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spiderfriend · 7 days

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My first time posting here on Tumblr! Still figuring out the site 😅 Here is my current favorite drawing!

#YEAAAAA WOOOOOOO JAMES AAAAAAART #ace attorney #simon blackquill

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spiderfriend · 9 days

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a bunch of dunmeshi doodles, some done on drawpile!! ^_^ btw my comms are open, feel free to dm me!

#THE FIRST PIC #THIS HOT PINK BITCHS NAME IS BREAKFAST #dungeon meshi

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spiderfriend · 22 days

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SIT DOWN PLEASE 📢‼️

#reeheehee #kagamine rin #kagamine len #vocaloid #project diva #vocaloid fanart #鏡音リン #鏡音レン #鏡音リン・レン #リモコン #my art

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spiderfriend · 30 days

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Snack Break

Ace Attorney, Faraskye, Teen+

CW: Minor references to Binge-eating Disorder

Summary:

While in pursuit of a confectionery company for its crimes, Kay Faraday makes one tiny, itty-bitty, potentially love-life-destroying mistake: getting Snackoos discontinued. The good news is that Ema hasn’t broken up with her yet. The bad news is that Ema wants a new stress relief food, and Kay isn’t exactly comfortable endorsing her binge-eating. Their compromise? Kay teaches Ema how to make her own Snackoos from scratch.

New fic! Kay and Ema make up and bake up. This was done as part of the @aawlwminibang, and features art from @2p42m & @spiderfriend (in that order)! Please go check them out, and all the other lovely work from the bang <3.

Ao3

#READ THIS PLSPLSPLS #ace attorney #kay faraday #ema skye

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spiderfriend · 1 month

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|| slow down time, in your golden hour 🌻

i had the honor of participating in this year's @aawlwminibang, drawing the adorable faraskye for @smolgirlowo 's equally adorable "snack break:" a fic about teaching your girlfriend to cook! with, well, mixed results. please, please check out her work here, and the accompanying piece by @spiderfriend !

#YEEEAAAAA WOOOOOOOOO #ace attorney #ema skye #kay faraday #faraskye

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spiderfriend · 1 month

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i had the lovely opportunity of collaborating with @2p42m and @smolgirlowo for the @aawlwminibang !! pm and i made art for abby's faraskye fic! i had so much fun participating in this project and i hope everyone enjoys all of our hard work :D

#ace attorney #faraskye #kay faraday #ema skye #my art #aawlwminibang24

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spiderfriend · 1 month

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woowoo wedbnesdy,.,

#nicholas d wifewood i will always love u #also i love khyt's wws SO MUCH they always make him look so sweet and kind and he has the nicest eyes... ogh #trigun

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spiderfriend · 2 months

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Vash and Femininity: Trigun Stampede and its Themes of Bodily Autonomy, Exploitation, and Vague Gender Fuckery

alright sit the fuck down. we're gonna talk about THEMES

I was on Twitter- terrible idea usually, but a couple people I follow made some tweets that got me thinking about Trigun's overall themes, and here we are. So let's talk about some themes in Tristamp! And I'll take a couple looks at Trimax as well, just for fun :3

Let's look at how the showrunners utilize gender roles and exploitation of feminine characters to show how unhealthy Knives' obsession with his ideal of Vash is, and how horrific his exploitation of Vash and the Plants is.

Vash, from the beginning of Tristamp, is someone who cares about people's choices. When people kill others in front of him, he reiterates that whether someone lives or dies is not another person's choice to make. This is something he learned from Rem (a prominent female figure in his life). He refuses to kill people because that is not his choice to make. To kill someone is the ultimate removal of their bodily autonomy. They can no longer make any choices at all; they're dead.

Vash is also someone who has almost no choice in what path his life takes. He's constantly dragged around by outside forces, namely situations that are caused by Knives (which we'll get into later). Vash doesn't make things happen, things happen to Vash. The majority of events that occur are not his fault. He's pushed and pulled in a thousand different directions. His entire life is completely out of his control.

This can be seen as early on in his life as the Fall, something he had no control over and had no idea he even had a part in. Even later, in the ship with Luida and Brad, after he's been rescued from the desert, he's kept in handcuffs right up until he's shown to be of use to them and the Plant on their ship. After that, he could theoretically say "no, I don't want to go to other ships and heal their plants," but he doesn't. He's Vash. He's helpful and nurturing at his core, and these people have done so much for him just by letting him stay, so he'll do whatever they ask, no question.

This carries over into his adulthood. At Jeneora Rock, he goes to look at their Plant at one simple request, doesn't protest when he's dragged into a duel-- he doesn't take initiative unless someone's life is immediately at stake. He lets people tell him what to do and lets himself get dragged around by the wrist. He doesn't even pretend to have control over his life like Trimax Vash does, which I mean. Fair. Why pretend to have a grip on your existence when it's impossible to do anything without a gun pointed at your head?

Vash is a very passive character. He's nurturing, kind, gentle- he's a guy that fits a lot of very typical feminine character stereotypes. If you wrote this same story but made him a woman, I wouldn't bat an eye (but I would definitely be looking at it a lot more critically, what with the amount of stereotypically nurturing/motherly female characters in media already.)

This contrasts directly with Knives. He makes a decision and carries through no matter what stands in his way. He takes initiative. If Vash is a passive character, Knives is an active character. Wherever he goes, he leaves a lasting imprint. He makes shit happen! If outside forces make things happen to him, he'll go out of his way to make sure that particular force doesn't affect him again.

These two tweets I saw are what got me thinking about this originally. I just feel like here's a good place to put them as a segue into talking about episode 11.

Episode 11 is where a lot of this feminine imagery really just. Explodes in your face. IT'S RIGHT THERE. You can't dance around it if you try. And it kind of reaches a peak when the connection reaches 100%, the gate opens, and. well. THIS happens to the Plants.

Plants, in both Trimax and Tristamp, are almost always typically feminine-looking. Knives and Vash are the only two who are male or even masculine at all. Knives, as the most masculine out of all of them, is the one trying to take charge, and mould the world as he sees fit, to a degree that is detrimental to both him and everyone else. And Vash-- passive, feminine, kind and nurturing, whose Angel Arm in the manga always sprouts decidedly feminine-looking Plant parts-- is the one being exploited for Knives' plans. It's no mistake that they made the giant plant formation at the end of ep 11 look like a giant woman that almost resembles Rem.

Vash wants people to make their own choices and keep their autonomy when it comes to their bodies and lives. Knives is the exact opposite. He wants all Plants to become independent and he uses Vash to achieve that goal, without asking what Vash wants or even knowing what the Plants themselves would prefer. He exploits Vash for the soul purpose of trying to make these Plants have Independent Plant babies. He's completely incapable of seeing that his choices are not for the greater good! He thinks he's saving them, but none of his actions are for the good of anyone but himself. He’s just violating them for his own gain.

They're really leaning into gender roles for these guys, but in a way that screams "HEY, LOOK AT THIS! ISN'T IT FUCKED UP? LOOK AT HOW FUCKED UP THAT IS. LOOK AT THIS, AND BE UNCOMFORTABLE, AND KNOW THAT IT IS FUCKED UP."

Because it is! It's so extremely fucked up. They're using this imagery and these roles, something that makes most of us intrinsically uncomfortable, to drive home how unhealthy Knives relationship with his ideal of Vash is. That's the point. We're supposed to be uncomfortable with this.

Now of course there's some nuance to it. Like, you could see Knives as somewhat of a feminine and/or queer-coded figure as well, ESPECIALLY if you look at some of his panels in the manga, which could in turn lead to themes about infighting and control within marginalized communities, but that might be something for another post. :3

And there's definitely different ways you could take this! Vash, with all this feminine imagery, could be either transfem or transmasc coded, depending on what way you'd rather see it, which could lead into themes of how people outside the norm constantly face a lack of bodily autonomy and are exploited for purposes outside their boundaries. We could also look at Wolfwood and his lack of choice over joining the Eye of Michael and becoming the Punisher, and how masculine men (particularly men of colour) are often forced into violent roles against their will. If we look at Trimax, the exact same could be said for Livio/Razlo and people with disorders such as DID/OSDD.

There are many different ways you could spin these themes, some of which I don't feel personally qualified to discuss. If anyone who is qualified to talk about Wolfwood or Livio/Razlo or even other characters related to these themes, then god PLEASE add onto this post or make a post and tag me or something. I would love to read it!

Anyway, in conclusion: Vash is a feminine figure constantly taken advantage of and exploited and and he's so incredibly trans/nonbinary-coded that it drives me insane. Thank you

#rewatching tristamp and thinking abt this post once again. jesus christ #jesus CHRIST #FUCK #trigun #fave

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spiderfriend · 2 months

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