#didnt understand it then either

[iizuumi]

silly silly guys

#bg3 #bg3 tav #astarion #astarion x tav #tavstarion #my art #flirting failed try again #I can not think of them being serious help #they're either stupid or making out those are the two moods #oc: reon #we'Re back to astarion looking different every time i draw him damn #when will it end #when will i understand his face #i didnt want to spend too long on this ok don't look too hard

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

#hot take white culturally christian or athiest leftests do not properly interpret white jewish ppl #like as a poc i and other poc understand that white jewish ppl often get racial privilege #but a) not always b) they experience oppression based off of their ethnicity #idk from my perspective it seems like white goyim either see jewish ppl as 'the disgusting exotic enemy' or 'basically WASPS but they #wanna feel special' #with no nuance. no recognition #look maybe this next part is bc i didnt grow up with jewish ppl and therefore didnt know until I was 18/19 that jewish ppl can count as #white. but like. idk how to say this. i dont wanna speak over white jewish ppl. but like. #jewish ppl that have obvious jewish features (whether Ashkenazi facial features OR they dont have those but wear eg kippahs) #arent like. white. idk pls correct me if this is antisemitic or incorrect or something. #but like. light skinned =/= white obviously. #i just struggle to see how my bestfriend with her lovely dark eyes and curls and nice nose counts as 'white' when ppl call her the k slur #across the street. ykwim? #like white doesnt mean light skinned. it means 'part of the in-group of white ppl' #like my ex who is white and jewish? yeah hes white. if he didnt wear his necklace then goyim wouldnt know. you know #like obvs he still experiences ethnic oppression but he doesnt experience racial oppression #but other ppl with more prominent eg ashkenazi (im singling them out bc most jewish ppl here are ash.) like i dont GET how they have racial #privilege.

[redrobin-detective]

Something I wonder about Simon and Betty's relationship is how long they were together before the whole crown ordeal. But they were engaged, you say. My aunt (in)famously met my uncle and had a ring on her finger in 8 weeks. We've seen that both Betty and Simon were both weird outcasts, crazy determined and a pinch insane. I would not be surprised if they decided they'd met their one true love and got engaged super quick.

My point being, Betty's shifting to revolve around Simon and Simon's rose colored glasses of their relationship feels very much like New Love. They're people who love each other and love being a couple but still haven't quite figured out how to coexist together, as two people in a partnership. I feel like if they'd known each other longer, lived together longer, some of the issues we're seeing would have probably self resolved.

I don't think their relationship is toxic nor is it totally perfect. It's two lonely, most likely neurodivergent people in a relatively early relationship still figuring out how it works. Everything that happened afterwards: the crown, the seperation, the time travel, the magic/madness/sadness just exemplified issues they had both as individuals and as a couple.

#fionna and cake #fionna and cake spoilers #simon petrikov #betty grof #in the tags its either #'oh they're toxic' or 'owo literal soulmates' #but i think its both more simple and yet more complicated #its struck me from the very start that they were eternally engaged #they never got to be married they're still stuck at this in between milestone #plus the way they act/talk around one another it HAS that new relationship vibe #If i were to guess they were each other's first romantic relationship #they loved so hard but they didnt really understand how it worked (mood) #if tehy'd had time and space like normal people yeah I think they'd have been fine #unfortunately all manner of bs got in the way and they never got to resolve some of these issues #it doesnt make one right over the other it just adds another layer of tragedy to their story #they only had time to get to know each other -to really feel understood- before it was taken away #Artists call betty 'simons wife #but its soooo important to me that they never made it that far #a flower that was plucked before it had a chance to bloom #anyway just my thoughts #petrigrov forever

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

weeee fantasy au scribbles look at these Guys

#ft. the magnificent return of Wormie #i say as if didnt mention wormie exactly Once.... #but believe me wormie lives in my mind. wormie is forever up there. i have a rich inner world you must Understand #fantasy wormie is a literal magic worm barnaby found & got attached to #and thus wormie has become the neighborhood's mascot / group pet #she can usually be found under barnaby's hat or somewhere in poppy's feathers #scribble salad #wh fantasy au #tw blood #< its only a lil bit but just in case... #eddie 🤝 poppy - paranoid about frank's Lack of armor despite his fighting style #he has leather shoulder pauldrons & a gambeson and thats It <3 #meanwhile eddie looks like the fuckin tin man #even julie has armor!! and her Giant Sword! #wally & sally skimp on the armor cause they're distance fighters - and magic gives them a protective edge #barnaby either doesnt fight or uses his magic - also its tough to land a hit on him. hes Skilled #and howdy shoots first asks questions later so no one gets Close #and poppy stays out of the fighting <3 #& i once again drew wally Too Small.... #someday ill be able to grasp consistent size differences. someday

[habeascorpseus]

"just dont lose yourself, okay?"

"i cant. i've tried to."

"Don't forget to enjoy this, today. Cuz if you lose yourself in trying to hurt the people who took it, you might....just don't forget the good stuff, okay?"

"i cant. i've tried."

godddd cellbits recurring motif of "i cant. ive tried." whenever someone tells him not to lose himself, both the bad and the good is so.. the implication of a perpetual fruitless spiral of turning man to monster and monster to man, and failing at both because loves too deeply and instinct is ingrained into him deeper than the carvings in his knife. he cant fucking stand himself. he can't stand how he can't be normal and has to rely on drinking copius amounts of coffee to stay awake enough to not lose it. he can't stand how even in the depths of his desire for vengeance, he hears the pain in his loved ones' voices and still stops to listen. these two parts of him have to be incongruous, because he knows he was happier when he was one without the other. and yet, time and time again the people who care about him tell him not to lose himself like they view him as whole. and again and again, he tells them that he can't. because he's tried to break himself in half and it doesnt fucking work like that. and he'll continue until he destroys himself because hes fucking Tired of being whole.

#habeas speaks #qsmp #qsmp liveblog #qsmp cellbit #qsmp charlie slimecicle #qsmp badboyhalo #idk im just deeply interested in like. this character who. dont get me wrong. IS AWFUL but who put in effort to become better #and it didnt Fix Him. #but he was so good at acting like he'd been fixed that people forgot domesticated dogs still bite when poked too hard with sticks #and its not like he was manipulating them either he genuinely Wanted to move forward and be normal for his son and his family #but then his family was taken from him time and time again and he was humiliated and backed into a corner #and all of a sudden the teeth come out and he makes the choice to keep them out but now has to deal with everyone being shocked he has teeth #who wish he didnt but dont understand he tried to forget too #the incongruous image they have of him in their heads of man turned monster when hes always seen himself as monster turned man #who was always just a monster and learned to use a human face

[itsscottiesstark]

Please tell me that I wasn't the only one who thought that this reaction:

when Nina said the infamous "but then again, other people's love lives always seem so much more straightforward than our own", wasn't about him and Aziraphale.

It couldn't have been. What do you mean "he just realised he's in love"?? HE'S KNOWN SINCE THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

One could argue that he simply realised that their love is evident to other people. Could be that.

But he didn't have that reaction during any point in the conversation. "Been together long?" He was confused but then tried to reassure her she'd gotten it wrong. "Is the bookseller your bit on the side?" offended I think is the right word for his reaction. Not at all surprised other people saw what he felt.

The camera sways to him right after Nina's line. About other people's love lives. And how they're much more complicated than one might think. Cause people are complicated.

See, in my mind, that's the look of a demon who just realised that "getting humans wet and staring into each other's eyes" doesn't equal vavooming. This is a demon who just realised that just because he thought it was easy to make the girls fall for each other - which, in his defense, was much more straightforward than his situation with Aziraphale - it didn't mean that it was.

This is a demon who realised he'd seen humanity evolve since day one, and he really should've known better.

#does anyone agree #cause it's been bothering me since day one #I didnt understand his reaction at first either #but the more I think about it the more it makes sense #and the less the other theories do #good omens #crowley #Aziraphale #nina #operation making nina fall in love with maggie #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley x aziraphale #nina and maggie #good omens season 2 #my gifs #my posts #my rambles #good omens gifs #confused Crowley #good omens theory

[camelspit]

idk sokeefe just feels like the kind of ship that should never go canon. like spirk. do you get it.

#let me. elaborate a bit. #i just think that. one of the big draws to sokeefe was when people didnt know if they really would be canon #especially when keefe was still more a background character #and a lot of sokeefe comes from the fact that they werent canon until stellarlune! people could do whatever they wanted with them #and even up until unlocked it was never explicitly stated that keefe liked sophie. just heavily implied. #and sophies feelings could have gone either way for forever. #theyre the kind of ship that should never be canon and just be so heavily implied that it drives people insane. do you understand. #like in straight media when gay ships can be heavily implied but they wont flat out say theyre canon #thats them! that should be sokeefe! #they function the best when they are not canon #kotlc

[mudstoneabyss]

actually. the specific phrasing that boy Kevin wants to kill older Kevin with "I must disassemble him, piece by piece, so that everything inside of the Old Kevin comes out. Only then can the New Kevin truly begin." is so incredibly the idea that to heal from trauma and "improve" you have to destroy every "wrong" part of yourself, that everything "tainted" by it has to somehow be replaced by something untouched (which isn't possible)

#reading back that phrasing I do think that'll be the way brinknor takes it #this arcs seeming like it'll be so. breaking the cycle of abuse and violence and coming to terms with yourself #and maybe understanding that you can never remove the parts of you impacted by trauma and start again completely ''pure'' #but you can treat yourself with the kindness you should've been given #which i hope it is that because. and understand i am biased. but i'd love that direction for Kevin #it feels much more satisfying than any more. angsty way this arc could go imo #like he's been through enough! #because of the way Kevin is portrayed in fanon. not as frequently anymore but still pretty common. I worry about coming off as woobifying #by saying I want him to heal I want him to have nice things I think he deserves them #when he's also simultaneously Not A Good Person #yknow the poor little innocent cinnamon roll baby etc etc fanon #but. well for one im Not Like That about him. but my main point of bringing that up is. him not being a good person is why I want to see hi #get better and generally have a good life. why does someone have to be good to deserve to heal from trauma #especially when trauma is a big reason for the way they are #like its fiction yeah yeah i'm still tired of mentally ill people having to be ''good'' to ''deserve'' to get better yknow #i mean especially in fiction you tend to either see mental illness as the poor traumatized one who's allowed recovery because they're nice #or the insane psychopath who cant be ''fixed'' so ''deserves'' bad things-up to deserving to die!- for it #i didnt mean for this to be a rant erm. oops #wtnv #wtnv spoilers #joyousposting

[overtake]

deceased at the implication that lewis was so deeply hurt by max’s dumb secret santa gift to valterri one year that he refuses to participate in the videos as a staunch moral stance. max lives rent free in these people’s heads so badly that they have to write fanfiction that frames lewis as some heroic protector of bottas to cope with him … just not wanting to do something he doesn’t have to do? save lewis from his own fans, man.

#whackjobs 😭😭 #this really made me laugh so hard #sometimes i really do feel for lewis #such an incredibly talented driver #competitive and willing to do ANYTHING to win #waged absolute mental warfare on nico rosberg and sent the man to retirement #and his fans disrespect all that legacy #and paint him as so mentally weak that he gets offended by his teammate getting a can of fish so he cant handle doing secret santa videos #some of his fans really dont appreciate him for what he is #which is a fierce competitor who will do ANYTHING to win #if you have to erase half your drivers personality to like him #and its the part that makes him most successful in a racecar #you either dont understand this sport or just dont like your driver very much #didnt mean for this to become such a passionate defence of lewis but he just deserves more respect from a small segment of his fans #*

[small-spark-of-light]

BACK TO WHITEBOARD GAMERS!!!!

Eden(the blue skrunkly in the last photo) belongs to victheclown

#incredibox #incredibox fanart #colorbox #evadare #xrun #colin #edward #morgan #eden #oc #im gonna be real with you guys i know nothing about colorbox ;A; #it seems good!!! i saw the yellow ones animations and they were so fucking good #genuinely Very close to an actual incredibox mod and not just a scratch mod #the sounds seem good as well but i only heard the yellow ones and i didnt listen to the full mix so #i dont remember if ive drawn morgan before but here he is now #idk if those red marks under his eyes are bags or paint but either way #mans mentally ill(affectionate)/lh #edens hair was so fun to draw omg #you do not understand #their hair is so cute #im gonna give them a kiss on the forehead

[moonpaw]

thinking about nami's backstory and how she begged for help twice, and both times ended up with Gen getting beat up and sliced to ribbons, as well as the rest of the villagers getting attacked as nami watched in horror, and this was after watching her mother get shot in the head

then later on in arlong park, she watched as several marine ships came to try to help and watched as arlong and the fishman pirates sank each and every one of them before the navy stopped sending help altogether and in just a few hours nami realized that she can no longer ask for help, it won't successfully come without lose of life of either random people or those she cares about

so at that moment she decided that she can't rely on anyone, can't ask for help lest they get attacked, and that she is completely and utterly on her own

and then comes in luffy and the straw hats, determined to help, but i think it's important here to know that luffy waits until nami asks for it, something she was avoiding until arlong backed her into a corner and everyone she loves was about to be killed despite all her effort and struggles

asking for help meant death to whoever would, but not asking for help would lead to the deaths of those she was trying to protect

so she asked

#one piece #i had to reread arlong park like 4 times bc of the zoro project and every single time i was bawling like a baby #just argh #one piece is so good #and sometimes i see people misunderstanding this part or thinking nami was weak for it and im just #no you dont understand #she couldnt ask for help because she didnt want luffy and the others to get killed by arlong #because that's what she associates asking for help with because she watched what happened when she did the same day her mother got killed #she doesnt want them to die!! #she doesnt want her village to be killed either! #she couldve easily run out to sea and abandoned them if she wanted to free herself but she didnt #because she loves her village #she put herself in danger for them and didnt get to live a normal childhood as she started to go out and rob other pirates for money #she would be gone for weeks and months but she always came back #even if coming back meant being near who killed her mother and ruined her life #just augh #nami....

[obihoe]

the way that this whole idea w the distribution of bijuus was executed by the kage (at least in konoha) was literally so fucking stupid. like uhhh. what if we sealed this super weapon into a small child but then taught that child absolutely NOTHING abt how to handle it. like. how is this even supposed to work? the bijuus are distributed between the villages to give them military power. but how will that work if the kid cant even control the power?? doesnt even KNOW theyre a jinchuuriki in the first place maybe even??? lol. are they just hoping that in case the village gets attacked, the kid will just magically start gaining control over the power and then use it to protect it? makes zero sense if im honest asfsfgfds

#naruto #posts #and like also the kage are like we want the jinchuuriki give us the jinchuuriki #meanwhile literally EVERYONE ELSE in the villages is like we HATE the jinchuuriki we HATES IT get it AWAY from us!! #SFDGSDS #maybe if they actually taught the jinchuuriki a bit abt their powers and how to control them #and explained all of this to the other children as well #life in those villages wouldnt be literal hell for them #maybe they would get recognition for it even. or respect. for their role that theyre taking on for the village #since if the teachers tell them abt what its like to be a bijuu host #and the kid themselves is allowed to share some of it too #they would understand that its kind of a burden actually. and the kid didnt choose this either #maybe the other kids would think that the powers are cool as fuck too. lol #if there WAS someone who assured them that its nothing to be afraid of #since the kid's getting training and there's somebody there that can help should the power break thru somehow #yknow like in shippuuden with yamato. if all the jinchuuriki got training like naruto received at that time #there would be a whole lot fewer problems lol

[emblazons]

cut because I still remember that anon that said they prefer my fencesitting LMFAO

We as a people really need to spend some time with our byler elders (@kaypeace21 and co) because I promise you they figured out Mike was gay years before the "uppity" analysts of today did....and have pulled out / contextualized evidence even I think is crazy to read considering it was based on S3 alone 😂

Like? The fact that someone, arguably the strongest of the analysts of the fandom in their day, was writing “why I think Mike is gay and not Bi” and "what Mike said was projection of him not liking girls" in August 2019 with shit word for word bar for bar telling you the framework that brought us S4 Mike…friend you were a prophet before your time, and they maligned u for telling the truth, and now that we all see your vision people still think its debatable LMAO

#gay mike wheeler #the fact that the analysts of old who predicted ALMOST ALL we saw in S4 and walking into S5 were saying the same things we are #BEFORE #when that was the most fringe opinion you could have....lmao #I'm not starting discourse about this again but. like. the weight of your strongest analysts all taking the same side FOUR YEARS AGO? #the evidence in one direction is...much stronger. lets just say that LMAO #people DEFINITELY didn't understand kaypeace either tho so. Can't say I'm surprised its still a 'debate' even if much less so ☠️ #also now thinking about the Elliott/ET parallel somehow didnt AUTOMATICALLY undermine a romantic mlvn reading from the pitch for folks LMFA #stranger things #the me tag

[mwagneto]

like obviously it's always sad when the doctor regenerates but 13 makes me feel such a specific kind of misery and sorrow at how she was treated (and by extension how we, the handful of fans left standing, were treated) during her era like obviously her casting was always gonna be controversial but the sheer level of vitriol directed at her was so exhausting... and then on the other side the absolutely insane decline in interest even from the fandom itself like i remember how excited the entirety of tumblr was when she was announced it was literally unavoidable even when i wasn't on the dw side of tumblr. and then like everyone just gave up on her which yeah ppl are gonna lose interest if the plot is bad which don't get me wrong it is but when is it not? ppl survived 6 seasons of moffat but gave up after like less than a season of this? and that's the other thing it's just so fucking frustrating how all the horrifically bad writing somehow gets blamed on HER? like somehow casting a woman made the WRITING BAD??? THE WRITING DONE BY A MAN?? not to mention a man who's been writing for this show for decades now😭 and she's literally just a character but somehow the entire responsibility of just how shit her era is falls on her shoulders despite her being a made up woman on a screen which every shitty person still uses as a gotcha as to why the doctor should never have been a woman. and ofc there's the ppl who specifically disliked her personality coz she was too cold or too mean etc all of which are things ppl easily forgive or ignore or outright love abt any doctor played by a man and let's not even get INTO thasmin. like sorry this is so incoherent but im so endlessly sad about how the joy and hype of finally getting a woman doctor turned into everyone abandoning the show, including the people that were initially rly excited and hopeful like yeah i get why ppl hate the plot i hate it too but i have such a deep sense of loyalty to 13 idk I'll always cling to her with all my claws she deserved so much better both writing-wise and fan-reception wise😭 anyway...

#i think the timeless child plot sucks so i just pretend it never happened but that's #somehow compatible w me liking season 13 i think that one's cool #i mean i like all seasons except for. certain episodes that either suck or never should've even been suggested let alone written #but there's a weirdly disproportionate hatred for s13 i think #i mean i dont love it but i also dont think it sucks #also it was the only way to not get the show cancelled so whatever keeps my princess alive... #but like that's what i meannnnnnn 13 deserved full seasons and a million specials and #good viewership figures like everyone else URGHHDHDH. whatevah. whatever it's literally fine #this was NOT meant to get this long good grief. ig i had a lot of thoughts i #never posted built up in the 1.5 yrs since her era ended #understandably coz man. #and i didnt even get into thasmin. this post would be 50 years long #doctor who #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor

[skunkes]

Had an enormous struggle while painting the last parts of that piece... i still have to learn how ppl load paintbrushes with paint bc i had good amounts of perfectly mixed gouache this time, but when using thin detail brushes the only options were: have the desired line width, but run out of paint in half a second, or load with a lot of paint but have the line width be much much thicker bc the paint is all bunched up at the tip

#talkys #i rly dont understand #its better than my first painting at least #i guess ill learn more if i keep doing it #also this time i mixed way more paint (quanity) per color instead of jst mixing a single speck to save paint #and it didnt go better. it didnt matter if i kept the big blobs of gouache spritzed it wld still dry on my ceramic dish in like 2 minutes. #and reactivating it with water wld go badly #(im using winsor newton gouache and its not the acrylic gouache either so its not even a ''cheap supplies'' issue)

[sonicunleash]

society if the dungeon meshi anime actually had texture and kept ryoko kui's personality in the artstyle instead of doing generic thin-lined flat colors flat shading streamlined anime face style. i know ppl have mixed opinions on some of these examples but i reallyyyy wished they went stronger on the mangas artstyle like say haikyuu season 4 and demonslayer did.

like i think heavier shading and use of lineweight and black shading would already do a lot for the texture... more frequent use of that nose shading ryuko kui uses a lot, like here? ALSO BRO THEY GOT RID OF LAIOS' UNDERCUT like okay tbf in some of the colored manga references he doesnt have that but also how else do you interpret his hair in this panel

anyways in general just throwing in some more hatching like using it more common as an art style for texture instead of just roughed up clothes/appearance would do some wonders. also softening the palettes i feel like theyve made things too dark and idk how to explain it its like they filmed the manga through a samsung camera

disclaimer i know most of these changes would cost more money and time and effort to do. the solution to most of this would probably just be to give them a bigger budget

#tbh though i didnt even care that much for the very painterly styled intro either though. its a better display of animation talent but #i feel like the tone and artstyle are very generic for the genre #and misunderstand the like... vibe that dungeon meshi is supposed to have #everything about the animes execution feels too generic tbh. like the ppl directing it themselves dont actually know #what the stories about and its themes and where things are gonna go theyre just #directly translating what they see in the present chapter straight to animated form while cutting as many corners to #fit into the episode window as they can. and to fit in the overly long cooking segment #but i feel like if they actually knew the manga they were recreating well they would know stuff like #marcille fighting namari and shuro on staying to save falin is very important characterization to be cutting out #idk. i now understand how why manga readers act the way they do about almost every anime adaptation ever