#and somehow that bothers me

[ko-neko-san]

You ever get so deep into a fic that the characters keep responding in character and it irritates you bc thats not how you would respond but it is in fact totally in character with that character so you can't even be mad abt it but you're still mad

#yeah #do i think obi wan would pace while he explains to jaster or jango why hes suddenly in the past #of course not #but would i pace just bc the energy used to talk is less than what ive got in me #fuckin yeah #but obi wouldnt #and somehow that bothers me #oh my god am i anakin #FUCK

[official-crab-posts]

hey everyone, i know this is a silly gimmick blog but i feel i need to clarify that zionists aren't welcome here. people who think the violence in gaza right now is in any way justified or proportional to october 7 and support the genocide being committed against palestinians need to get off my blog. leave.

people who use this situation as an excuse to be antisemitic also need to get the fuck out of here. it is never okay to be antisemitic and trying to use your support for palestine as a shield is pathetic. i dont want you around and i do not like you. when i find you i will block you. save us both some time and just unfollow me right now.

i just wanted to make my position clear. free palestine. 🇵🇸

#not a crab #the crab speaks #free palestine #from the river to the sea #i just wanted to make this clear after i saw a couple people followed me that i do not want following me. thanks. #also to be clear obviously this didn’t start on october 7. it’s been happening for over 70 years now #but i specifically wanted to address the claim that this is somehow a proportional response to that day #i didn’t get into the historical context in this post because it was meant to just be a quick response after i had to block some zionists #but it has gotten way more notes than i thought it would and also has led to a couple zionists bothering me so i just wanted to add this #also like dw about the zionists who show up sometimes. i just block them now. it’s not worth it to take the bait

[itsevansart]

"The picture on the front page says enough: Harry looking back at the press, blood on his face, his hands, his clothes, and Lord Gaunt stepping in closer to quickly shield him with a long, dark cloak." — DMAY ch 61, by @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger 💕

make my day by reblogging and not reposting!

#i included tom in the original version but his face kept bothering me #so this crop is the final version until i somehow find a way to make tom not look like a git #my art #fanart #harry potter #itsevanffs finished works #hp fanart #fic fanart #dmay fanart #tomarrymort #love you toastie!

[elvyn]

I realized that I haven't drawn Kakashi yet this year

#Almost every drawing of him I made contains plants xD #idk kakashi and plants go well together somehow #And it's not that drawing trees and plants is the easiest background option for me not at aaaall #but if it looks ok then why bother xD #kakashi #naruto #hatake kakashi #anime #my art

[courfee]

yes i used that dean scene as a reference, sue me

#this was supposed to just be a quick little thing and then nothing worked and everything looked wrong and i spent too much time on it #and it somehow still looks wrong to me and i cant tell you why but it bothers me a lot #but i do like the blood its pretty #also fully blaming arik for contiously putting spn content on my dash in the year 2024 of our lord #(i wanted to write 2022 cause i forgot how time works) #anyway its the prettiest knife to throat reference that exists so i dont think i can be blamed actually #marauders #marauders fanart #james potter #james potter fanart #starchaser #sunseeker #james x regulus #regulus x james #jegulus #marauders era #mine #jegulus fanart #my art #hp

[king-magppi]

Cursed concept of an Undertale/DHMIS crossover...

(Felt the need to add this last bit with Red Sans to clarify that Yellow is NOT a child in this AU just because he's Frisk/Chara)

#dhmis #dont hug me im scared fanart #dont hug me im scared #dhmis fanart #crossover #undertale #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis red guy #dhmis lesley #dhmis roy #dhmis duck #dhmis shrignold #dhmis colin #colin the computer #grolton and hovris #dhmis unemployed brendon #idk if it's hard to tell but brendon is supposed to be like mad dummy and grolton is the mad mew mew of this universe #also Lesley is somehow both asgore AND toriel. the au doesn't really follow undertale's storyline exactly #and yellow guy is frisk and chara #no red and duck aren't related in this but i dont really ship them to begin with so their roles dont bother me. they're all friends #had fun brainstorming concepts for characters in this au with a friend over on Instagram!! (if ur reading this #hi wacky!!!) #i think gaster roy might be my favorite of the bunch next to colin-atton

[mumblesplash]

every time i’m reminded invincible exists i think wow what a good show i should browse fanart of it and every time i am shocked to discover a lot of it is horny art of omniman. no matter how much this happens it’s always a surprise. i’m not even disgusted there is no judgement in my heart my brain just cannot retain the fact that it’s possible to be attracted to that man

#mumbling #the funny part is it’s not even because he sucks #it’s because he has a moustache #i am at least on some level attracted to men and i can find them attractive with basically any other configuration of facial hair #but a moustache by itself somehow completely neutralizes any degree of hotness #and i *don’t even dislike moustaches* #they don’t bother me at all #they look genuinely great on some people #but they make some switch flip in my head #it’s as if ‘guy with a moustache’ was an entirely distinct gender i’m just simply not attracted to

[wandixx]

Dani gives people heart attacks and brings down a lot of trafficking rings, making friends along the way. Everything by accident, really

Dani traveled around world, hadn't she? While doing it, she had to meet a lot of interesting people.

Like heroes or villains.

In civies or not or both who knows.

But to actually learn things about someplace you have to spend more than one night there. Like, idk? Month? Probably more but I doubt she would be able to sit in one place for any longer. In many places she is shorter.

Month is long enough to create some connections though.

Enough to get someone to realize when you disappear...

Yeah, Dani on her way of gremlin and self discovery ghosted bunch of people without second thought. They'll probably forget her in few months anyway. And she was everywhere in USA. She didn't left American soil only because she didn't want to be too far from Danny in case of emergency. Before anyone tells me he was in space so he could fly to her wherever on Earth she would be, Earth's atmosphere ends about 100 km above sea level and officially this is border of space. Telecommunication satellites are between 8000 to 12000 km up. It's about how wide Atlantic Ocean is.

Plus y'know, time. If she needs help, she probably can't quite wait until he flies all the way to Hong Kong, Wladywostok, Rio de Janeiro or wherever she is.

So America it is. For now at least. When they're 100% sure she is stable she'll fly elsewhere.

Anyway people who she ghosted are used to batshit crazy stuff but "this tween is alone on her road to self discovery and just left for new city" isn't first thing anyone thought about. Maybe outside of Martians. They know. Everyone else? No idea what happened to this tiny, chaotic, snarky, probably meta child.

First thought though?

She got kidnapped.

So now 3/4 of Justice League, some individual heroes and bunch of less intense rogues are scrambling around their cities tracking every trafficking ring they found glimpses of, trying to find Dani.

Flashes work with Captain Cold on this and seem to slowly descend into madness. At the same time, Dani eats ice cream with nice museum lady from Washington who introduced herself as Diana. Then she helps at animal shelter with kind stuck up boy called Damian. Oh, Danny likes aliens, let's visit Martian Manhunter. Maybe she'll manage to get autograph for her template. Wait Space Cops? Kinda sucks but Danny would probably like their signatures too. Let's go. Oh, Superboys are fun mess with and older one is like her! This Nightwing guy puns like Danny but she always feels like he looks at her weirdly. Billy should eat more, magic or not, fighting is tiring. Good thing she has Sam's money to buy him burgers.

She has time of her life while people she met are slowly dying.

She probably doesn't even hide that she is traveling but for whatever reason they don't think she actually left.

They don't bring it up on any meeting because no matter how concerned they are, it's not really whole league type of business. And Martians just discreetly enjoy chaos.

There is a lot of ways it can get resolved (or not) but I kinda thought about Jon introducing his old buddy Damian to his new buddy Dani because he thinks they would get along and they just stare at each other for long moment before:

"Dani..."

"Dami!"

"WHY DID YOU LEFT WITHOUT A WORD! WE THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED OR DEAD!"

Some screaming and revelation that Killer Croc was looking for her too, Dani hits moment of realisation.

"Wait, is this what people think when you just up and go?"

"Honestly? Yeah"

"Oh, Ancients I did this to so many people. So many..."

Idk, just Dani traveling and leaving people behind.

Do with it what you will

#dp x dc #dpxdc #dc x dp #dcxdp #nobody really questions why Martians brought popcorn to Watchtower meeting because their stretch to thin between attending said meeting #and wondering where this tiny gremlin disappeared #it would be kinda histeric to me if she visited some cities few times but met other people #like first time in Gotham she bothers Jason and pets hienas #then few months later she has brawl with killer croc and becomes Duke's kibda sidekick for a week #then she smacks Joker and volunteers at animal shelter with Damian #and somehow they don't connect it #or they do and think she repeatedly gets kidnapped and escapes but doesn't leave the city because something #only hope flashes have left at this point is that she didn't show up in morgue #they actually consider running back in time to save her #also #some heroes and villains heard some thing and they *preparing weapons* #just want to talk with Vlad #just talk they promise #idk just enjoy and spread the chaos #have a nice day dear stranger who got to this part

[storm-of-feathers]

i hope parents who make cleaning a punishment and/or scream at their children for not cleaning "right" know that they only set their children up for failure when it comes to being able to routinely clean.

#sidenote thats only like partially related #but every other day someone gets yk outed for genuinely heinous shit #and then somehow in the mix theres always ''and their home was messy!!1!'' #like i Do Not Care and its not anywhere near the same level of abuse. shut up. #but yeah i #i struggle so so so much with just basic every day cleaning #bc as mentioned cleaning was one of my parents fave ways to punish me. #and ofc i always did it wrong somehow and got screamed at #or even when i did just do my normal cleaning chores i was doing it wrong somehow. #and now at 26 nearly 27 i borderline cant clean i just cant get myself to do it #and the mess doesnt bother me as much as it should.

[zaacoy]

revamping my rendering process because I want to add more color and messiness into my work except I have no idea what I'm doing and twt is making me anxious SO! I'm putting my attempts here!!!

Here is tang because he is bbg💕

#Expect a lot of doodly colorful stuff in the upcoming days this has been bothering me for a while #If I can't fit every color of the rainbow into the shading/lighting somehow I have failed /hj #I dunno I'll get there eventually #On a side note starting with a sketch and just cleaning it up is WAY more fun than doing lineart found that out today #I kinda want to move more into paintery shading rather than cell shading but that's WAAAY out of my current skill set so we'll see #I love color I WILL get more color in my work even if it kills me ueueue #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #lmk tang #tang lego monkie kid #zaacoy art💫

[dostoyevsky-official]

You know Mandarin??

sometime in the spring of this year i kept encountering the idea on other social media that chinese is impossible to learn for europeans, that it's too difficult, that no westerner can learn or truly understand it, and in combination with a mainland friend visiting and telling me the ancient chinese etymology of some basic characters (and the 白人饭 Lunch of Suffering meme) i got fed up/enchanted and did the extremely mentally healthy thing of teaching myself basic mandarin, through about ~april to july. at some points in may i remember coming home from work, scribbling characters in my mandarin notebook over and over, doing chores, going to sleep, and repeating the cycle. a taiwanese friend on here helped out with a lot (it's much, much easier if you have chinese friends to help you, however, i am really not about traditional, although i admit it's more beautiful) and baptized me with a chinese name.

i don't know mandarin, and at this point a lot of the characters i'd learned have faded from memory, but i insist that it's not actually difficult to learn chinese (up to a point— maybe HSK 3 or 4 is where it gets really difficult). in fact, learning chinese is really, really fun.

the difficulty lies in the fact that you have to do it every single day for at least an hour, probably for more (i spent pretty much all my free time on it, but there was something not normal going on with me then). you'd think, isn't that the case for every language? yet i don't remember doing daily french like that, and i consider some aspects of french conjugation/russian grammar much more difficult than what chinese throws at you at similar difficulty levels (good luck with motion verbs, non-slavic speakers). i found learning characters to be very, very easy. they're all distinct. if you learn them together with their etymology, looking at ancient chinese and how they developed along with associated idioms, it's endlessly rewarding. at least in the early levels, there's a bit of a system to how characters and words come together and increase in complexity—sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's cute. it's a breath of fresh air to start reading even basic sentences and idioms in a language so entirely different from anything you've experienced before. many people say speaking chinese is easier than reading/writing: in my experience, that's false. i barely started getting a grasp on the tonal system (my goal was to get to HSK 1 solely through written chinese); i remember listening to the same 2 minute audio clip of two people exchanging phone numbers for half an hour or something once before getting everything right. people say "chinese doesn't have grammar" but that's not true, because otherwise it won't be a language at all, though you don't have to learn any conjugations, declensions, etc. at HSK 1-2 you just throw a modifier/particle into a sentence and you're good to go.

the other main difficulty besides tones is that imo chinese culture is borderline impenetrable if you want to have a genuine stab at it (but for this you don't, necessarily, need to learn mandarin). you can learn HSK 1-2 in a few months or a semester, but it will take you years to genuinely understand the cultural context—there truly is no context clue or familiar idea you can latch on to, as opposed to when learning a european language/history, or even turkish, arabic, persian; there is nothing in common here, and if you guess, you'll probably wind up wrong. it all makes me think of how many journalists/experts get russia wrong: i now firmly do not believe a word of what people write about asia unless i find the author knows the language

anyway

#keep in mind of course i did not go past HSK1 #i prefer simplified but seeing what they did to 門 makes one a rabid antimaoist #you get to understand the pò èr shǒu chē reel of the little chinese girl pointing at a porsche that goes around on instagram. #i truly wish china was somehow connected to what i study bc i cannot justify spending that much time on mandarin #unfortunately the harbin russians didn't bother with chinese #smth else about this blog is that india is likewise impenetrable to me. the sheer historical and geographic scale is unbearably intimidatin #where does one even start? #ed* ^ i know the basic 101 historical outlines but i don't think that's “knowing” a place

[tj-crochets]

It’s time to make coasters from a bunch of HSTs from the box of scraps I got!

I’m aiming for 4” ish square, and I’m making A Bunch so I can give them to my endocrinologist’s entire staff because they have hugely improved my quality of life. Like. By leaps and bounds. I’d make them all full quilts if I knew how many people worked there but that’s maybe a little much so quilted coasters it is! And maybe some quilted mug cozies!

#sewing #sewing wip #scrap management #coasters for endocrinology #I had a stress related flare up yesterday #that got to the point that would (prior to my current meds) take me like 2-6 weeks to recover from #and I am fine! mildly sore and I’m pushing water and salt a bit today to be on the safe side #but I’m not dizzy or shaky or nauseous or exhausted #as soon as I took my evening dose of steroids yesterday I was fine! #tired but fine and able to rehydrate with no problem at all #which is an absolutely phenomenal difference and I am so so grateful to this endocrinologist #who is my FOURTH endocrinologist #but somehow the first one EVER to bother to test my SED rate and for autoimmune antibodies #it’s been twelve years but hey at least he’s doing the tests #and the funny thing is it’s looking increasingly like my problem is not endocrine related like I thought it was #anyway he’s the best and I am envious of his flannel shirts

[accidentally-in-fictional-love]

After Dark - A David Dastmalchian Thirst Trap

Chorus Loop Version

#Ray's Vids #warning for eyestrain and lots of flashes if that might bother you #david dastmalchian #The Writer #johnson reprisal #Jack Delroy #James Lewis #Abner Krill #Simon Lynch #Murdoc #Wojchek #Bob Taylor #Thomas Schiff #Kurt Goreshter #Lonny Crane #Jude Animals #Abra Kadabra #Ray Watkins #Dwight Pollard #worked on this all night instead of sleeping such a Classic Me move #I've been editing since 2007 and yet SOMEHOW I've never done a thirst trap before that's how much he inspires me #this is also the first time I've ever tried a loop and it was a lot of fun~ #I've got a couple more vids planned for him I'd like to work on soon and yes it's pretty much just all thirst what can I say I'm weak

[timetodiverge]

Ahsoka season 2 brainstorming: practical and impractical ways to get the girls* back from Peridea

*Ahsoka, Sabine, AND Shin. (...and David Tennant, the Howler wolf, and the turtles)

(1) just use the force (somehow)

step 1: use the force

steps 2~10: ???

step 11: profit girls are home yay

(2) purrgil wearing a hyperspace-ring backpack

(Behold my astonishing drawing skills. You're astonished right.)

Since the purrgil migratory route from Seatos to Peridea only seems to go one way (because the whales go there to die), they'd have to build a mini Eye of Sion so they can all get back after Ezra hitches a ride there. Purrgil know the way to Peridia; Ezra knows the coordinates of home already.

(Will Thrawn be staking out Seatos to try to prevent this? Yes. Will that make it funnier when Ezra does it anyway and gets away with it? Most definitely 👍👍)

(3) use the "somehow, Palpatine returned" method

The audience:

(Mate, Disney did it first. This is now an in-canon way to Solve Problems.)

(4) Mortis Gods temple ruins on Lothal=secret yet convenient portal

Ezra "the force is all I need" Bridger will use his amazing Space Jesus powers and *insert additional justifications relating to loth-wolves, world-between-worlds, Lothal magic, Morai etc*, Ezra will open the portal on one side and the girls, working as a team in a way that will make us all cry, will open from the other side

(additionally, because we are not crying enough yet, there will be a cameo from Kanan!loth-wolf/DumeWolf. You're welcome)

(additionally additionally, the deal Ahsoka made with the Mortis Gods to make this possible means she will now die to repay the debt. Because the writers really want us to cry. A lot.)

...okay everyone YOUR TURN add on your most practical and impractical ideas

#ahsoka #the space krill are vital to the plan btw #“that's not how the force works!!” I have never stopped laughing at this line true story #“somehow palpatine returned” literally they can now write anything and just stick it up on the screen #its always bothered me that no-one thought to go speak with or hang out with the purrgils before #or try to use the world between worlds #I mean maybe they DID try #ahsoka season 2 #ahsoka show #ahsoka tano #sabine wren #shin hati #ezra bridger #star wars #lothal #mortis gods #purrgil

[911firefox]

With the episode title being 'Buck, Bothered and Bewildered' the buddie shipper part of me (read: all of me) can't help but recall the song lyrics.

Especially the line 'And worship the trousers that cling to him'

#911 spoilers #if the title is a spoiler somehow #season 7 #eddiendiaz #buck buckley #evan buckley #buck 911 #buddie #buddie 911 #that song will also be sung by Posner in the History Boys movie to Dakin for me #so it's always very gay is what I'm saying #911onabc #buck bothered and bewildered #bewitched bothered and bewildered

[south-sea]

i've been promising it for ages, so here are finally some notes on the two iterations of black arms/doom i write for. in this house we ignore the "black doom is an evil space tyrant for the sake of being an evil space tyrant" thing and have fun exploring his motives from different angles

(it's because i had no idea that was even a thing until like a week ago. i've always thought the motivator was Just Food, and i like that significantly more.)

i like to think of eclipse's paternal qualities as something telling to black doom/the species as a whole, at least outside of canon instances. so that's an intentional trend across both.

it's also intentionally implied the alt arms are more or less what aruna's hive could/would have turned out like if he were less traditionally stubborn and foolhardy.

as for their plans and how things ended up:

alt doom started out as generally interested in how humanity might progress. once in contact with gerald, his plan was to trade his DNA for the chaos emeralds as a source of energy for the black comet, as its at-the-time power would have been mostly depleted by the time it circled back around in 50 years. this agreement was doomed to fail; both he and gerald almost immediately realized how badly it could backfire, got paranoid, and mutually planned to destroy each other. the fact humans are good sustenance for the black arms was just a convenient bonus at that point.

given shadow didn't make it past SA2 on this timeline, it left sonic to defeat the black arms. and in sonic fashion, this meant putting them in their place and sending them packing without properly destroying them.

alt doom is not so much one to accept he's been beaten, and more one to re-approach something from a different angle once he realizes his methods were flawed. this leads to him picking up and just going Somewhere Else. he's a scientist too, on some level. he can figure it out. and he does. rather than being all traditional and stubborn, he learns to work with other species, which in turn leads to securing better/more diverse materials, more ethical/convenient food sources, etc. the arms' population booms and advances at breakneck pace from then on. they diversify and spread out. without having to fight for survival, things are chill. it's considered the good end.

aruna's is the bad end. shadow is present on this timeline, and summarily wrecks his entire shit (for good reason).

the trouble with aruna's hive is it was in a constant state of nutritional deficit. they were the multiverse's scavengers, tending to pick planets clean whose populations were already critically low. not for any moral or ethical reason, just that the hive itself was so comparatively small in numbers, they didn't much have a choice.

this led to desperation. he got Tired of it. his last ditch effort to secure some means of easier travel/means to acquire food was to obtain the chaos emeralds. so he struck a deal with gerald, as these things always go.

he comes back 50 years later, finds his son has sided with the humans, and just snaps. just goes absolutely nuclear. if the deal isn't going to be upheld, and shadow sees the black arms as The Enemy, then he's just going to take the emeralds (and by extension the whole planet itself) by force. he's done playing nice. he and his people are starving. have been starving for enough years he's lost count.

this ends with the entire comet being blown up, and that's the last thing he sees as he's falling back to earth.

what all goes on after that point is between nobody but him, the multiverse's worst and, somehow, eventually, a familiar fallen god. (it's going in another aruna-centric post, some day, maybe, i hope.)

there's even still more i could say about how their respective hives operated and how they interacted with them personally, but that also needs to go in another post because this one's already long enough. but oh man is there more to say.

(and a shoutout/direct link to @motobug as always for the mobian design)

#black doom #mobian black doom #shadow the hedgehog #second chance au #semi-modern au #art by sea #i made exactly one too many shitposts about mobian doom and then somehow ended up making him my newest redemption project. oops #don't worry he still gets Bullied (excessively) #but that post became so ooc almost immediately that it's been bothering me ever since #he was originally meant for a throwaway background au but then THAT was made canon so i rerouted into making runa's stuff Also make sense #and now here we are #with still lots and lots and lots of details omitted because i couldn't format it correctly and csp hates processing text #and because i'm sitting on a whole pile of relevant sketches wondering how to format Those/continually adding to them #i'm in too deep (please send help i'm drowning)