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My two brain cells communicating

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I love gay dungeon people

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happy sigma time loop day, been working on this comic for a bit!

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Baby Zuko and his momma :)

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The only coffeeshop!au in my head is the one where the Clan Skirata are a criminal gang but they have a cozy little restaurant as a front. Everyone loves Ordo's various little pastries and cakes he makes between two assassination job.

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I got actual work done this weekend but more importantly I drew PAM WHO DEATH FORGOT

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found my new passion: putting merthur into random meme pics

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Longing (The River of Ash)

This one is for you two @ivvmell @ominouspuff cause you both chose the same palette for Fox. The vibe changed midway through so I ended up taking a lot of liberties with the execution

I probably won't be taking any new requests cause a lot have piled up and I'm not even sure I can finish the ones already there. Just a heads up

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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The Ghoul by Alex Alexandrov

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[ID: a page from Fruits Basket. Kyoko, all in black, has collapsed to her knees on the floor, sobbing and looking up as she wails, "Don't leave me! Please!" The second panel is slim and hard to make out, but compared with a previous panel, it's Katsuya's shoulder as seen from behind, lightly shaded as if fading. The last panel is a close up of tears pouring from Kyoko's eyes as she cries, "Don't... leave me...!" End ID.]

Man this makes me cry every time and I just. Look. Here's the thing. Katsuya really loved Kyoko, for the right reasons, and really did his best to do the right thing for her and make her happy. He made her certain that she was loved, and that she deserved love. But, well... she was sixteen when they got married. She might not have broken twenty yet at his death. They got married right after her parents kicked her out, and that was right after she'd left her gang and flunked out of middle school. She had literally no social connections outside of Katsuya, unless you count Katsuya's father. We never see her, even briefly, interacting with any friends or neighbours; it seems like her world, by and large, consists of Katsuya and Tohru, and Katsuya was extremely load-bearing both financially and emotionally. She has absolutely zero experience with living in the world without Katsuya caring for her. Katsuya wasn't purposefully isolating her, it's just a flat out, tragic fact of her age and place in life at the time they get married. It's why, with the best will in the world and genuine love behind it, it's still a really bad idea for teenagers to get married, especially if they're going to be the homemaker of the relationship; they're lacking so much experience and connection in the world that you need to be a grounded person. The grief of losing the person you love more than anyone else so young and so abruptly is already a lot and it's more than fair for it to be overwhelming, but I think that complete lack of grounding is what so completely undoes Kyoko and nearly kills her. She has nobody in the world except a toddler and a father-in-law who, by his own admission is pretty shite at being emotionally supportive to people; she doesn't have the friends that Tohru does when she's grappling with her own grief over losing Kyoko, which I think is part of why it never gets quite so dark for Tohru. It's a thing I really like about this manga, showing characters developing many different kinds of important relationships, because even a good, loving relationship can be dangerous if it's the only one you have.

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Some notes about this that I think are interesting. In low approval he's unnaturally still and doesn't blink. Not even once. He's turned slightly away from them like he's ready to attack or run at any second. He's fully alert and on guard. He does NOT trust tav. In high approval he literally slow blinks like a cat and sways back and forth a little like he's giddy to talk to tav. He literally can't stop smiling even at the expense of looking a little silly :3 He shows complete trust and absolutely adores them. Either platonically or romantically. Just some details that I think are really cool and show how much thought the devs put into these interactions. Even though most of the time we can't even see the faces he makes when talking to him.

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While I was writing my meta on Akira/Ren and the Cat and the maid, it struck me that I never saw anyone ever criticize how a prominent male figure in the Sohma hierarchy got together with his maid/secretary/help/servant, etc.

Beside the fact that Ren was obviously the seductor, and that the maid held the superior position compared to the Cat... The power is so obviously in the hands of the maids.

They serve, and yet, they control. Not even the family head, at the end, looks like they have any more kind of autonomy over their lives than the Cat. Their title is a complete misdirection.

It's such an original reversal: the true villains are not any individuals, neither Akito, nor Ren. The old maid is the closest. But she's a product of her environment. Individually, they're people with their own stories and struggles. They can be reasoned with. They can express regrets.

Individually, they're just human. But collectively... they represent this force of inertia that smothers down any tentative for change and improvement.

I find it incredible that Takaya chose not, as the cliché goes, a council of wizened grumpy male elders to embody the authority of the Sohma clan and abusive power structures.

Instead, there's this invisible army, nameless servants, a nebulous, undetermined mass that carries out senseless traditions without allowing themselves to question, to rebel, to think, because they're just as individually crushed down by the rules that they collectively uphold.

And what an interesting social commentary to add in the background.

Kureno, good question.

Shigure, no shit.

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i can never write a soulmates au cause i very quickly stop thinking about romance and start thinking about the sociological implications of a world where soulmates are a confirmed verifiable thing

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Lone Wanderer: *pulls out a chinese assault rifle*

Butch: How many of those do you have?

Lone Wanderer: *pulls out another* How many do you need?

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Karlach the SECOND you stand still lol

Volume up!

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So I was brain-rotting about Transformers Prime, as one does, when I had a thought. What if the bots don’t have the Uncanny Valley? Cause the theory behind the Uncanny Valley is that something that looked human that wasn’t human existed. So our brains developed an entire biological response to detect it. Since the bots were all created by Primus, and thus don’t have many if any predators that can mimic them, they just…don’t have it. Which is a big reason why Makeshift was able to trick everyone that he was Wheeljack. Till Bulkhead found holes in his story of course. What do you think?

That's an interesting thought! I like it! However I do have my own thoughts to add here!

I don't think Cybertronians would lack an Uncanny Valley phenomenon. Rather, I believe they have it and the response shows itself differently. Spark Eaters, Ghouls, and the techno organic abominations of the Quintessons I think would instill a very deep set concern when it comes to potential infiltration. I personally am of the belief that they are VERY adept at picking out something that is not one of theirs. EM fields, facial expressions, and overall movement probably help in that regard. I imagine when two Cybertronians notice each other, it is a split second scan that tells them everything they think they need to know. Failure to meet the inbuilt specifications to qualify as Cybertronian would likely be met with extreme reactions. Violence I feel would be the most common form of reaction to anyone who feels too Cybertronian and yet not Cybertronian enough.

Too many times the children of Primus have been harmed through those who call themselves allies and mask themselves in forms similar to their own.

In fact, I think they would have a heightened sense of Uncanny Valley considering all the crap their species has been through and the many MANY species that hit a little too close to home biologically at times. (cough the quints and their stuff cough). On alien ships, if you want to pick out someone who Isn't Right And Feels Off, best send the resident Cybertronian. Their sense of Uncanny Valley can be trained to pick out other things that Feel Off and thus save their comrades the pain of potentially being hurt from within.