#I’ve gotta say

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH !!!!

This is an appreciation post for the Black voice actors (and any Black artists, animators and employees) that worked on Arcane ✊🏾💪🏿

Black characters that are more than their trauma and oppression. More than what our own society says Black people are. Real representation even if it’s in an alternate universe.

Black people have never been as worthless as we’ve been told we were. Seeing Black characters be voiced by incredibly talented Black people in a massive show like Arcane will always make me feel proud 🫶🏾

#happy Black history month #!!!!!!! #I’ve gotta say #being Black is pretty awesome #ALSO REMINDER #BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS NOT THE ONLY MONTH WE SHOW APPRECIATION AND LOVE TO BLACK PEOPLE #arcane #ekko #mel medarda #ambessa medarda #shoola #sevika #sky young #rare non caitvi post #😭😭 #it’s not caitvi’s day today ok

[kyuyua]

Boat boys boat boys boat boys

#i was thrown back into mcyt bc I saw a boat boys animatic lol #i immediately fell in love #their dynamic together is so great #also etho’s all i’ve been drawing the past few days #really vibing in my hermitcraft phase i gotta say #btw i love transparent sticky notes 🙏 #my art #hermitcraft #life series #boat boys #ethoslab #smallishbeans

[goldensunset]

joining the war on autism on the side of the autism etc etc

#i’m never drawing again i swear (lie) (i enjoy suffering) #n harmonia #natural harmonia gropius #zekrom #pokémon #pokemon #pokemon black and white #pokémon black and white #pkmn bw #pokemon bw #my art #bw #AAHHHHGHGGGHGH blorbo. i’m very tired but like #i have to commemorate every game i play! #i would say i am this guy’s biggest fan but i’m like 13 (14?) years late to this party i know i’m not #i haven’t even put scratched the surface of blorboposting yet i’ve seen some wild and good stuff out there i gotta step up my game #hope this looks ok i was kinda rushing to get it done while it’s still february lol #(i have a self imposed rule that i have to draw at least one thing a month) #zekrom can be wildly too small to scale. as a treat. i needed it to fit in the frame LOL #i’m quite proud of this i think. we’ll see how tomorrow’s me feels! #usually i regret posting something immediately after finishing it esp when late at night but as i said i’m rushing lol #one of the first pokémon i’ve ever drawn and it’s a Complicated Legendary. goody #but like look at my boy n right #[edit: fixed a few minor issues]

[acearchivist359]

so ….. a magnus institute statement … read by the voice of the archivist … unprompted … without sam doing anything ……….

i’m feeling very normal on this fine thursday

#i’m going crazy #i’ve not even finished the episode yet i feel nuts #i’ve gotta say i love that we’re getting a classic statement #like having all the other formats is so so cool #but the fact that we’re getting a statement ….. #god this show #the magnus protocol spoilers #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp #tmagp 9

[spoofyleaf]

Have a doodle!

Redson: how is it, too spicy?

MK, lying thru his teeth: nope nope totally good man!

#based off an interaction between me and a friend #like guys I’ve been making us breakfast everytime I slept over for YEARS #and I like my omelettes with extra red chili flakes and sriracha #I made a more bland version for her and it was too spicy #which is fine #BUT IT TOOK OVER A YEAR FOR HER TO SAY- #like bestie I ate a Carolina reaper bc I thought it would be funny I have 0 idea what’s concidered spicey #you gotta tell me these things omg #lmk #lmk redson #redson #lmk mk #mk #lmk fanart #lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #spoofyleaf art

[luuxxart]

something something two sides of the same coin

twt doodles (in a more chronological order than before) below the cut:

#will answer asks tomorrow !! #persona 5 #sonic au #goro akechi #akira kurusu #shuake #akeshu #THE BRAINROT #ITS NOT GONA GO AWAY #NOT WITH SONIC PRIME S3 LITERALLY COMING OUT TOMORROW #I’ve been playing sa2 to see how quickly I can beat it #GOTTA SAY #unpopular opinion maybe #but sadx pwns. and also #shadow the hedgehog’s version of final rush (The Ark) is SO MUCH BETTER #a lot of this au is forces based bc . joker dlc. and I’m having so much fun #but a lot of this would take place actually during IDW comic shenanigans #metal virus notwithstanding….. but that would be some good angst

[lunar-years]

When I was in DC visiting college friends who are all very smart people with very well-to-do jobs they started a conversation about ChatGPT and concluded it by agreeing in earnest that they think AI is actually really useful and a great tool for things such as WRITING ONE’S WEDDING VOWS because otherwise it’s “too hard to come up with what to say.” When I tell you I nearly keeled over on the spot…

#if my partner told me they were using ChatGPT to write out wedding vows I’d call off the engagement on the spot I’m so serious #like at that point literally just use the standard ‘traditional’ vows (modified for the modern day) #I would sooo much rather have that than have you read vows ai wrote for you #I couldn’t post about this at the time I was too embarrassed about having ai advocates for friends LMAO #but now…well let’s just say I’m still thinking about it and I’ve gotta roast them somewhere I gotta #(dont worry i roasted them in person too lmao) #ktp

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

The best bug.

#gerojim #super sentai #king ohger #ohsama sentai kingohger #fan art #he has my heart #not gerojim looking wistfully at the stars as if that wasnt where the current danger is coming from lol #the space bugs kicked jeramie’s ass! we gotta watch out Gerojim! #hes such a cute little guy that sometimes i forget Gerojim can like… vorpal slash people with his hands or whatever waaaahaha! #that is to say… Rip Gira #feel like it must be easy to tell when i have favorites in a show lol #whether or not my followers also watch cisjdhajdjd #could say i have brainworms about gerojim but… he’s a mayfly…. i’ve got cerebral aquatic nymphs maybe.... #thats pretty terrifying nevermind

[weadapt]

I think it’s interesting storytelling how in the beginning of the game Cal says the Sixth Sister’s name, Masana Tide, and reminds her of who she used to be—and it visibly distresses her because it hurts what was done to her and Cal isn’t wrong in what he’s saying. The shocking thing for me was the moment when Cal said “It’s time to set you free”. It was such a surreal feeling hearing Cal say that, those kinds of words, to know he decided it was time to strike her down; it’s understandable because she killed his entire crew, but for Cal to be the executioner in that way was scary to see coming after only experiencing the young kid he was in Fallen Order. Now you really get the feeling Cal has been through a lot, he’s grown as a man since Fallen Order and he’s calloused, not entirely in a bad way given he’d have to be to survive but still in a depressing way, as a result. I know overall and gameplay wise, Cal has killed a lot of people, it’s nothing new, but storytelling wise it’s a serious moment for Cal. It’s a moment you know is going to follow him the rest of the game for character development. After he kills her, it’s made clear by the music and by Cal’s body language that this isn’t a good thing coming from him. It isn’t a triumph. Even BD-1 knows and worries for Cal with his little “Boop…?” and Cal is only able to respond rather shakily, “Yeah… I’m okay”.

When he meets up with Bode and Bravo and they ask him what happened to the Inquisitor, he gives a simple, no emotion, “Dead”. The long pause of Bravo not saying anything in response to me says a lot; it feels like he isn’t used to Cal having a reaction like that.

Then we have Rayvis. Cal defeats him in battle and asks him to join in the fight against Dagan. He doesn’t want to kill Rayvis—“You don’t have to do this”. The oddly tragic part to me is that Rayvis has dreams of seeing Tanalorr again. If Dagan succeeds his dream will be realized, but he’s given up on the dream and wants a warrior’s death now. He wants to die, and in his mind, honorably, by Cal’s hands, and he’s going to force Cal to do it. But for Cal it’s another execution on his part. He pauses before he lifts his saber and kills Rayvis. It isn’t a triumph. Again we’re given a sudden swell of music to tell us the emotion behind the action of killing Rayvis. You can see it’s affected Cal badly. BD-1 seems to ask Cal the same question as before, “Boop…?” but this time Cal doesn’t acknowledge the question and just replies, “We should go”.

Killing Dagan hurts for Cal too. Dagan is a Jedi, someone who held onto the Order, who tied his entire identity to it and all of his goals are focused on restoring the Order and fighting to change the universe. Just like Cal in a way. Dagan is single-mindedly focused on the mission, so obsessively, he lost himself and the one he loved as a result. Cal understands and see the parallel of that kind of drive in his own mission against the Empire and it terrifies him. Dagan could’ve helped him fight the Empire but it became another tragic moment of having to kill a once fellow Jedi. This is another tragedy. Bode doesn’t care about Dagan being dead on the floor but Cal does. Cal has enough respect to place Dagan’s lightsaber on his chest. Cal pauses to reflect but Bode immediately gets back to getting the compass.

We have this interesting arch of reactions to killing his opponents. They were each killed for the mission. It was necessary. They each started the fight against him. No matter the reason though, it’s still very painful for Cal.

Cal is being pushed into this direction of forcing him to question his beliefs and who he is. His whole identity at this point has been tied to the Order, of being a Jedi, and it’s very clear by his conversations in Fallen Order that it really matters to who he is. By the end of Survivor, we have three fallen Jedi: Masana Tide, Dagan Gera, and Bode Akuna. So who is Cal Kestis? What will he become? Is he doomed to fall like they did? That’s what troubles him—“Let’s just say I don’t wanna end up like him [Dagan]”.

He’s afraid he’s going to lose himself.

The fear is almost realized when he’s about to kill another opponent. The one behind the murders of his friends and mentors. Cal’s been killing each of his main opponents up to the point at Nova Garon—this one will be no different. Except killing the man who sent Bode on the mission to infiltrate his team is different. Cal is on the edge of losing himself to the Dark Side. In Fallen Order he pleaded for Cere not to use the Dark Side because “She’s stronger than that”, “[she] still had a choice”. But Cal is failing to remember any of that for himself. He wants to kill because he’s angry, grieving, and in immense pain. Merrin has to bring him back—“This is not you!” There’s a question of whether or not Cal would’ve been able to stop himself if Merrin hadn’t been there though.

When we get to the final battle, Merrin is warning Cal of what’s likely going to happen but he ignores her for a while which prompts her to say, “Well? Say something!” He doesn’t want to acknowledge that Merrin is right and they’re likely going to have to kill Bode, and with that, taking Kata’s father away—a loss of family Cal and Merrin know too much about. So they both try and give Bode every chance to stop and turn away from what he’s done, despite how much Bode had hurt them. Sadly, Cal once again is forced into using the Dark Side to prevent Bode from killing Merrin. It was worth it. It was worth using it to save Merrin. He couldn’t let her be killed. He couldn’t see that happen before his eyes like he had with all of his friends and mentors.

After everything is over, there’s this sickly feeling left behind. Not simply because of Bode’s death, but because of the impact on Merrin realizing Kata has lost family just like she and Cal had, but also because of the impact the death of Bode has on Cal. And after Cal carries away Bode’s body, the music changes to an eerie, ominous, high pitch, minor key when we see Cal board the Mantis. The kind of change in music which lets the audience know there’s something seriously wrong. Things are different now. Cal’s different. And he knows it.

He’s lost in time watching the pyre, reflecting on everything that had happened but also on how grateful he is to Cere, but he knows the impact of her loss will continue to be with him for the rest of his life. Just like Jaro Tapal. Another guiding force in his life is gone. With Cere and Cordova gone, there is no longer any Jedi wisdom to seek out. He’s now alone in that way as a Jedi.

“I’m scared… I almost lost myself… I don’t know if I’m ready.”

Cal and the audience are left with the dreadful realization—

“I don’t know if I’m ready for what comes next”.

#legit don’t know what I’m taking about . #I honestly don’t want a third game cuz I’m scared #sorry for the ramble I really think about this game too much #I’ve only play it once but I gotta play it again so I can be traumatized a second time #thanks for listening to my Ted talk #mc talks #sobbing #cal kestis #jedi survivor #merrin #star wars #merrical #jedi fallen order #jedi survivor spoilers #nightsister merrin #greez dritus #jaro tapal #kata akuna #dagan gera #santari khri #rayvis #Jedi #I don’t want anything to happen to cal #I really really don’t #I have so much more to say about cal but imma try #*cry #I gotta stop writing this stuff in my phone

[leonisdumbasallhell]

Based on a conversation I had a few days ago

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #astarion ancunin #gale dekarios #bloodweave #the actual convo was #Sometimes you just gotta draw a mans guts #i can’t say thats an urge i’ve ever had but you do it very well

[solitary-star]

I’ve had a ridiculous workload for the past few weeks, but that hasn’t stopped me from reading chapter 16!!

@naffeclipse I want you to know how much I was wailing at this one. Just how quickly the hunter went from referring to them as their “dear friend” to “the demonic cryptid.” And the little moments when they finally began to realize that cryptid isn’t entirely dissimilar from the person they’ve gotten so close with… absolutely phenomenal!!

I’d say I’m at the edge of my seat after this, but I fell off that seat way back in episode four. Regardless, I cant fully articulate just how excited I am to see how things play out!!!

#tags first then brain dump!! #star’s art #cryptid sightings #cryptid sightings spoilers #this didn’t technically happen in the reveal but it’s about the reveal #fnaf y/n #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf eclipse #fnaf daycare attendant #daycare attendant x reader #I have so much to say yet so little time #the next millisecond I get I’ve GOTTA make an analysis of this chapter #how I’d love to make an analysis of all the chapters… #this one has gotta be my favorite to date #I was wondering how many scenarios I was hoping for would play out in the reveal #and the answer is a lot of them!!! #absolutely in love with your writing naff I hope you know #such a phenomenal chapter from such a phenomenal story <3

[ye-olde-sodor]

You will listen to Web of Lies by MasterofTheLemons on YT NOW-

#ttte #ttte thomas #ttte diesel #i’m not even kidding when I say its one of the best audio stories I’ve ever listened to #both in general and in reguards to fandom #the characterization is so unique but it doesn’t completely chance who the characters are I- #I gotta stop myself before I hit the tag limit JUST GO LISTEN TO IT YOU’LL SEE WHAT I MEAN

[iiigris]

BY THE WAY!! here’s the finished SMFS illustration I did for the album cover redesign project in my graphic design class :D I highly recommend listening to flu game whilst considering this piece bc it was my main motivation for the overall feel, and it kept me going whenever I started to get tired of drawing

I’ll be able to post the cd booklet/mockup and vinyl record case/mockup final versions at the end of the semester so stay tuned!! <3 also my professor thought the guys were falling out of the spaceship (which she thought was very clever and funny bc… fall out boy… the boys are falling out..), but I intended them to be getting beamed up into it. what’s it look like to you?

#this is one of the best things I’ve ever drawn I gotta say #I’m sooo so so happy with it. even just as a standalone illustration it’s one of my favorites I’ve done #it being a smfs redesign makes it even more my one of favs <3 #eve draws #fall out boy #so much (for) stardust #smfs #eve does college #<- boy I haven’t used that tag in a while #spaceship #ufo #patrick stump #andy hurley #pete wentz #joe trohman

[mossy-paws]

2am Doodle(????) (PHIGHTING!)

Calling this a doodle since it only took like 1 hour and I speed ran it while sleep deprived at 2am absolutely blasting ano’s cover of god-ish

Anyways I don’t really draw this kinda stuff too often out of sheer personal preference but when I do it’s honestly kind of fire (+ it’s just fun to draw angsty stuff like that)

enjoy your food for the time being I’m going back into my hole

#art #artists on tumblr #phighting! #phighting fanart #digital art #roblox phighting #phighting roblox #phighting art #roblox #phighting #phighting medkit #medkit phighting #medkit fanart #medkit #phighting! roblox #phighting! art #cw: gore #tw blood #cw blood #blood tw #Yeah this was honestly really fun LMAO #I’ve been really playing around with new brushes in ibis and I recently discovered the genius pen and #It’s honestly the perfect brush for me #It’s sketchy/fun/and paired with a lot of other brushes it looks really cool #This piece was a way to REALLY test out the capabilities of it and safe to say I’m pretty pleased :3 #The fact that it’s a default pen (same with the dip pen- which I used for coloring) makes it even better #Anyways sorry for the ramble let’s just ignore the fact that I’m hyperfixating on brushes #Hopefully I should be posting a lot more art trade/commission pieces soon since I have some queued up that I REALLY gotta work on LMAO #Hopefully they shouldn’t take too long though so YIPPEEEE #anyways back to my hole in the Everglades I go

[initforthelolzz]

I know that this discussion has been made countless times at this point, but I might as well make it again.

Anyone who calls Yamato a woman doesn’t understand his character, there, I said it.

I recently stumbled across that side of the one piece fandom. As in, the side that gets violent over Yamato’s gender identity. I recently had the unfortunate privilege of stumbling across an entire YouTube comment section ranting and unanimously agreeing that Yamato is a woman and cussing out all the people who “head-cannon” him as a man.

Whelp. It’s rant time again.

For starters, I accept Yamato as a man. A trans man that doesn’t necessarily pass, but has a respected gender identity by all he associates with (as far as I’ve watched).

I have multiple trans friends and family members in my life, and as an LGBT individual myself any and all representation is a breath of fresh air. Especially in shonen anime, which is the sole form of media that I consume at this point.

I’ve already made my rant about the queer rep in Impel Down, and it’s about time I spun my spiel about the upsetting discourse over Yamato and his gender identity. Because that’s exactly what it is, upsetting.

When Yamato was first introduced he wore a mask and baggy clothing, he didn’t speak and was mysteriously called nothing other than “Kaido’s son.” He was hyped up for episodes on end before he finally joined the plot, and finally spoke. In the distinct voice of a woman.

Clearly, any and all gender norms have been obliterated at this point.

When Yamato finally took his mask off and declared himself Kozuki Oden, Luffy reacted how all of us did:

It’s exactly what all of us were thinking, right? How can that be Kaido’s son?

Then of course Yamato responds with this:

And we have our answer. Yamato is a trans man, and the entire Beast Pirates crew respects that. It’s incredible, isn’t it? I was blown away, you should have heard me squealing, it was ridiculous.

Luffy was a dick about it initially, but from the moment Yamato declared himself a man Luffy referred to him by his preferred pronouns for the rest of the arc.

“You can trust him.” “He’s going to help you.”

(Paraphrased. Didn’t dig up a screen shot cause I’m lazy. Took place when Luffy left Yamato with Momo and Shinobu on his way to the roof.)

Conversation over, right?! Wrong!!

Cause some people don’t like that. They see huge tits and refuse to accept this character as anything but a woman.

It doesn’t matter that Yamato is referred to using he/him pronouns by literally everyone, it doesn’t matter that Kaido consistently calls him his son, and it certainly doesn’t matter that Yamato personally declares himself a man.

They say that Yamato is biologically female; “it says it on the vivre card!” “A manga panel calls her Kaido’s daughter!” All things I found in that comment section, repeated again and again. Of course there’s the color spread covered in big boobs and bikinis, and that’s obviously proof that Yamato is a woman like all the rest. Because all of the color spreads happened in the cannon story and must be taken as hard fact.

I mean clearly.

Canon, 100%.

No question.

“Cause Oda literally said it himself…” right? Yeah. Sure. I’ll believe it when I see an SBS or a quote from the man himself.

I understand where they’re coming from, I really do. Yeah, Yamato looks like a woman. Yeah, boobs exist. Yeah, both voice actors are female.

But all of this evidence is strictly surface level, and these people ignore the personality of the character they claim to defend on top of the way they interact with other characters in the series.

They say that Yamato only looks up to Oden, that he’s not really a trans man, he’s just “larping.” Playing pretend.

They claim to be defending Yamato’s identity. They claim that those who call him a man are trying to “steal” the character and “gender her.” Yet… doesn’t their entire argument revolve around gendering that exact character?

By that logic, who gendered the character in the first place? I dunno, maybe the guy who’s wrote the dialogue? I mean maybe???

At the end of the day I can get ticked off all I want, but people will think what that think and all I can do is try not to let it affect me. However…I know transphobia when I see it. I see transphobic discourse within my own family. I know what that shit looks like. Refusal to respect pronouns. “Well you don’t look male.” “You were born female.” “It’s all just a phase, they’re confused.”

Sound familiar?

People can believe what that like, but it doesn’t mean that what they believe is right. It’s upsetting to see this argument so often. It’s all over the fandom, there’s no way to avoid it.

People claim to be defending the gender of this character, they act as if Yamato is being attacked by the evil gays who will stop at nothing to turn everyone trans. I’m not joking, that’s literally how they worded in that battlefield of a comment section.

Yamato’s gender expression is confusing, we know. That’s the point! Oda said fuck gender conformity all the way back in Alabasta, and he isn’t stopping now. What we see in Yamato is trans representation, but not a clean rep like Kiku, we have a man who doesn’t pass. Guess what? Not all trans people pass! That doesn’t make them any less trans, and your black and white perception of their gender doesn’t debunk their identity.

I genuinely don’t understand why there has to be so much discourse over this topic. Like you’re literally arguing with Luffy himself at this point. 😔🙄

#and like why do they care so much if people take Yamato as trans rep? #they get so offended about it #but why the fuck do you care so much? #you have hundreds of cis/het characters in this series already #let us have this like god #you’re not the cannon police calm tf down #so many people have said it and I’ve gotta say it again #one piece is a leftist anime and if you haven’t noticed it by now then you’re fucking stupid #one piece #ranting #rant into the void #back at it again #one piece analysis #one piece wano #yamato #yamato one piece #monkey d. luffy #trans REP yall

[pinkpinkstarlet]

guys stop being all “omg lana del rey is so coquette!” zionism, colonialism and racism isn’t cute or coquette.

#I’ve been hating her for years #If you still support her your a bigot that’s all I gotta say 🤷🏽‍♀️ #not arguing with idiot zionists if they show up btw I’m just gonna block u #coquette #coquette community #dollete #girly tumblr #woc coquette #anti zionisim #anti zionist #pro palestine #free palestine #anti israel #fuck israel #anti lana del rey #anti colonialism #tw racsim #tw lana del rey