#which looks like a fake tag

[fireflywitch]

stranger things fic rec friday, 12/23/22

focus on the teens this time, mostly jonathan, with some nancy/jonathan and jonathan/steve/nancy thrown in

People Watching - frutescence (T, 4.5K)

if will and jonathan had one more chance to have that conversation after the piggyback. in between the “two days later” and really nicely well done!

try this trick and spin it - stoprobbers (T, 7.4K)

jonathan after will’s possession, grappling with the trauma of season 2. i will forever love those directly post-s2 fics, and this is no exception! from 2018

reminds you of innocence - dharmainitiative (T, 5.8K)

steve pov of nancy and jonathan and how he could ever fit into that with some speculative season 5 (steve/nancy/jonathan)

i love him well - scoutshonour ((T, 13K)

jonathan on brothers, fathers, and father figures over the years. close focus on family and this author has so many great fics!

#fic rec friday #jancy #also stoncy #which looks like a fake tag #jonathan byers #also if anyone has jonathan or jargyle fics pls send my way thank u

[viccharine]

do you guys ever listen to a band so much that you end up making fake merch for it?

(reblogs greatly appreciated!!!!)

close ups and commentary under the cut!

about the poster itself: do you guys know how hard it is to make art for a band that hasn’t been active in 13 years? the answer is HARD (yes, i probably could done research and looked for old interviews for inspiration but who has time for that)

—> the icons related to “take a vacation!” are inspired by lyrics from the song “take a vacation!” (haha, did you see what I did there?) specifically, the lines “we’ll leave the waves at the ocean” and “we’ll leave the sand in a suitcase”

—> the Jon Walker and Ryan Ross icons are taken directly from the album cover (it took ten years off my life trying to figure out how to get them on here w/ the color palette—graphic design may be my passion but I never said i was GOOD at it)

—> the heart imagery comes from the fact that the band’s called “the young VEINS”—although it annoys me IMMENSELY that i technically drew more arteries than veins in the icons (my anatomy teacher would be so disappointed, but alas, anatomical accuracy had to be sacrificed to make it. yknow. look nice)

—> i did hand-lettering for all the text except for everything that’s in Helvetica (i did THAT in canva). the art program i use has a basically unusable text tool so I was forced to draw all of it, so I choose to believe that the reason why it doesn’t look. the best. is because of the caffeine shakes

some extra commentary: am I the only one who’s genuinely REALLY bad at listening to music? i don’t really get into bands as much as i just find songs that sound nice—to illustrate the extent of this issue: i did NOT know that Brendon Urie was a part of Panic! At the Disco. I’m not even kidding, I thought the artist who made Death of a Bachelor and the artist who made A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out were completely different and just. didn’t bother to check if I was right.

also, I’m not the type of person to be interested in band lore???? I rarely know the names of band members if even I’ve listened to the band for years (I really couldn’t care less in most situations)

case in point, i did not know who the FUCK Ryan Ross was!!! i knew he was in p!atd but that’s literally about it—before a couple of days ago if you asked to me pick out either Ryan Ross or Jon Walker from a line up I would not be able to get even CLOSE

anyway, my friend/manager is really into band lore, so I basically got a crash-course in all things “early to late 2000s emo band” and subsequently found out about the Young Veins (i was also extremely disappointed when I found out they only had one album and hadn’t been active in over a decade) THEN I realized that decade old, inactive bands don’t usually have merch, so I made my own! “merch” used lightly—i don’t think this is actually fit to sell lol

anyway that’s all k thanks byeee :D!! (and go stream the young veins!!)

#the young veins #ryan ross #jon walker #panic! at the disco #can I technically tag this as panic! at the disco if I only mentioned them in the caption #whatever yolo #brendon urie #again can I tag brendon Urie if he’s only mentioned in the caption? idk but I will #band fanart #the young veins fanart #band poster #fanart #digital art #graphic design #i actually have no graphic design background which explains why it looks like that #young veins do NOT come back until I can profit off this fake poster (JOKING. IM JOKING. IM NOT SELLING THIS) #panic at the disco almost killed me that one time but that’s a story for another day #p!atd #music #take a vacation! #ryan ross fanart #technically? #Jon walker fanart #only on a technicality #tyv #ryro #artists on tumblr #bandom #bandom fanart #xoxo my art

[abaroo]

I realised I had to refine Ceroba for my au…

In the cowboy swap au, Ceroba is actually the Sheriff and leader of the Feisty Five. Clover is still the Deputy and goes by “Lucky Star”. He loves hanging around town with his Mama ☺️. I haven’t come up with a cool cowboy name for Ceroba yet, although she probably wouldn’t use one :/

Cowboy Swap Masterpost

#wait what’s with the random dot in the middle #whatever I’m too tired to go back and edit it #mildly infuriating when #I had a lot of fun with this design though #I don’t have a signature weapon for her yet #but her lasso handle looks like the bell on the end of her staff during pacifist and genocide route #love her but she’s so hard to write! #kinda going for a ‘fake friendly turns into real friendly which makes betrayal all the worse’ #wait that’s just liar revealed trope #eh I’m working on it #this is too many tags #again I’m tired #I’m going to bed #cowboy swap au #ceroba #ceroba undertale yellow #ceroba uty #undertale yellow fanart #uty fanart #undertale yellow #uty #artists on tumblr #fanart #video games

[heidi-dai]

First concepts for human-ish ROTG characters

Can you tell which is my favorite?

#rotg #rise of the guardians #fanart #e. aster bunnymund #jack frost #toothiana #(i gave her a fake last name she uses as a human(subject to change later)) #will link au explanation later #so sorry Sandy and North fans #I need to practice how I draw them later #my sister said Jack looks like Gojo which is in line for me lol #Bunny is based off of aboriginals #loosely #art tag

[evansbby]

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#after 1737272 years i go on the chris evans tag to see if i can find what they talked about in that Islamophobia and antisemitism asp chat #obviously i find nothing on that #but people seem to care more about being investigators and saying he looks bad and therefore is unhappy which of course means #that his marriage isn’t real (delusions) #LIKEEE do yall hear yourselves #here’s the thing… PEOPLE AGE. #he looks his age #he’s also skinny now and it shows on his face #and he wears his glasses now #so okay he doesn’t look like the beefy hunk he used to be but why does that mean he’s unhappy??!? #yall are weird fr #personally I think he’s relaxed enough in his marriage to just kinda let go #in the sense that he hasn’t got any movies to film he hasn’t got any premieres #it’s not like he’s trying to attract any women since he already has one now #yall think you’re detectives out here all ‘oh he looks unhappy wah wah wah’ #it’s so weird that THAT is what yall focus on #and you always bring it back to his wife and how it’s all her fault and his marriage is fake and blah blah blah pr this and pr that #like it’s fr WEIRD #yall are embarrassing yourselves this is JOBLESS BEHAVIOURRRR #it’s giving the same energy as the woman who wrote the letter #TELL ME WHAT IS SO UNBELIEVABLE ABOUT WHITE MODDLE AGE MAN MARRYING YOUNG 20 SOMETHING GIRL #why do you put him on some high pedestal that ‘oh nooo our chris would NEVER do this!1! he’d never marry someone like that!1!1!1’ #well guess what he did and it’s entirely believable #and it’s weird of yall to bring his looks into it and launch your weird investigations #he looks fine #why should he have to maintain the beefy Captain America look forever just to prove to yall he’s happy?!?! #SO FUCKING WEIRD YALL ARE WEIRD

[treesbian]

masc presenting transfems 🤝 fem presenting transmascs

^^^ the world is so beautiful

#talk tag #i just think it is so so cool when u are trans and refuse to change urself to meet cis standards for how to be your gender. #ive thought it was cool since i learned it was a thing. and thats for reasons. #i tried to do drag king makeup a couple times a bit ago and I hated the facial hair part on me so bad. this may sound insane #but the most masculinizing part of it to ME. to ME. was the lipgloss lol #smth smth queer masculinity #q slur #but if i wear lip makeup on its own without the facial hair it just looks like Girl In Lipstick. which is whatever #appearance doesn’t have much bearing on identity. #but either i am just really really bad at drawing fake facial hair or i don't know what styles of it suit me or i just fucking hate it

[good-beans]

(Milgram self-insert oc masterpost hehe)

Name: For the sake of posting online I’ll call her Rose!

Color: #E7355B [the pink in the art]

Age: I guess she’d be 20 given when Milgram started huh.

Status: Milgram Staff, Machine Technician

Symbols/imagery: ballet/musical theater, science experiments

Song genre: very similar to Mahiru's, something upbeat and extra pop-y

Tentatively she's number 011? She's not really prisoner but she's also not free to come and go, so I'm not actually sure if she'd get a number (Edit: I've decided she'll actually be 012. Staff is given the 01X range, and even though Es doesn't actively have a number they'd be staff member 011, making her 012.)

Story: Since the project is supposed to be realistic/present day, the mv machine would be brand new and unpredictable tech, so they’d want someone keeping up on maintenance and making sure the brain-invasive process won’t cause any harm to the prisoners. Rose was studying abroad in Japan working on some cool neuroscience tech (irl I know nothing about technology or brains but shh) and she stumbled upon some secret tech/plans from Milgram. Long story short, she was dragged into the experiment to make sure things ran smoothly.

Writer's Reasoning: She’s really fun for me to play around with, as she allows me to work with a character who has a tiny bit of pull over Es’ mindset in conversation but not the final decision (aka mirroring the voting system), and someone who is simultaneously trapped in the prison but has a reason to see all the canon content.* I really enjoy the character interactions and dynamics Milgram has set up so far, so it’s been super fun seeing how things change for better and worse when someone not quite aligned with either Milgram/the prisoners is thrown into the mix!

*As much as I love dramatic irony in fiction, it would drive me crazy if I knew every detail of of the vds/mvs but Rose didn't – and every single Milgram character is The Worst Communicator Ever so I couldn’t justify that she’d hear it secondhand from them...

Story roles:

She’s a bit conflicted -- she’s officially Milgram staff and knows she should remain neutral on the prisoners, since she won’t be allowed to interfere with the process/executions. At the same time, her job description is literally “make sure the machine doesn't hurt them and everyone's safe :)” and she's way too emotional to avoid getting hopelessly attached to everyone 😅

I really enjoy the theory that the machine extracts videos based off of priming, so one of Rose’s duties involves listening in on the interrogation and making sure there’s been enough material discussed/not too much time has passed overall (hence the ringing of the bell happening at different lengths for each vd -- That's her ringing it :3). She then watches the mvs along with Es to make sure there are no machine glitches, and know how to calibrate it better for next time.

(IEdit: I've since decided to add in official trial mvs, but before when I wasn't ready to tackle that:) She has to run some tests on the machine to make sure things are calibrated correctly, so she'd extract little things here and there. It gives me the opportunity to think up lyric snippets and recurring symbols for her without worrying about full encompassing music videos.

I'm not afraid to admit she can fall into Mary Sue territory every so often by being everyone's friend, because it's less about "aw everyone likes her" and more about "canon is too painful rn and I need a fix-it tool to take care of these guys and give them hugs and tell them someone forgives them and cares about them and unfortunately these characters wouldn't let anyone less than a friend do that." Rest assured she's definitely not perfect and will fuck everything up on occasion :3

Miscellaneous: Whenever I play around with normal au ideas she's still working on the machine (but in a public, more ethical setting), and she's Mahiru's roommate :) Her character isn't super focused on love, but if I had to pick a cover song it'd be Stickybug II. It's very much my vibe, the lyrics fit well enough (better than most songs, at least lol) and it's one of my favorites out of my limited knowledge of unchosen Deco songs! (Edit, I've actually given her non-deco cover songs hehe)

So yeah, I hope she's not too boring without a cool crime to decipher, but I wanted to share since I was really proud of her! It took a bit of tinkering to find a way to fit her into a perfect secret-third-thing role that runs very smoothly with all of canon, so I was very excited!

#waaahh posting before i chicken out #I've never posted about a self-insert so please be kind lmao 😅 #i dont expect a ton of hype for her but if people have questions im always down to talk about her hehe #this is my only art -- i rarely draw oc stuff but i was really happy with how this came out #i definitely dont think shed get a number or those side rune straps by canon standards but the art wouldnt look right without them #im mad that the lab coat and gloves make her look a bit like shidous design :/ i definitely wanted more scientist vibes than doctor #dw she wears her PPE when she works on the machine 😤 #yeah yeah theres some shipping aspects sue me -- but genuinely its mostly for fun character studying and fix-its #mkdr and neoneon also hold a special place in my heart but i didnt want to double up on covers #im so sad because she just. doesnt fit into LCSyS #the machine is fake in the au so shed have no opportunity to join the experiment #plus even if i made her generic staff shed just be on the receiving end of the lie with es... which is just canon until the very end adfsdf #WOO huge thank you to kyanako5972 and purgemarchlockdown for enabling me to be annoying once again >:3 #and thank you gunsli!! our chat was the first time i ever talked about her and it really gave me a lot of confidence :') #not maintagging but i will edit for organizational tags later #i also may put this on my writing blog at some point but we'll see #my art #rose posts #ocgram #milgram

[francesderwent]

Jonathan starts out the story with a very close-knit family unit, a mother and a brother who all love each other deeply but who have already faced a lot of hardship. this leads to him having a very batten-down-the-hatches, circle-the-wagons kind of approach to life. his circle expands (minutely) as the story progresses, to include Nancy and Argyle, but he always has a limited list of people he cares for, and his goal is to protect them. he’ll make sacrifices for them, he’ll shape his life with them in mind. his whole universe shrinks to fit the few people who matter, and everything else fades away—including the possibility that those people could find happiness in the wider world. the world is a threat, something to be guarded against. you can’t take on the world and win, it’s not going to change for the better no matter what you do, you just have to keep your head down and deal with the tragedy of it. he’s seen monsters, he’s known loss. he knows all too well that the picture-perfect happy family is an illusion painted over resentment and cruelty, or even just an illusion painted over the complications that come with loving flawed people. any other outlook is naivety—this is why Jonathan has so little patience for Bob Newby, who is decent but simple, buying into all the things that Jonathan has already seen aren’t unbreakable. and this is why Jonathan walks away from Steve and Nancy kissing in the high school halls in season 2, not out of jealousy, just out of impatience with how juvenile and unrealistic it seems to him. they’re playing into the image of what teenagers are supposed to be and do, the path they’re all meant to be on, and Jonathan doesn’t have any time for that. the image is a lie. the path where you try to fit into the world and put down roots there can only destroy you. when Will feels bombarded, Jonathan doesn’t tell him that he’s going to be happy and people will come to understand him; Jonathan tells Will that he understands him. Jonathan will do absolutely anything to be there for the people he loves; the world will do nothing for them but break them. their happiness, if they find it, is going to have the quality of escape: stepping outside the stifling boundaries of what’s expected and hiding out in a Castle Byers, somewhere they can be safe with the people they love, away from everything that wants to hurt them.

Steve starts out with a couple of merely surface-level friendships and no close family; he’s an only child, he has nowhere to direct his love and devotion, and no one giving that unconditional love to him. he’s already won everything small town high school life has to offer him, reputation and good looks and unsupervised freedom. when all of that is revealed to be vanity of vanities, useless trappings laid on top of an empty cynical life, he too sees monsters and comes to know loss. but his reaction to it is different. in season two, Steve still sees some value in going to a party and wearing the costumes he and Nancy worked hard on. he sincerely misses his girlfriend after an hour, without any cynicism, without needing to appear cool. he’s thinking about getting a job with benefits, so he can be someone to rely on. and as soon as anyone steps into his peripheral vision, Steve loves them. he loves Dustin who orders him around, he loves Robin who makes fun of him, he loves the kids who don’t listen to him, he loves Nancy who broke his heart. his perfect popular ordinary life was empty—so he fills it up with real things, that are still very much real ordinary things. he gives ice cream to the kids and watches movies with Robin, he remembers the song that the carousel horse plays, and through it all he keeps on looking for love and believing in love. the more darkness Steve sees, the more fully he throws himself into the world. it’s after he’s come very near to dying that he tells Nancy his deepest wish is to have a big family and see the world with them—he wants to bring MORE little people into existence and then he wants to introduce them to the whole of the world. he wants to have adventures with them, ordinary people in an extraordinary world, forging through it all together. and then, it’s in the oppressive hell of the upside down, where darkness is literally all around him, that he confesses that the dream is still tied up with her—not some picture-perfect fantasy, but a grounded hope, rooted in his real and abiding love for her, as he really sees her. the world is dark, and wilder and more complicated than it appears. but Steve finds his hope in the most ordinary thing there is: a husband and wife and their children. he is the sane man in a mad world that G.K. Chesteron talks about: the normal boy who becomes the fairy tale hero. 

so what about Nancy? Nancy’s outlook on darkness and the world is very much “ride out and meet them”. she sees evil in the world, and chooses to face it head on, and then, as much as possible, she tries to shoot it in the face. not for nothing does she tell Jonathan in season one when he asks what they should do about the demogorgon, “I want to kill it.” she’s not just being dramatic. she means it. what Nancy most wants, from the moment she discovers the tragedy and violence of life, is to eliminate evil in the world. she wants to kill the demogorgon, she wants to root out the unprincipled men who let it loose and see them punished for the harm they caused, she wants to banish the mind flayer even if she has to chase him out with a hot poker, she wants to set vecna on fire and then pump him full of hot lead.

and so, initially, Jonathan’s perspective seems attractive to her, because he too is aware of precisely the evil that she wants to fight, whereas Steve seems to still be appreciating the shiny surface, the veneer of normalcy and happiness that has ugliness underneath it. “it’s all bullshit,” she tells him. she can’t play the role anymore, she can’t pretend everything is fine when everything that she once knew was poisoned by death. and not only is Jonathan aware of the darkness lurking under reality, his rejection of it is so total that he’s willing to reject the entire world along with it. he so hates the evil that Nancy wants to fight that he will turn away from everything else to hide away with just her and Will. that’s romantic. it is! eros loves to say “you and me against the world”, and the romanticism of that does win out in season two. Nancy picks Jonathan and the escape he offers, picks him because he sees the same world she does. but as the story progresses, we see that their worldviews don’t align perfectly. they’re not in agreement about how to deal with the world. Jonathan wants to get through his internship with a minimum of conflict and go home to his family; Nancy wants to prove herself, change people’s minds, make a lasting difference. Nancy is starting to imagine a life she can build with him, Jonathan can only see what he already has and wants to preserve.

so what we see starting to happen in season four is Steve’s perspective is becoming more and more appealing to Nancy. she’s surprised by that, and I think confused by it. it doesn’t make any sense to her, but suddenly his hopes and dreams don’t sound like bullshit anymore. the picture he paints for her of the life he wants sounds nice, especially because he knows what he’s talking about; he’s been quietly practicing for it, taking care of others younger and weaker than himself, attracting no attention and asking for no reward. it’s not bullshit, it’s not naive—it’s the dream she had before everything fell apart, and now it could be real. and why does Steve’s hope become steadily more and more attractive than Jonathan’s escape? because Jonathan can only retreat, into the safety and solitude of the Byers homestead or into a cloud of smoke. Steve can enter into the world and transform it, light it up from within. Steve can act, and Nancy is a woman of action.

#meta whine and rant #tagging for spoilers: #stranger things s4 #me writing this like: i don't think i have anything to say about nancy except that she wants to fight #which - in fact - IS all I said about nancy #I DO not understand her like I feel I understand the boys #but I think I am correct on that one point #also. do not ask me to explain what jonathan's deal is vis a vis college in s4 #because I do not remember #also catch me putting the g.k. chesterton reference in the body of the post instead of in the tags where it belongs #can't stop won't stop babyyyy #also. like. look at this. #steve is a chesterton hero for SURE #but jonathan IS a taylor swift leading man!!! #I'm sitting here writing meta for a fantasy show!! obviously I am ALL ABOUT escape!! #but I do think nancy is gonna go the other way! #also. just. #'high school is fake but marriage is real' is my favorite love triangle take of all time #yeah! reject the ruling forms of teenagerhood!! it's so stupid!!!!! #but then get married and have six little nuggets #stranger things

[robotsafari]

does nobody like repliku…??

#robo ramble #its like robo-ky all over again. #all i see in thr repliku tag is the same robovenom yaoification. #except robovenom actually does have potential as a ship #its just that ppl dont see it because they dont take those characters seriously or actually look into their lore past xrd. #vanpliku on the other hand is an unfortunately underswritten character paired with a character who the fandom doesnt really get #vanpliku just seems like the fandom ships it because its 'soriku but evil' which. sucks. #not only does that miss the entire point of repliku’s story but it fails to do anything interesting with vanitas #oh so now he’s just bastard boyfriend. #i havent thought about vanitas that hard lately so im not in the mind set to talk about what would be better for writing vanitas but #just think about it with the materials we do have of him okay <3 #REPLIKU ON THE OTHER HAND. #MANY THOUGHTS ON HIM. #like im looking at the ship on a repliku bias. and man. #idk its boring. and all that says about the fandom is that they dont see repliku as his own person #so congratulations. you missed the whole point of his character!! #and by extension the whole point of the game ! #so yeah ermm. vanitas isnt just evil sora. and repliku isnt just fake riku. #anyway vanpliku is like if you shipped robo-ky and mugen charater copy dizzy. #because it was 'evil kydizzy' #btw its okay to ship vanpliku i just dont fucking get it.

[front-facing-pokemon]

#cascoon #it's like silcoon‚ but purple and pointy! desperately trying to remember how this one comes about. i'm gonna seem like a fake pokémon fan #i know silcoon and cascoon are both evolutions of wurmple. but i don't remember what the criteria are. is it a gender thing? hold on google #oh. it's just. some hidden personality value. so it's effectively random #y'know what. i think that's better than it being a gender thing. shoutout. but it could be considerably more interesting #maybe i'm just conditioned by the hitmonline to think that every evolution criteria has to be stupid and obscure and insane #or finizen At All #or all the stupid-ass trade evos. do not like trade evos. i do Not like trade evos! i have said this before but i will keep saying it #i just realized i called cascoon purple and pointy as though silcoon was not pointy. i'm not with it at all this morning #i just woke up‚ y'all. can you tell. can you tell i'm not sentient yet. i have to go to work in like an hour and a half and i am Not ready #anyway. i'm gonna get this guy up in the queue and dustox and then take my meds. see you guys in the dustox post #this must look so weird to y'all. since dustox is gonna be either multiple hours or a whole Day after cascoon #but i queue up two to three pokémon at once every morning to keep a good backlog in the queue in case one morning i miss it #which has happened before. it's saved my ass before. and i'm gonna need to use it at the beginning of july #sneak peek for you guys. i'll be heading out of town on june 30th to go to the other side of the country for work. so i won't be around #any posts you see from june 30th to july 4th are gonna be like super duper queued in advance. and i probably won't be able to answer asks #or anything like that. i dunno if i'll do a formal announcement bc no one will even notice but for you dear reader #who read this deep into my mile-long cascoon tags. you now know that i will be out of town from june 30th to july 4th #use this power wisely….

[monarchisms]

@fornhaus 【🖼】

#this was a solid request. thank you :) #trevor collins #achievement hunter #this isn't between the games #but it's btg-esque so i'm tagging it #between the games #realized i read the timestamps wrong #which led to an extra gif being made #but i don't really mind #because having the two gifs together just looks nice to me #e's gifs #fake ah q #this video ruled #trev and joe were just goofing around #and that's what i like the most about AH content in general: Just Straight Goofing

[non-plutonian-druid]

i feel like we as a society dont do enough with the fact that five had long hair for like, his whole life. Do i think he took care of it well enough for it to be possible to braid it? no. is that going to stop me from drawing it in a braid? of course not. Featuring delores judging five’s math skills and a mysterious hand injury bc i got sick of drawing five’s hand halfway through

[ID: A digital drawing of Five at approximately age 30 sitting crosslegged with his back mostly to the viewer. He is gesturing and probably talking about math to Delores, who is a human person sitting behind him and braiding his hair. There are little blue flowers in the braid. Delores is wearing a floral sundress and looks skeptical at whatever Five is saying, while Five is wearing heavily patched clothing and has two of his fingers bandaged. End ID.]

#tua #the umbrella academy #five hargreeves #dolores tua #dolores hargreeves #i still think the fact that thats a tag that exists is delightful. but like in a way that hurts me #mostly i am giving five a braid because braids are fun but if i were to give my fake deep thoughts they are as follows: #i feel like putting his hair in a braid would be like #one of the few ways that he has to control his appearance? a gesture at making himself feel like he can Look Nice #that is neither wasting resources nor takes too long #same with the flowers #flowers are right there! shit does eventually start growing back! and many of them are not super useful so like. #picking them and putting them in his hair or giving them to delores is Nice is Convenient and Does Not Take Very Long #which adds up to Nice Thing He Can Do For HImself That Is Both Possible And Justifiable #thanks for coming to my ted talk #my art

[littleragondin]

Dragon!Mangkorn and Tiger!Yai, inspired by a still of one of their photo shoots and @scarefox comment that Mos looked very dragon-y in it (he did).

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#Big Dragon the series #Mangkorn x Yai #MangkornYai #the comment 100% triggered the whole thing which is why I tagged but if you want your @ removed please just tell me and I will! #thanks to the people in here who wrote about the series colors and yin/yang symbolism for guiding the aesthetic choices I made #a few comments on my choices bc I don't want to clog the description so #Mangkorn's 'crest' is inspired by Thai Naga dragons depictions I found #(I had started with more 'classically' chinese dragons as inspo but they just looked incredibly cool) #I didn't want to give Yai animal ears (despite finding it lovely) bc of the double ear situation it would induce #so he has a tail AND also skin stripped markings #(I *know* tiger's stripes are purely on their fur this is like artistic licence) #also it's fake fur on his coat #but he strikes me as the kind of guy who would wear faux-fur of his own species and play it as #'wearing the hide of my enemies so fckn b e w a r e' #and while Mangkorn's claws are false Yai's nails are particularly sharp #no other reason that I wanted him to claw Mangkorn's neck but had the visual of those claw-ring-things before anything else in there #anyway they both have really nice faces (especially Yai goodness) but very challenging to draw - a nice exercise #my art #qmdslkjf my autocorrect keep switching Yai to Yaoi I'm just („ಡωಡ„) p l e a s e

[orkpup]

want them to beat the shit out of me honestly

#howls #long tags teehee #they pretended to punch my face earlier and ive been thinking about that since #i mentioned that aside from hickeys and being bitten and i rarely ever bruise #and any scars i get fade very quickly #the look on their face was like that was a challenge to them #maybe it is #i joked that i was the perfect victim expecting them to not like that joke #but they thought it was funny and now im sitting here like. please make me victim to you #i wanna Fight them i want them to beat me and i wanna try my hardest to fight back in earnest #and i want them to overpower me and win and make me their victim #i want them to keep track of the things that i mention trigger me and eventually use them against me #i want them to force me into fight or fawn #and they can do all their cute and sweet aftercare things after the fact #but i want to feel scared of them #i want to create a fake safeword to use when i normally would want to safeword but dont want them to stop just yet #and i want them to laugh at me and make me cry and use me until theyre too tired to continue #which i can only imagine would feel like fucking forever for me #the stamina on that mf.. when he picked me up to fuck me better i actually screamed #creating a habit of fucking me fully awake when he sees me waking up.. #and im meant to not get obsessed with him.. ok #also intentional aftercare in name isnt foreign to me but its definitely something to get used to because just something as simple as him- #holding me and telling me i did good after violent sex meant the world to me #crazy

[olliecoded]

thank u to the person who called me a "transtrender" and said i'm faking it and not queer enough and learned about queerness through tiktok etc etc. all because i made the absolutely fucking buck wild claim that we should let bi lesbians live their lives in peace. wow

#keira don't look #<- it wasn't keira they just know the person im talking about and this was AGES ago i dont want them to know im still upset about it hehe #anyway for context i was talking about how attempts to place queer people into rigid boxes & draw unbreakable lines in the sand r always #going to fail bcs queerness is complex and messy! and human beings sometimes have identities that don't fit neatly under one label! #and the people who say shit like ''aphobes terfs and anti-neopronouns dni'' r the same people who now bully mspec lesbians #like. ur exclusionism isn't better just because it's ''woke'' this time. it's still bigoted tee hee #ANYWAY IN SUMMARY. i was just saying that i don't think it's our business to police how others identify and why they do so #and this person starts saying that im only queer bcs of tiktok and saying that i cant have an opinion on queer issues #and that im faking being trans #which is. incredibly hurtful especially bcs im bigender genderqueer genderweird etc so exactly the kind of trans person that exclus hate #and it's like. is this what people do? they just start trying to kick queer ppl out of our own community when they dont like what we're #saying?? #sorry i think about this periodically and it makes me really upset it's like. keep trying to define the entire fucked up weird spectrum of #human attraction and gender and then make everyone use ur definitions. dont worry bro itll work this time. #queerposting #<- i talk in depth about queer issues sometimes so ill start using that tag for ppl who dont wanna see the discourse

[whatudottu]

Something that I have been secretly obsessing over for forever is the idea of a Ben 10 (or general Omnitrix wielder) that goes full superhero and goes and designs secret identities for EVERY transformation, seeing as how though perhaps the wielder themself is from a human perspective disguised behind the face of an alien, well- fairly certain that transformations have their own degree of recognisability themselves-

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I mean, from the perspective of a human Omnitrix wielder like Ben or many other characters from canon to original may focus on the visual aspect of recognition, so maybe species with more than one recognisable feature or a completely different set of recognition (vulpimancers may recognise scent and perhaps sound, pyronites may recognise - among sight - heat signature or temperature) are kinda looked over without actually putting their all into studying ‘what makes me recognisable’, but like- in all honesty this is just me rambling about what human masks would fit the Omnitrix translation to certain alien transformations without proving detrimental to any of their abilities.

What kind of mask would a lepidopterran wear, one that conserves confidentiality without detracting from mouth-based protectiles, what about piscciss volann with their biting? What about a mask with a beaded mouth covering, perhaps one with antennae (or lures) of it’s own? What kind of mask that a human can wear be safely used on a pyronite? Give em a flame retardant gas mask, one maybe with an open back just to maintain the flame headed aesthetic.

Can you even mask every transformation? Beyond the Omnitrix sample of arburian pelarota being the very few examples of the newly practically if not extinct species, can you mask a face that rests on the main body? Is recognition of Arburia dictacted in fact by the face of a pelarota or is it determined by shell and (apparently they have hair) fur patterns?

Well, perhaps in that case a superhero outfit is best for the situation!

What superhero mask doesn’t come it with it’s own superhero costume? Well perhaps you could outfit your arburian pelarota transformation with a cloth ‘mask’ that physically acts as the shirt, they do after all have ‘eyeless vision’, all in due part according to their sensory fur (how do you think they see when rolling rolling?). Why not pair our pyronite mask with a firefighter coat, make them seem like a heroic rescuer rather than a TF2 Pyro main, the chunkier and more Fire Force it looks the better. And what about another member or a near extinct species petrosapiens sporting layers of sound absorbing clothing, worn with perhaps a full head mask that also helps insulate from sound as a defense whilst keeping up an optimal level of anonymity.

Masks with bells, give them to aliens that recognise with sound. Masks with real flowers, give them to aliens that recognise with scent. Put a mask in the fridge or let it sit in the sun, give it to an alien that recognises temperature.

What degree does body shape affect alien recognition, how different do you want to make the body look, how does your superhero outfit work to perhaps benefit your transformation.

How do you mask an opticoid? Give them a lacy mask/shirt, they don’t give a shit about chest nudity! How do you costume a gourmand? Give them a jacket they can zip right open, maybe just straight up sleeves with extra material that MIMICS a jacket! How about a loboan? Give them a long-nosed eye mask, it doesn’t need to cover the mouth so long as it covers the top of the snout!

Ough I love masks so much-

#ben 10 #what do i even tag this as... #eh *shrugs* this is just complete #rambling #honestly i was gonna use this post as an excuse to take a picture of all my non-covid masks #which is about *does a kinda literal head check* about 21 unique masks #which includes one of those dollar store masks who's only feature is the fake flower i decorate it with #but excludes the two masks that i painted for an art protect which- while functionally wearable- are a bit too precious to consider doing so #says me who owns amongst the 21 masks 3 genuine venetian masks one of which is the most elaborate mask i own #but anyway i found an old omnitrix wielder oc that had gone with the whole superhero id thing #but it was clearly when i was a fan of tokyo ghoul (aka one mask across all forms regardless of if it worked + casual outfit) #somewhat related i wonder what other alien cultures have as superhero designs because i guess that informs what 'disguised' means #does one who recognise scent used a perfume instead of a mask? does one cover themselves in icepacks to look colder? #and keep in mind- why the omnitrix wielder may be so attached to masks (aside from me being obsessed with them) #is that before and after transformation they gotta also protect themselves too #i guess this is like super reliant on picking the right outfit or getting the right transformation #but like if you can access the clothing programming of the omnitrix (which it clearly would have if ben gets unique clothes) #then you can have your very own human superhero outfit that only uses it's base component materials to act as source for alien outfits haha #ough i am thinking of firefighter hero heatblast (aka the theme and design that really inspired me to ramble)