a parallel to lisa brennan-jobs while still fitting how i think cobs would have raised them based on the scenes from mine your own business? So yea shoutout behindthename and the transcript of this one interview lisa did lol)

[ten-shiriya23]

I had a vision

Close ups

@kiaroscuro @bigakashifan

[twoastricts]

Fuck!

Now I want to make a VSMP Pokémon AU

(I have way too many AUs)

If the player characters are Drift and Avid (with the one not chosen becoming the friendly rival) than who would the unfriendly rival be? (Note: can't be core 4 coven, they're the evil team, can't be Legs, he's the professor, can't be Abolish, I've already got plans for him, can't be Cleo, they're the champion)

[jedijenkins]

for a few years now ive toyed with the concept that jake's magical tattoo has so far been shown to be a way for him to literally share a part of his soul with another person, as it was used in the finale of s3 to help turn apep human. i have a lot of questions and thoughts about what that means for jacob to have part of his soul bound to apep once they sent him to the underworld but that's not the point of my post - in most fantasy stories, having the ability to give part of your soul to someone translates to sharing your very lifeforce with them. and in a lot of stories, that translates to the ability to heal someone/save them from death by giving them some of your lifeforce/soul to sustain them. (I imagine that maybe apep's soulbond with jake was severed when he immediately died afterwards but who knows)

so i've had the idea of jake being able to use that ability to heal/save people but it being something with repercussions/consequences - like being permanently bound to the person he saved and maybe losing some years off his own life as the price to pay for extending someone else's. not to mention, binding a part of your soul to another living person who stays alive afterwards (unlike apep) could include other things like potentially a telepathic and empathic bond (like vulcan bonds for example)

because of all of this, i have had a mental image in my head for the past few years of ezekiel taking a bullet for jake and jake holding his dying body in his arms. ezekiel, who has already died so many times before, calmly trying to tell jake its going to be okay before jake says fuck it and grabs ezekiel's hand in his and pours his very soul into him to keep him alive because he can't lose him again the emotional fallout as they now share both ink on their skin and a bond in their souls that makes it harder than ever to pretend around each other than it was before. the potential angst of ezekiel feeling violated and horrified by the idea of a telepathic/empathetic bond and jake feeling guilty for forcing something like that on ezekiel when all he wanted to do was save his life. jake trying so hard to hold back from crossing the border between their souls and minds because he doesn't want to cross ezekiel's boundaries anymore than he was already forced to, but at the same time leaving no barriers around his own mind in case ezekiel wants to look. jake knowing how important control over how people perceive him is to ezekiel, but also wanting to let ezekiel know that jake isnt going to hide anything from him. ezekiel struggling with his absolutely paralyzing fear of being truly known in entirety with no deceptions or omissions. ezekiel realizing that jake also spent his entire life hiding behinds masks to protect himself but once he came to the library he started to drop them all and truly open up.

ezekiel processing that jake has been opening up to him since the day they met in a way jake never did with anyone else, and what has ezekiel done in return? slammed so many walls down between them he might as well have been slapping jake in the face on a daily basis jake spending his whole life being so ostracized and alone and feeling forced to put up those masks to protect himself when all he ever wanted was for someone to read him like an open book and actually love what they see, so on some secret selfish level the idea of being so completely intimately understood is all jake has ever wanted but it was never meant to happen like this. ezekiel knowing once and for all without a doubt that all of jake's frustration and anger at him has been born from that feeling of an unfair double standard, the fact that every day jake opens himself up to ezekiel and every day ezekiel has refused to return the favor. as you can tell i'm going to eventually write this as a fic but i thought i'd tell you about the core ideas here since its been a while since ive just posted my ideas about this franchise to tumblr