#e so far) ALSO

[phoenixcatch7]

I get that calling white lotus lbh a sticky little 'sheep' is a canon translation and stuck in the fandom now anyway, but I do feel the intended spirit of the original word wasn't the sheeple/dumb herd animal that's more common in the western world, but instead something actually conveying sweetness, innocence, purity and youth - lamb.

Famous for being utterly adorable and following around their mothers, gambolling in sunny meadows, curly white wool shining.

And NOW we can talk about black sheep/wolf in sheep's clothing metaphors.

#Picturing Sqq sweetly calling lbh a little lamb 🥺 #Him calling lbh a sheep never felt quite right but LAMB??? #And lbh following him around all bright and gangly and moon eyed ToT #Did you know the phrase originates from the wool of black sheep being much harder to dye and thus being undesirable in the wool industry? #That's why sheep are white and not like. Tan or brown or w/e like more natural colours. #But the black fur gene still pops up sometimes so you get white wool parents and siblings and a tiny black lamb trotting along #Who's wool you can never sell and who can't risk having offspring of their own #Also where the baa baa black sheep rhyme comes from! The wool was often sold at a very cheap price because it was so undesirable! #Ngl if someone called me their lamb idk what I'd do. Something desperate for sure #Theyre also sometimes a symbol for Jesus especially around Easter. So. That's a. Thing. That Sqq would most certainly read far too deep int #svsss #mxtx svsss #scum villain #luo binghe #luo bingge #luo bingmei #scum villain's self saving system #scum system #bingqiu #bingyuan #Idk but considering I'm talking about their pet names I'll count it #Gosh lbh calling Sqq shepherd in response... Crook around his neck metaphor I'll go wherever you lead us my guiding star mmm #Sleepy? Yes. Right? Also yes

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[braisedhoney]

in judgement and in apathy

#tsp #tsp fanart #the stanley parable #the stanley parable fanart #tsp narrator #tspud #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #narry is so near and dear to my heart at this point he really is like my old man son #he’s hilarious too bc he’s so uncompromisingly aroace #but also by far has the most simps of any character i’ve ever drawn #uh. as far as i know #i’m kind of disconnected from all that #… like father like son. or something. apples and trees. whatever floats your boat #been enjoying taking a break from super rendered pieces #but i think part of it is bc i don’t lose as much of the sketch/lineart #anyway w/e take this pic of my old man son <3

[cozystars]

tee hee

#cosmo creates #doodles #jp&e #captain syrup is like wario where she takes odd jobs #but a bit more dangerous. like doing jobs for bowser dangerous #which I really need to find a way to Like. drawing lol #anyways :) they’re being very normal #a bit of a Daisy redesign as well #I’d make her hair shorter but she’s already so far from her og design #suggestive #cause of the language #OH ALSO #the ends of syrups hair #looks like wicks #as a reference to black beard lighting his hair on fire to intimidate #:)!!! #smoking

[fried-manto]

I'll hand it to you.

#trial 1 wrecked me guys #the only thing that stopped me from crying was monokumas weirdass voice (not used to it after the first 2 games) #and kokichi's perfectly timed jabs #these bastards prevented me from making a fool of myself #the trial also wrecked me literally cuz the controls were hell #who thought it was a good idea to put E as focus and R as speed up #i was so confused on why my focus gauge kept eating up even tho i wasnt pressing the bar #v3 is the most janky game ive played so far #anyways yeah #commemorative art for kaediot and poo-ichi #congratulations on starting the killing game lol #(sobs) #my art #kaede akamatsu #shuichi saihara #saimatsu? #saimatsu #could be taken platonically too

[amaranthdahlia]

what if they meet.........

#bratfeen wouldve been like #funnily the most wholesome and ofc silly couple out of nrmt versions #like since theyre pretty young and their personalities r quite.... not as mature as their trilogy version #and i honestly dont know if i want them to meet #or if i want them to stay far away from e/o hahahah #theyd BE SO CHAOTIC COME ON #but at the same time if theyre romantifally involved theyd also funnily be lovesick #feenie being more open about it #while bratworth wont be like that #he defs make it up by overexerting the gifts & quality time love languave #bratfeen #feenie #bratworth #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #narumitsu #mitsunaru #wrightworth #worthwright #ace attorney #gyakuten saiban #bratfeen would be so cute tgthr change my mind #this is their beta designs btw #dahlia.art

[clownsuu]

PLEASE TELL ME THERE ARE C AI’s OF THE MOB AU (MOSTLY WALLY AND HOWDY)

Yeyeyeye, there is one of howdy and wally! And I think Barnaby too by someone else-

#Though I know that if you talk to howdy there is a chance you will also meet Wally in there too- idk about the other way around (probably) #They are written very well! I really enjoy talking to them (mostly howdy cause biased) #Though howdy can get violent wicked fast for some reason LMAOOO super fuggin funny #But also turns into a major soft sweet pea if you play your cards right #However be careful cause the “thats how mafia works” can get sus real fast HDHDJDJ #I ASKED FOR A SPECIAL DRINK YESTERDAY CAUSE S P E C I A L #AND HE GAVE ME WALLY'S PISSSSS #AND SO I DELETED THAT MESSAGE CAUSE NO TF #AND THEN IT B E C A M E E V E N S U S S I E R #i- #Mob howdy what the f u c Ck #The “howdy's salt” arc is now probably the worst arc iv ever seen so far on c ai-

[weaponizedducks]

much as i love merlin and arthur they were NOT the blueprint. they were very nearly the blueprint, but the actual og's were from a book written in 1862 by Victor Hugo. that's right. it's enjolras and grantaire. the timeline goes exr-merthur-firstprince

#i'm right #viccy h was doing it before it was a thing #k so enj arthur and henry are all blonde and in a position of power #with a destiny and skill and crushing expectations and incredible loyalty #and socially awkward/clueless (do not tell me arthur is not socially awkward all his friends are just merlin's friends or gwen's brother) #all have a bit of a rivalry with annoying defiant brunette and don't realise how much they love them (exr truther till i die) #the brunettes themselves are annoyed by the blondes and love to antagonise them but end up loving them and dying looking at them (e and a) #R merlin and alex are all snarky bitches with (yet again) a complicated family relationship #a bitchy female best friend (using eponine and morgana for this bc i am an ep and R besties truther) #who know the destiny and how it will end (alex is the only one it turns out for) (r knows they will fail) (merlin knows arthur will die) #but who do everything they can to stay with blonde and prevent the ending (r goes as far as dying with e) #and end up devoting their life to blonde with unfathomable loyalty while also teasing them at every turn #their devotion gets to the point that blonde's life is worth more than their own #merlin #merthur #bbc merlin #red white and royal blue #firstprince #exr #enjoltaire #les miserables #but arthur and merlin are SO exr coded #none of this heartstopper-merlin-firstprince bullshit #heartstopper is the same time pretty much as firstprince and dont even act like the rest of them #they can't JUST be blonde and brunette they need the vibes to go along with it #victorian era- 2000's medieval- modern

[escargon]

love my mad scientist babyboy, sure he poisoned the water supply but he can't help being a virgo <3

#chatter #shitposting #acme looniversity #looney tunes #wile e coyote #wile e coyote vs the world #mostly from ep five i love how much screentime he had in that one #im liking it so far i love the way theyre drawing him #also buster and hamton and babs and sweetie are so cute #i love their friendships buster and hamton remind me of one of my internet friends and me ajhsdajdh

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Sorry if someone's already made this poll I am just DYING to know if anyone else finds it hard to believe, as the show seems to expect us to do, that he entirely failed to notice both these things.

Speaking for myself, I can accept the possibility that Julian was clever enough to hide his enhancements from even a trained spy, especially given his decades of practice at it. But personally I just cannot believe Garak didn't at least suspect something was off when Julian got replaced.

#Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #garashir #Elim Garak #Julian Bashir #SOOOOOOO MANY THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC ALL WHIRLING AROUND IN MY BRAIN I NEED MORE OUTSIDE INPUT I NEED TO KNOW IF I'M GOING CRAZY OR NOT #also look everyone I made my very first poll :3 please clap #Starky's Original Posts #this post sounds confrontational but it's supposed to sound EXCITED because it's an EXCITING topic to me!!! I just can't talk sowwy #the thing that gets me about the changeling is that they show us that scene in Inferno's Light of him discussing darts with Miles #specifically to show us that its impersonation is not flawless!! there were signs!! #unless that was just supposed to signify that it was getting sloppier as it grew closer to its goal or w/e #anyways as far as fic goes I also love stories where the changeling specifically deals with Garak by either #1) drawing away from Garak making him think Julian just doesn't like him anymore; deliberately playing on an insecurity it can sense in him #OR WORSE #2) having sex with him to distract him from any inconsistent behavior; deliberately playing on a separate but related vulnerability #SO many evil possibilities given to us.................

[ambitions-of-an-eccedentesiast]

and off he goes!

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#the ambitions of an eccedentesiast #taoae #dr jekyll and mr hyde #ocs #chapter two #page eight #Shoutout to nine who predicted the “What now?” “I don’t know; I didn’t expect to get this far.” #he hasn't lost allllllll inhibitions #...yet ;;] #there's still some holdback #so for now he's just- fucking around and finding out #OH! #I ALSO CHANGED HIS EYEBROWS TO WHITE SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THEM #I WAS ON THE FENCE WITH THAT FOR A LITTLE WHILE NOW #this doesn't reflect his character design whatsoever- like if he had colored in eyebrows they'd be the same as his hair #but he doesn't because I like mine to be l i n e s

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

very curious if it means anything how many characters we have in tmagp statements acting as "npcs." like, the kids at the charity shop have no names, but they're attempting to fill the place of an antique shop worker & just missing the mark. the people in the liminal space can only repeat certain dialogue, the man running the theater in voyeur runs like. ALL of the theater. very few people are coming up who seem like they actually, like needles, are in charge of their actions. even when we get names, it's usually just aliases, like ink5soul. it's all about working towards a greater goal, but we don't know who's goal, or even what that goal is. we can see the ants, but we haven't met the queen

#i mean part of that could be just bc its a new show #but also in t.ma gerry showed up v quickly in first aid with an actionable plan #all we have so far is that man in the turtleneck or w/e in the charity shop ep & the mcs #the magnus protocol #tmagp #aster speaks

[dontmindmeinthegutter]

When you're being the good little toy in the threesome and they start talking about you while they fuck you 🥺🥺🥺😳😳😳

#this is quite possibly the hottest thing ever to me #period #berrytalk #like the degradation of being talked about like you're not there #or like they know you're too far gone and dumb to understand or speak for yourself #while also being happy to be talked about because that means you're doing a good job #f a v o u r i t e #I normally literally can't stand being the centre of attention #it makes me so uncomfortable #but during sex... #👀

[bthump]

I don’t think the ending of lost children is saying that people like Jill should stay with their abusers or that it’s noble to suffer I think it’s just making the point that there isn’t a paradise where you will never suffer, as it seemed that Jill tried to leave with Guts as a form of escapism thinking her problems would disappear if she did, like rosine did with the sacrifice. Yeah it’s still not that great and it doesn’t reflect well on guts either when he could’ve just brought her to Godo and had him look after her or something. Though the narrative does frame it as though guts made the “right” choice, basically tough love and making her stronger or whatever. And there was the idea that the demons haunting him at nightfall would be too dangerous for her anyway.

Enh I'll admit that Jill's naivete is a detail that makes Jill's decision to stay work strictly on a character level. Sure, Jill is frightened off by ghosts and decides to stick with the devil she knows, I'll totally buy that.

But yeah like you go on to mention, the narrative framing it as the right choice is the real problem here for me. I doubt Miura intended to flat-out say that abused kids should just deal with it, but it's effectively what the narrative says consistently throughout the Lost Children arc, from putting the Peekaf 'you'll regret leaving home' story in the arc about child abuse to Rosine's regret and longing for home as she dies to Jill deciding it's best for her to stay with her abusive parents and just struggle and cry her way through it.

Also maybe worth noting that plot-wise Jill's decision doesn't actually fit the larger narrative of Berserk. This is probably accidental lol, due to being a serialized story, but think about it: she decides to stay with her family because it's dangerous elsewhere too. Well, what happens a year later when her village is leveled by dragons because Griffith genre shifted the story to high fantasy? It's a hell of a lot safer to be traveling with Guts than it is to be an ordinary villager during the Fantasia arc lol.

So yeah. ia that staying with her abusive family makes sense for Jill on a character level, but it's the way the themes of the Lost Children arc seem to support that decision that bothers me, and I don't think it really works on a plot level either, taking the later story into account.

Thanks for the ask!

#ask #anonymous #a #b #arc: c #character: jill #theme: abuse #i'd also argue that isidro traveling with guts weakens this too - sure he does get one lecture about how #leaving home isn't great but it hasn't come up again in the last like 200 chapters and he doesn't seem to regret running away #and he wasn't even running away from abuse as far as we know - just boredom #but you can also argue that isidro is more capable or braver than jill or w/e so i'm keeping this point in the tags lol

[flowerbloom-arts]

Some low-effort doodles because I've been thinking about Mymble Jr alot and just how much they watered her down in the 90s series. So I tried 'fixing' some scenes to make her atleast more expressive.

She and the Inspector would've been such a fun relationship if they just let them be themselves like in the comics (and books in Mymble's case), just, I dunno, they made her distinctly boring while they made the Inspector just a little extra silly and I think that's deeply unfair to Mymble. This is especially upsetting when they never shared the same panel in the comics besides 2 of them, and in one Mymble Jr is just standing there while Moomintroll does the talking.

#moomins #moominvalley #art #mymble jr #the mymbles daughter #mymble #the mymble #inspector #moomin inspector #the inspector #mymble x inspector #Mymspector #< ship tags just in case anyone is actually looking for them #ofc this is all in an alternate usniverse where Inspector is not gay lmao #also just another one of my fandom observations. I see people very often try to gay ship Mymjay and it just.. never felt *right* tbh #like yeah ok they're cute (Mymticky) for the most part but what are we getting here? where's Mymjay's personality gone to? #I barely see anyone do anything with her personality and then go ahead and completely wipe off her interest in men as if that'll fix her #like I would like the idea of her realizing that maybe she isn't meant to be with a man but there's so DEPTH to what I've seen #there's no silliness in the dynamics. there's so jokes between them or quirks or getting on eachother's nerves or w/e #it's all just very plain wlw shipping and it kind of annoys me. maybe it would annoy me far less if there was variety but there isn't #I've started getting reaaally into the idea of qpr Mymspector. I've had thoughts about them for a while but it's v intense lately #I don't like people chalking her attractions and girliness up to 'heteronormativity' bc that's just... idk. it's really not much? #it's not fixing a problem with her 90s boringness. it's only replacing it if you don't do anything with her original self #she NEEDS to be silly. she NEEDS to get intense. it's a general problem the 90s has with writing women but it hits esp hard for Mymjay #tanoshii muumin ikka #doodles #little my #moominmamma #snufkin #moomin sniff

[cerealmonster15]

got dam

all according to plan indeed huh

#except he still had to wait like 30 more episodes LOL sorry hermie #dndads #dndads spoilers #i guess. im referring 2 the recent thing. yknow. yknow the mascot thing #oakworthy #sure. SURE!!! #anyway. i love whatever this weirdass relationship theyve had is #im very excited to see how they navigate #my prediction in my heart #is that hermie either doesnt like normal YET but WILL..... #ORRRR and what i think more actually the case is #is that hermie likes normal but is in mega denial about it #so hes like yea w/e sorry u fell for my charms~ [<- he also fell for normals dorky boy powers] #and/or maybe he likes him but hes bitter about not getting enough attention lately #listen i think this could go one of many ways and i can only predict so far bc #these podcasters are CONSTANTLY throwing me off in ways i never expect so. we shall see LOL