#squad reference

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Draw your characters like this

#3 people #third wheel #enemies #annoyed #smug and angry #yelling #middle finger #middle fingers up #screaming #peace #angry #angry and calm #peace sign #imagine your squad #draw your squad #draw the squad #squad prompt #squad reference #draw your ocs #pose reference #draw the ocs #tag your ocs #imagine your ocs #draw your characters #draw your characters like this #draw your otp like this #draw the otp #draw your ship #otp ideas #otp things

[eggsploded]

cold one open with the crack boys or however it goes

#egg art #homestuck #dont want to see this ever again i painted it twice #she with squad b: people that make me feel normal #squad a (dave and rose): people that make me feel stupid - are too busy to hang #kanaya maryam #karkat vantas #sollux captor #its solkat if youre really desperate #real ones will understand the shirt reference

[ylceon]

talfrost beach episode ......

#my art #arknights #frostnova #talulah artorius #i think yelena freezes the water as soon as she steps on it so talulah offers to carry her!!! #the 'shes so light' thing actually references that piece of dialogue abt her arts draining her body n stuff... #to this i say .... yeti squad sneaks more food to her meals #so when she looks away and looks back shes like .... i couldve sworn i had only a few bites left

[back-in-a-bit]

i'm just imagining what it must have been like being havoc in that hospital room after the Lust fight. like, you've just discovered homunculi exist and that your ex(?) girlfriend was one, and then she stabbed you. you're still processing that one because you know in a creeping realisation sort of way that it's Really Bad. meanwhile your CO who also got stabbed but proceeded to Burn Himself Alive in order to save your life, his life and everyone else's lives (by k wording your girlfriend) is in the bed next to yours.

and you're just laying there, listening as your coworker, who's the most steady, level headed person you know, confesses to your CO that she heard he was dead and just. had a complete and utter breakdown. just gave up utterly on life and was ready to let the homunculus kill her dead. because she wasn't willing to go on living if your CO wasn't alive. like, what do you even do with that?

oh yeah, and as you're laying there real quiet pretending you don't exist, your CO's response to this is basically "ok don't do it again." i mean really, what do you even do with that???

#fma #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #roy mustang #jean havoc #riza hawkeye #royai #kind of #all i'm saying is havoc was having a Day my lads #you cannot tell me mustang's squad didn't know what was up between those two when riza's out here spilling the beans in front of poor havoc #she even references it later after havoc and mustang fight and she talks to havoc

[autumnmobile12]

My Hero Academia AU: Ambush Simulation

Aight, storytime:

So awhile back, I was thinking about Episodes 4 & 5 of the anime Soul Eater where the gang is tasked with capturing two villains, the zombie Sid and the guy who resurrected him, Professor Stein.  (There’s also the added stakes that if they fail in this task, they’ll be expelled from school.)  After a somewhat harrowing fight, defeating Sid and losing to Stein, the plot twist is this was never a real fight, Stein and Sid were not villains, and this whole thing was just a test that was orchestrated and sanctioned by the school and definitely skewed more toward hazing than actual education.

And I thought, what if that’s all the Vanguard Action Squad was during the Summer Camp Arc?  Just a test orchestrated by UA that skewed more toward hazing than actual education. (Note:  These are the traditional LoV members, so Muscular, Mustard, and Moonfish are not part of this line-up.) At the very least, that would probably be the meanest ruse Aizawa has pulled. And you can't tell me Principal Nezu wouldn't have been all in for this plan.

"It happened once at the USJ. Despite our precautions, it could happen again. Let's teach them how to prepare...by scaring the absolute shit out of them."

"Ambush Simulation" is playing off my earlier AU comic with Shigaraki being the adopted nephew of All Might and leading a pretty normal life.  The rest of the squad is more or less in the same boat. For context, Touya’s canon divergence is he returned home after the three-year comatose and actually stayed there, but since nothing about that household environment really changed, he’s still an unhinged mess, but that is a whole other kettle of fish best saved for another comic. (Clearly getting a kick out of the prospect of scaring a bunch of kids, including his brother, half to death, though.)  Toga’s home life is rocky at best after ‘the incident,’ but she’s no longer a runaway teen.  Everybody else just kinda fell in with each other.

Their role as a vigilante team was inspired by the series Durarara!, specifically Kadota and his crew for anyone who's familiar. I genuinely forgot the Vigilantes spinoff existed...sigh, it's been awhile and I only recently got back in this fandom. The Vanguard is pretty much living by a 'you're only in trouble if you get caught,' philosophy. (And the nepotism has probably saved all their asses a few times because it doesn't look good for the No. 2 Hero if his eldest son is busted for vigilantism.)

Anyway, there's a few other details that I can't fit in this post, so head over here if you want to read more behind the scenes of making this thing.

#my hero acedamia #touya todoroki #shota aizawa #dabi #boku no hero academia #alternate universe #ambush simulation #comic #my hero academia fanart #autumnmobile12 #league of villains #vanguard action squad #durarara! #reference #bnha #mha #villains #vigilantes #twice #mr compress #magne #toga himiko #spinner #blue fire #soul eater #nostalgia series

[vashtijoy]

terms of address: maruki

I was asked how the squad refer to Maruki, so here goes.

first, the normies

Many of the cast refer to Maruki exclusively as "Dr. Maruki": 丸喜先生 Maruki-sensei. These mentions are universally in kanji.

Ann has 41 of these, and often uses sensei by itself;

Haru has 26 of these, and uses sensei alone a couple of times, during Maruki's Palace;

Makoto has 27 of these. She uses sensei alone quite often;

Yoshizawa has 41 of these total, 14 as Kasumi and 27 as Sumire. She calls Maruki just sensei often.

Noticing anything? Yeah: they're all the girls. These particular characters consistently seem to have relatively colourless and unmarked speech. This may in itself, of course, be a form of marking, since expectations around gendered speech in Japan can be so strong.

the relatively boring

Ren appears to always use "Maruki", apart from one instance very early on when an option, "Ask about the counsellor", includes Maruki-sensei. He also always uses kanji; protagonists don't have to be polite.

He calls Maruki sensei alone once, during his confidant. Kawakami gets it more often, while Takemi gets it constantly.

slightly more edgy

While Futaba always uses "Dr. Maruki", she slurs it a little, making it slangier: 丸喜せんせー Maruki-sensee. She always uses kanji for "Maruki", except in the text chat after he visits Shujin, where she's only heard his name spoken!—which is a cute detail. Occasionally she uses せんせー sensee by itself, which is distinct from her 先生 sensei meaning "a teacher".

Ryuji, again, virtually always makes it "Dr. Maruki", usually Maruki-sensei in kanji; a few mentions very early on, when they're still talking about the new counsellor guy, are just straight "Maruki". Also, in his counselling session, Ryuji almost just calls him that!—ultimately deciding to make it "Dr. Maruki":

Ryuji なあ、丸喜⋯センセーってよ、よく『変わってる』って言われね? naa, maruki... sensee tte yo, yoku "kawatteru" tte iwarene? Hey, Dr. Maru— ah, I mean, Doc. Anyone ever tell you you're kinda… not normal?

The meaning is a little lost in translation here, with Ryuji cutting from the normal form of address to a nickname. Also, in Maruki's Palace, he recognises Maruki on one of the videotapes, and starts off in hiragana before finishing in kanji. It feels a bit as if he isn't initially sure what he's seeing:

Ryuji まるき… 丸喜先生？ maruki... maruki-sensei? Maruki... Dr. Maruki?

He uses sensei by itself a couple of times, far fewer than you might expect; his "Doc" is usually either glossed in, or was originally Maruki-sensei, "Dr. Maruki".

He also uses 大先生 daisensei, "great leader/teacher/artist" etc, as a term of abuse, aimed at palace bosses such as Shido and Madarame. 獅童大先生 shidou-daisensei—"that stuck-up bastard Shido!".

the slightly outlandish...

Morgana overwhelmingly uses katakana for names, and Maruki is no exception. He talks about him a lot, always in katakana, as マルキ Maruki. He never uses any honorifics for him.

He has only one use of kanji, 丸喜 Maruki, in "will you meet with this confidant?" text, around I think rank 5, which looks like it may be a slip.

the strangely polite...

Akechi, of course, fails to grace Maruki with his title of "doctor"; he's just plain "Maruki". The localisation sometimes makes it "Dr. Maruki", but that's a gloss; Akechi never once uses sensei (or any other honorific) about him.

But he uses an honorific to Maruki, once:

That "isn't that right" is ですよね desu yo ne, which might seem startlingly polite for third semester Akechi. In fact, he's rather consistent about his masu forms to Maruki—and only to Maruki—during the third semester.

He has no uses of desu or -masu/-masen, for instance, to anyone else in the third semester. It's actually rather cute, because it makes it clear a number of his lines in the 1/2 and 1/9 Palace are directed not to Ren or Yoshizawa, as it might seem, but to Maruki.

So this looks like a sardonic little aside, and I'm sure there's a lot of that in it—"Maruki-san". But this is also the only time Akechi ever addresses Maruki by name. And since he has all these desu and -masu forms going on around Maruki, then maybe he just calls him Maruki-san, full stop.

Did I mention he's a weird boy?

...and the downright weird

That leaves us with Yusuke, who (as nobody will be surprised to hear) does his own thing that raises some fascinating possibilities.

Yusuke only appears to address Maruki by name once, when they first meet in the courtyard, and as you'd expect, he calls him sensei—丸喜拓人先生 Maruki Takuto-sensei, "You are Dr. Takuto Maruki, correct?".

But every other time Yusuke uses sensei in the script? He's referring not to Maruki, of course, but to his sensei, Madarame. That initial approach to Maruki, stranger to stranger, face to face, is the only time he uses it to anyone else.

So what does Yusuke call Maruki? He calls him 丸喜氏 Maruki-shi.

what is shi

氏 shi is a very formal and exclusively third-person term, usually seen in writing, or heard from newsreaders. It's often translated "Mr X", which can be very odd to hear in media that retains honorifics like -san and -kun; "Mr. Akechi's coming on!" is an example, from 6/10. And Akechi is, in fact, usually mentioned as Akechi-shi on the evening news.

Yusuke's Maruki-shi is universally translated as "Dr. Maruki", as if he'd just said Maruki-sensei like everyone else. Which is a little bit of a shame.

Yusuke also uses shi for one other person—the art patron Kawanabe, in his confidant, before you meet up at the sushi bar. Most of the rest of the time, before and after, Yusuke just calls Kawanabe "Kawanabe" in third-person, with no title; he pulls out a Kawanabe-san at rank 10, after he's won the contest—face to face, of course, since shi is only third-person.

On the other hand, Yusuke never mentions Maruki at all without a title.

the other time yusuke uses sensei

Okay, I lied: Yusuke has one other instance of Maruki-sensei. This, like Morgana's single lapse into kanji, is in prompt text: "Are we going to Maruki's Palace today?" Again, I think this is likely an error.

revision history

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v1.0 (2023/12/29)—first posted.

#persona 5 #p5 meta #p5 reference #japanese language #p5 terms of address #takuto maruki #yusuke kitagawa #goro akechi #ryuji sakamoto #the squad

[r-aindr0p]

More french shitpost scribbles

#twisted wonderland #rollo flamme #rook hunt #the french squad strikes again #twst shitpost #first pic is referring to the most known poem by La Fontaine in France #Poems name is The crow and the fox #religieuse is a dessert name and also means religious person (feminine) #third pic is mostly a reference to the song ’belle’ from the french musical Notre Dame de Paris #does yuu crave a nun or a dessert #nobody will know #personally wanting to chomp on that kouign amann png this stuff is so greasy and sweet and I love it

[zuzusexytiems]

based on the official timeskip designs (everyone's ok and nothing bad happened to them, they all just got haircuts 🥲🙏🏼)

#AOT FRUITY SQUAD YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS #attack on titan #my art #reiner braun #bertholdt hoover #marco bodt #historia reiss #freckles ymir #aot #snk #reference used #background from ibis

[brewed-pangolin]

*steps on stage*

*taps mic*

"Happy International Women's Day. I want to peg Captain MacTavish."

I'm going out tonight, but perhaps I'll try to whip something up later on when I get back

#international women's day #soap squad™️ #soap prez out #the brainrot of Captain MacTavish #this is how you make this man whimper #is this a deadpool reference? #damn right it is #captain soap mactavish #captain mactavish #og soap #09 soap #call of duty #cod #i wanted to do the gradient text but i am le dumb #someone help a non techy sister out here #please

[arguablysomaya]

dick, steph, and duke all working together are the riddler's greatest nightmares. dick is basically the master of every play on words you could think of, duke has wayyy more puzzle experience than a 21st century child should ever have, and steph was literally raised by his understudy 💀💀💀

#he catches sight of a yellow or purple blur and just sighs like 'god fucking dammit. I'm going home.' #jason is an honorary member of the riddler busting squad for his literature knowledge but honestly? #the riddler isn't that well read. so all his classics references are like. 1984 or smth everyone's read #batfam #dcu #shut up somaya #dc universe #batfamily #batman #dc comics #duke thomas #dick grayson #stephanie brown #1k

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Has this one been submitted before? Probably

Draw your squad like this

#submission #xxbig-shotxx #As a matter of fact it has not been submitted yet! #squad #otp #ot3 #third wheel #2 people #comic #dialogue #funny #swimming #drowning #selfie #selfies #3 people #oof #awkward #chaotic #friends #enemies #reluctant allies #this aint about him #imagine your squad #draw your squad #draw the squad #squad prompt #squad reference #draw your ocs #pose reference

[character-reference-cafe]

Sword Smith Village Design Shinazugawa Genya Character Sheet

(He looks considerably less scary than the older character sheet)

#SSV Shinazugawa Genya Character Sheet #kny character sheets #kamaboko squad #kimetsu no yaiba reference #demon slayer reference #demon slayer #kny #kimetsu no yaiba #shinazugawa #Genya #Shinazugawa Genya #Genya Shinazugawa #kny genya #kny Shinazugawa #kny shinazugawa genya #kny genya shinazugawa #demon slayer genya shinazugawa #demon slayer shinazugawa genya #demon slayer genya #demon slayer shinazugawa #kimetsu genya #kimetsu shinazugawa #kimetsu Shinazugawa genya #kimetsu Genya Shinazugawa #sword Smith village #swordsmith village arc #swordsmith village

[croxovergoddess]

Woop Woop! I still don't know what to call this lol

A page of random poses for anyone to use for free! 15 pose reference doodles!

Have fun!

ko-fi + patreon + twitter

#draw the squad #references #doodles #fun #whatever lol

[grandkhan221b]

Rewatching TCW means obligatory @meridiansdominoes ' Dominoes fic reread ! I drew a little underrated moment from Chapter 39. My man really needed that hug

#star wars #fanart #dominoes #my art #the clone wars #domino squad #fives #anakin skywalker #fanfiction fanart #tcw #this was a struggle to draw I could not find a good reference for the hug angle I wanted #star wars fanart

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form! #anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

[shiraishi--kanade]

Listen. Listen. I know Kashika is first and foremost an Akito song. I know. I respect that.

However not for a moment since the second the 2dmv came out I could stop thinking about the fact that An is the only VBS member to not cover her face and instead place her hands on her neck.

#an shiraishi #project sekai #prsk #vivid bad squad #jay's character analysis #jay rambles.txt #this is a reach and if there is a symbolic meaning I suppose it might refer much more to #the fact that An is currently the only one most insecure in her singing and has been for a long time #but I just thought it was neat