#thoughts ig

[internet-crypt1d]

A weird Valentino quirk is that he's both a complete attention whore and also very private at the same time, some of it can definitely be defined as him just maturing with how to present himself it especially when he was younger and the frankly insane amount of attention he was getting but I also think it shows why he's so magnetic to some degree ? like yeah he's charming and interesting but also he has some sort of boy-next-door charm remaining even after decades in the spotlights that a lot of people lose really quickly

I doooo think he is an attention whore to some extent because people who aren't attention whores and put into the spotlight turn out like Casey (who's not against the attention per se but a little abrasive towards it bcs he's in this weird I'm-getting-hated-on-so-i'll-hate-back-and-then-get-hated-on-more loop but I digress) like even just the sheer amount of pap pics of Vale is just downright insane and probably enough to make people without some screws loose walk away or have a break down. Like no one was following Mick Doohan around and he was The Motorcycle Guy in the late '90s

A lot of this, I think is because that he's really really into keeping this small group of friends that he had as a kid and it kind of separates him from say the guys he was competing against for the people's hearts like Biaggi who was known to be a fame fucker. As he's stealing the limelight from Biaggi, he establishes himself as someone the normal people could root for bcs biaggi has tea with the pope and rumored affairs with super models while Valentino still hangs around with the same guy from his hometown as he had when he was still in diapers which paints a very different picture. As he gets older, of course it becomes a little different but the narrative still stays the same because he's so dedicated to this small social circle that he'd managed to construct in the start of his career

In his larger legend building thing that he does, I think this is largely a way for him not to go insane but he highlights it enough and is smart enough that it's definitely in some small way a thing for him to be like "heyyy, I'm a normal guy too" but idk I just thought in the almost narrative style that he constructs himself into a larger-than-life figure, it's interesting when he tries to humanize himself just a bit sometimes

[nightmarearian]

yk, I want Bludhaven’s Nightwing and Gotham’s Nightwing to be different.

In Gotham, obviously there are. A lot more people. There, he is “the nice one” (compared to the others).

In Bludhaven? Blud-worse crime rate than Gotham-Haven, managed only by Nightwing? There’s no fuckin way.

Personally I don’t think it’s. Mainly a conscious decision or smth? Just he does more in Bludhaven and maybe ends up being generally less cheery? Or smth. He’s more willing to be (externally) tired with Bludhaven than he would be with Gotham.

Idk, smth for him to really embody the Terror of Bludhaven title yk? Nightwing is Bludhaven’s Batman; you know like, before robin and everything. He works too hard and he’s something to be scared of. He is Bludhaven’s Batman - just a bit more flippy & quippy (and a lot more friends).

[soukokuforthesoul]

chuuya trying so, so hard to remember his past. for a while after all of stormbringer, he’s too overwhelmed to care, busy mourning the lost, and coping with what he’s learned, and everything with corruption. but he gets to a point where it’s not enough to know he existed sometime before the labs, where the photograph becomes proof that there is more, and now he needs to know what there was

and at the same time he’s scared, because what if it makes him forget what he has in the present, once he’s settled in and found a home? what if he forgets, and it’s the sheep all over?

[sstrang3crypt1d]

Praying that rowan is in the next episode (he probably won’t be)

[milkiedimitrescu]

Let's face it, on the first early days of getting used to her height, she tripped, bumped into things, and fell down stairs too many times during the day. She had to learn how to walk up and down stairs all over again but learn to skip steps in addition, and now she can't run down stairs either or else she'll trip and fall. Quite a nightmare for a large countess of her stature, don't you think?

Now, fast forward to present day alcina. She can't run down stairs no more, not in heels or her bare feet. Tragic. But when she's in a rush she needs to but she still trips but this time she hangs onto the railing 😍 I know her ass still deals with struggles present day. And you know that scene in the maiden demo, the maid hears a large bang in the distance while walking in a hallway? Alcina hit her head because she somehow forgot to couch through a door.(She was probably zoned out and bumped into a wall, real Alcina real tbh) Or she hit herself on something. I think you can even hear heels clicking as well but I'm not fully sure, but it signals she still deals with those struggles present day, but it's thankfully not as often. Yet we don't know how long the maiden demo takes place so it could've been long before Ethan obviously but what year? We may never know.

[thecoralconstellation]

We were made for fandom

[squash1]

the transition from the raven cycle to the dreamer trilogy captures the transition from being a teenager to being an adult so perfectly i can’t stand it. everything in trc is so big, everything means so much, they are all so in love with each other & fall into friendship so easily. and everything in tdt is so much smaller, so much more trust is required to make real relationships, everything falls apart so easily but there’s also so much raw intimacy. and it’s all just like living this too small too big life that is growing and changing. and it is so painful to have grown up with these characters and for them to now be stuck at one stage in life while i have to continue on.

[iheartvlastomil]

i hope this is a safe space to say i have very strong feelings about fans who romanticize/sexualize valdemar