#and canonically no one noticed

[margumis]

april fools day

shoto todoroki, from a distance seems cold, stoic, uninterested. this is how people with an untrained eye see him at the mention of pranks and the jokes that come with april fools day. no one would suspect anything remotely silly from him, despite you thinking he was one of the funniest people you knew

maybe his humor was dry, sarcastic and doting onto oblivious; but he was funny

so when he walked out of his dorm on april first, you watched carefully waiting to see what was up his sleeve

but then you saw it

his usual head of white and red hair was switched, the white section now falling over his scarred eye and vice versa

simple. but funny.

you shot him a knowing look and pointed to his head and he passed you a smile

“i won’t say anything about it for your sake”

“thank you”

but now you were wishing you had said something. no one else noticed. no one saw behind shoto’s eyes brimming with excitement about his practical joke, just yearning for everyone else to notice.

but the acknowledgment never came.

so when you saw him sulk out of the bathroom, hair back to its normal state, face displaying the faintest bit of what you would see as hurt. and no one else noticed.

you caught up to him walking to his room for the night

“hey sho, i thought your prank was really funny, i’m sorry no else noticed”

he turned to face you and you could see his eyes light again

“funny?”

“yeah i thought it was really funny, you’re like one of the funniest people here in my opinion”

his heart swelled at this confession. you thought he was funny. such a simple compliment to someone else but something so grand. you weren’t calling him pretty or strong, praises he was so accustomed to hearing; but you thought he was funny.

he tucked away the smile that was threatening to spill out and packed away the yearning to pull you in and hold you tight. he packed all these feeling into a “thank you”

thank you for noticing. thank you for understanding. thank you for really seeing him.

and when he tucked himself into bed that night, he laid there thinking of all the other ways he could make you laugh or smile just so he could hear those words again.

#shoto todoroki #shoto todoroki fluff #shoto todoroki drabble #todoroki drabble #shoto drabble #he canonically did this prank on class 1-A in the manga #and canonically no one noticed #made my heart hurt #todoroki family #mha

[ash-and-starlight]

celebrating Her month by updating my mai&sokka bestieism manifesto & introducing their matching undercuts era

#id in alt text #thank you robin for expanding on and supporting my insanity i couldn’t have done it without u #mwah mwah forever #like im a undercut mai truther forever i think she should have one in canon as well #i think she would ask it to her bestie sokka as an act of rebellion against the rules she had to conform to her entire life #also mai and sokka are both on a shrimp gender spectrum #mai #sokka #my art #bye not me noticing NOW that there’s a typo where the fuck did that second why spawn from

[s-aint-elmo]

Falin has been nearsighted since she was little, and has a habit of squinting when she's looking at things. —Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible

she should have been at the optometrist's

(ID in alt text)

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #marcille donato #laios touden #doodles #mine #falin's closed eyes canonically just being squinting is one of the funniest word of god additions to a story ever #noticing how she started keeping them open post-rez n being like ''wow that's such a cool way to introduce a disconnect between the falin w #heard of n the falin we're meeting now. i wonder how this plays into the dragon thing'' and it's just. it's just. She Can See Now #i do think if she ever did get glasses they'd be no use bc she doesn't like wearing them. marcille has to wrestle them onto her face #after wrestling them out of laios's hands #protip: they're in their flashback designs bc that chapter is burned into my brain permanently. laimar one-sided enemies to besties + #farcille cheek-pinching as a love language 5ever

[smokestarrules]

AUGH

(Link to post here.)

#ough her earrings in the second one her hair in the third what if I die #THE BOOTS #all of these are canon btw. to me #HNG. JUST NOTICED HER NECKLACE IN LUZ'S BELT #toh #toh spoilers #luz noceda #amity blight #lumity #smokey speaks #500 #1k

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

#feels very appropriate recently #oh you didn't read those comics? or these ones? or any? you're not doing it right #oh you're not including my favorite character? you're not doing it right #your fic/headcanons/meta annoys me? you're not doing it right #like come on these comics are 80 years old #obviously fanon vs canon is a battle that exists in almost every fandom but it's been esp prevalent in this fandom i've noticed #let's be real guys the comics are sometimes really bad and sometimes fanon is really good #anyway i watched this and it felt applicable #so that's my two cents #gatekeeping #fandom #etc

[cryptid-condor]

uh oh

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun meryl #Vash the Stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #dont let your designated parkour guy wear slides #i downloaded the ready steady roll poster for colors and started wheezing when i noticed woofwood was losing a shoe in that picture too #fucker CANONICALLY doesnt wear socks #personally i think vash is one of those guys that buys shoelaces too long for his shoes #then he has to double-wrap his laces so he doesnt trip over them #this is a very important headcannon keep it in mind whenever you see my stampede vash #meryl is just a little football #she isnt getting away from the shoe slander though who wears white shoes on a trip through the desert #all my rat

[comradekatara]

the gaang and “do they shoplift”

aang: yes, because he enjoys the fun little thrill of it.

katara: yes, because she enjoys “sticking it to the man” and considers it praxis.

sokka: not unless he’s truly desperate, because he knows that he’d get caught and given a life sentence will die in jail if he so much as takes a single apple.

toph: yes, because it’s fun and also praxis.

zuko: not unless you count that time that azula slipped a diamond necklace in his pocket and then pretended to have no idea why zuko would ever do such a horrible thing after he got in trouble for it.

suki: yeah of course. it’s literally fine and necessary to do.

azula: she is a law abiding citizen!! but also she steals red lipstick sometimes, just to feel something. she doesn’t even need it, since she already has 200 tubes of red lipstick at home. but what’s one more?

mai: yes, even though she obviously doesn’t need to, because she’s bored and loves a quiet rebellion.

ty lee: she doesn’t need to because she already gets things for free just by batting her big brown eyes at various men who offer to buy her everything her heart desires. she’s never paid for a single object in her life.

#sokka would shoplift if he could get away with it tho #as evidenced by ‘the runaway’ #but he can’t get away with him because everyone is suspicious of him and assumes that he’s shoplifting even when he’s not #meanwhile aang katara and toph can steal a flatscreen tv and no one will even notice #also. YES for the record zuko does NOT have the pilpel to shoplift but he WILL straight up rob you at knifepoint. duality of man #the gaang and #technically not tagging this modern au bc it basically also applies in canon

[peeyousch]

꒰｡- ᴗ - ｡꒱ ᶻzᶻ

//new op dropped some crumbs I just had to draw them

#frobin #franky x robin #they so eepy #notice how they adopt everyone that’s pink like chopper and ryunosuke #thank you toei #nico robin #frobin canon #cyborg franky #one piece #op fanart

[askyofexplodingstars]

my favourite polycule

#i recently finally saw all the ddlc plus side stories and they were very sweet #there's no way they didn't notice the sapphic overtones while writing them lmao #esp the last one; they just about went around the whole class calling each other cute but yuri bailed before it could get that far #i lub them #plus timeline is canon in my heart now idc #doki doki literature club #doki doki literature club plus #ddlc #ddlc plus #ddlc sayori #ddlc monika #ddlc yuri #ddlc natsuki #my art #doodles/sketches/wips #also as someone who's had long hair i can confirm it's hell to wake up and brush so i've given monika & yuri mercy by having it braided

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Names revealed and returned. (context)

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #red vs green saga #ouyang zizhen #jin ling #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #Nameless red disciple #*Tin can crumpling sounds* #[The Nameless Red Disciple] has forfeited their name. Ouyang Zizhen is green now. #Thank you to everyone who participated in the poll! Everyone campaigned very hard! I am glad to see the final result was rather close B'*) #Nameless red disciple is sticking around still but to a lesser extent. They need to go on a gender quest now #I hope most people saw the red vs green poll. Or else this is even more wild and wacky than intended #This comic changed so many times and I'm still not sure it's as funny as I hoped it would be...oh well. #Jin Ling may one day need to go on his own gender quest but thats many years in the future #for now JL is so out of the loop on everything. He is aware gay people exist and thats it #I was looking back at old comics and noticed that LSZ and LJY were frequently standing drawn very small in the bg reacting to things #so heres a little throwback to that era B*) #This fills in for the part where the juniors fight the living corpse hoard. So there's at least a sliver of canon timeline going on #We're getting so close to the end of season 1! In retrospect I have spent too much time on this arc *even with* cutting out several comics #it's all a learning process!

[dayurno]

this is somewhat of a vent post & something i said i would not do again but has been plaguing me enough that i think getting it out might feel better. so. has anydoggy else been. Baffled and upset by nora sakavic’s refusal to speak on how terribly aftg has treated its characters of color? with the author of the series coming back with a new book and starting up on her online activity again, and questions of what she’d change about aftg bubbling up, it’s particularly glaring to me that we are all playing this very long game of pretend where we ignore how badly the non-white cast has been treated & her lack of thoughts on it

and i understand not wanting to bring up nicky and thea because people pick on her for it. i’m not trying to discredit nora sakavic’s terrible history of getting harrassed online by aftg fans. but i think it is very cynical, and it is very juvenile, and most of all very cruel, that she gets to ignore the very real ways the books have set up these characters to be hated. i think it’s obvious why the characters who get the most hate are the only canonical characters of color, and i think we do not get to treat this like a deliberate decision on the fandom’s part when the books have put these same characters in degrading and embarrassing and terrible positions in the first place. aftg is not a story about nice characters with clean pasts, but there is a very specific nastiness to the only characters of color being a brown man who sexually harasses and later assaults the main character, a black woman whose only scene is her lashing out at her love interest after being ignored for the first two books, and the japanese villain who gets maybe two lines of complexity before he goes back to being a terrible person. the white cast, in comparison, while not at all free from flaws, are never shown to commit mindless evil; all of their actions are ultimately justified. the book goes out of its way to give them concession after concession. we know exactly who to side with, because aftg tells us who these people are. does nicky’s assault ever get addressed in the books? does riko’s reasoning to be the way that he is ever gets more than briefly aluded to? is thea reserved even a shred of humanity or grace in her one scene?

anyway. it’s been years of talking about this and the fandom has been constantly hostile to criticism in this regard, and more recently any criticism at all, and it’s Grating to be on the other side of this discussion. it’s exhausting to know that in ten years we do not get even an acknowledgment besides the author saying she will not answer questions about nicky and thea anymore. it’s upsetting and it’s ugly and i wish no one had to talk about this again, but we do because what i thought was common sense has been washed away by a sudden influx of no-nuance adoration for the trilogy. basically i hope we all explode

two hours later edit: you're allowed to reblog this! sorry about the confusion

#this has been so upsetting to notice but 🥹whatever #there is a different kind of bitterness to thinking about how ten years have passed #and we are getting new content that changes and maybe even rectifies many of the ways we see and interact w aftg #and none of it not a bit of it addresses the racism #how it’s been ten years and the only thing we really get to show it is a book about a ship between two white men the fandom came up with #after seeing them be Suggested to interact in canon #i understand not wanting to hurt nora sakavics feelings by asking her about this #but imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are #do you know how bad it feels to read through nicky’s worst moments in aftg #and know that he was written this way because he looks like me? #do you understand how exhausting it all is. can you imagine? #the fandom has been so quick to undo the criticism fans of colors have been making since day one #and for what. for what! my doves. for what? #have we come out of it any greater? have we done anything but lie to ourselves? #and anyway this is not some mindless pessimism #this is not me telling you that aftg is bad and you cant love it; cant have it mean anything to you #this is me saying that when we acknowledge these things it makes us better readers and better people #nora sakavic if you are reading this from whatever hellhole america you find yourself in #grabs you by the shoulders. This is not the end #this is not something to sit back and feel bad about #you have opened the floodgates of hell with tsc. kick the door in and release a revised version of aftg #there is a real material way for you to make this better. it is possible and it will not kill you #i would read a revised aftg. my mutuals would. many many many many fans would #making mistakes is not just a human right its a human inevitability #but we do not have to let ourselves get defined by them. We can do hard things #lets go of nora sakavics shoulders. anyway. where were we #aftg #txt #tsc

[comixandco]

The four Sages were called back into the past by Terrako and they remember it happening

Tulin got to meet his hero, Revali, and decided to be just like him, adopting his idol’s brash personality and drive. He practises Revali’s Gale and eventually comes up with his own way to show off his mastery of wind, and when trouble hits his home he rushes to fix it on his own to prove how strong he has become and because, like Revali, he can’t stand idly by while he knows there’s still things he can do.

For Yunobo, when he goes back and meets his ancestor Daruk, he is a very timid and reactive Goron. He needs a push from others to come up with ideas and carry plans through, and when bad things happen to him his first instinct is to use his fire magic as a shield, to wait until the threat has passed by or somebody else has come to save him. But when he is sent back in time to Divine Beast vah Rudania, for the first time he has to be the one doing the saving. Daruk encourages Yunobo and is proud of him from the moment they meet, and it’s this support that gives Yunobo the confidence to help fight against Calamity Ganon, and to start YunoboCo when he gets home.

For Sidon, meeting his family from 100 years ago is bittersweet. He is proud that he was able to protect his sister, and it’s a comfort to know there is a version of him who will grow up alongside Mipha because of his bravery and fighting prowess. But as much joy as he got from seeing her, hugging her, and hearing her voice again, it just reminds him of how unfair her death was, of just how young she was when she died and how he is now older even though he’s the younger sibling. And at the end of the war, when he’s returned to their original time, he has to readjust to her absence all over again, and in light of that is it really a shock he’d have her statue moved further away from his home? And it also explains why he’s so desperate to protect Yona from the sludge.

Riju in AoC still a new ruler to her people, despite her accomplishments in BotW, she still feels guilty over the temporary loss of the Thunder Helm and isn’t sure if she can lead the Gerudo. She has a lot of confidence but is quick to falter when things go wrong. Urbosa treats Riju as a capable fighter despite her young age, and teaches her that she should never give up, to keep trying even when her resolve falters. There is always something you can do, even when it’s just stalling for time until help can arrive. Urbosa guides her in mastering the Thunderhelm, and possibly begins teaching her to summon lightning herself after Kohga attempts to steal it, and at the end of their time together Urbosa tells Riju she’s certain she’ll lead the Gerudo well. Riju treasured her time being mentored by Urbosa so much that she considers what Urbosa would do during the Upheaval in her diary in TotK.

I think the entire reason Tulin was added to the DLC was because the TotK team had already decided that Tulin was going to be the Sage of Wind, and that since the other sages were going to meet their Champions Tulin had to as well.

At some point in the years between Botw and TotK Teba, Tulin, Sidon, Yunobo, Riju and Patricia were summoned back in time by Terrako to aid the Champions during the Calamity, and even though those events took place in a parallel timeline and had no bearing on the world they returned to, the Sages’ personalities at the beginning of TotK are because of their experiences during the Calamity and the bonds they made with the Champions.

#totk #totk spoilers #botw #riju #yunobo #sidon #tulin #aoc zelda #age of calamity #bonus thought i cbb to make into it’s own post for all the tag reading girlies: #since the light dragon is canonically present during the calamity because zelda was sent back thousands of years.. #technically the light dragon is present for both botw!calamity and the aoc!calamity #and there is now a timeline in which totk!ganondorf will emerge in a completely different way because of timeline shenanigans #and there are two zeldas except one of them is a dragon #my belief is that in the aoc!verse since you can play as calamity ganon a part of it survived and like. it’s main goal is to find a way #to excavate the cave it’s creator is in and like maybe it lures link and zelda down there or maybe nobody even notices until it’s too late #idk. because there weren’t two zeldas in the past the aoc!zelda can’t travel back in time so like. either her character development means #her secret stone manifests her light powers instead of her time powers or she never gets the secret stone idk #what’s important is that aoc’s version of totk in my head takes place a few years after the calamity and by the end of it the light dragon #turns back into zelda and suddenly there are two zelda’s who are practically twins and this alternate time-twisted botw!zelda gets to see #the champions and her father again at the cost of losing her link and her friends in the future and having no idea whether her original tim #line is safe or not. and link gets to doublewield the master swords or smth. #if we’re keeping the aoc-style gameplay rauru is one of the jokey-warriors like the great fairies were and it’s just his arm and like. mayb #a bit of his shoulder or something because it’s 100 years ago and there’s a bit more of him left

[rox-of-iu]

hulloo, i am here once again with cultivate....but not the usual one (~_~;)

so funny thing! i had most of these already done from before, but felt a bit silly so i didnt post them. but then (spoiler) we got Tao Ying in his fresh new look and like.. i had to draw him and post the rest of the gang along with him hksfh. so here, the sillays

🍑Tao Ying

🐉Qing Mushu

🦆 The Empress

🐗The General

aaand more sillies of the goobers

aaaaand thats it hdjhdsjfhds so sorry for the long post lmao

characters yoinked from @neonghostcat cultivate

#long post #sorry hadhkdjf #cultivate #cultivate: slow life on a monster infested mountain #listen i am not immune to making humanizations of everything i can get my hands on hajhsh #i am obviously not saying this is how theyd canonically look like im just having fun #i know im missing the mark verily but ykno hjcbsd #speaking of which #i struggled so much with tao ying lmaooo #fun fact this is not in fact my first design that i had in mind after reading the new chapter #he was supposed to be more uhhh airy? not so heavily set in physical reality ykno hsahkdj #but i couldnt rly put him on paper properly for the longest time and finally hit a vibe with this design so thats what i stuck with #and he grew on me so #even tho he is prolly really really not accurate to neonghostcats vision hahha #anyway the group pic was supposed to convey that theyre all scarily tall but instead it just makes SY look like a baybey oh well #hahh cheers #WAIT OMG I JUST NOTICED BUT i hope no one interprets the empress saying the bottom bit to the ducklings shbdnxksndndk omggg #THOSE TWO DRAWINGS ARE OBVS NOT CONNECTED OH GOD o(-<

[non-un-topo]

What if... we killed each other and fell in love....... but also we were both trans 😳

#siggy draws #the old guard #kaysanova #yee. trans canon universe au. this has been in my head for WEEKS. so uhh... take it #i'm gonna be real i think this is so incredibly ugly and also i'm terrified to post it but here i aaammmmm uh oh #idk what's been happening with my faces lately but these are uhh. yeah #anyway enough self deprecation #the fact that nicolo binds like that and uses a sword. while yusuf just lets everything hang out asdfghfdsdgh #no one will notice with the baggy clothes. or will they...? #this is a risky one i'm not gonna lie

[unluckyprime]

oh wow . sports ⚽️🏳️‍🌈

#he got all dressed up as keira knightly and Didnt even get to play soccer . the LEAST I could do for him is this #me? on a team with YOU?? running around in . cute uniforms? sweating? I GOTTA GO. #yes this is an owl house reference <3 #i LOVE THESE GAY PEOPLE #also youll all notice I finally started drawing normals canon teen mustache . I have ceased my cowardice I hope ur all proud #digital art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #Oakworthy #normal oak #hermie the unworthy #head full of them . what the fuck normals an active self insert fanfic writer #I need this NOW #drop ur normal oaks fanfic ideas in the tags . if no one will write it themselves maybe I will who fucking knows

[itsnotmourn]

oc x canon jumpscare BOO

#[ the art of mourning ] #spooky month oc #sm oc winifred #sr pelo comedian #oc x canon #I GUESS? #LMAOOO idk if comedian's in the spooky month universe but no one is stopping me... not even pelo #shipname uhhhhh stagefright i think... until further notice #[ stagefright ] #two loser entities lets GOOOO