#culture swap

[licollisa]

Misc stuff. Mentally ill for them fish meat...

#undertale #underswap #deltarune #kris #frisk #sans #undyne #swap sans #also. tears of kingdom huh #i dont even own a switch idk what im missing at 💀 #ah right #oc x sans #cringe culture is dead and so am i (stoned to death) #this post is dedicated as propaganda cause soon youd be able to throw money at me. in which i spit out art as a gift. #lico arting

[sinsin1016]

SinSin1016@Tumblr

SinSin1016@TikTok

•Not my original unedited clip

#lol #tiktok #humor #funny #original content #music mashup #lmao #twisted humor #sick and twisted #fun dub #line dancing #2step #retro hip hop #big poppa #dancemashup #culture swap

[stringcage]

raven girls ? 🫣

#cringe culture is dead we post genderbends in 2023 and die like men #adam intense side part + shitty braids is CRUCIAL. it is very important to me #the raven cycle #ronan lynch #noah czerny #adam parrish #gansey #richard campbell gansey iii #henry cheng #pynch #chengsey #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #the raven cycle fanart #my art #genderbend #gender swap

[lunarharp]

scribblezone again testing out brushes, early grey oru, and ace attorney-style psychelocks

#witch hat tag #orufrey #doodly. i like one of the brushes tho. #oh and i was thinking how the girls have qifrey's hat design but oru's (current) tassel and how that makes me feel #ppl will surely be thinking umm WHY do they have a different tassel to him unlike every other atelier ever. the whole tassel thing is just. #whatever. *keeps the rest to myself as i fall down a zelda-style chasm of emotion* #i JUST wanna know if tassel swapping is a cultural witch sign of commitment OR if it's something they just made up. JUST TELL ME. NAAOOOOWW #the girls are too young to hear about it because oru has the inbuilt belief that kids will mercilessly tease ppl #ok what is going on someone said the psychelocks art made them laugh and someone else said it made them smile #sometimes when i try to get out depressing ideas ppl are like hehe aww and then for those pink clothes i got surprisingly much sad response #it wasnt THAT sad........maybe. anyway genuinely interesting . this world is a mystery #i think its bc i mix humour & tragedy more than i ever imagined i would. i mean witch hat is like that so thats why im doing it. well anywa

[swaps55]

I have been thinking about two things all day.

That post I saw this morning very confidently believing that a $130k salary is "comfortably middle class" in Los Angeles, which made me laugh, then have a mild existential crisis.

Sam Shepard absolutely slaying it at karaoke to "Walking On Broken Glass."

So. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#adventures with swaps #'shoot it again sam' shepard #the burnout in basically every facet of life is real right now #so i'm latching onto a happier sam to find some seratonin #i will never make pop culture references in my sci-fi stories #it's a weird pet peeve of mine #but let it be known that if i did #sam shepard would be a 90s guy to his core #and you can pry this secret headcanon out of my cold dead hands #i need this #just as badly as i need him doing a mean duet with aslany to wannabe

[floralcavern]

One of the things I find frustrating with swap AUs is when they just completely swap the personalities, backstories, etc.

It would be so interesting if they still kept original aspects of the character!

An example is ToH swap AU where Luz takes Amity’s place. Imagine this:

Luz is in multiple classes, feeling that she needed to learn all kinds of magic to prove herself. She struggles a lot in school, passing, yes, but struggling greatly, her grades like a rollercoaster, going from Ds to As. She has that same bitchy attitude Amity had at the beginning of the series, but for Swap!Luz, it’s a front to hide her overwhelming anxiety for feeling like she’ll never be good enough or smart enough.

She still has aspects of original Luz, but also having swapped places with Amity and being in her same position and similar personality! A big part of Luz was her struggles with neurodivergence in learning environments. It’s a core aspect of her. SO KEEP IT! Don’t just make her Amity but with a different face.

#Swap au #au #the owl house #Toh #Luz #luz noceda #Toh luz #toh swap au #Luz swap au #fandom criticism #fandom culture #fandom critical

[bestjeanistmonster]

Sonic and Tails swap au- practice drawing of the boy on an adventure

He then proceeds to fall down a hole cuz he was too focused on the map

#Tails is more into exploring learning about different cultures and solving mysteries in this au #it usually leads him to being at the wrong place at the wrong time or just stumbling onto eggman’s plans #sth #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonic and tails #sonic the hedgehog fanart #sth fanart #sth au #S&T swap au #art #drawing #doodles #sonic fanart #miles tails prower #tails the fox #tails fanart #digital drawing #drawing digital art

[valyrfia]

HAND OVER THE FF LESTAPPEN

alright, check it out

Charles blames the Instagram algorithm, when one day she’s scrolling aimlessly only to come across pictures of Max Verstappen in a bikini. 

Max lounging on her stomach across a sunbed under the European sun next to a cerulean sea, the band of her dark blue bikini riding up, sitting snug across her muscular shoulders peppered with moles and the unmistakable shape of a fading wine-coloured mark high up on the curve of her shoulder that makes something in Charles's throat curdle and sets something strange and deep in her core alight.

She sends it to Pierre immediately, because of course she does. 

Charles Look at this shit. She probably called the paps on herself. 

And that’s the odd feeling deep in her stomach, it’s anger, the fact that Max can be snapped near naked on a strange foreign beach without consequence and Charles has to be careful that the knee-length skirt she wears on errands in Monaco doesn’t get blown up, lest she gets another embarrassing lecture from Mattia on her public image. Be careful Charletta, he would say, Santina is a better nickname than Puttana. Puttana, a fitting word to describe Max’s recent endeavours, really. Charles’s socials have been pushing her the pictures all week. Max outside bars, hanging onto tall men who make more in a year than Charles would care to mention, their young pretty wives off to the side with them, seemingly resigned to the fate of what’s happening. After all, who could compete with Max Verstappen, champion of the world?

#the vague idea is charles leclerc heavily repressed lesbian with a shit ton of internalised misogyny AND lesbophobia #also in this version charles gets the nickname santina instead of/on top of el predestinata #mainly because of this whole idea in media culture of women must be passive in their narrative #basically it's fi takes on a man-centred world view and takes an unwilling ff lestappen along with her #lestappen #fic bits #also charles is still charles because a. i cannot name swap when i genderbend #and b. i decided charles was catholic so it would be appropriate for her to just be named maria charles leclerc #and she goes by charles obviously because everyone and their mother has the first name maria in southern europe #ALSO MATTIA USES THE DIMINUTIVE FORM WITH CHARLES'S NAME BECAUSE HE'S A MISOGYNISTIC ASSHOLE! #anyway fun facts with fi #i've thought this out #maybe now that work calms down i'll get around to writing this properly i anticipate it to be maybe like a 30k oneshot

[liroyalty]

I'm here to start an agenda. The wedding dress agenda. Wife my girlys

#(sadly the older sue fc does not have a wedding dress actually but this is close enough) #musings [lore and ideas] #ann aesthetic 【in sunlight blooms the peony】 #suzanne aesthetic(varies trigger warnings) 【in darkness blooms the spider lily】 #『v!long live the queen』 #『v!ffxvi』 #『v!culture swap』 #『v!house of the dragonriders』 #『v!queen of dracul』

[hispanicin]

Elementals was done so dirty by its marketing. It's not a simple "Oh I'm fire you're water we're sooo different :(" it's actually a really really impactful story about an immigrant family and community, and the effects of watching your parents sacrifice so much for you to help you grow up.

#elementals #pixar elementals #it feels like theres a gifted kid immigrant working at disney #like #encanto and then this one? #this one though it like #made me cry so much #i was expecting it to turn into a total like rejection of her culture but it was wonderfully inspiring about embracing your culture and #at the same time choosing what you want in life #its like #so good #its really good. #and it swapped out the roles where usually its the girl teaching the guy to be open abt his emotions #and i just #thought it was rlly sweet #esp how empathetic he was at all times #no matter how much she lashed out #ugh #it was soo good

[simonsoys]

Another night conceptualizing Swap and Fell as if they were slight deviations in events in the 100 years since Asriel/Chara died, that led the characters to different roles/attitudes, rather than being core personality changes... 

Everyone is still who they are, but in different stages of desperation

hghghg everyone needs a hug still

#swap - asgore went to the ruins and has collected the six souls there #no one outside of the ruins has seen a human in 100 years #the people feel no hope of escape #but are all faking a smile to take care of the friends and family they still have #in the end you give them genuine hope and something to cherish #fell - the other six kids did murder runs but were stopped by asgore #the populace is severely depleted and monsters' peaceful natures are being challenged as weakness #even towards each other #collective cultural ptsd #in the end you show them choosing peace can be strength in its own way #a story of hopelessness and trauma and frisk still being the good kid that leads them out of it #ughghg #simon says a lot of things #simon undertalks

[curtailedwhale]

Asked a neighbor if she had any standing baby swaps and she had no idea what I was talking about. The general idea is that you take turns watching the other party's children while they go out so everyone gets free childcare and a chance to go out. Now I'm curious...

(It's okay if you have a different term for it, answer yes if you had/have standing free babysitting appointments)

#btw she loved the idea and now I've got a baby swap buddy #but I thought baby swap was pretty ubiquitous #at least in Utah mormon culture #this is the closest we've got to community child rearing in modern america #and if it's actually super rare no wonder parents are wrecked

[thedreadvampy]

so I have been thinking about why I hated the Spock Is Turned Human episode of SNW so much and I think I've nailed it down

cause like. Vulcans are a specific flavour of autistic, right?

Throughout 60 years of Star Trek, and particularly through Strange New Worlds, we've had it impressed on us that Vulcans absolutely do not feel less than humans. On the contrary, the reason that Vulcans prize logic, ritual and objectivity is that their emotions are deeply intense and overwhelming. In fact, like one episode prior and in the fuckin. Previously On... for this episode, Spock's saying "Vulcan emotion is too intense to handle and what might happen if I don't suppress it scares me."

It's made repeatedly, explicitly, clear that Vulcan emotional detachment is a choice and a cultural practise. It's made directly clear as well that Vulcans don't experience the world as less intense or emotional than humans; they work from birth to suppress it, it's a learned practice.

And they've leant into this really hard elsewhere in SNW! They've talked about Vulcans choosing to reject logic and act on emotion, Spock's seasons-long arc is about his fear of his own emotions - he's even specifically brought up that he hasn't undergone Kolinahr and therefore is suppressing his emotional state only through conscious practice.

but this episode. is a story about someone who's physiologically less able to feel being "humanised" - experiencing touch, taste, laughter and feeling more strongly than they have before.

That's a Data story. Not a Spock one.

Like I get what they're trying to do - push Spock into dealing directly with his human side, empathise with Amanda's strength, etc - but the way they do it conflicts really directly with everything we know about Vulcans, and also kind of confirms Vulcan bias against Spock's humanity by establishing that yes actually regardless of upbringing humans just Are Wired Wrong for Vulcan society. which is weird actually because both Amanda and Michael, humans raised outside Vulcan, can handle Vulcan societal expectations, but Spock, raised fully in the culture, struggles to and has to have everything explained to him.

And also the way they do it I found really uncomfortable and, you know, dehumanising. We're shown a version of Spock who isn't managing his emotions through discipline and will, but who just Doesn't Have Them That Much and, when given the Normal amount of feelings, goes hog wild and is functionally a child with no self-control.

There's a scene where they explicitly say he's functionally a teenager! As if he's not already been through a human adolescence!

Everyone of every species, not just human, is suddenly lecturing him on the nature of Feeling Things, which he receives as new information! despite the fact we know that managing his emotions has been a constant struggle for Spock! and we know that Spock (like other Vulcans) likes food and music and has a sense of humour and experiences friendship and anger and frustration and love.

and I think it speaks to a deeply neuronormative kind of infantalisation - he isn't reacting to emotion the way Normal (here: human) people do so it must be because he doesn't feel it at all. he isn't vegetarian he just hasn't experienced how Bacon bacon is. he isn't suppressing his distress it just isn't there. he doesn't have a different cultural relationship to humour he just Can't Laugh.

like the 'inhuman entity experiences human emotion' plotline is a Star Trek classic and it's usually a fun time - it's fun with Q and with Data and with Odo et al. but it doesn't work with Spock because we know that Vulcans aren't less physiologically capable of emotion than humans, they're less culturally willing to engage with emotion. And that's specifically because they're more sensitive to strong feeling than humans.

like yeah this is nerd griping, but it's also just very galling from an autistic perspective (the same way that having Spock go bacon-mad this episode seems to have been pretty galling from a Jewish perspective). Something that's always been very resonant about Vulcans and Spock specifically with a lot of autistic people is that experience of feeling things so deeply and strongly that you have to develop a sometimes overly-strict discipline of emotional management and cut yourself off from them entirely, and it is often mistaken by those around you as being unfeeling or numb. And the way Spock is portrayed consistently acknowledges that that's not what it is, that it's an (often maladaptive but necessary) practice that's active work in order to fit into a society that doesn't have space for the scale of your emotions or where your emotions might be a risk. And that you can learn to retain the parts that help you but still make close emotional connections through that barrier.

Idk this episode doesn't understand Vulcans which is really frustrating particularly for an episode entirely about Vulcans. It doesn't make sense that being turned human would fully undermine Spock's ability to behave as Vulcan the way it does unless your position is that Vulcans are inherently more numb to feeling than humans, which is explicitly not the case - and the message of the end of the episode partially rests on the idea that it's bigoted to assume his humanity makes him less Vulcan, especially since Amanda is able to perform Vulcanness well, except the entire precept of the episode and its shenanigans are that his humanity does intrinsically prevent him performing his cultural heritage properly and make him irrational and reactive. Like, the episode's failure to understand Why Vulcans Work doesn't just conflict with the rest of the show, it also leaves this episode a chaotic mess cause A doesn't in any way feed into B.

also unrelatedly T'Pring Did Nothing Wrong and she's so right, Spock is a wee bitch.

#red said #star trekking across the universe #i truly hated this episode. for the record. #and i LOVE species swap episodes i think they're FUN #but i also love when Star Trek understands that most of the species differences it presents are cultural mores not biological differences #because that's what's FUN about Star Trek and what allows it to make interesting commentary! #it's less interested in physiological difference and more interested in mutable cultural differences #and physiological differences like symbiosis or non-solid form or flight or prey status are there to #EXPLAIN and FACILITATE cultural differences

[cathackz]

so i gave into my demons and made a pizza tower swap au (the only art i have of it is swapped fakey/bruno)

#he swaps with peppino by the by #weirdly anxious to post but uhhh cringe culture is dead NDKDJEKEJE #cats coloring book #pizza tower #pizza tower au #ask to tag #bc of the…tv

[spotsupstuff]

uhh.... hand mutilation?

indeedy! i've already posted about it i think but here's it again:

this shit sussy as hell to me ☝ and mutilation of body parts for whatever reason isn't such an unheard of thing irl either

it's not mendatory when one is living on top of the iterators/striving towards the religion and some May choose to rather wrap their hands up, but it is pretty common to cut the fingers off up there. some would rather do That to visually signal how good religious followers they are than actually work on themselves thru worship and other religion stuff. it's like a performance for everyone else, almost

the hands stuff in the oc lore is: • five fingered - the base for "higher" beings (aka sapient creatures capable of worship stationed on the planet) • three/four fingered - animalistic/way below the worshipping sapient creatures • fingerless hands - dedication to the religion in the form of renouncing using/taking anything the world has to offer. separation from the physical world is the whole theme of the Sins so goin as far as putting the body thru smth like that fits in real well

they sometimes take off the whole upper part of the hand (so half palm gone) or even the whole thing goes off. also thinkin that maybe the predecessor to this was just cutting the tendons that make the fingies move

#Spot says stuff #rw #hands are INCREDIBLY important for da spot oc lore 😔 #like the fact that sparrows made euros those five fingered hands? hooooooooooly shit that means So much symbolically. she did it only- #-because he was sad about not bein able to enjoy instruments with her n stuff like that but when she changed his hands she basically- #-lifted Euros above this 'iterators are slaves' imagery. that happened on their first anniversary! and from then on Euros starts detaching- #-himself more n more from the iterators purpose. he becomes more ''human'' more of a free spirit. he meets Sparrows family + farm arrays- #-district n begins his folk culture archiving there. Euros is.. basically the only iterator whos been granted a form of freedom from an- #-ancient. in the swap au hed have mutilated hands cuz he starts off as pretty faithful to the global religion so hed go thru with the- #-finger removing ritual #gjlsdmclkdgml Fish hates Euros guts for many things and this signalized freedom thru his hands is def one of them. bitch is jelly #anyway. mutilation is fun! -gives u a nervous grin and thumbs up-

[hinderr]

Hell hath no fury like a man with nothing to lose

#the mandalorian #grogu djarin #hinderr art #role swap #ouuughh role swap grogu post s2 finale you are everythingggg to meeeeee #after 150 years you find something worth being alive for after losing your planet and your home and your culture and your people you find #HOPE. and then !!! he !!! leaves !!! #and you let him go. obviously you let him go. his place is not with you and by god you need him to find his place. the galaxy is humongous #not even you will get to see it all #so you let your boy go. and you will keep letting him go. even when he comes back to you he will have to keep leaving. because thats what #children do. thats what your boy will do. so you let him go. and then one day you'll let him go #and he's not coming back. and a big part of you will hate yourself for letting him go #but the nature of children are to leave. and the nature of fathers is to get left behind