#also while I'm here

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Anon Positivity! *BAPS YOU WITH MY PAWS BAPS YOU WITH MY PAWS BAPS YOU WITH MY-

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

#fic asks #haveyoureadthisfic #pollblr #fanfiction #fandom culture #internet culture #tumblr polls #fanfic #fandom poll #thank you for the baps anon :) #boop #also while I'm here #thanks to everyone who gave me boops a few days ago :)

[hotel-japanifornia]

Athena: Hey Simon, why does Ms. Fey call you babygirl? Blackquill, embarrassed: How about we stop talking?

#ace attorney #simon blackquill #maya fey #feyquill #look i know it's an old meme #but this just popped into my head #also while i'm here #i believe maya would call any partner she has babygirl #idk why it just suits her

[besiegedhunter]

Projekt Red's arts/why she walks on walls

So, I went down another rabbit hole for Red. I'll be making more posts soon but yeah this one is what it says on the title.

It's based off of how Red's arts are depicted within Arknight's animated trailer and similarities with her Skill 2.

So there should be no spoilers but nevertheless it'll be under the cut.

So this is the trailer wherein we see Red in her full animated glory, alongside an interesting depiction of her arts which I'll post an gif of just for easier access going forwards:

I'll also post a bad gif of Red's Skill 2:

Now, on the surface there's not much too similar between these two animations besides the elements of red within.

It's mostly because of two things:

The Wolf image in her Skill 2 animation

Her skill animation is her coming down while in the animated pv she's going up

But I don't think that they're too different when you look at individual frames. What do I mean? Well, I'll show a sequence of frames, in order, from the animated pv:

As she runs a red cross appears in front of her that when close enough creates an upwards force, launching her up and creating red energy.

So then look at how her Skill 2 works:

She comes from the sky, her ability activates and there's an eruption of red energy which degrades quickly. Something which does happen in the animated pv as well:

After the initial explosion, it lingers for a bit before disappearing, like like her Skill 2 does. It's like Skill is the reverse of the Animated PV, activating an explosion on her landing instead of using it to launch herself up.

Think of it maybe like how Blaze can heat up the air in the area she's going to land after jumping out of the dropship, allowing her to cushion her fall. Red is creating this upwards force to cushion her landing. Or just to scare her enemies, which I mean she is an ambush expert.

But that's not the only connection I want to make, because this is cool and all (maybe you can imagine just how cool) but I said this answers her wall walking, right? And yes. Because of a moment that the pv hides quite well.

See when she launches herself up, she turns her body midair. Specifically so that her legs face the right wall:

And then:

There's a staticky effect and it appears like she's been pulled onto the wall.

And then she jumps from that wall to the other wall, the lightning disappears.

And it's her own strength that she uses to propel herself and is able to latch onto the side of the wall without being affected by gravity.

This is a clear showcase of her using her arts to magnetize herself to the wall.

And since both the pv and her skill 2 animation depicts her using a burst of red energy I feel confident that the pv is more accurate than initially thought.

Maybe compounded by this frame of her skill 2:

Which I would paste if I could but I exceeded the image count. Anyway, it is up above as the first frame of her Skill 2 which you can see, before the red explosion that there's a red blur following her and dark red triangles.

Now I know it's a stretch to claim this blur is the static that she uses in the pv but it is a thought as at this point she hasn't used the red explosion below her and it's not on her Skill 1.

As for the red triangles, they're appear frequently in her Skill 2 animation. Particularly at the beginning and end. And appearing before the red explosion I personally consider interesting. Like whether they're similar to the red cross in the pv.

Now, that's all I have regarding the wall walking Red exhibits and I can't post any more images. However, I want to point out the implications of this pv being canon accurate.

Specifically: Red being able to great such a powerful upwards force.

Because it's not mentioned once that this is how her arts work. Nor even that she can use arts. She literally has a "Normal" in Arts Adaptability which I believe is the worst besides the Sui Siblings' "Flawed" aka non-existent.

And personally I feel that her having the ability to create such an upwards force would be quite powerful.

Imagine how useful it would be for her to get around. She can use it to quickly ascend buildings. If she can use it horizontally and not just vertically, she can use it to dodge attacks, cover great distances quickly.

She can likely use it to do such things on her fellow operators or better yet, on her enemies. Like a Pusher Specialist without a fire hose or water canon. Able to just create a upwards force on an enemy.

I could say 'imagine the Alter possibilities' but I shan't. Just that I would love for this to be a canon ability of hers and I hope we do see it sometime in game.

And that I hope this came close to answering the question of why Red can walk on walls.

#arknights #projekt red #I don't know what else to tag it #also while I'm here #I'll say that this is my second post brainstorming Red's perplexing abilities #I'm actually going to make an addendum to the “why red scares lupos” post #because I thought of something interesting #also on red's theorized third ability #I'd like to say she's colorblind #or autistic #I mean I do #I have autism and it's one reason I love red so much #just that I don't think(?) it's the writer's intention #sadly #but I don't have any bright ideas for why she can sort those objects #and it's odd #because it has a whole file #and not walking on walls #or scaring lupos #so ??? #who knows #Youtube

[chibifox2002]

I personally couldn't call myself a Kirby fan if I didn't draw a metadede thing at least once

I am not immune to the penguin x ball ship

#also while I'm here #my versions of these two are actually ex's that are still really good friends with each other #they sometimes even still play flirt with each other for shits and giggles #because are you really homies if you're not at least a little bit sus with each other? lmao #metadede #king dedede #meta knight #my art #my design(s) #traditional art #chibi's kirby au

[pearllearningthings]

A human just told me I have "autism swag." I'm not sure what this means or how to respond please help.

#autism swag #please help me define autism swag #also while i'm here #what is a “category 7 autism event?”

[rustywolf14]

With the end of they year, comes the holiday pfps I drew. Since I probably won't post anything the day of, Happy New Year's! May it be better than the last!

#rusty wolf #holiday pfps #also while i'm here #sorry for not drawing anything since august #school left me feeling pretty burnt out #as it's been my first time back in years #plus some other big life changes #left me ridiculously busy this year #i've just been drawing mainly personal art #hopefully next year i'll slowly start posting more for you guys #now that i have a better idea how to work my schedule for it

[scarlet-streak-fanfics]

Woah. The Untitled fanfic is just so fucking well made- I'm now lyin' if I'm telling u that it feels like a professional wrote this book- I mean I wouldn' mind paying u 30-50€ just for u to write a book abt this masterpiece /g like man all the thing's u've wrote r so fucking- um- how to describe it- catching? touching? the [Untitled] Pt. 2 thingy is just so sad and cute MQKEIDKQNRJAPQKBEJAJAHFJSNEJDKSKAHDHKAKAN my lil Sherliam heartttttt (fuck character limit imma continue in another post)

Oh my goodness, hello! This made my day--I've been really worried about the series and whether people actually enjoy it, so this was just what I needed. Fun fact, these are actually a random series of oneshots in the same canon divergence all based on songs! @notsopikanewtlike and I have a playlist of the songs (both finished and planned) on Spotify, and I have a doc with the song list and which perspective it will be written from! Please let me know if y'all are interested in seeing those. I love the kind inbox spam. It makes me so incredibly happy to hear what people think of my writing--genuinely, reblogs with reviews, long comments, and asks about fics I've written all make me want to write more. <3

#merc replies #merc talks #moriarty the patriot #yuukoku no moriarty #sherliam #william james moriarty #sherlock holmes #also while I'm here #psspsspss #sebastian moran #come here moran fans #I'll write you reader insert stuff

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

did Jason like do something i feel like my anti posts are getting notes recently

#I'm not complaining tho #get his ass #also while I'm here #sorry it's been a bit I've been busy #I'm finishing up birds of prey and i feel nervous talking about non bats #idk

[stalinthestripper]

i’m mildly obsessed with the way naui classifies aquatic life, they really decided that every marine organism fits into one of four categories:

animals that bite

animals with barbs

animals that sting and scrape

animals that shock

i especially love that its got nothing to do with the appearance or habitat of said animals— it’s solely based on how they would harm you

#they said no classifying traits of ocean animals matter #EXCEPT the method they would use to fuck you up #that’s their most important trait #ocean animals #sea creatures #scuba diving #marine life #also while i'm here #shoutout to my dive instructor who last year during our open water certification course #felt the need to make sure everyone knew dive knives were not to be used for fighting sharks #i need to know who he watched try to pull a knife on a shark #because it was the first thing he said when the topic of dive knives came up

[dordey]

GLOSSIER SHIPPING TO AUSTRALIA

#RIGHT ON TIME FOR MY TRIP TO A COUNTRY THAT SELLS GLOSSIER #OF COURSE #australian just posted they got scam text within minutes of ordering. also Of Course #ALSO while i'm here #timothy rodrigues & heidi got engaged!!!!! #i'm so happy for them #also happy for this addition to my spreadsheet #+ her ring is Gorgeous omfg & i'm glad he got to propose + film it away from his mother AND announce it himself

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

#dungeon meshi spoilers #mithrun #dungeon meshi #this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme #half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is #someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality #his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though #he says he tried to see the worst in them. #hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on #wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore. #but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once #snakes #long post #severe problems #meshy

[asukachii]

"Why don't YOU drive for once?! Ya idiot!"

"BECAAAAUUSE! I... can't.. drive these things!"

[bonus]

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post these gifs somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use them in edits/videos. Thanks~)

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood #vashwood #(because i say so.) #my animation #gif #asukachii #i'm probably forgetting so many tags here... #i love these panels! a! lot! my favourites in the whole trigun manga together with... many other scenes #i have a long long list #i find these so funny #vash being 150 yo and not knowing how to drive? that could be me 🤝 i love you vash #also please wolfwood let him eat his donuts #in the first panel i animated a small small detail #wolfwood tapping his finger! alongside the music i was listening to while animating 🙈 #i should include the song #i'm animating a bonus to this but i don't knkw if i will post it #first stampede saturday without a new episode #how are we feeling..? #orz #'because i say so' is just me joking! but i like them very much so i wanted to use the tag... #*know

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

take this silly thing while I struggle with animation

#showtime #showtime tadc #showtime ship #caine x pomni #pomni x caine #this has been sitting in my drafts for a while Im glad the concept has been acknowledged #here it is in meme format #also small update on the animation thing. I'm learning music theory just for it. #the things these two idiots in love make me do #my art #meme

[domirine]

ever seen a man so beautiful you ram your bike into his flowers?

my full piece for the retrouvailles zine! i had a lot of fun painting it. hope you enjoy looking at the lil details, plants, and the only character who has his shit together (the dog)

#art #jjba #avpol #mohammed avdol #jean pierre polnareff #iggy #i suppose! he sure is here after all. #i sat on this for a long while and i'm very happy that the whole zine is out i had a nice time working with everyone there #also i like participating in zines. just saw another jojo one i would have loved to apply but you know how it is #the world shows you zine info only after the artists are announced lol looking forward to seeing it either way #ok enough babblin. stay cool

[kodzukoi]

me and april need to box BECAUSE WHY DOES IT LOOK SO UGLY WHEN I WRITE IT PLEASE I'M JUST TRYING TO GET MY CALENDAR READY FOR NEXT SEM ON GOODNOTES (being productive in the wrong way, sigh)

anyways pulling my hair out, idk which is harder, getting good artifacts/rolls on artifacts or me trying to write one stupid word (can you guys tell i'm upset about my artifacts alsdkfawoeirasldfj)

#typing... #ALSO WHILE I'M HERE #WHY DOES IT NEED 6 ROWS #WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO GOODNOTES ONLY GIVES 5 PER MONTH BECAUSE 5 IS NORMAL #APRIL STOP TRYING TO BE SPECIAL #watch this is gonna come back to bite me later when it's april 2023 and i'm gonna be like dang me and my stupid mouth

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

#apollo don't fucking touch this one #serious post #not a shitpost #hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day #fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists #i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it. #so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you? #what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown #at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal #i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid #like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies #and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line #probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored #luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap! #watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry #while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent #also eggs are $15