#I decided to make it it's own post

[hauntopia]

Grown-ass-queer

It's a queer stance related to being tired of stupid ass drama. It's for when you understand the relationship between fiction and reality is complex, understand you can't really control ur kinks and shit, but will also kick the shit out of Rachel dolezal. For when I react to ppl claiming transracial deserves to be included or that liking certain fiction damns you to hell with equal disbelief and exhaustion. A queer stance for grown ass adults w no time for this shit

"I got kids, bills, kids, bills, and other shit." - Tyler the creator, loiter squad.

Pro:

- queers of all kinds, especially contradictory labels

- pro kink and para, no contact for the big three

- alterhuman

- body mods

- fiction

- chronosian

- objectum

Anti:

- bigotry

- transid

- drama

- harrasment

#blankqueer #queer stance #I decided to make it it's own post #queer #lgbt #pombqueer #critinclus but pro fiction included

[twotales]

Stargate Atlantis | Breakdown of Popular Ships

Inspired by a discussion with @massharp1971​

Please do not remove my username from the graphic.

Click for more SGA stats

#sga #stargate atlantis #fandom #ships #fanfic #Ao3 #data #twotalessgadata #I did a thing #I decided to make it it's own post #I really loved making this #a little daunting being a non mcshep writer #other characters need more representation! #twotalessgastats

[lacecap]

nice shot

#hunter x hunter #hxh #gon freecss #killua zoldyck #leorio #leorio paladiknight #kurapika #kurapika kurta #it feels so weird tagging leorio and kurapikas full names LOL #this was going to hvae a third allunanika piece but ive decided to save that for its own post #our snow angels... #fishbowl #i have to make all the filler episodes myself aroundhere

[hello-eeveev]

After the conversation with Liliana this last episode, it is so obvious that the 'the gods are bad! we're getting rid of them!' argument has absolutely nothing going for it. We now have confirmation that Predathos is doing EVERYTHING that people criticize the gods for doing. He directly communicates with his chosen and not others, he directs those people to do violence to achieve his ends, and he has the ability to possess the bodies of any and all of his chosen. He is already doing all this. What makes you think he will stop once he destroys all the other gods?

There is no freedom in their plans; just a sole tyrant and the delusion that he's one of the good ones.

#this just in: the god eater is also a god #cr spoilers #cr meta #critical role #I decided to take my tags from my last reblog and make them their own post so sorry if ur seeing it again #eve talks

[kotaki]

character tropes

↳ Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure → Sora Harewataru

#thank you for the past year sora you are everything to me 😭😭😭 #precure #hirogaru sky precure #sora harewataru #cure sky #cure prism #nijigaoka mashiro #mygifs #*chtr #now that it's over cure sky has officially entered my top 5 main cures 👏👏 #what i like about cure sky is everything i like everything about cure sky lol she is in a league of her own she's an icon she's a legend #sky/prism have defined back muscles from carrying this entire season rest well queens you did incredible #mashiro making me cry on the finale i knew it would probably happen but it got me just like the star twinkle separation did #sora was the coolest and strongest hero and i will probably post twice again tomorrow for ep 50 #(cure wonderful cameo will be a queued post if i do decide to make it though)

[fexalted]

good omens + text posts (part 9)

an assortment i made last year with some season 2 mixed in for variety :3c

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #gabriel good omens #anathema device #newton pulsifer #newt pulsifer #pepper good omens #gomens #ineffable partners #ineffable husbands #text post meme #fex post meme #fex pix #go tpm #i meant to make this post weeks ago but i got too in my own head about mixing memes from s1 and s2 shfkdhfks #like overthinking about if i should keep the seasons separated unless there's a specific theme like in the last set i posted #but in the end i decided that it's probably not something anyone would have any opinion on lmao and so here we are #if you're reading this and you Do have opinions about how to arrange my memes then feel free to tell me

[mishruum]

pt 2 of this

#i ultimately decided to make it its own post #oops!! #i actually love them like so much #especially their off hand comments of each other #top tier banter #pikmin #pikmin 3 #alph #captain charlie #pikmin brittany #brittany pikmin #my art

[theharlotofferelden]

Gonna need to put Mary Kirby + other long time staff being fired into perspective because this isn't a recent development. Bioware has been plagued with issues for well over a decade, and it's not just because of EA.

When Gaider decided to move on from Dragon Age in 2014, everyone thought it was just because he wanted to move onto a different project. He ended up leaving the company completely in 2016 after working on Anthem for a bit, and it was later reported that staff on the project had issues with his writing. He didn't mention why he left Bioware until very recently in a long twitter thread detailing that, while Bioware is a company known for its storytelling and characters, upper management went from valuing its writers to quietly resenting them, and feeling as though the writing were "holding the company back."

When they started working with Frostbite they encountered so many technical problems with it because it was specifically designed for FPS games. They were literally designing the tools they needed to work on both Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda while they were working on those games. Darrah (or perhaps Laidlaw, I forget which) even acknowledged when he was interviewed by Jason Schreier for Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, that this is a big industry no-no. But Bioware was put in a hard spot to either work with Frostbite or use the Eclipse engine that DAO was designed on (which I'm assuming would've required developing the engine and toolkit further to bring the graphics up to industry standards). So they ended up working with Frostbite which resulted in a fuckton of issues both for Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda, because the teams behind both projects had to design their own tools.

With the added stress of the toolkit also came the toxic work environment, departments that were perpetually understaffed, directors leaving and new writers coming in with different visions for the project, time mismanagement where they spent too much time on "high concept" gameplay, not having a clear vision for the game, resentments between studios, inexperience with coordinating video calls across multiple studios, the resultant mandatory crunch, etc. All of this is mentioned in this article about Mass Effect Andromeda's production cycle and this article about Anthem's.

Casey Hudson and Gérard Lehiany left Bioware in 2014 right in the middle of production on Andromeda (Casey rejoined the company as general manager in 2017, but left again in 2020). David Gaider left in 2016 in the middle of production on Anthem, as did Aaryn Flynn who left before the game was shipped in 2019. Mike Laidlaw left in 2017 and left production of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in Mark Darrah's hands, who left in the middle of its production in 2020. Matt Goldman (creative director for Dreadwolf) left the following year. Mac Walters (production director on Dreadwolf) who's been with the company for over 19 years left in January of this year. Are you seeing the pattern here?

I don't doubt that EA has influence over Bioware considering the recent layoffs appear related to the announcement back in March that EA would lay off 6% of its workforce. But it's clear there's something deeper that's going on at Bioware, and it's really not good.

When veteran senior staff are leaving one by one along with other long time staff, and it's been reported that the studio has a toxic work environment with management issues that make crunch necessary, there is something deeply wrong with the company and how things are being run. This is a sinking ship, and in all likelihood everyone is betting on keeping the company afloat with the success of Dragon Age Dreadwolf and/or the next Mass Effects game.

I want to say something more about how broadly the mainstream AAA video games industry is abusive and how incredibly fucked up their practices of layoffs have been normalized, but this is already pretty long. What I will say is that I'm not claiming this means DA4 or the next ME game is going to tank. It sure as fuck doesn't look good for it, but despite my grievances with Dragon Age, I do want the game to be successful and for Bioware to keep doing what they're doing.

And honestly, whether those games do well or not is really besides the point. Something is wrong at Bioware, whether it's the company itself or the fact it's owned by EA, and it can't be solved with mass layoffs. This is a cultural problem within the company itself, and it's very unlikely to be addressed considering how MEA failing seems to have done little to change how things are being run right now.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #mass effect #mass effect andromeda #bioware #bioware critical #ea critical #dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #da4 #i was gonna reply to another post but decided to just make my own because i have a lot of shit to say

[dazeddoodles]

Owl House Christmas ships with an updated ending

#the owl house #toh #lumity #raeda #huntlow #gusolomule #luz noceda #amity blight #eda clawthorne #raine whispers #willow park #toh hunter #hunter wittebane #gus porter #mattholomule #my art #yeah i just decided to make this it's own post

[warmdragonstew]

#decided to make it it's own post just cuz i felt weird about posting fanart under someone else's unrelated post #yeah book!alys again cuz i decided im not drawing gayle!alys till i see some pics #hbo get on that #hotd #aemond targaryen #house of the dragon #alys rivers #alysmond

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

#theres also something one of my french-speaker friends said about siffrin's official pronounciation being the feminine way to pronounce -in? #which i dont know enough about to really corroborate and theyre busyyyy and havent started the game yet so i cant really ask #im sure someone else has already voiced this easy-to-come-up-with headcanon anyway but just in case nobody has i decided to post it #isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #isat siffrin #isat loop #i also personally picture sif (and loop especially) being more hostile to the concept of changing themselves after The Encounter #both of them being big grudge-holders and that 'want' to control your own destiny being clearly against how they interpret the universe #as for whether they should be so hostile? probably not! but they appear to be anxious in fear of some kind of divine retribution should #they like. ever even dare to Want. and uh. well. that certainly went well for Loop. not sure they'd be gung-ho to do it again #so Loop being able to go 'oh well it wasn't my REAL name' as a salve for having to make a new identity AGAIN.... #while sif is explicitly clinging to it as an anchor for Who They Are If Nothing Else.. they can upset each other and also mirabelle i think #lucabytetalks

[everestentertainments]

The chocobros are such a funny friend group. Noctis and his three boyfriends. Prompto and three of his crushes. Gladio and his three autistic friends. Ignis and the three guys he babysits.

#ffxv #final fantasy xv #ff15 #final fantasy 15 #chocobros #this was originally my tags on a gladio analysis post but i decided to make em their own thing #noctis lucis caelum #prompto argentum #gladiolus amicitia #ignis scientia #the mountain speaks

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

People on this website really trying to downplay the specific role of destiel in the events of November 5th 2020 ‘it could have been any other ship that went canon at that time and had the same effect’ no.

Nothing else is destiel.

Nothing else is 12 years and hundreds of episodes of extremely obvious and deliberate queerbaiting that was Vehemently denied by the production team. Nothing else is the ship about characters whose larger overarching plot is literally fighting against their own pre-determined narrative to attain free will. Nothing else proved in the 11th hour Just before the show ended that the meta narrative and queer reading by fans who insisted there was something there and who were constantly called crazy by the production and by other fans and by the rest of the internet were RIGHT.

The CW did market research! About whether to make it canon! In a show they always pretended was aimed primarily at middle (conservative) America!!!

The queer subtext was so Fucking Strong by the end of the show, because the writers constantly wrote themselves into corners that could Only be explained away by destiel, that they HAD to admit defeat and canonize it.

And THEN even after they made it canon, they denied it some more and tried to downplay it! But it happened! The angel is fucking gay!!!!

Destiel is THE great American queerbait and had been a staple of the culture of this site for over a decade before November 5 2020. There is a REASON it is the most popular ship on AO3. ‘The same thing would have happened if johnlock became canon or spirk or whatever else’ no it simply would not have because crucially CRUCIALLY those ships Never Became Canon! The fact that Destiel of all the popular queerbait slash ships of the past few decades somehow at long last DID, and in a way that Still refused to just let the shippers have it and allow any implication of full reciprocation and that the final two episodes and the entire cast absolutely refused to acknowledge in any way, is why the canonization of destiel is one of the wildest things to happen to fandom culture as a whole in recent memory, and you cannot theoretically remove the destiel of it all and have it be the same kind of event.

The reason november 5 happened like it did, why people started making jokes at all, is because the fandom cultural juggernaut that is destiel becoming canon is the only thing that could have possibly managed to trend above the U.S. election. BECAUSE it’s destiel.

#i decided to make my own post instead of disagreeing with the op directly but #if you think the same thing would have happened with any ship other than destiel you ar playing yourself #i joined this fucking website in 2013 because of #destiel #like just because you didn’t watch the show doesn’t mean no one did bud #spn #Caitie speaks #nov 5 2020 #spn posting #nov 5th

[dead-girl-tells-stories]

A little while ago while hanging out at the manor for game night, Stephanie introduced the family to another one of her current favorite artist.

This was nothing unusual, Steph had a new favorite artist almost every other week. But this one was different. It wasn't just a single person but a group that called themselves ‘Team Phantom’.

Every song was different as every song was sang by a different person. So there was a song for everyone, including Jason.

He feel in love with the soft smooth voice of ‘The Sister’. Her songs were so dreamy and melancholic, and told stories that he often couldn't understand but made him feel like if he were there doing whatever she was doing. Feeling whatever she was feeling.

It was amazing. Her voice was just so beautiful. So calming. So additive, the way it calmed the pits. He didn't know why but every time her songs played it was like the pits disappeared. And so did ever constant green haze that haunted him.

The sense of clarity he was left with when one of her songs ended was like a fuckin high and he couldn't get enough.

Long after the game night he sought after her music. Her songs. Her voice. It was his medicine and his drug. His addiction. Which sucked because just like every other addiction, withdrawal was a BITCH.

It's been six months since ‘The Sister’ has released a new song. Since ANY of Team Phantom had released any new songs. And it was really suspicious considering how consistent their schedules were. But that was okay, kinda. Life was life and maybe something happened. He'll just listen to her old songs on repeat like he's been doing for the last six months.

Is what he said until they posted a new video to their channel.

It wasn't the 3 to 4 minute animated or stagnant image music video he was uses to. Instead, it was a dark shaking video, as if someone was running. Then bright teal eyes appeared on the screen. Everything stopped for a moment. Then came the still soft and smooth but now trembling voice of ‘The Sister’.

She uttered a single word.

“Help.”

Before it ended and turned black.

It could honestly just be a prank. But something told him other wise.

Before he even decided what course of action he was going to take. A message came in through the family group chat. And from the Demon child no less.

‘We need to help Team Phantom. NOW!!!!!’

Everyone agreed.

And Jason felt very validated that he wasn't the only one secretly addicted to their music.

Now it's time to save Team Phantom.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #dp dc crossover #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #dc x dp au #okay I'll admit that I lost the plot towards the end but I think it turned well #in order to deal with the stress of being a teenager and a hero Danny began to make music telling stories about his crazy adventures #and other stuff #eventually sam and tucker caught on and began to make music too #they originally wanted to be a band but their individual music taste was to different from each other #so they decided to do their own things instead and post it on the same channel #when Jazz and elli and others wanted to join they made names for themselves #jazz is obviously the sister #Danny is the king #elli is the wanderer #sam is foxglove #i can't find a name for tucker

[dwellsinthebog]

breaking news: area uncle and ex-murderer husband are very popular with the kids

Tanjiro's kid's outfit is inspired by the outfits i saw young children wearing in some old Taisho-era photographs! The apron-looking garment was probably meant to keep their robes clean bc kids tend to get into all sorts of shenanigans....

#renkaza #akaren #rengoku kyojuro #akaza #was noticing a real lack of post-canon renkaza around here so i decided to make my own #rengokuposting #bog's art #kny post-canon #kny

[filurig]

goatsss

#oc #original character #ocs #oc art #illustration #digital art #oc artist #pareidolia tag #oc: folke #oc: arvo #HI sorry ive been like. kinda art blocked trying to fight it hard rn #folke has goats now i decided so i had to draw it... #the breeds he owns are like some sort of jämtget #the REALLY big goat is a tomteget (tomte-bred goat breed) ive posted before #its not actually his but gullmar's he jsut keeps it at folke's homestead when not out and about with it #also ermmm dont ask why arvo is on crutches (rubs hands together) #the timeline here doesnt actually make sense for the canon though bcs this is clearly a spring scene but. I wanted to draw a spring scene