#look i know i am not objective

[kal-down]

I get what youre saying about mafia, but fiction is fiction, and sometimes tropes and settings are used just for simple enjoyment without caring about the real world implications.

Milions of people have died in wars, middle ages or not, yet each fantasy story has them, because its good to read about it - in fiction. Its fun and full of anticipation and building tenstion.

Mafia has become just that, a romantised version far from the original. As long as we keep in mind that its different, I don't see problem with enjoying stories like that, to certain extent.

Fiction may be fiction, but it has responsibilities too. In this case, how mafia has consistently being portrayed in media has heavily influenced how it is perceived. Wars have been and will be used as a narrative source of drama/tension, but people know wars are horrible and plenty of books/movies show how horrible wars are.

In the case of mafia, there is so much content romanticised and glorifying it while not nearly enough to show the reality of things. Also, war is universal. Mafia is more specific to a country, so having non Italian people writing about Italian mafia knowing nothing about it and making it seem so cool is... well.

Do I aknowledge how the idealised/romanticised portrayal of mafia in fiction is just a trope often used for enjoyment purposes? Yes. But it doesn't make it less problematic. And, aside of making my skin crawl, seeing mafia being romanticised as an italian feels vile. Don't get me started on the mafia romance stories.

#look i know i am not objective #but i don't really want to be #the fact alone that mafia au is a thing...

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

he is just. so shaped. so so so So shaped.

#im Attempting some new tactics #it doesnt really show! but i am! #starting to fuck around w/ watercolor brushes... #holding him up like a little bee and saying I Just Think He's Neat! #< i jest! i think much much more about him #that i cannot share without devolving into an incoherent mess! #so. i just think he's neat :]c #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #frank frankly #im also trying... to do... (dramatic thunderclap) BACKGROUNDS #i know i know. very scary. they're still very messy #but... i like objects? i like Things? i like to look at a page and see put together clutter! #maximalism babey! #which is deadly when you're an artist methinks. but. whats one more agony added onto the rest! #it will be a while until i figure out how to Accomplish that put-together clutter.... #im still bad at colors! im trying to swim before i can walk! Yikes!

[lizardmagus]

working on the rest of the gang. changeling and rat prophet still on the list

#pathologic #I know. I'm gonna post the actual objects later and it's gonna get 2 notes. but I am going to post these anyway. look at them #as usual probably some edits before I'm really done but yknow

[moonkhao]

Since you’re studying Fine Arts, you’ll paint on this canvas. I’ve drafted some wording here.

WE ARE | EP8

#we are the series #weareedit #phuwin tangsakyuen #poon mitpakdee #aou thanaboon #winny thanawin #marc natarit #peem #pun #chain #tan #Q #my edits #THEY ARE SO STUPID <3 #me: almost always makes my colorings from scratch #my gifs: look like 8765678 different people made them <3 #i hate not being able to find the coloring™ for any show lol #i always find things i would like to improve or change 😩 #i would love to have a style™ like some fellow gifmakers who i am able to IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE BY THEIR COLORING AND SHARPENING ALONE 🥺 #also this is not me fishing for compliments jdjdskdkd #i just have a certain gifstyle in mind that i’m barely ever able to achieve #and i’m very hard on my self because of it 😅🙈 #like i know my gifs aren’t objectively bad #they just don’t look they way i want them to look and i’m being a little bitch about it lol

[bonefall]

Does leopard still have 3 lives in her final battle? Or was that changed?

Yep. I think she drowned her once, then Leopardstar lunges up refreshed, and she gets the upper paw on Mistyfoot with 2 lives to go.

(MAYBE tw gore, but I really did try to be tasteful about a head being smashed on a rock.)

On her back, splashing and thrashing furiously against Leopardstar's claws dunking her head under, Mistyfoot glimpses a wave breaking just over the tip of a stone-blue rock. Her only chance.

With a surge of power, her claws sink into her leader's golden shoulder and they tumble and roll to the right. Before the tyrant even realizes what's happening, she's yanked up, and then whipped backwards with a wet CRUNCH

And then again

And again

And again, until Mistyfoot can't even make out what's left of her leader anymore. All she can see is that it's a red, brown, and yellow blur, because her eyes burning with salty tears and her whole body is trembling.

She drops the corpse onto the stone and it slides into the water, lifelessly. After a moment it spasms aimlessly one last time, like an insect does after its head is bitten off, unlike the deliberate, agonized throes of Tigerstar suffering through his doomed lives. And then it's still.

There's only the tranquil sound of bubbling water, and Mistyfoot's frenzied panting. Her pounding heart makes it hard to hear either.

The blood is carried off by the shallow water in scarlet swirls, but the lake runs pale red as if it's washing it away. Some were aware of this prophecy, but Mistyfoot was not.

It isn't closure to her, or a fulfillment of divine decree. It's just blood that should be on her paws, slicked away by the complicit river. She wished it could feel like it's over, but she's smart enough to know the truth. Has been through enough terrible events like this to understand what comes next.

Her body will move foward. Her mind will need to consider her deputy. Her paw will come down on code-defying cats like Blackclaw and Greenflower. But her heart will stay here, next to the remains of Leopardstar, the same way another piece of it remains at Stonefur's side across space and time.

#Tw gore #Juuuust in case but I did try to stay tasteful #While also trying to write it as gut-wrenchingly violent as I imagine in my head #Because it's important that it haunts her #The kill wasn't pretty and clean. It was awful. She didn't want this. It wasn't heroic #'Why did you do this to me? Why did you make this so cruel?' #'Why was the last thing you ever did to me such a horrible command as a leader?' #'And why did I obey your orders until the bitter bitter end?' #'How could you turn my defiance into a new kind of cruel obediance? Did I not suffer ENOUGH for you?' #'And now there is no head to bury with your body. I am cursed with the last memory of your face. I alone will know how you looked at me' #'That the last expression on your face wasn't pain or confusion or realization.' #'It was all fury. For me.' #OF COURSE tho I will continue to make funny rock jokes until the day I die lmaoo #Duality of Bones #Hmm maybe when I get to this in BB!TNP I'll be quick and objective about it and save the Misty Emotions for like... #I miss how the field guides used to have stories told in 1st person. #It would be fun to have a BB!Mistystar Speaks #Because I do LOVE writing Misty's verbose and philosophical speeches. #As you can see from the tags lmao #BB!Mistystar #Better bones au

[bitternace]

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL!!! /POS. ATTACKING YOU.

Xemnas and Xigbar for 37 if that number hasn't been done? If it has, how about 74?

no puedo pedirle lo eterno a un simple mortal // ay, todo lo que he hecho por ti.

[ID: a mostly black and white drawing with a purple overlay of xigbar and xemnas shown from the hip up on the left side of the image. the background is black and has some diagonal lines with a bit of transparency on the right side. the shadows are harsh, with only a bit of light falling on their faces.

they stand before each other turned to the audience. xigbar, holds the handle and the middle of No Name before him, head tilted down as he looks to the audience. xemnas stands a full head taller behind xigbar, his left hand held some distance below the bladed tip of No Name, his left eye is covered by his fringe.

xemnas visible eye is painted ochre with a white pupil, while xigbar's eye is white and gold. The eyes on no name's handle and the gazing eye on the blade are a vibrant cyan. the caption reads the spanish lyrics "i can't ask a simple mortal for a forever" and "oh, everything i've done for you." /End ID.]

close-up under keep reading.

#capisnotonfire #PUTS MY HAND TO MY STERNUM AND FALLS TO THE FLOOR ON MY KNEES /affectionate #warning to whoever might open the link; there's a slightly suggestive several 'ay's at the beginning porque shakira it's also bass heavy #OBJECTIVELY THE FUNNIEST SONG THAT COULD'VE COME UP. it's the gift that keeps on giving!! #this specific remix's been on my top list... several years; top five for a couple. i've loved it forever. top radio edits ever. #it's basically about a guy that makes up excuses to hide he's cheating and a gal that's fed up with his bullshit and is like. okay. bye. #i briefly considered going with............ right now i know my heart is yours <- in regards to i'm already half-xehanort #as per usual not ship art but it would be HILARIOUS if it was. it would've been able to go so many incredibly funny tragic ways #nano does reqs #my doods #xigbar kh #xemnas kh #IT TOOK SO LONG. putting this out there because i WILL lose my marbles if i do anything more. it's not as polished as it could. #fret not if you've asked for a req i am still doing 'em this one just. kicked my ass (been busy). i tried a couple of things and failed #THEN the file corrupted like 9 hours in and i wanted to die a little (thank the heavens my drawing app has a #thing to get back corrupted files through their screen recording) but i GIVE UP (affectionate) #Does this make sense thematically? Fuck if i know. i forgot all lore (half serious). it looked cooler in my head (jesting) #anyways. mwah tysm for the ask<3 #i love posting at mystifying times (i finish at terrible hours and get excited) #described #74

[puppyeared]

i wanna post my skip to loafer art but i cant do it knowing ppl are gonna put it on tiktok and pinterest bc itd be like. bringing an invasive species ykwim

#my meds just kicked in so im feeling talkative but truly idk how to explain it #its like. with anything else id be more than happy to introduce it to ppl like monkie kid and mp100. witch hat maybe but its personal to me #but skip to loafer is special to me. and i feel bad for saying this bc other ppl do deserve to watch smth they will enjoy #hell the reason i got into it was bc my friend was kind enough to lend me her copy and i got hooked #its so ironic im saying this esp given how insecure i am abt depicting characters wrong. but i really dont want to look thru the tags #and see them on a 'can i copy your homework' tier list. or ppl getting mad abt why egashira mitsumi and shima cant just be a throuple #its just!! i wont stop you if thats how you like to engage with the show or how you interpret it bc ill just ignore it and leave u alone!! #and theres no objective wrong way of doing it!! and i know that interacting with the work is what forms a community after all!! #but keeping it tight knit is just easier for me bc nobody has to worry abt making each other laugh and we can enjoy it for what it is #fully aware im saying this as someone whos drawn monkie kid art with text post memes and owl house draw the squad templates #but at the same time i just. dont want to explain myself or give ppl reasons why shima and mitsumi are ace coded just bc it 'feels right' #fandom is a communal thing and it feels so hypocritical thinking this. too many conflictng thoughts that idk what to act on #yapping

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[turtletoria]

a mask of my own face

#turtlearts #dr two brains #scopophobia #body horror #sharp objects #let me know if theres anything else that needs tagged! #anyways. thats supposed to be a mirror btw #also i tried so hard to fit a lot of symbolism and random shit into it. i am so willing to pick this drawing apart so if youd like that send #an ask or smth!!!! #for real i sank so many hours into this... it was supposed to be a simple colored sketch lmao #i just kept adding onto it for weeks and weeks. and all for what #looked up so many references and had to learn how to do things and tried out new brushes for this omg #like i need to emphasize that this was so hard to do and for what!!!! a silly little halloween spooky month drawing??!?!?!?!?! #even now when i look at it i hate it so much i want to keep adding things to it #i have to post it NOW or else i will be working on it for the rest of my life #pls give me nice words so i dont regret all the time i sank into this drawing </3 #if u think im fishing for complements and looking all the more pathetic and desperate for it. ur right </3 im sorry

[lilacs-stash]

Huh something seems wrong with my Nickloon

#I haven't watch bfb so I know very little about Balloony I drew this as a bit #How in the world do I tag this #Nickloon #Bdfi nickel #bfb balloony #tpot nickel #bdfi #bfb #tpot #inanimate insanity #I am not trying to cross tag this is a joke based on an ii ship and I straight up don't know how to tag it #look I can draw! Art tag #object posting

[uncanny-tranny]

Yet another thing I didn't expect from crochet: I have stitch markers in my car, my bed, they are even being run through the washing machine because I didn't see them while loading my laundry. I think I'll drown in them

#art #fiber art #crochet #thank gd i bought the three hundred pack because i am leaving TRAILS of them #you know how hansel and gretel left bread trails so they can trace them home? that's me woth stitch markers #you'll know if i have Been Here if there are small and colourful safety pin looking objects suddenly strewn about

[lovecoredeity]

back on my bullshit (drawing stupid picture frames that I won’t end up filling any time soon)

#deity’s doodles #if you aren’t aware I tend to start drawing objects more specifically picture frames when I want to draw but don’t know what to draw/am too #sad to draw shit #lol #it looks tacky but this is by design as the other frames are also in this style

[loquatic]

Still trying to get these designs in order

#inanimate insanity #ii silver spoon #ii candle #ii fanart #I don't draw them as dragons strictly because I find it fun #it's more so out of necessity #I don't know how to draw objects with faces and limbs #they look so dumb when I do #Is it considered gijinka if they're not humans? #made this at 1 am #first image at least #tired. #dragon art #dragons

[waveobjectshow]

WOO THIS ONE TOOK AWHILE

#Loved the color palette but I could not figure out what to do with it #That’s like half the reason this one took forever #I was trying to make it a little less abrasive?? on the eyes #But I loved how it turned out #Been meaning to do this one for a long time too #Yeah!! #object show #object show oc #osc #w.a.v.e #w.a.v.e. object show #osc art #digital art #art #Arcade Machine #AM #Cough also I know it doesn’t actually look like the polybius arcade machine #I just needed a name and I was like #Why not

[kicktwine]

Alphinaud and Alisaie is speedrunning breaking through every single layer ch'ari has, and the poor cat just wanna suffocate them in Every Fashion Possible

FASCINATING: weird feral cat starting to have feelings because some kids had one (1) feeling in his proximity

#critical success. yes they’re going to get pushed down a hill. yes they’re getting hugged. no they didn’t ask to have that happen #none of them did #ch’ari fully forgot thancred’s name for months. ch’ari was frustrated by minfillia. ch’ari was only charmed by yda because she’s goofy #ch’ari didn’t care until he accidentally saw alphinaud get… worried… about something??? #and instead of just appreciating his company as a blunt object looked relieved he was okay? #⚠️ ch’ari will remember this infinitesimal kindness. #he was friends with tataru first and then it all went downhill from there #ask #anon #ffxiv #What was up with that quest where tataru got super worried alphinaud was hurt and then he was fine and it worried me half to death. #for nothing. Ari spent the next few quests surreptitiously sniffing at him to see if he could smell blood or spellwork #dumb kid. he was probably like ?????? stop— please. um #but like. I think the tipping point for him was seeing a scared kid fr #having not encountered it except at a distance he was like OH. I KNOW THAT FEELING. I AM GOING TO STOP THAT FROM OCCURRING. NOW.

[slashermary]

Sharp Objects, 1x06 “Cherry”

#look. this is what happens when a semiretired mary blogger rewatches sharp objects #and the thing is. i am making another one. i expect may four ppl to enjoy this and that's good enough for me! #fucked up mommy issues television i love you! #also i am simplifying things bc well. is trapping yourself in a fantasy world where you can coddle your adult children a form of mbp?? #who knows! but it's fun<3 #mine #dean and mary #caroline.txt