#i still haven't answered them

[canisalbus]

Machete and Vasco are so pomegranate-and-the-hand-that-slices coded. To me.

Pomegranates are seen as messy, bloody, inconvenient fruits. You slice or tear or bite and in return for your effort you come away underwhelmed, disgusted, and stained too deep to wash. The consumption of a pomegranate is a violent act of defilement, for both the fruit and the eater.

But that is because most do not understand how to open a pomegranate. They have little patience for the precise carving. They see no point in coreing the fruit gently, no reason to be reverent as they pull the quarters apart. When done correctly, opening a pomegranate leaves little mess. Your fingers will still stain, your knife will still slick, but there will be no pool of crimson drowning both you and the fruit.

The seeds are only sweet to those who understand the merit of a light hand and intricate slicing. Why put in so much effort for a food so bitter and clearly armored against consumption? Surely it must not yearn to be eaten.

(^insane about silly catholic dogs)

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#absolutely losing my mind over this #how dare you come to my house and deliver a poignant character analysis cloaked in metaphors and symbolism #I went all day thinking about pomegranates #doing late christmas shopping? pomegranates #glazing ham? pomegranates #watching futurama with siblings? pomegranates #they're still kind of an exotic fruit where I'm from and I only got around to trying one a handful of years ago #some fruits offer themselves readily but pomegranates are hard and resistant and require a bit more specific handling #I looked up a guide and even then the kitchen counter ended up a murder scene #I've gotten better but I know some people can open them very neatly and I still haven't figured out the right technique #I love you anon I love the fact that you've clearly been rotating my silly catholic dogs in your head #and are able to put your thoughts into words with such marvelous grace and eloquence #surely it must not yearn to be eaten UNFATHOMABLE #answered #anonymous #gift art #Vasco #Machete #pomegranates are canonically one of Machete's motifs/symbols but I never thought of them from this angle #at least not this extensively

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #persona 4 #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #EVERYDAY IM HOWLING. EVERYDAY IM SCREAMING. #for context this comes at the heel of yosuke charging at mitsuo kubo in rage because of his flippance towards killing saki and he's hit har #but souji and kanji jump in to protect him #like ok a lot of things going on here such as the obvious OH MY GODDDD yosuke being yosuke and taking things on for himself #because he doesn't want to bother people?? because he's made it his own responsibility? because his survivor's guilt is still lingering? #i mean don't tell me he doesn't look at how he surrendered to his shadow like apart from his self-sacrificing propensity #i low key feel like everytime yosuke demands answers about saki's death from the murderer/god/etc there's this undertone of how #he would rather it have been him #he cheapens his own life so much and for what #BUT ALSO!! ALSO!! not just souji jumping in because we know he would he's down bad for yosuke BUT ALSO KANJI #listen you've all heard me talk so much about how i adore kanji yosuke friendships #i can't really tell whether it's kanji or souji that says “haven't we earned your trust yet” but it's a line that hits SO HARD #regardless of which one of them was saying it and i think it hits hard in slightly different manners #it's kanji's admiration and how he looks up to yosuke and how he wants to be closer to yosuke as a friend/kouhai/whatever you want #tatsumi “who's your partner now!” kanji has so much respect for yosuke he wants yosuke to rely on him too!!! #and this stands out because kanji is very conscious of social hierarchies and such but as a kouhai as yosuke's junior #he's so specific about wanting yosuke to treat him as an equal #i smtimes feel bad for kanji because he has a bit of that vibe of a poor puppy trailing after souyo because he wants to be in their convos! #he wants to be included! but critically he also just! wants them to SEE him!! #going a lil off tangent but i think kanji's attitude towards souji is very much one of kouhai respect like he understands his place #of like deferring to souji or getting advice from him and just generally regarding him as a reliable mentor #and it's the same with chie and yukiko? but idk man. with yosuke. guys. with yosuke i always feel like kanji wants to break that hierarchy #that convention. that social norm. to cross a line and be closer to yosuke. #he's more willing to tease yosuke in a way he doesn't with the other 2nd years. and this isn't coming from a place of disrespect either #AGAIN. KANJI REALLY LIKES YOSUKE. he wants to protect yosuke!!! he jumps at the opportunity for yosuke to rely on him!! #i'm getting delulu but there's those hints of “yosuke senpai i want you to see me as a man!!!” kind of energy here and i'm it's yknow hmm

[naffeclipse]

Naff looking at all the Apex Polarity AUs people are sending in /pos

YEA /POS

#anxiouscr0w #i love them all and i have so many still in my inbox i haven't answered yet sobs

[sergle]

have you ever thought about making a cicadas skirt?

LITERALLY THAT IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABT!!!!!

#I LOVE CICADAS!!!!! we get lots of them here #so I have lots of live models... #I have a lot of Ideas on my list but i never know which ones should actually be worked on / drafted #also sometimes i'm concerned i'll overlap w an idea that maya or rii or meyoco is also planning #and then we'll all be thrown into a mud pit. and have to wrestle and only the winner will be allowed to use that idea #sergle answers #i think if 1) i sketch it 2) maya is into the idea 3) i win the mudwrestle #it could be a great seasonal design for summer #i'm working on some new designs already that i AM very excited abt but the cicada skirt is still only an item on a list. i haven't made art #for it yet.

[tobias-hankel]

Your "reasons I believe Spencer's father assaulted him" masterpost was very helpful while writing my last fic! I referenced it multiple times and would gladly link it to you/reference it in my author's note. Ty again!

Yesss, I would love a link to what you wrote! You are welcome to dm me a link or send it in an ask so I can reshare it. I feel like I have found even more reasons since I wrote that post. I have a hard time believing that it isn't actually canon.

I'm glad you liked the post, thanks!

Canon reasons why I believe Spencer’s father SA-ed him post

#criminal minds #spencer reid #tw csa mention #tw csa implied #tw csa #I haven't answered my asks in so long I'm so sorry to the ones waiting in my box #please resent them if you are still waiting on something #anon ask #ask

[carlyraejepsans]

you've made posts before about shipping charisk, but toriel is frisk's mom pretty much and chara was considered a member of the dreemurr family (frisk can call them mom, she calls frisk "my child", and she adopts them on the surface in some playthroughs) (it's said that chara and asriel were "like siblings" and it's implied that the "mr. dad guy" sweater that asgore owns was made by chara)

i am feeling like "oh no, if this person realizes that the characters they are shipping together are pretty much siblings and is doing it anyway, i will be disappointed and will have to stop liking their cool art" so i am really hoping you just do not realize

begging you people to go outside

#i saw the beginning of this ask when my phone was about to die and i spent the entire bus ride writing up an analysis #about why I don't interpret them as siblings and that there are dozens of valid readings of the characters and why that should be the case #and then i saw the rest of the ask and just deflated. like wow talk about a disappointment. your attitude is incredibly immature #I'm not wasting my analysis on something like this #either you like my art or you don't. whatever weird parasocial complex you built up about me is none of my business #love how you saw a post about how people CAN write fucked up stories as long as they're aware the topic is fucked up #& still decided to come into my inbox like ''i hope you just haven't realized that this topic is fucked up bc if you did and liked it anyway #it would make you Bad'' like if you disagree with the starting point of the discussion what are you even still doing here. leave. #answered asks #biscia hater moment

[kikker-oma]

OK

so, I'm really really sorry to anyone who's sent me an ask that has gone unanswered.

I have like, 17 asks in my inbox and some of them were art requests (and good ones), some of them were comments about Snoots that I wanted to draw doodles for, and some of them were just messages, but I've been avoiding my inbox because of some unknown reason and now it's stressing me ouuuttt😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Some of these askes span back to OCTOBER. 2023. AAAHHH

SO. I'm going to keep some of the art requests on my own little to-do list, but for my sanity's sake, I need to clear out my inbox.

Idk why this is stressing me out so much, but I've had like, inbox paralysis for months and then I feel guilty for posting things when I have 17 unanswered asks and then I avoid it more and then as soon as I answer one I get another and AHHH.

now LISTEN. I LOVE ASKS. it's just my time of the month so I'm acting super extra and now I have to DELETE FOR MY SANITY.

Feel free to still send me asks, I just need a clean slate.

ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU ALL❤️❤️❤️ GOODBYE IM GOING TO DRAW LEGEND WHUMP FOR THE NEXT WEEK STRAIGHT HEHE

#ive been debating clearing my inbox for a while #but then I feel sooo guilty #because people cared enough to send me asks! #and its so sweet and I love them #but y'know how you'll see a text but then you don't respond right away #and then days pass #and you know you still haven't answered #so you try to think of an excuse to give #but then you forget to give your excuse in a timely manner #and then it becomes so late that you just can't answer anymore #like #even if you finally answer the text #its too late #so now it just sits in your text history #to mock you #its that #my Tumblr inbox is mocking me #and this is my ✨easy out✨ #acknowledging that I am trash at responding #and starting over #because I can #tell me this whole rant doesn't scream conflict avoidant lol #i dare you haha #AH #ive literally stared at this post for 10 minutes because I feel so guilty

[supercantaloupe]

What is the antisemitism in TUC season 1? Does it have to do with Wally the golem?/gen

[ID: an ask from an anonymous tumblr user that reads "would love to hear more about the antisemitism in unsleeping city! was a while ago that i watched it and can't remember what you might be referencing but definitely want to be aware of it.]

no, it's not about willy the golem -- i actually think willy is a great addition to the season (even if i wish we got to see more of him), and an indication to me that brennan/the showrunners were definitely trying to be sincere and inclusive. i want to make it clear that i don't think anything antisemitic in tuc is there intentionally; i think it's there out of simple ignorance, which is also why i think fans don't frequently see/comment on it either. but i don't think that's an excuse, either.

my grief with tuc1 is largely centered around its portrayal of robert moses as the villain. especially by making him a greedy, power-hungry lich working en league with bloodsucking vampires. (also his mini is literally a green skinned skull man in a suit. yikes.) here's the thing; i know robert moses was a real life horrible person, who actually was racist and powerhungry etc etc. and i know that robert moses, the real actual person, was jewish. my grief with tuc1 is not that they chose to use robert moses over literally any other person (real or fictional) to be their season villain (though i'd be really curious to know what tuc1 would have looked like with a different villain), but that they chose to take a real jewish person, turn them into an antisemitic caricature, and then only barely add other portrayals of judaism to balance that out.

like, tuc isn't completely devoid of other jewish representation. as you mention, there's willy the golem -- and again, i really like willy, and i love that it's a portrayal of a golem that's faithful to jewish folklore (ie as a benevolent, guardian construct rather than a mindless destructive monster. i am not a fan of how 'golem' is so frequently misused as a generic enemy creature in other fantasy and ttrpg spaces, including other seasons of d20). but as i said earlier, i wish we see more of him in the season, because he's not around very much, and feels a little more like worldbuilding than a full character to me. also, he's not human. jews are people.

the only other human jewish character in tuc1 is...stephen sondheim. which, again, yeah, that's a real person who really was jewish. but i really wouldn't blame you if you had no idea of that when watching tuc1. maybe from the name you could guess he might be jewish, but i don't think people ought to make a habit of trying to 'clock' someone being jewish by having a 'jewish-sounding' surname. as he's portrayed in tuc1, you'd never know he's jewish, unless you happen to already be pretty knowledgeable about the man in real life. it's far more likely you'll know him as a theater legend than anything else (may his memory be a blessing).

now i'm not saying that brennan or the showrunners should have played up the jewishness of Real Person Stephen Sondheim to counterbalance the depiction of robert moses; that just feels weird to me, especially considering that sondheim was literally alive when tuc1 was filmed and released. it's a tricky thing to portray real people in fiction alongside made up characters, especially when they are contemporaries, and i don't think 'outright caricature' is the way to go about that. nor do i think that moses' jewishness should have been played up at all, because again i don't think that would have been particularly true to the person/character, and also Fucking Yikes. but, c'mon, if you hear the names 'moses' and 'sondheim' next to each other, which one do you associate more with judaism?

and as it stands, these are the only representations of judaism in tuc1. one admittedly nice but very minor nonhuman character; one human character you'd never be able to tell was jewish; and a third human character who, while never explicitly referenced as jewish, plays into some really hurtful antisemitic stereotyping. and it was a choice to not include anything else. maybe not a deliberate one, probably more likely one made out of simple ignorance than anything else, but a choice nonetheless. in a city with one of the largest and most visibly jewish populations in the country, and a culture that is inextricably influenced by that jewish population. a jewish population which has been and continues the target of rising hate crimes for years. i know that nyc means different things to different people, and everyone's nyc is their own -- but my nyc is jewish, and it sucks that that its jewishness is referenced directly in only one very minor way, which is greatly overshadowed by its, in my view, really insidious indirect references.

i don't know exactly how to go about addressing this. obviously, the show can't be changed by now. even if it could, i think the final product would be very significantly different from what it is now if the villain was something/someone else. i think including more references to jews in new york, more (human) jewish characters, hell, even mentioning hanukkah celebrations and menorahs in windows (it takes place in late december, after all; depending on the year it's not at all out of place for hanukkah to coincide with xmas!) would help. having literally any more positive jewish representation in tuc1 would, i think, help balance the bad stuff that's there. because, yeah, robert moses was real and he was terrible and he was jewish. but he's one jewish guy in a city with over a million jews, the vast majority of whom are just normal people. i don't want him to be the only vision of us that people get, in tuc1 alone or in any media. i'm not saying that jews can't or shouldn't be villains in fiction; but especially if you are a goyische creator, you should be really careful in how you're portraying us, and if there are other contrasting depictions in your work, too, in order to not (even accidentally) demonize jewish people as a whole.

#sasha answers #anon #unsleeping city #the unsleeping city #long post #sorry for not putting this under a read more but i think people ought to see this. or at least #if two people felt the need to ask me about it then at least they would want to see the full thing uncovered #also fwiw i do think that they tried to address this to some extent when they made tuc2 #with more scenes with willy (and incorporating more golem folklore with the animating word in his mouth -- nice touch!) #the jewish immigrant family in the photo flashback encounter (even if the hanukkiah in the picture isn't exactly kosher lol) #and ESPECIALLY rabbi mike. i ADORE rabbi mike. i think he's a WONDERFUL addition #i do still wish he was a more important/prominent character. cause again he isn't in it all that much. #(and he's still like. the only new jewish human character in the campaign.) #but i recognize what he represents and i am happy about it #i do think brennan & the d20 crew tried to improve after tuc1. i do. i see their efforts and i applaud them for it #but still to my knowledge they haven't ever directly addressed the errors made in season 1 #and it's extremely rare that i even see other fans mention it #and like. sorry but i am tired. i am. we deserve better. we deserve portrayals in media that show us as People #not just as evil monsters #anyway you're welcome to rb this but be cool in the notes esp if you're a goy #other jews are welcome to (respectfully) disagree with me if they want #also if you so much as mention the word israel on this post you're getting blocked end of

[thottybrucewayne]

No, real question. How you a transmed and nonbinary?

#thotty speaks #They said 'oh people don't take you tenderqueer nbs seriously cause yall won't get on hrt/get surgery to show us youre serious #Look I want to get on t. I wanna do a lot of things to make me feel more at home in my body that I'm not sure about yet #Safety wise etc and it just...as a Black person for you to not understand other Black trans people being hesitant abt jumping into surgery #or worrying about pricing and post surgery care and being under medicated etcetc #Not to mention that I shouldn't have to do these things at YOUR pace to prove that I'm trans like... #You got top surgery money? You tryin to nurse me back to health when I take days to try to heal? #I just hate this argument cause you can ask any nb who medically transitioned if people 'take them seriously' and usually the answer is #A resounding no! Most people see nbs who medically transition as 'just trans with extra prns' and 'still about clothing' #idk I just hate the idea that I have to 'earn' legitimacy by rushing into something I haven't even found a proper safety net for #I feel like if you doin all this yappin but you not going out of your way to look out for people just starting hrt or need help post op #just shut the fuck up #idk it just find it funny like you do not benefit from that transmed shit at all but do you ig

[angeart]

Awww the nest sounds so soft and lovely and awww...

Yes for the Elegy snippet tho, pretty please ❤️

-🎀

okay, here, you can have this bit <3

elegy chapter 5 - be my place to land (when my feathers are burnt by the fire) snippet: -----

With a barely swallowed-down sob, Gem leans down and presses a kiss to Scar’s soot-coated hair. She keeps holding him, because at the end of it all, there’s nothing else to do.

Maybe she could be more helpful elsewhere. 

Maybe there is someone out there who needs her more than Scar.

But there’s no one else here right now who could replace her, and she can’t weight her options, can’t make a choice here, pick between two people who mean the world to her. She can’t. She can’t, she refuses to.

She pulls at Scar tighter, and he falls all too willingly against her, breath stuttering and hands finally drifting away from his face to wrap around her, letting her know that she’s right—that this is where she’s needed, even if everything about it hurts.

They’re going to hurt together, until it eventually stops.

That’s all there is to it. All they can do now.

“I’ve got you,” she murmurs to Scar, soft and sniffling. Her voice wobbles, pushing past a lump that keeps growing in her throat. She tries swallowing down a couple of times, but it doesn’t relent.

She thinks, a little detachedly, that there’s wetness falling down her cheeks.

The moment drapes around them, stretching on and on and on, and as they’re left alone amidst the ashen, snow-blanketed ruins, it feels like nothing but endless, gnawing loss.

The only question is how much of it is still left there to unravel.

#ange answers #ribbon anon #ange writes #boatem circus au #fic snippet #lots of hurt some of comfort #listen i love them #they deserve all the hugs #i still have like #a bunch of other parts to write for that chapter #mumbo pov of course #some impulse stuff #then back to scar <3 #dw about the fact i haven't mentioned grian #dw about it at all

[illegiblehandwriting1]

I thought I was done torturing Sky after this almost 10k chapter but here I am. Planning for my totk fic. And finding so many new ways to put him in pain. I blame you /lh

ehehehehehe >:3

it's SO FUN THO. i think it's absolutely hilarious how much sky fans like torturing him. there is a Trend here

you're very welcome my dude :D

(also, 10k??? oop???? 👀 👀 👀 👀)

#illegible answers #eureka!!!!! hi! #hope you're doing well!! #oh btw very very sorry i haven't finished ur fic yet #im absolutely adoring it brrrrrrr #still on ch6 cuz i've been up to my eyes in work lmao #very sorry #but it will happen! #anyway yea that's so fair #man has issues and we love to exploit them don't we

[canisalbus]

what part of italy are machete and vasco from? not their birthplace since from what i've seen you're still workshopping that. where do they live? i assume rome?

In the 1500's setting Vasco lives and was born in Florence, his family has lived there for centuries. Machete was born in Sicily, was taken to Naples to serve as an apprentice and ended up living and working in Rome (and more specifically today's Vatican city, which as you may know has been an independent country since 1929 but wasn't back then). They first met when they were both studying in Venice in their late teens/early twenties.

I think in the modern au they live together somewhere in Florence.

#characters travelling this extensively at the time #from one end of the country to another #may not be very realistic but it's more fun to include a variety of interesting historical locations #let me be greedy and self indulgent for a moment #(not to mention that Italy wasn't unified until late 1800's and was instead made of various states kingdoms and duchies #that didn't always get along with each other that well and were culturally and linguistically diverse #and some of them were actually ruled Spain and Austria for example) #I say this as lovingly as possible but the history of Italian peninsula as a whole is just a real clusterfuck #I feel like I still haven't wrapped my head around it adequately to be explaining any of this to you #but please be patient with me I promise I'm trying my best #answered #anonymous

[didderd]

guh i'm alive sorry i've been inactive for over a month. i don't really have an excuse. just that i haven't been feeling up to posting, and i've been distracted. i will try to get back to things, but no promises.

#i got a few asks in th past 24 hours that i was not expecting kgfjkgfj #i will try to answer asks today #and i have some art build up i do want to post #i still haven't finished the tourette's nightmare gang lmao #i might even redraw what i do have at this point #might make it easier to finish in a weird way #also #i am planning on opening comms some time #i just want to finish one i got from a friend before officially opening them #but i'm slow #so idk when that will be kfjgnbkj #didderd talks #i might be back. idk

[blaiddraws]

Hello there! I been a silent admirer of your blog and I love the Submas and DojoShipping content here! Your Placeholder AU is fire and Ithe new WereZoroark! Zisu AU as is noice. Will it turn into a full blown AU because so much could happen in it! Like how did she turn into a WereZoroark? What about Ingo turning into a WereZoroark himself but maybe Hisuian or even a WereLuxray and Zisu helping him with his new self? Emmet’s reaction to her and maybe Ingo not being human anymore? So much fun stuff and thanks so much!

Whether or not something turns into a full blown au is completely out of my control. it is entirely up to the whims of my own brain, you see. lol

that being said. i REALLY DO enjoy drawing Big Dog Zisu, and consequently have had some vague thoughts about it all. For one, I know for a fact that Zisu was a were-zoroark Before she and the rest of the galaxy team came to hisui. I've been considering her being born like that, or just having become one in her childhood or as a young adult. Still undecided on that.

Probably not gonna have ingo be a were-creature here! nor any other people, except maybe one or two? odds are, it'll be someone in the galaxy team or ginkgo guild regardless, since the were-creature stuff came from elsewhere than hisui

were-zoroark zisu IS fully Aware and all that in her zoroark form, she's just got a few more animalistic behaviors as a consequence of being a creature at the time. so she's Not going to be going feral and biting anyone, and therefore spreading the were-zoroark.

#her shifts into a were-zoroark are relatively consistent and short #.... except when the red sky happens and messes up spacetime #she basically gets stuck in zoroark form the entire time #but she's still aware of everything! so she ends up going out and helping the pla protag #(protag is very confused why this MASSIVE weird zoroark suddenly started following them around but hey. it's helpful so whatever right?) #answered #were zoroark zisu #(haven't said it before now but. thinking of making the protag Rei for this one since i think i've got more akaris than reis as protag)

[enchantedchocolatebars]

I have 3 headcanons of SpongeBob: Christmas Who.

Gary knew it was Squidward as Santa. He was watching through the window, before he can bring SpongeBob inside, he sees Squidward dressing up as Santa Claus to cheer him up. His Meow at the end means Thank you, for cheering up SpongeBob, as he carries him back to the pineapple.

Santa wasn’t able to make it because he has to give presents to the families around the world. Before he can get to Bikini Bottom, he watches Squidward bullying SpongeBob. But his heart changes when SpongeBob gives him a present, a hand-carved driftwood clarinet. Squidward sees how SpongeBob has only been trying to spread joy, he feels very remorseful for what he did, and decides to make up for his rudeness. He dresses up as Santa and surprises SpongeBob, who thanks him for bringing Christmas to Bikini Bottom. The next morning Squidward’s belongings reappear, and he has a day off of work. He finds another note from Santa, saying he and SpongeBob has earned it.

Sandy wasn’t seen for the rest of the special, because she was at Texas celebrating the holidays with her family.

YO THESE ARE SO GOOD AND ARE BRINGING BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES! 🥹

#(thank you for sharing!) #(ALSO) #(if you're the same anon who's been sending me those other spongebob asks) #(THEY'RE STILL IN MY INBOX) #(i just haven't answer them yet because I've been busy) #(and i don't wanna give you a lame answer SO) #(i will get to them when i can <3) #(thank you for being patient) #spongebob squarepants #spongebob #christmas #headcanon #headcanons #ask #asks #anon #anonymous #writing #not my writing

[diamondsheep]

✍️ If you draw Johnny and Yosaku I will cry tears of joy

HII ANOON !!Thank u so much for requesting Johnny and Yosaku !! i love them so much 💖💖💖

I really liked this request so you get a bonus Marimo accidentally photobombing his Bros

#i love this dudes so much #i wish we could see them more often !! they are really fun #also i still can't believe that they are Zoro's friends asdfjgkls they are so different #btw my apologies if Johnny's tattoo looks weird .. i haven't written Kanji in a really long time and i really suck at it lol #one piece #one piece johnny #johnny one piece #yosaku #yosaku one piece #one piece yosaku #zoro #roronoa zoro #zoro one piece #answer #requests #my drawings #diamondsheep art