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poopystain · 3 months

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them again

#sorry 4 the lack of portal art. theres only so many ways for me to draw cores. take this for my? your? troubles #i dont draw glados a lot so UHH forgive me if she doesnt look great ill probably draw her more often though #portal 2 #portal #my doodles #hmm ill stick this one in my art tag too #my art

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skunkes · 9 months

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pretty palomino....

#furry #furry art #a doodley #ken barbie #hee hee #god forgive me for lack of likeness i struggled w the eyes for an hour #they'd either be too uncanny or too unlike him so i jst settled for this after 50 attempts #i wish he were real so i cld show him this he'd lose his mind #kenposting

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the-ships-to-rule-them-all · 3 months

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the level at which people are misusing the term "Never Again" in the far left absolutely infuriates me.

"Never Again" doesn't refer to the idea of no more genocides -- unfortunately people are evil and corrupt and seek scapegoats and destruction, there were genocides in the years following the Holocaust, there were genocides 10 years ago, there are multiple genocides going on as we speak

"Never Again" means we as Jews will pay attention to the warning signs, will not mindlessly allow antisemitism to fester and take over our communities, we will fight back. it means we will be proud. it means we will not let you hate us without a word of refusal.

"Never Again" is a warning for us, it is a reminder that what happened then can happen now -- is happening now. The Far Left doesn't get to use it against us. You don't get to turn our tragedies into hate-speech and antisemitic rhetoric.

Am Yisrael Chai

#abby speaks #that fucking NYT article made me rage so much #needed to get this out #if this somehow makes you pissed at me go ahead the unfollow button is right there #I have always said that Palestinians deserve a state and I have always believed that Israel has a right to exist #the lack of knowledge at these “protests” shocks me - people don't know which river or which sea; they don't know about the hostages #free gaza from hamas #we are allowed to mourn the “protests” started before we'd even had a chance to.#I will never ever forgive or forget the people that have made mourning still feel impossible #I am not about to sit here and say that the Israeli government is blameless #however if you didn't know that 1000s of Israeli have spent the past year protesting against Netenyahu's right wing government shut up #we need actual solutions; neither Israelis nor Palestinians are going anywhere #and you guys need to start calling out the antisemitism in your movement #I have my doubts on that actually happening and you'll never see me donate to a lot of these causes again #the goy left has lost my respect and my trust and now it only has my side-eye #sorry for the rant in the tags it's been an exhausting few months

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richter-kale · 2 years

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can we get some more superbat doodles? (or some more middle schooler jason reacting to superbat lol)

dick is going to kill bruce and he’s going to do it in the discowing costume

anon it was a pleasure (hopefully i will have actual superbat doodles 4 u tmrw :*) also feel free to send more reqs!

#this was my first attempt at a comic ever be NICE to me i beg #forgive the general lack of decorum #jason todd #robin jason todd #red hood #bruce wayne #batman #clark kent #superman #superbat #batfam #dick grayson #nightwing #discowing #yeahhhhhh baby #ziggys jason #asks

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clown-eating-pig · 3 months

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The horrors in this instance being parental issues, of course.

(Still trying to figure out how to draw both Jon and Martin 😭)

#tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jmart #jonmartin #tma fanart #art eating pig #this is such a new and interesting struggle for me #bc I’ve never been a fan of a media #where most characters do not have a specific description or canon appearances #so please forgive me if I lack grace 🙏#I feel like I’m going to hate this in abt three seconds #but ah is that not the way of drawing #g’bless

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pouzingarou · 11 months

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Miranda, my darling, my beloved, my ultimate fav...Art i made for the DGM reflexions zine ~

hr its worth a clic and zoom tbh

#my art #dgm #miranda lotto #D.Gray-man #i only have the energy to draw 1 thing every 6 months or so lmao #pls forgive me #but the lack of content for my background protags blorbos is concerning so #*roll up sleeves*#d gray man

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steggymus · 10 months

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ronan and noah are next in my lineup of raven cycle characters !!

these two definitely share a special place in my heart :))

#please forgive me for not making noah… dead?#idk this is how i imagine him if he were alive and around the gangsey #hence the lack of bruising and pale skin:)#noah czerny #noah czerny fanart #ronan lynch fanart #ronan lynch #trc #the raven cycle #the raven cycle fanart #trc fanart #the gangsey #gangsey

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fangirls-just-want-to-have-fun · 4 months

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busy going absolutely insane over the latest episode rn this is the only coherent thought I can form at this time

#this show is so unserious i stg #when what is love started playing i laughed so hard #honestly it's enough to make me forgive the eventual lack of poker face #it's a law that every percy jackson adaptation has to have at least one absolute banger in it #lotus casino next week strap in folks #percy jackson #percy jackson series #percy jackon and the olympians #poker face #what is love #percy jackson movies #pjo

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bethanydelleman · 6 months

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Online Discourse, Redemption Arcs, and Jane Austen

There is a story in the Bible where Jesus is brought a woman who has cheated on her spouse. The officials ask Jesus what to do, he knows they are trying to trick him into breaking the law with mercy, so he says, "Go ahead, throw rocks at her until she dies, that's the law, BUT whoever has never done anything wrong throws the first stone." Eventually everyone leaves and Jesus forgives the woman.

This post I shared a while ago really makes me think of that story, because online commentary of characters seems to so often break into two groups:

People so unforgiving, so unwilling to allow a single misstep in a character that they would start throwing stones immediately

People who will twist themselves into knots to prove that everything the character did was justified (and since we have zero backstory for the unnamed woman in this story, it would be easy to give her a sympathetic one. She did it because of trauma!)

Let's apply this to Emma Woodhouse. At Box Hill, she mildly insults an older woman, it is a poorly timed and placed joke:

“Oh! very well,” exclaimed Miss Bates, “then I need not be uneasy. ‘Three things very dull indeed.’ That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan’t I? (looking round with the most good-humoured dependence on every body’s assent)—Do not you all think I shall?” Emma could not resist. “Ah! ma’am, but there may be a difficulty. Pardon me—but you will be limited as to number—only three at once.”

There are basically two reactions to this insult: BURN EMMA AT THE STAKE and Eh, not that bad. Now I think with this particular insult, it really wasn't that bad and we are told about the surrounding extenuating circumstances that caused Emma to slip up. However, I'm probably wrong because Emma does feel guilty and she does make amends. While she does not directly apologize, it's clear in the novel that what she did was a relationship repair.

What makes me feel like a crazy person is how many people throw first stones! How many people are SHOCKED by what Emma said and they could NEVER imagine insulting Miss Bates in such a cruel way! Get over yourself! I feel fairly certain that every human being on earth over 25 had insulted someone to the same level as Emma has insulted Miss Bates. That doesn't mean it is excusable, Emma should apologize and so should we, but I'm left amazed by how many people feel blameless in the face of this extremely human and relatable error.

And yes, it makes me wonder about forgiveness in their real lives. There are some things that I believe could be hard and fast "never forgive" rules, like your SO should never hit you, but people make mistakes. We should have room for forgiveness, we should understand circumstances. People get tired and sick and angry and overwhelmed and sometimes they screw up. It makes me wonder if this is an online persona effect, where we never show our negative sides, or is this a true opinion. Do people forget their own mistakes?

There also seems to be this idea that once someone has done something once, it's already a pattern even if the novel is full of counter-evidence. Emma is very polite throughout the novel, she endures people that annoy her a lot, she is endlessly accommodating with her father, but a single insult to Miss Bates and people start retroactively making her worse. When she visited that poor family she must have been insulting them! (Nope) Suddenly she becomes a villain through and through, instead of a normal girl who made a few mistakes.

That's not even getting into the real "villains" of Austen's works. The amount of people who tell me that Lydia (16), Henry Crawford (probably 24), Mary Crawford (22-24), Willoughby (25), and so on and so fourth ARE INCAPABLE OF CHANGE and will never improve. Like excuse me? Have you not changed and improved since you were 16-25? How early do you give up on people? Do you really think a young adult is fully formed?

Is this how you think of people in the real world too?

#redemption #jane austen #mostly about emma #emma woodhouse #emma #It terrifies me the lack of forgiveness and understanding that I see online #And it makes me wonder what happened to the concept of forgiveness.

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hoth-and-cold · 1 year

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Its time to draw a

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Lord Skoige

#SWTOR #Lord Scourge #Scourge #Sith #pureblood sith #ohmygod I should not have drawn him first his fACE #would you believe that this had like 6 other sketches because his FACE #forgive me also his outfit is a bit lacking #to keep my sanity he had to be simplified

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moonsugar-and-spice · 1 year

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Phoenix

What would she say if she were to face her father now, to stand tall and look him in the eyes with tear-stained cheeks? She wanted to tell him that a true phoenix does not rise amid the flames, wild and fierce, but only in the cold, dark nothing that comes after. Born from its own ashes, forged through hellfire and suffering, through its own unmaking, to become something else. Something better and stronger and resilient.

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I've been wanting to draw Azula post-years of therapy, having recovered and made it out of the asylum with the help of those who truly care for her. Because I think she deserves it. The concept happened to coincide with a prompt ficlet I wrote, so I settled on the scene where she's recently returned to the palace on Zuko's invitation, and is sitting in front of the mirror she once shattered.

#azula #princess azula #atla #avatar the last airbender #azula redemption #forgive the lack of blending 🙈#we'll just call it a stylistic choice #i have yet to master the art of blending well on digital #and didn't want to spend too much time on this #this was mainly me playing around with a color palette and practicing lineless art #atla fanart #moonsugar draws

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sanepersonhere · 10 months

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Human train(s)!

This is a gift for @bruhstation's cstm anniversary!! Thank you so much for creating Casa Tidmouth!

The blog was 70% (at least) of the reason of why I first started getting into the ttte fandom and also the reason why I actually got back into art. I'd found the account when I had lost a lot of inspiration in drawing and it motivated me to create more pieces!

Cstm and the ttte art community also made me get back to social media too!! (Made this acc to follow train peeps and was originally supposed to be about ttte before I got obsessed with witch hat hehe)

The blog got me into reading/watching chainsawman and witch hat atleir aswell

Thank you also for making my friends think I'm crazy over talking about cstm and human train shenanigans. Though one of my friends now succsesfully simps for human trains so :D.

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hilarious.

desaturated ver because for some reason when I download the pictures with characters designs, they are more saturated than how it looks when i screenshot ^^

I hope the pictures aren't blurry :,)

Thank you again for your brilliant stories and creative au!

#(Eh? Eh? Get it? Human. Train?)#cricket noise #ttte #cstm #thomas the tank engine #ttte humanized #ttte thomas #ttte percy #ttte edward #ttte henry #ttte gordon #ttte james #ttte toby #digital art #i hope you can see the 2x3x4 ship :)#casa tidmouth #half drawn with finger #I cant imagine a mouse #i hope you can forgive me for my lack of words or weird phrases I'm not too good with words #I am honestly truly thankful for this series and the amazing designs and art #it always brings a smile to my face whenever cstm/ttte art content appears on my feed #and this entire year was so much more amazing with trains running around in my head <3 #to clarify gordon is looking at eddies scarf #Henrietta or fireman prob took the photo with percys polaroid camera #er with Toby's dislike of egotistical young-ins cause I thought he'd find it humourous how James is so pissed over something so tiny #but I think I misread the orginal notes cause I didnt read the part where it said he frowns at people w/ large egos #casa tidmouth act 1 #does gordon ever get reunited with edward and henry in act 2 :(?#anws have a good day everyone!!!#sane's art

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chorus-the-mutate · 7 months

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This is an edited repost of the Erzsebet Bathory character analysis I wrote yesterday that I refuse to let go to waste. I tried doing the right thing and tagging all of the necessary trigger warnings only for this post to be completely hidden from the Castlevania Nocturne and Erzsebet Bathory tags. Since I can't afford to tag the proper trigger warnings without being punished please do not read this post if discussions of rape or sexual assault triggers or upsets you in any way. I don't take these topics lightly and they are vital to this analysis of Erzsebet Bathory.

This post also contains major spoilers for this first season of Castlevania Nocturne.

This may seem presumptive of me to say but this thought has been stuck in my head for several hours: Erzsebet Bathory is the most rapist adjacent villainess I've ever seen without her actually being a rapist.

The first and smallest point against her is how often she mentions virgins. I know that Erzsebet's initial mention of virgin sacrifices is supposed to tie into the origin of her alter ego and consumption of Sekhmet but it's super fucking weird that it played into why she wanted to sacrifice Maria.

Next point against her is the lawyer's daughter. I'm not sure if this lady was a virgin but when she's first brought to Erzsebet she's already terrified and too dazed to fight back. It's obvious that she doesn't want to be there and that even if she did that she can't really express that desire. But Erzsebet still takes this lady out of a literal gilded cage, sits down and sits this lady on her dress to admire her despair before drinking her blood. The next time we see the lady she's still dazed. The only differences are that she's dolled up and seems more suggestible. Even with hundreds of people in this ballroom scene the lady is literally ignored by everyone except for Erzsebet who dances with her and parades her around for her own amusement. Everyone else knows that Erzsebet likes to make her victims suffer and they still refuse to acknowledge the lady because Erzsebet has made it clear that she's her possession. Hell the only person who is unhappy enough with Erzsebet to go rogue at this point is Olrox and he STILL IGNORES THIS LADY. When the lady is dragged outside to be fed on again without anyone batting an eye it reminds me of a rapist roofying their target and proceeding to do everything in their power to seem interested in their victim's well-being in order to take them to a second location. And no one speaks up since Erzsebet is the Harvey Weinstein, Prince Andrew or Thomas Jefferson of the vampire world; the embodiment of people in power getting away with abuse until the damage has already been done.

The last and biggest point against Erzsebet is the entire scene where she turns Tera into a vampire. For me personally that is just an allegorical rape scene and it's executed very well. Erzsebet makes her entrance at the abbey as a lioness of a woman, a literal predator who wants to take Maria as a sacrifice and turn her into a vampire to ensure Emmanuel the Abbot's loyalty. Tera protests and offers herself to Erzsebet instead. This is such blatant coercion that Tera refers to herself as the ram Abraham sacrificed to God instead of Isaac. And the only question or concern Erzsebet has at this point is if her sacrifice should be a virgin. The only reasons she accepts the sacrifice are Emmanuel's genuine love for Tera and the fact that Tera is a powerful sorceress. Once Erzsebet settles for Tera and physically lifts her to her level no one can stop her. Maria gets knocked out for trying and Richter gets bodied immediately after. Their only option is to get the hell out of there once Annette makes an opening and Richter rightfully runs for his life. Even Maria, the only person that could look back and see Tera turn, is knocked out and that feels like an intentional writing choice to give Tera one last shred of dignity. Erzsebet holds Tera really close in this sort of hug as she feeds on her and once she's fed she literally sits Tera on her lap for her turn to feed. Then Erzsebet cuts herself and the blood starts dripping down on Tera, starting at her skirt, going to her blouse and reaching her face. At first Tera doesn't react but then her body responds to the blood and she feeds even though she doesn't want to. Even though no one wants this for her. And that is exactly what it's like when someone has an unwanted orgasm. Tera's body is protecting itself the same way a victim of assault would and that paired with the blood on her skirt being reminiscent of the blood on a woman's thigh in the aftermath of an assault hammers home the rape allegory. It's very sad and uncomfortable to think of Tera's turn to vampirism this way but the thought lingers hours after like a grimy film on my brain.

I 100,000% believe that Erzsebet would have been an actual rapist if Netflix Castlevania didn't romanticize Lenore raping Hector and ending their relationship on friendly terms. Not to mention Sumi and Taka's sudden shift from allies to sexually assaulting Alucard out of spite. Castlevania Nocturne seems to shy away from rape and sexual assault in favor of allegories or moments so brief that I missed them unlike its predecessor. So I'm blaming the gratuitous depictions of sexual assault in Castlevania on Warren Ellis, the creator of Netflix Castlevania, who doesn't work on this show for a very good reason.

Everything from her size as Sekhmet to her tendency to torture women and girls before killing them contributes to the allegory of Erzsebet being the vampire equivalent of a rapist. She exudes power and not only does she enjoy making others feel helpless she's also great at it. She is a sadist without honor, willing to parade her lady victim of choice around vampire high society or hang a young girl on hooks to drain dry rather than let any of them die a quick death. The dragged out, needless suffering Erzsebet inflicts along with her preference for women and virgins frames her feeding as something more sexual in nature than the other vampire nobles who simply indulge in their gluttony. Even Olrox feeding on his former boyfriend isn't framed sexually, it's framed as a desperate, romantic gesture to keep his lover alive. And every vampire I remember from Castlevania has their feeding framed as a tool for political power or sheer, simple gluttony. Even the vampire general Cho was shown to be more of a tyrant or a general sadist clinging to power in Japan than a deviant.

Erzsebet's sheer sadism actually contrasts quite well with Dracula's humanity and restraint. He understood humanity, only feeding to survive or strike down the merchants who slighted him. (He probably also used feeding as a tool for political power but I don't think we saw that directly.) Dracula ultimately came to understand humanity so well that he fell for Lisa Tepes, the exemplar of what it means to be human. And that love is why I believe he respected Lisa's wishes and let her keep that humanity instead of turning her into a vampire. And after Lisa's death Dracula stopped feeding entirely, hoping to extinguish his life and take out as many people as he could because he believed that humanity should've been better. He believed that the people who lived alongside Lisa would've stood up for her and they betrayed her out of a mix of fear, religious reverence and apathy. Meanwhile Erzsebet doesn't care about humanity, seeing people like the lawyer's daughter as possessions or people like Tera and Emmanuel the Abbot as pawns to further her own rule. She might be taken aback by Drolta's death once she learns of it but there's an equal chance that she wouldn't even bat an eye.

So what do these points of analysis mean for Erzsebet and Tera's future dynamic as master and pawn? The one thing that's certain is that Tera has been fundamentally changed, forced into an unprecedented nightmare scenario that will drag her down a dark path. But I'm an optimist and I believe that Tera will ultimately be redeemed. She may never be human again but her humanity, her love for her son and daughter will save her soul. Ultimately I hope that Tera lives and recovers from the trauma of Erzsebet turning her. I hope that she goes home to her children and is taken in with open arms. But if Tera dies she will die as Tera, not as a pawn, and that is because Erzsebet could never kill her humanity.