#i'm not gonna tag ships or characters for this post

[gale-in-space]

Okay posting the full pic of this lol. Some space bloodweave for my dear @antstarion :D gotta stay warm and comfy in space

#my art #bloodweave #gale of waterdeep #astarion #bg3 #i'm being so brave posting this on main AND in the character + ship tags T_T #please no one say anything mean </3 i will cry and that is a threat #okay i'm gonna go hide in my cave now byeeeee #edit: OH and i should explain the suits real quick #they're not like typical spacesuits. i kind of modeled them off of like snowsuits? to make them extra comfy #yeah #anyway #bye

[agrebel18]

I saw this last night and thought “hey maybe Twitter isn’t THAT BAD” but anyways, here’s for the people that like parallels (me) 

[ID: three screenshots of a tweet that says “the category is blonde boys who are controlled and manipulated by a ‘family member’ who is technically not even related to them but their first true friend is a small cute creature that gives them magical powers and +” which then show two pictures of Hunter from The Owl House and Adrien from Miraculous Ladybug.

the second tweet says “their beautiful blue haired girlfriends is one of the most sweetest beings in the world <3″ which then show pictures of Willow from The Owl House and Marinette from Miraculous Ladybug. Then there is an addition to the tweet which has a picture of Hunter and Willow holding hands in their timeskip designs, and then a picture of Adrien and Marinette holding hands at their school. Then it shows a close-up picture of Hunter and Willow holding pinkies and Marinette and Adrien holding hands. 

then there is another tweet which shows a picture of Hunter carrying Willow bridal-style, and another one of Cat Noir holding Ladybug bridal-style. Then it shows a picture of Hunter reaching out to Willow in “For The Future” and then shows Cat Noir reaching out to Ladybug in “Miracle Queen.” 

The last tweet shows a picture of Hunter giving a dirty look at Flapjack, and then a picture of Adrien glaring at Plagg. The last pictures show Hunter laughing and talking to Flapjack, who’s on his shoulder, and then there is Adrien smiling affectionately at Plagg and hugging him with his hands. END ID] 

#miraculous ladybug #the owl house #ml #toh #adrien x marinette #adrienette #huntlow #willow x hunter #parallels #I like both BUT I'm definitely biased towards Huntlow because I'm more attached to them and both of them AS INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS OFC #but Adrienette is cool too plus they were one of my OG ships lol #ONE LAST THING: IF YOU'RE GONNA BE HATEFUL TO ANY OF THESE PAIRING OR CHARACTERS PICTURED ABOVE THEN PLEASE LEAVE #i DO NOT wanna have to block more people or take off comments or tags #aggie posts

[villainsposting]

Vivziepop: *doesn’t explicitly state Alastor to be aromantic despite writing him as such because she doesn't want fans to be constantly warring with each other over made-up relationships between fictional characters*

The fans: "Wow. We should constantly war with each other over this."

#alastor #hazbin hotel #I'm aroace and I'm tired of opening the character tag to the same shit every day can we move the fuck on #shippers gonna ship regardless of what you say #discourse #critical #original post

[marinsawakening]

Weighing in on the debate “Are you allowed to ship aromantic characters?” As an aromantic person, this is a difficult subject. On the one hand, we have characters who clearly and repeatedly state that they hate romance, do not feel romantic attraction, and don’t want to be in a relationship. On the other hand, we have your personal inability to engage with deep relationships without making them romantic. As a compromise, I say people are allowed to ship canon aromantic characters, provided they pay me at least $100 in cash for the license.

#my posts #aromantic #this is about the murderbot diaries fandom. btw. #me: you know the murderbot fics on ao3 are actually pretty good. most of them seem to understand the themes of the books #and most people seem to have gotten the hint and don't ship murderbot romantically. maybe I'm safe to check the tumblr tag #the tumblr tag: no you're not #me: ok noted #people will see a character repeatedly and consistently being romance-repulsed #and go 'is anyone gonna ship them' and not wait for an answer #it's rlly funny how quick seeing blatant shipping made me go from #'while in terms of human western labels murderbot obviously fits the definition of aromantic asexual and some flavour of nonbinary/agender' #'I do not feel like it's useful or desired to ascribe these labels to it as it consistently avoids labelling its gender' #'and in general seems unlikely to be the kind of person who'd want to use human western labels perhaps even if it was human' #to 'murderbot is not just aromantic it's a loveless nonpartnering aromantic suck my dick'

[landlordevil]

i'm already so bored of all of those "stop being mean to people about their opinions on bg3" posts. i am being so gentle i don't even tag my shit unlike most of you* heathens

#*people who post stupid shit in the wyll tag for MY beloved eyes to witness #it's just so funny to me bc wyll is ''too vanilla and nice'' for these people and they ''prefer'' the ''''''''bad boy'''''''' #and they can't even handle people being catty or disagreeing w them about a video game LMAO #could you handle any man that has any resemblance to your vamp irl. be honest with me. look into my eyes. #and it's always shit like stop being mean about the most popular ship and the most popular characters :( we should all be friends #whatever i'm gonna play purse owner 5

[reluctantbylerblog]

they really have the gall to say they aren’t biased against byler when these are their reactions to both of these posts:

like c’mon bffr

#byler #not gonna tag this as anti m*leven because the last time i did that my post ended up on the actual m*leven tag #so tumblr clearly can't be trusted #but lol I don't much care for m*levin romantically but it just blows my mind how… #idk…let's say…passionate the st subreddit is about ensuring it's sanctity #like they're always like ‘i have no problem with people who ship byler my problem is with people who want mike to break up with el for him’ #and idk it all just seems like a cover for what the actual problem you have against byler: #it's a gay ship involving a character you've projected all your straight fantasies onto (mike) and you feel that #because byler shippers ‘force’ people to admit it will be canon #it says something about your own sexuality #like please touch some grass and work on your homophobia because you can relate to a character who is gay #it's okay #you're not going to magically turn gay if mike ends up being gay #now I'm not saying byler shippers are all little angels btw #(we could probably do better if we just focused on enjoying the ship and the characters instead of arguing with homophobes) #but i definitely think the hate towards byler shippers is queerphobic (it's no secret most of us are queer in some way or another) #where the hate towards m*levin shippers (simply by the fact that it's a straight ship) is just not #and no I don't buy the argument that it's misogynist to want mike to leave el #(as if el's character arc hasn't been intrinsically tied to how misogyny and heteronormativity are #tied together under oppressive systems like the patriarchy #and that her idea of romance and boyfriends under it has been harmful to her independence and sense of self)

[mesmarique]

Yuri and Subtext in Spring 2023

Spring season is knocking at the door and the Yuri shipping in Spring 2023 will be unreal. I swear to Madoka.

There's at least two Yuris that are gonna hit us with full force, two at the very least subtext-heavy ones, and I'm sure the Uma Musume creators are gonna find a way to make it really gay in Road To The Top as well.

Here I list the shows (as far as I know, but in case there's gonna be last minute additions, I will edit this post accordingly) that are going to come out in April, as well as little side information, fun facts and my personal feelings about them:

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury Season 2

This series is, like it says, a continuation of The Witch From Mercury which aired from October 2022 to January 2023, our protagonist is a shy girl from Mercury by the name of Suletta Mercury, who was thrown into a setting à la Revolutionary Girl Utena, with duels that determine who's going to marry President Delling's only daughter Miorine Rembran. I'm gonna keep the summary short here, because there's a lot of spoilers to beware of, but for the Yuri enthusiasts it's a show that should not be skipped over.

I personally really loved this show, it was very exciting to watch and the next cour promises a lot more than what we have already seen.

And the best thing is: You can watch all of it subbed on Youtube legally on the GundamInfo channel for free. The episodes are still being regionally unlocked, but a great portion of the world should be having standard access to most episodes by now, as well as the Prologue that is strongly recommended to watch before you get into the main series at all.

There is also a novel chapter set between the Prologue and Episode 1, which you're free to read anytime after watching the Prologue.

You are NOT required to have seen other Mobile Suit Gundam series' prior to this one, it's original and written by the author of the official Revolutionary Girl Utena novels (mind you, he is not the original creator of Utena!).

Season 2 is going to air from April 2023, every Sunday (presumably the first Sunday of the month, which is a 2nd. Oy, don't look at me like that, they did say it as cryptical as that! lmao). Edit #1: Set airing date is 9th of April!

Here you can watch an English subbed trailer for Season 1:

Edit #2: There is now a trailer for The Witch from Mercury Season 2 (it contains heavy spoilers for Season 1):

Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story Season 2

This show is produced by Bandai, like the series above. The first season aired from April to June 2022. This one is honestly quite a messy but entertaining show, with quite a few genres mixed into it. The lead characters in this one are also girls and have a very soul-matey connection to one another (They legitimately can't stop thinking about one another for 5 seconds, there is also a noticeable attraction going on).

It's best described as a wlw soap opera with golf and other themes (to keep it spoiler free).

Fun fact, this series offers quite a few winks at Gundam fans and I would not be surprised, if somehow The Witch From Mercury and Birdie Wing were to collaborate in one way or another to promote the respectively other series during Spring season.

And even if you don't enjoy golf as a sport, you might still enjoy this series. I personally loved it even more as a casual binge, but that's to each their own.

Season 2 is going to air from 1st of April 2023. Edit #2: it's April 7th, my bad

Here is a PV for Birdie Wing: Golf Lesbians' Story Season 2:

Yuri Is My Job

I'm a huge fan of the manga and I can say for sure: YES, Yuri is indeed their job, but also part of their private lives.

It is personally one of the better Yuri dramas that I have encountered over the recent years and if I had to compare it to anything, then I'd say it's like Citrus, if you take away the SA, make it more manipulative instead, as well as diving deeper into the characters feelings, thoughts and struggles that come with those. I can't say for sure how much of its greatness there will be displayed in just one cour, but regardless of it, I'm excited to see the adaptation.

The general setting is the one of a café from an in-universe fictional German all-girls academy, with very sapphic display of affection among the waitresses as part of a roleplay.

Season 1 is going to air from 6th of April 2023.

Here is an English subbed trailer for the anime:

World Dai Star

There is a rising trend of Takarazuka Revue anime, but why would I complain?

For those who don't know: Takarazuka Revue is an all-female musical theatre group based in Takarazuka, Japan, that perform any kind of roles regardless of gender. Because of that the "genre"(if you can call it such) itself has very sapphic undertones. Directly or indirectly influenced by Takarazuka Revue have been Roses of Versailles and Revolutionary Girl Utena, of which the former inspired Kageki Shoujo!! and the latter inspired The Witch From Mercury (so many crazy coincidences in the upcoming season, aren't there?) and Revue Starlight. To get back to this series:

It's not known a lot (or translated) what the story of World Dai Star is gonna be roughly about, but judging the media footage alone, its focus lies in the Takarazuka Revue performances and presumably to make it big in the world, if the title is anything to go by.

Season 1 is going to air from 9th of April 2023.

The most recent non-subbed PV for the show:

Uma Musume: Road To The Top

Uma Musume is back at it again, after two successful seasons, and other medias, here we have a brand new story that is gonna be directly released as an ONA (Original Net Animation), likely on this Youtube channel. It's not known how long it's gonna be, but its primary focus is a retelling of the late 90s/early 2000s era of Japanese horse racing with 3 new protagonists and I believe some reoccuring characters from either of the seasons before.

Uma Musume retells historical careers of Japanese race horses in a kemonomimi setting, and the passion of the work behind it is tangible. The emotions are captivating.

I had a hate-love relationship with Uma Musume Season 1, because it drifted away from the historical aspects here and there that it initially covered so greatly, but Season 2 reignited my love for it so strongly, that it became one of my favorite anime. A Season 3 is also in the works, which I'm excited for.

Now for the legitimacy of the Yuri in this one: No, it's not Yuri, but it offers enjoyable subtext. Season 2 is a great example for that. Uma Musume is about racing, which also leads to great rivalries. And we all know and love a good girls-rivalry story.

The ONA is going to release (whether one by one or fully remains to be seen, as its length is not known) from 16th of April 2023.

Non-subbed trailer for Uma Musume: Road To The Top (I'm already loving this animation, it's the same studio that produced Season 2 and it shows):

#also fun fact for the Uma Musume fans: #Rice Shower's and Mihono Bourbon's voice actresses make a comeback in World Dai Star as the red and blue lead characters's voices #i wonder if there is gonna be a twist to World Dai Star; but maybe I'm just projecting Revue Starlight into it #I would also love a genuinely theatre-focussed series that isn't all about symbolism necessarily #anyway #let the shipping begin #the witch from mercury #birdie wing #yuri is my job #world dai star #uma musume #uma musume road to the top #road to the top #yuri anime #i don't think i have to tag it since i believe all kinds of posts are automatically cropped until expanded these days but #long post #yuri recommendation #Youtube

[jessicas-pi]

I love being inside my safe bubble of fandom friends, but it's always jarring to encounter a fandom person NOT from my corner of the fandom and see their hate-rant about a ship that my fandom pals are cool with (even if some of them don't ship it.) like wow i had no idea anyone could loathe a healthy well-written romance with that amount of uninhibited wrath. who hurt you, i'm just curious

anyway shoutout to my mutuals, you guys are so sweet and supportive, you're the best :)

#me: hmm if i'm going to write JFO characters in my medieval au i should probably browse the tag to learn more about the game! #me: *surprise attack throatpunched by merrical hate posts* #me (confused): people... don't... like this ship? people... HATE... this ship?? #me (spiteful): *opening the medieval au wip doc* WELL THE JOKE'S ON YOU CAUSE NOW THEY'RE *DEFINITELY* GONNA GET MARRIED IN THIS FIC #i've moved past NOT shipping things due to fandom hate; to shipping things BECAUSE of fandom hate #it's spite shipping and once you get used to the concept it becomes really fun actually #like congrats haters you hated so hard i decided to start shipping a ship that i was previously apathetic to/wasn't invested in

[epickiya722]

Hot take! If you're gonna talk shit about a ship... USE THE ANTI TAG!

#saw someone talking shit about shinkami #'they don't interact much' #AND?! AND?! #there are some ships where the characters never interact or be in the same universe!! #ever thought that people may just like the dynamic?! or the possibilities?! #or you're just gonna be a hater?! #had the nerve to even bring up tddk and bkdk #what the fuck ever #that's what I'm talking about!! #right there! #if you hate the ship at least tag your fucking post properly #okay I'm fine #just kiya's thoughts #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #fandom #applies to any fandom

[greenerteacups]

What do you think of Tonks and Remus? Wrong answers only 😒. No really, I mean he was older than her and he didn’t seem to love her half as much as she loved him. What are your theories, canon-fitted and otherwise, on their relationship? Do you think he used her?

Oh, they're beards! Next question.

I appreciate the prompt, because you've handed me a shiny free pass to go on a rant I've been holding in since reading Half-Blood Prince. Taking my preferences aside, I don't think he used Tonks, although I think the age gap ads a really unnecessary layer of skeeze to their relationship. To be clear: I like Remus with Sirius, but I don't need them to end up together to be happy. I just don't see why it's Tonks. We don't see their natural chemistry; there's no scenes of banter, I don't know what she likes about him or vice versa. I do know that she's desperately in love with him after Order of the Phoenix, and he... isn't, honestly. Or at least, he doesn't act like he's in love with her. I'm not saying this just to shit on Remus and Tonks; I'm saying this because if I did ship Remus and Tonks, I would be mad as hell at how hard I got short shifted in Book 6! I would not have been fed! That is not a romance arc! Which makes me think, you know, okay, then why are we here? Why is it this woman, i Ask Thee, Remus Lupin, whom you have decided to marry, even though you frankly have more chemistry with Severus Snape? Or, to reframe from an authorial perspective: the HP world is wide open, someone from childhood could walk back into his life, or someone from another school, or you can introduce another Marauders-Era character, or you can just come up with someone from whole cloth — why is it Tonks?

But then I thought: Tonks is intriguingly similar to Sirius in several ways. She's a disgraced Black, she's charming and charismatic, she's a skilled fighter, she's a jokester, she's generally kind and doesn't take herself seriously, she's a shapeshifter. There's a line in OOTP that says she never made prefect because she didn't have "the temperament," which suggests she might've been a troublemaker (not hard to believe). As someone who ships him with Sirius, and believes that their relationship is at least a little bit coded romantic, that all reads like Something to me. But even for strictly canonical purposes, those similarities are still hard to ignore, especially since Tonks begins pursuing Remus in the same year as Sirius dies. So it's a handful of months after he watches his last childhood friend get murdered that Remus is deflecting her advances, meanwhile he's in the middle of fighting a war, meanwhile everyone in his life is pushing them to get together Because Love or whatever the fuck, @ Molly, @ McGonagall for some reason, and it's not hard to imagine that he just... gives in.

He's lonely, he's scared, and here's this person who reminds him of his friend and is willing to freely give him affection and care, and like... to be real? I don't think Remus believes he's going to live that long past Sirius's death, anyway. He's talking about giving Tonks children, but that's stuff he says to her when he's trying to deter her from pursuing him; when he talks about himself, he uses a lot of words like "damaged" and "broken" and "[not] whole." Added to the fact that the First and Second Wars are both very bloody and he's an active fighter in several notable battles; added to the fact that if he's caught, his lycanthropy means he's a target for killing, since taking a werewolf prisoner is the kind of smart move that begs to lose wars; added to the fact that he's been undercover with werewolves for part of this year, which, though we don't hear about it outright, is obviously a move to isolate himself from his friends and cannot do good things for his mental health; all these things point to him being in a Very Dark Place during HBP, and puts him in a headspace where he might marry Tonks essentially to make her happy, because he can always console himself that she'll end up a widow and be free to go live her life after the war.

Is that using her? Yeah, I guess, in that he's entering the relationship on slightly less sincere terms than she is, and I think what he's getting out of it is much more basic and unsentimental than what she's getting; but in his defense, Tonks has sort of marshaled the Order of the Phoenix behind her on this, and we also don't see that she altogether... cares if he's in it for her? He rejects her like, twice at minimum, and she keeps pushing, which is— like, girl, do you honestly want to be in a relationship with someone who's rejected you twice? Who you had to badger into giving you the time of day? Why? We don't know; she just wants him. Which, again, is a very 23-year-old thing to do: it's object-oriented, it's not based in compatibility or long-term happiness or even mutual affection. She's acting like someone who hasn't been in a relationship before. Which, by the way, SHE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN! SHE'S 23!!

Whether or not the Age Gap implies mistreatment, I don't really think it does; I mean, it is a Not Great Situation, and if I were Tonks's friend I would be yelling at her very loudly about why she should wait until her mid- to late-twenties to date someone that much older than her, if ever, but Tonks is an adult, both in our sense of the word and the Wizarding World's. The fact that Remus was already at Hogwarts when she was born is a skin-crawler, but ultimately not one accompanied by other evidence of mistreatment or manipulation on his part. This is helped by the fact that we never (ever! at all!) see Remus pursue or flirt with Tonks, or give her any encouragement, which means their relationship feels DOA for a lot of readers, but also means that the element of older-man-seduces-younger-woman is nowhere in their relationship. (I think it's WILDLY telling whenever the creep factor of a ship increases tenfold the moment you imagine the dynamics flipped, but that's my thing, whatever.)

(That being said, while I've been trying to humanize/rationalize Remus's decision, he's still responsible for it. He's a grown ass man, and whom he dates is his choice. It doesn't matter if Molly Weasley's being annoying about it. You're 35. Act like a grownup. Don't date 23-year-olds.)

Tonks is a much less thorny case, because she's younger, and the books are more sympathetic to her. Plus, I mean, seriously: if you're a freshly-minted college-age guerrilla soldier in a horribly traumatizing war, probably haven't been on a date in a while, you've Been Busy, and this hot grizzled 30-something with a reading habit and a sensitive side comes around and hangs out a lot and laughs at your jokes, then like — yeah! Girl, I get it!! I am on board with Tonks having a puppy crush on Remus, even though I think it does bad things to her character in HBP, because it could have been a springboard for all sorts of ruminating about age, and power, and "want you" vs. "want to be you," and the social allure of older men, with all the potential for manipulation that opens up. None of that was explored, but that's a problem of execution, not concept.

In conclusion, I like Tonks a lot, and I think she's a pretty realistic rendition of a young woman in her early twenties who, like all young twenty-somethings, is exercising her inalienable right to make stupid-ass decisions and fuck up her love life. I will defend her for that seven days a week. I will not, however, defend the authorial choice to make everyone in her life complicit in that bad decision.

#LEARNED MY LESSON abt tagging so i'm only gonna tag #anti-remus/tonks #anti-tonks #anti-remus #i actually love both of those characters but I'm starting to tag like this for critical posts #so that people who ship won't see it. live and let live etc etc #wolfstar #technically I guess!

[cessmaga]

I can't enjoy halbarry anymore i think

#everything about I have an idea with them is always out of character or bad #now I can't enjoy them properly #and I'm really guilty for liking hal #considering he was originally gonna be genderfluid #now I feel like I'm one of those companies who wants to erase lgbt characters so badly #and I hate myself #everything I do sucks #even everything I enjoy sucks #I used to love this ship #now I can't bring myself love it without and guilt and shame around me #but I can't bring to hate this ship #it means alot to me #and it really makes me happy #vent tag #personal vent #vent post #vent

[ashxketchum]

By now you already know what happens when I find A SUPER FUN PICREW!!!

Let's start with TyHil, because always and forever. A cute beach date and if you don't think Tyson would pick a flower that matches his outfit to put in Hilary's hair then you don't know Tyson at all.

Then we have Pokeshipping, Ash and Misty are on a picnic date along with stray kitten who couldn't help but snuggle up to Ash. Gave Misty some freckles for fun, and since couldn't get Ash's trademark Z on his face, added the Pikachu cheeks instead!

Next up is Mimato, Yamato and Mimi are on a stargazing date. Mimi set the dress code for the night as stripes and Yamato followed her instructions to the T.

Then there is Kai with my OC, Charlie, they're having a coz Netflix and Chill date at home. Kai wanted to watch a documentary about the Pyramids and Charlie wanted to watch Legally Blonde, so they played Rock Paper Scissors and he lost.

And finally there's Taiora, Taichi and Sora are on a summer festival date. They both won each other matching stuffed animals from playing shooting games.

And that's about it on my weekly pokedigibey shitposting.

PS: The picrew doesn't allow you to merge two images, that I did separately 😇

#pokedigibey posting #picrew shenanigans #tyhil #pokeshiping #mimato #kaixoc #taiora #only tagging ships and not characters because yeah #i'm anyway gonna put this on the tyhil blog lol #anyway this is one of the best picrews i've ever made

[teaandinanity]

I'm gonna wind up learning CSS entirely against my will because my fucking 'send this shit to the shadow realm I don't want it' skin is NOT blocking a thing I need to kill

my kingdom for a native site blocklist that did not involve learning to code I am too stupid for this

#my first problem was that Firefox didn't wanna show me the tag I needed (the version with no special characters or spaces) #but I solved that with inspect #now I have what I thought I needed but it is not DOING what I need it to DO #so I have plainly done something wrong #although also when I hover over these fucking tags they're not displaying as linked to the parent tag that I blocked #they appear to be directing to themselves rather than the canonical tag they are syn'd to #which like #FUCKING WHYYYYYY #but that may be my actual problem #if I gotta individually block every version of 'OTP Negative' in existence I will do it #but I'm gonna bitch about it the entire fucking time GOD I hate these fuckheads #don't TAG the SHIP if you HATE IT fuck OFF fuck OFF fuck OFFFFFFF #and it's posted on anon so I can't even mute them #so I am just sitting here consumed with righteous rage and the desire to drop a complete stranger down a borehole in the Nevada desert #no I don't know if those exist there I just remember that was the suggested spot to stick all the OTHER radioactive waste

[bluehairperson]

I don’t want to start drama but I’ve seen some concerning posts floating around about how distasteful and disappointing it is to see certain creators “support” Dorian and I hate to break it to you guys, but if you’ve ever interacted, shared or created anything regarding The Arcana you are supporting Dorian yourselves.

Being in the fandom alone is supporting Dorian by creating engagement, publicizing the game and being part of the audience they’re trying to target.

And even if you were to delete your whole blog and everything you’ve ever posted to enjoy the original game in private you would still be supporting Dorian by bringing traffic to the app they now own.

The one and only way you have to stop supporting Dorian, if you care about it so much, would be to distance yourself from the series entirely and go join another fandom. Never play the original game ever again and never interact with any fan creation regarding it from now on. 👋

#you're basically saying you dislike people supporting the company by working with it #while you yourself are supporting the company but indirectly by giving visibility to their brand #let's be coherent please #I personally don't care about dorian just like I never cared about nix hydra #but I still like the game so I'm gonna cherry pick whatever I want #and full offence but between this and continuous character and ship discourse you guys are unsufferable lol #you're murdering the fandom from the inside by being toxic af and finding the most bullshit excuses to attack artists for shit #that doesn't matter and then you turn around and whine and wonder why the fandom is dying and no one is posting anything new anymore #like MMMMMMMMMNHHHHHHH 🤔🤔🤔 #it's a mystery I wonder why #mentioning this because I also saw some discourse about dorian being awful for supporting quote unquote tOxIc and aBuSiVe ships 😨😨😨😨 #with the most basic and vanilla couple I've ever seen here #like nix hydra was never great either but I've never ever seen posts claiming that if you support them you must be an awful person #what changed exactly? #it sounds to me that you guys are just really bitter that the new quote unquote canon content is... not super good so you're trying to #vent your frustration in any way you can #which means attacking independent artists who use the platform because it's easier to reach and demolish them rather than the company itself #I log on here to recharge after a day of work and all I see is people acting like twelve year olds trying to be mean like bruh #it's literally the hom3stuck 2 fandom situation I called it #tagging this as discourse so you can blacklist it if you don't wanna be annoyed #discourse #the arcana #dorian era #not art

[waitingforsecretsouls]

So, uhh. The Sauron & Maedhros pitch pt.1, the comedic edition.

#yes I'm gonna inflict it upon the tags #silm #Maedhros #Sauron #just to be clear the goofy and pathethic one is Sauron obviously :) #pretty sure I rambled about it under one post or the other already but they do have a lot of potential #both in the comedic sense bc Sauron is just...ridiculous even if he's evil #but if one want to go the darker 'they make each other worse' route that also #idk obviously Maedhros is a better person and all but there is plenty of room for similarities between them #it is not easy to find some way to force them to interact that doesn't upend the entire plot or feels like character assassination #particularly towards Maedhros #but I like doing it #the whole 'beware what you start shipping as a joke' etc. #not that they would have anything resembling a normal relationship #obviously the moral divide is pretty significant but if you either break Maedhros down enough or get them in an environment where it doesn't #really matter such as potential divergence where both end up going to Valinor after the War of Wrath or smng #there's a chance they would get along ! (<-- delusional) #Leaving potentials aside I do feel they would conceptualize what being a leader or having power means pretty similarly #I also love the theory about Maedhros possibly being the one who introduced 'Sauron' as the most prominent name for him #both bc it mirrors Feanor naming Morgoth and bc his impact remaining in that at least until the end

[dailyfigures]

What do you think of figurama figures?? I know they’re supposed to be cool and big but I think they aren’t painted very well—a lot of them (the lupin iii one specifically) look kind of dirty? And not in a good way. Have you posted any before?

you mean this one? no i haven't posted any, resin/polystone statue companies usually put a lot of logos on their promo pics which is fair but doesn't look great as a figure post imo.

i get that! i'm generally not a resin/polystone statue person at all so i don't really look at them and i honestly don't love the "look" that most statues have (unsure what it is, they just look different from pvc figs). i do definitely understand their appeal, it's just not for me!

#gonna ramble in the tags cause i don't wanna make this post annoyingly long. so i'll make the tags annoyingly long heehee #reasons why i don't buy statues 1. they're massive i don't have that kinda space 2. they're heavy my detolfs would collapse #3. they're heavy my wallet would collapse (shipping costs....) 4. small pieces often break during shipping based on unboxing vids i've seen #5. they're very expensive 6. the market isn't THAT big so they would be very hard to sell in the future #ok that's all. again this is no hate i really do see the appeal trust me.....i very seriously debated spending €900 on a dabi resin statue #oh also your comment about their paint jobs. i'm unsure tbh like i said i don't love the Statue Look in general so it's kinda hard to tell #i think their shading looks muddy sometimes but also sometimes their colouring looks flat. idk how those coexist but they do #one of the few characters they did whose face i'm very familiar with is black lagoon revy and i don't think they got the face right sorry... #then again no one fucking does. they really never do. but it would've been nice if they did this time #ok that's all <3 sorry for writing an essay #ask #anon #non figure