#but what a powerful image

[spinejackel]

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

edit: it has been brought to my attention that the native american “legend” part of this post was a rumor spread by a documentary.

i have been asked to remove it, but i believe in letting my errors stand because i’m not perfect. i make mistakes

#ask #nature #tornado #sorry if this reply is late #hope the image of walking tornadoes chills you to the bone as much as they do for me #usually i find tornadoes strangely awe inspiring #what with the shear power and destruction they can cause in such a short amount of time #but walking tornadoes are another class all their own #also i made a typo in fujita scale and it’s too late to fix it now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[bread--quest]

tumblr is a small town and jonathan is a Smart Boy from said town who’s going to Go Places (specifically transylvania apparently) but we’ve all known him since he was young and so we eagerly gather in the marketplace every day to exchange news and ask each other if we’ve heard the latest from jonathan

#beaming this image into your minds. it makes me happy #the atmosphere..... #wow look something original!! #fan: dracula days #GIRL MY BEAMS ARE TOO POWERFUL. THIS HAS 2K. WHAT IS HAPPENING???????

[vigilskeep]

read my powerpoint boy

#do you love what is going to be the new default microsoft office font. are you excited to be free of calibri #dragon age #it just brings me a lot of joy to write things down neatly but let me know if this is actually useful to anyone LMAO #i love to consult the sacred texts. and notice their terrible obvious mistakes. #not world of thedas writing each age as '1-99' even when that would mean theres only 99 years and 00 dates are referenced in the same book #excited to find out tumblr desktop lets u add 30 images. the powers of the posting bourgeoisie are within my grasp #zevsurana academics

[aroaceleovaldez]

chewing on big 3 kids being capable of absolutely devastating natural disasters and apocalypse-level outbursts of power.

Percy who creates hurricanes complete with lightning that pummel titans and flooding and whirlpools that can trap god-powered crocodile kaijus. Earthquakes that erupt volcanoes. Hazel who sunk an entire small island entirely on her own with her final breath, against giants and a primordial goddess of the earth.

If Nico dramatically wilts plants and cracks the ground when he's mildly stressed, and disintegrates enemies down to their skeletons with a single touch or rips their souls out of their still-living bodies, and can command armies of the undead, what happens if he tries to cause destruction? Even outside of total zombie apocalypse or insta-killing a crowd, he's shown enough geokinesis to absolutely be capable of the same destruction Percy and Hazel can manifest.

What about Jason? He can control the winds and storms. There's no way he can't create the most destructive tornadoes with casual effort that he can never justify using for the collateral damage they'd cause. With a single thought he can rip up a town and launch the remnants 50 miles out. (Jason in the center of a Dead Man Walking tornado, vortexes responding to his movements like an avatar...)

And what can anyone do to combat it? How can you fight the wind lifting everything you know and love into the sky, or floods sweeping you away, or the ground giving way beneath you? The Big 3 kids are scary because they are forces of nature, and their whims are the only thing preventing you from witnessing that at any given moment.

#pjo #percy jackson #riordanverse #hazel levesque #nico di angelo #jason grace #sorry Thalia and Bianca [pensive emoji] Thalia's probably just with Percy in hurricane-making club #cause she doesnt have the wind powers like Jason has especially cause those are probably specifically an Hera thing #and Bianca never got to show off her elemental powers u_u though she probably has equal geokinesis to her siblings #listen im thinking about Jason and tornadoes mostly okay #the mental image of *that* being how he defeated Krios in parallel to Percy making the hurricane to fight Hyperion #just tearing up half of Saturn's palace and scattering it across the Garden of the Hesperides #and the rest of the legion can barely see what's happening #they just see the tornado in the shape of a person and the shadow of Jason in the center illuminated by lightning #like YEAH maybe the legion would revere and fear him a little bit after that

[sherbetyy]

i think it’s funny he has a tie of himself

#he’s boobs……. #sorry the shaping is a bit off #bleh #anyway take this . thing #i don’t really know i thought about making this when i saw the image but i forgot to do it every time i saw it #but i did it ! #thought it’d be neat to make the inside of his jacket red… #that’s what i think it looks like #also slightly unrelated but they didn’t make jon’s outfits bad enough in the tv series #they were way worse in the comics and that’s the way i like it #that jacket should be yellow and purple with a plaid pattern and a green bow tie also #but o well #anyway my power might go out bye #☎️ #my art #dhmis #dhmis fanart #dhmis duck #duck guy #dont hug me im scared

[whetstonefires]

I know I talk about mdzs modern AUs a lot, but it's just somehow become a fascinating adaptation process to me, all these people making their personal calls about the nature of reality.

And a thing I keep coming back to is all the people who deliberately decide to give modern!wwx Mo Xuanyu's build.

To preserve the strength contrast that's leveraged for horny, which like, yeah that's fair, horny is an acceptable reason to make a story choice. I respect that, sometimes grudgingly.

But as a result of noticing this being done, oftentimes it seems without any reflection about why, I've developed this minor obsession with the fact that wwx in his own body at its adult height was fractionally shorter than lwj.

And this was the height he reached after a multi-year period in childhood living on scrounged garbage, plus the three months starving in the mass grave toward the end of his growth period.

Meaning that by all normal logic, a modern AU wwx who did not experience these periods of intense privation--which is most of them; it's quite rare for children to experience that particular form of total neglect in modern developed nations and modernAU!wwx's life ruining circumstances only occasionally involve intense physical torment--is going to be significantly taller as an adult.

Like. Add a few inches on there.

Where are all my adequately nourished six-foot-four Wei Wuxians???

#hoc est meum #mdzs #modern au discourse #malnutrition #i know i've discussed this before #like luo binghe isn't necessarily stunted because his genes are So Powerful #but wwx is a human person #also though the subtext of modern aus that clearly just put him in mxy's body from the word go #like what image of wwx is getting translated here #what story interpretation does this signify what's being valued the most? #the immediate on-page gay romcom of errors sometimes #other times it's less clear #sometimes it's like oh i think this is mostly a gender thing this time #this isn't attachment to the specific on-page dynamic but to the concept of the shou #as a gendered role #etc #wei wuxian #meta #i think this counts as meta

[winesharksea]

every so often jace sends kit very upscale hair care products because the herondales have a reputation to protect damn it

#personally i think the first time jace visits cirenworth he asked kit what hair stuff he uses & kit said um the bottle is green? its 2 in 1? #and jace's soul left his body temporarily before he gave an impassioned speech about protecting the herondale image via one's hair #kit goes to school like hey does anyone want this 70$ leave in conditioner my weird cousin sent to me #jace herondale #kit herondale #the wicked powers #twp

[karinhart]

the thing about me is i really love to draw characters picking up their partners i do it all the time it's one of my favorite poses. and the temptation to do a telekinetic version was simply too great

(ID in alt)

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 fanart #serirei #serizawa katsuya #reigen arakata #idk if the sequence of events is clear just from this image #but 1) reigen was on the ground when they started kissing and 2) serizawa has not noticed that he is doing this #i am a firm believer in chubby serizawa. like what do you think he was going to claw's in-house gym or something?? no he was not #i know this is cliché i know it is but look if something is cute it's cute #no such thing as too many fanworks about serizawa losing control of his powers bc he's in love

[bythepen98]

Severus 🐍

Aside from Harry and Hermione, he is arguably the next character whose pov I read about the most (gen or ship wise). Can't help that he's too interesting of a character for me to ignore when written right.

#doodle #fanart #severus snape #professor snape #snape #snape fanart #hp fanart #harry potter fanart #i love fanon snape #mostly bc i barely remember canon him #I admit to being a bit biased #blame the movies and fics for making me adore him #headcanon where snape is more powerful than what's portrayed in the books/movies #tall dark and broody #snarky bastard who hates everyone but has the tiniest soft spot for his youngest slytherins #he loves dumbledore minerva pomfrey and some of the staff in his own snarly way too #his own found family you could say #idk i have a lot of thoughts on this man #or my image of him anyway #but am not good at articulating it right now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

now this one was an absolute Blast to do!

outfit is once again from @chocolategothwolfhorse, whose ask is full of bangers

#took some.... whats it called... dreamcore? weirdcore? #well i took inspo from those i think #its a Vibe i enjoy a lot #ive very lightly dabbled in it before but with this one i kinda leaned into it #never underestimate the power of using Real Images #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #julie joyful #HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I LOVE JULIE YET??? BC I DO #she's so pretty.... #me? having a crush on a puppet? its more likely than you think #id never be able to handle her tho she's too Powerful #she'd say hi to me and i'd be blasted clean off the face of the earth #nothing left but a red smear with heart-shaped glitter stuck to it #actually no not glitter i have Personal Beef with glitter. lets make it confetti #or sprinkles... holy shit yeah sprinkles.... red smear w/ sprinkles #the fish-shaped ones you get with the funfetti blue icing #yknow when i was younger i made a cake and i individually placed each fish sprinkle - sprish - onto the icing #which i styled in the shape of ocean waves #very insane behavior of me! or just autistic... #i love looking back on my life and going 'hey wait. huh. hm. well.' and then i put another penny in the autism jar #yeehaw and may i say hawyee

[thehappinessmachine]

picture of your favorite moe anime sidegirl kouhais from your favorite gacha games

#limbus company #i mean what i said I SAID WHAT I MEANT #i can imagine them sitting all around a table having tea and verg is barely fitting in his dainty chair yet #he's still holding his cup with his pinky out #yes you may have seen this on twitter but i need everyone to see it here too #its a powerful image #vergilius my beloved #ALSO YES I LOVE ALL THESE GIRLS NO HATE AGAINST THEM

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.

- Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop and Servant of God, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear.

#catholic #tower of babble #quote #helder camara #Hélder Câmara #Hélder Câmara my beloved. I need to read more of his writing. #sorry I saw some Catholic Blogs being very….petty about politics. #I’m no communist myself but if your faith in god doesn’t transcend political structures then you need more faith. #I’m no hardcore capitalist either but that doesn’t stop me from sympathizing with the suffering of people who are capitalists and believe #in the supremacy of that power structure. the same way our faith should extend to pagans and heretics and nonbelievers. #they are all your family in Christ made in God’s divine image whether you like it or not. agree with them or not. #stop finding superiority over others in what you perceive to be their weaknesses and naivety. it’s not a good look even IF you’re right.

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[graveposting]

me when

me hwhen the------

the brainworms-

#i was thinking about fic ideas but this would have needed too much setup #writing a fic is a commitment you gotta stick around from the beginning to the end and #drawing the thing as one picture however is #uhhh #something something i really don't know man #just inject the gravecest straight into my veins already just fuck me up thank you #art by me #gravecest #coffincest #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley #technically safe for work but let's be real here #not safe for life #how's that gun taste andy #did you realize that's what she meant when she said she'd blow your brains o- #what do you mean that's even better #oh wait i forgot to tag the characters too #ashley graves #andrew graves #this image was so powerful it had to be dithered or else it would have killed everyone who looks directly at it #nsft

[perfectlyripeclementine]

it’s been a long time since we’ve been together. you took me out tonight and i saw your eyes lingering on the rings on my fingers, at the gold around my neck dripping down my chest. i saw that look in your eyes like wonder, saw that smile of yours that i know means love. i saw you relax when you laughed at my jokes. i saw you almost take my hand, and then shy out of it.

when we left the restaurant you worked up your nerve and asked if you could kiss me. so i leaned in, touched my lips to yours, drew you into me. and the warmth, that marvelous warmth, filled me up. in the cab we couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t be separated by an inch. it was all the strength we had not to spend the whole car ride making out in the back seat like we were coming home drunk from a bar. but, no; this is holy; we didn’t want an audience for this moment.

there were no pretenses when we got home. we wanted to be close to one another. you sat on the couch and i asked if i could sit in your lap: you said, please. so i came and sat on top of you and flooded with your heat. i took your hands, laced our fingers and said: i missed you. your touch on me after that was all hunger, like i might disappear if you couldn’t feel me, like you could never have enough of me. pulled me down on you like you’d never felt so safe as you did under my weight. the shock i felt course through your body when i found the right spot to grind on - how it changed your breathing - how i held your beating heart in the soft of my hands.

hours later, we fell asleep entwined, me wrapped around you, holding hands.

#the yearning has been powerful lately yall #why is makeup sex so hot 🥵🥵🥵 #the look in someone’s eye when they finally have me after missing me #has me acting a whole fool #anyways i’ve just been daydreaming #putting it down on pixel to try to rid my brain of the images #mitigated success #the yearning will wax and wane again #like the phases of the moon #anyways #that’s what i’ve got for now #(i miss their dog 😢) #cool. #nblnb #this post is about queer sex #genderless nsft #genderless #genderless sext #nb4nb #queer nsft #dyke nsft #yearning