#tell me if I forgot something

[toaverse]

So, which animated Disney project are you most excited for?😁

#tell me if I forgot something #strange world #elemental #pixar elio #elio #win or lose #iwaju #d23 2022 #d23 #d23expo #inside out 2 #wish 2023

[qqchurch]

you know you're in a cishet male gamer discord when you see stuff like this without pushback in comment to people being mad or baffled by a gacha girl having a complete joke of proportions 🫡🫡🫡

#definitely shouldn't check servers im in just after waking up cause i forgot how much of a cognitohazard they are now #between this server having 'progressive but not TOO progressive' gamers (aka dont be an annoying queer) #and the other having ppl way too casually racist #it really is something to see servers i joined years ago just shifting rightward and no one else finds it weird #basically a ghost now in those places because damn #and dont tell me i should speak up because wtf am i supposed to do if im literally the only person that would comment on this #qq posts

[sunnibits]

#pls do tell me if I forgot something important I made this on a whim #and mostly based on my own interests lmao #sunny polls

[elyserie]

Fate's Refusal to Honour (or at least properly research) Depictions of Non-Japanese Figures 2: Electric Bogaloo ft. Wandjina from the Current JP Summer Event

Disclaimer: While I am an Australian, I am NOT of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. Therefore, I am coming at this issue from an outsider's perspective. If there is an Aboriginal person, or more specifically of the Mowanjum people from the Kimberly regions, please PLEASE correct me if I am wrong on any front.

The culprit behind the events of the current Summer story in the JP servers has recently been revealed to be Wandjina, a creator Dreamtime figure from the Mowanjum people's culture.

In any other context, I would be thrilled to have an Australian figure in FGO, but the problem here is the figure they use.

Wandjina are sacred to the Mowanjum people, and therefore one needs to go through Aboriginal Law to obtain the right to use the Wandjina's image.

In Australia, this resulted in an actual conflict between a non-indigenous artist and aboriginals. You can read more here, but one quote to note is from an Aboriginal man of the Darug people, Chris Tobin: "Aboriginal law is very specific on what you can and can't do with wan[d]jinas." Another quote on this topic is made by the owner of an Aboriginal art gallery, Adrian Newstead: "Only a few Aboriginal artists ever win the right to depict wan[d]jina, and only then after years of initiations and ceremonies..."

I am NOT attaching an image of FGO's iteration of Wandjina due to this. Not only is her appearance only Aboriginal on a surface-level with her 'dot art' aesthetic (dot art* is only a recent addition to Aboriginal culture, created back in the 1970s), having no resemblance to an Aboriginal person (note, that while many Aboriginal people are white/pale, FGO continually chooses to depict people of colour as light skinned as possible. And yes, I know she's blue, not white. There is literally no records of her being blue skinned; is this because Wandjina's are associated with rain????) but she is also not very Wandjina looking? These figures do not have mouths, have large eyes meant to resemble the eye of a storm and are typically depicted with elaborate headdresses. That little glowing boomerang on her head is not exactly elaborate. And WHY does she have a boomerang??? Because she's Australian???? By that logic, every Japanese figure needs to have a katana. #GiveMurasakiaKatana2023.

There is also the issue of Cnoc na Riabh. While it is funny to think that she's a foreigner because of an Australian influence, Yaraan-doo is also another Aboriginal figure. And it is slapped onto a white girl for a fan service event. I'd just rather Fate leave Aboriginal culture alone and just do, like, Ned Kelly or something if they're going to continue like this.

More resources and info under the read more!

You'll have noted in the quotes that I've edited an 'n' into wanjinas. This is so I didn't confuse anyone: both can be the correct spelling! I just stuck to what I thought FGO was using for their Wandjina.

Here's an overview of what wandjinas are and their inappropriate use in art: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/what-are-wandjinas

Here's another page about an inappropriate use of Wandjinas (note: it's only a short synopsis about a documentary that covered the incident, I'm uncertain if you would be able to get access to the documentary outside of Australia): https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/who-paintin-dis-wandjina

It should also be noted that the two websites I've linked above are from the website Creative Spirits. While it is run by a non-Indigenous person, the person behind it is currently transitioning it to be an Aboriginal owned and run resource. You can read more about how this site is run in his About page.

*If you want to know about dot art's origin, here and here are some resources on them. However, this article brings up something interesting that I would like to bring back to FGO Wandjina's dot art aesthetic. It notes that "the term 'dot painting' stems from what the Western eye sees when faced with contemporary Aboriginal acrylic paintings" (emphasis mine). All three articles note that dots were used to obfuscate sacred symbols and artifacts so that those who were not initiated into their cultures could not see what these figures were. In that case, what the hell is the dot art seen on Fate's Wandjina supposed to represent? In this article, it talks about the symbolism in Indigenous art. Fate's Wandjina has none.

#fgo #fate grand order #fate #fate wandjina #fgo wandjina #no one tell me if she turns out to be an alien or something because that a whole other can of worms #*sobbing* neither of my parents are even Australian I have very little exposure to Aboriginal cultures #and I take after my father so I am very white I hope making this post I was respectful? aaaaaaaaaaaaa #I got way too into making this post I forgot to take my shower and now its bedtime whoops #anyway when will nasu's sinful hands stop #own ramblings

[kelocitta]

Day 2: Submerged Superstructure A shuddering breath from failing systems

#rainworld #rw art month #gee rivulet how come you get to crawl through two dying bodies of gods #i forgot what todays actual prompt is please tell me its something on dry land #rain world #rwartmonth

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

conviction

#hey! he doesnt have a hole in his face this time #if u know which painting this is based on please tell me actually i forgot the name #but its one of them like the apostle thomas doubting christs resurrection ones #anyways. yjh doubting kdj has truly returned. something something kdj instilling this intense faith in #everyone around him yet still leaving them in disbelief when he returns #slay! #orv #omniscient reader #omniscient readers viewpoint #kdj #kim dokja #yjh #yoo joonghyuk #joongdok #dokhyuk #eyestrain #cw eyestrain #tw eyestrain #bard draws

[zarla-s]

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

[patreon]

#pokemon #z art #radic #callima #parasect #man i haven't drawn a parasect in ages i forgot how fun it is #my crabshroom babies #i always get tempted to just delete all the links to my old art but people always tell me not to #they like seeing it?? which always baffles me but i'm trying to accept that there's something worthwhile about them lol #radic is blind so he's not using the switch he's just holding it #maybe for red? idk #there was this odd stretch where i was using dot eyes #then switched to big anime eyes #then smaller anime eyes #then back to dots again #time is a circle... #i also used to use ^_^ CONSTANTLY #thus the ^_^ by old radic there #i've seen a lot of old web trends get revived but not hit awards/kiribans #for some reason #hit counters sure webring sure affiliates sure awards and adoptables sure #but celebratory things for reaching a hit marker? haven't seen a lot of those lately

[apprentice-s]

and somewhere else lance is screaming, begging this stubborn, horrible fighter pilot to stay.

#voltron #lance mcclain #keith kogane #klance #vld #vld keith #vld lance #c-t art only #and keith looks at him with a challenge i dare you dare me to stay tell me to stay. #neither of them say much of anything at all. #bom Keith is something that can be so personal #if someone else wants to do the Keith pov companion piece you’re welcome to #(let me know I will very very happily link it ) #anyway I think #they both have many many feelings #and it’s a delight going through them all #happy birthday lance! almost forgot

[achillesdaily]

DAY #11

>posting Achilles until he arrives at my doorstep.

you don't have much in common, do you

#hello from halo head #i had a cooler caption but forgot what it was #something something duality and reflection #i dont draw humans much. can you tell? #btw i had to google that. some turn of phrases make me feel like achilles #you're jumping out of your skin? don't do that please.

[teddytheartist]

Harley Keener is a Hot headed protective bitch and Peter Parker should’ve seen this coming a mile away

Or that one time that Peter was hanging out with Harley in the busy NYC streets when a drunk man decided it was the best idea to slap Pete’s ass and holler at him right in front of Harley(‘s salad)

Cue the immediate fight that ensued between drunkman and southern boy that eventually Peter had to step into (bcs he’s Spider-Man goddamit) that landed them in jail within less than 30 minutes.

Harley think’s Peter looks really cute all scuffled up and Peter is having like 6 different panic attacks about the irony of being Spider-Man and being IN JAIL.

Don’t worry guys Iron Dad DOES bail them out (more like collects his cute blackmail material)(you know just in case they set the lab on fire … Again.)

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Fell right into the hype of the Barbie meme, in my defence I fucking love them aaaaa

(Pls if u have a better idea for a story inspired by my art feel free to write it out or watevs, just mention or tag me so I can see!! It’s cool!!)

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My art insta 🥸👍

#peter parker #parkner #peter parker x harley keener #harley keener #harley keener x peter parker #spiderman fanart #mcu fanart #fanart #art #istg this pairing is gunna be the death of me #after Spiderverse no one can tell me they’re not canon in some universe #barbie ship prompt #barbie ship meme #Barbie #ship meme #art meme #also pls ignore my halfassed attempts at writing something coherent for this #i just wanted Harley to look punched ngl hhjahj #forgot Harleys Frekles AGAIN #sheeesh bruh

[courtney-deserved-better]

the mkulia alliance IS in character

ive heard a lot of people, some of them mkulia shippers, saying that while the evil lesbian alliance is great to watch, it isn't in character for mk and julia. however, i believe it is, and i believe it's still consistent from last season, and this is why:

facades

mk and julia were both hiding under facades in the beginning of sesaon one. mk was downplaying her skills to fly under the radar, and julia was posing as a chill influencer both to maintain her online image and not make herself a threat. these two facades had their advantages, but also their downsides. mk's contributions, specifically in the skull challenge, went unnoticed by her team, while julia had to completely hide her true personality. mk expresses frustration at everyone thinking she hadn't done anything when she got her team the win, and julia later goes on to say that it's exhausting to pretend to like yoga and whatnot. for most of the time they interact in season one, mk and julia are not behaving like their true selves.

animosity

did mk and julia have a rivalry once julia's true self was revealed? yes. did it result in mk's elimination? also yes. was mk the one to instigate that rivalry by posting the video of julia's true self? absolutely. and while they definitely had beef while this was going down, in the end, it was better for both of them. julia says that it's freeing to get to be her true self, and she even gains followers from it. the consequences of being her full nasty self don't catch up with her for a while after mk's elimination, and the worst thing that happens is julia too gets eliminated. as for mk, julia revealing that she watched everyone's confessionals means that while mk can't fly under the radar as much as she previously had, she gets to be recognized for her brains and sneakiness. because of their initial rivalry, mk and julia don't have to keep hiding their true selves.

necessity

julia and mk are both smart enough to know that in order to survive on their team, they NEED an alliance to counter the bowie-raj-wayne voting power. and seeing as scary girl was the first boot, and chase and ripper are chase and ripper, it makes sense that they would gravitate toward one another. especially with their underhanded playing styles, and especially being the only girls on the team. julia and bowie did not like each other in season one, and they still teamed up to counter the priya-millie alliance. julia has already proven to be willing to team up with people she doesn't like in order to stay in the game.

friendship

they became enemies in the first season, but after the passage of time, a necessary alliance, and most importantly, the shedding of their facades, it's reasonable that they could become friends. mk only got to interact with the real julia for an episode's worth of time, and julia never really got to see the real mk. now, she's watching mk steal an intern's uniform, sneak into production meetings, stash cheating supplies, and get the challenge answers from computers. julia is seeing a whole new side of mk, and as someone who appreciates vicious, strategic competitors like herself, i can absolutely see julia growing to like the real mk. and mk doesn't have to hide her true self from her team anymore, as she can be very upfront about cheating.

despite her rivalry with bowie, julia also had moments when she enjoyed being in an alliance with him (talking in the confessional about how they both thought they would be in the final after priya and millie were supposedly dead via avalanche) and trusted that he had her back (not thinking that he would double cross her and vote for her instead of millie even though it was the smarter move for him). i think it would make sense for julia to enjoy an alliance with mk and admire her clever thinking.

as for mk, yes, julia got her booted last season, but mk instigated that by exposing the real julia, and i think she's aware of that. i also think that even though she was the first person to see the real julia, mk still didn't understand that she wasn't just a mean girl with an influencer persona, she's a force to be reckoned with. julia loses it for her team in the episode mk is eliminated in, so mk doesn't get to see julia doing great in other challenges before her own screentime is over. i believe mk underestimated julia when she exposed her.

seeing as emma was able to watch the episode where she thought chase was performing an act of love for her when it was really just for pizza, it's completely reasonable for mk and julia to watch or at least know of each other's actions in the last season that they didn't get to witness in person. their first direct interaction is complimenting each other's moves/style, meaning that they have a greater understanding of how the other girl operates than they did last season.

because of how they play/interact with others, mk and julia don't have many friends. the closest thing julia has is bowie, who's more like her rival, while everyone else knows she's mean and doesn't like her. meanwhile nobody on mk's team would like her after she stole their stuff, and nobody else would like her for secretly watching their "private" confessionals. it makes sense to me that not only would they latch onto the other girl out of necessity, but because they're someone who can actually appreciate their play style and not turn against them because of it. not to mention mk can finally hang out with someone who likes her sarcasm for a change.

and while mk and julia definitely act like they have a romance plot in the future (and god i hope they do), i don't think their interactions together are very out of character even though they're praising one another and enjoying each other's company. julia is still mean and enjoys people getting hurt, mk is still devious and has no qualms about cheating, they just get to scheme and sabotage with someone by their side now. and while this development was unexpected even for a lot of us mkulia shippers, it is hardly unwelcome, and to me, hardly illogical. thank you for coming to my td talk.

#td spoilers #td mk #td julia #mkulia #please tell me this makes sense i wrote it right before i went to bed #thats a 1075 word analysis post babey #i will definitely wake up tomorrow and realize i forgot something #also i will be both delighted and disappointed if im the first person to make a thank you for coming to my td talk joke

[thebluespacecow]

Yeah, sure, dude snarls and scowls, bares his teeth. But he's still holding your hand while you try and find your snacks at midnight in the corner store closest to your apartment. He still half listens when you mutter something or the other about how you're pretty certain you saw them on a diffrent shelf, or a diffrent corner store entierly. It dosn't matter, he still wadles with you to the next, mumbling under his breath about how you'll catch a cold for forgetting your coat. He gives you his because you pout.

The cold nips at his cheeks, he's still bleary eyed and he thinks he'll kill whoever took the photo of him and his bed tousled hair. But you do a little spin, grinning with the ease of someone who's loopy, when whatever you were unable to sleep about is finaly in your hands, paid for. The street lamp makes you look golden, it ultametly makes up for the fact that he'll wake up late for work tomorrow.

#i should be asleep #literaly #it's 4 am #but! #i had to get this out of me before i forgot #exuse my grammer #it's late and i only lerned like a minute ago how to spell certain #bakugou katsuki #bakugou katsuki x reader #katsuki bakugo x reader #bnha #bnha x reader #mha #mha x reader #blurb #short simething #idk what this is #ap writes #ap rambles #can you tell i'm craving something #and not just the intamicy and love #but like #a snack perhaps?

[volivolition]

with kisses like these, who needs magnesium?

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #disco elysium skills #de skills #de volition #de electrochemistry #skillship #skillshipping #volition #electrochemistry #volistry #voliart #GET LOVED. IDIOT!! GET KISSED!! comic ive been procrastinating on the last panel on and got it all done tonight hkjg #i love the morale counter telling on volition. i use this so fucking often in my fics hkgh volition voice ''Of course I'm not sad.'' #[DAMAGED MORALE -1] echem voice ''mmhm right. anyway do you want me to hug you and remind you of good things about the world?'' #things i think about often. kisses for volition. and making him lose his cool. luckily! these things often go hand in hand!! :] #ough. my idiot knight guy who i cherish. and echem my lovely silly guy!! i love drawing him smug #i feel like i was supposed to say something in the tags but i!! forgot!! so oh well!! peace out gang

[satansleftnutcheek]

Starting to think that the key to being a staple “must watch” anime is to trick people into learning philosophy cause we’ve got:

Evangelion - come for the mecha fights stay to learn about the “self”, reality, and identity

Cowboy Bebop - come for the space cowboys stay to learn about what it truly means to live and to be alive

Trigun - come for the silly main character and cool fights stay to learn about pacifism, forgiveness, the sanctity of life, and the strength of hope

Fullmetal Alchemist - come for the cool science “magic” stay to learn about Plato, what is truth, and how to live a good life

#this is the TLDR surface level but you get what I mean #they put something in the water in the 90s that’s all I’m saying #I can’t watch normal shows again like nothing will ever be this good #I watched Trigun because stampede was all over my twitter feed #now I’m obsessed with a Bible fanfiction #I watched cowboy bebop bc it’s one of those staple must watch animes #now I can’t stop trying to figure out what the show is trying to tell me #I also watched evangelion because it’s a staple must watch anime #now I’m watching I wisecrack video on it #wish I never watched these shows they’ve raised my standards and nothing can satisfy me anymore #that is a light hearted comment btw #somebody put something in the water again I want more stories like this #anime #90 anime #cowboy bebop #Trigun #Trigun stampede #Trigun maximum #evangelion #almost forgot about FMA #totally didn’t at it in post shhhh #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemsit brotherhood #FMA #FMA brotherhood

[bruhstation]

Now that the co-workers have all spilled tea, what does Captain Zero think about his gaggle of idiots they call the Z stacks?

as zebedee puts it; could've been worse!

#asks #firecooking #this is tugs #tugs captain zero #tugs zorran #tugs zebedee #tugs zak #tugs zug #tugs zip #fortezza bigg city #senjart #here he is. the man himself. the head honcho. the guy who's most likely to strain his throat from all that shouting #if you squint you can see the way zero views his employees. especially zip. not to mention hes the youngest of the bunch #''hmmm yes I shall use this boy and how he forgot his childhood for my company. surely nothing can go wrong or has sinister implications'' #zip: ''captain zero is sooooo cool. he calls me boy :] he lets me drive a boat and do my silly evil works'' #FYI captain zero's not evil per se He just has a very skewed perspective on relationships and morals and priorities #he does care for zip (the Boy) and zorran and the others but he's not very good nor putting much effort into being a genuinely warm person #something something necessary evil #hard to explain in the tags. I'll tell more about him when I draw his full official OFFICIAL DESIGN #can't wait to get more into his character. and captain star's too. ohhhhhh man this is gonna be wild #average tuesday for bruhstation's characters

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

Remember the live action Justice League movie that came out a few years ago? Earlier today i had a dream about what was essentially a sequel movie, where everyone in the live action DCU get together to stop the big bad yadda yadda. And SOMEHOW they managed to get Ryan Reynolds to reprise his role as Green Lantern. Like no reboot. Its straight up that same Green Lantern from the 2011 movie i have only one memory of and im pretty sure was a flop. But heres when it gets funny. Every scene with him in it was filmed like Deadpool. His first appearance involved him running from the cameras screaming that he'd never wear the CGI suit again. He keeps breaking the fourth wall to absolutely roast himself and the other characters (*cough* Batman *cough*) and most importantly the crew. The first time they all suit up he cycles through a ton of super suits Scooby Doo unmasking reveal style until its something that passes for a GL suit. The JL are beyond done with him but they can't break the fourth wall like he can so they can't physically stop the Ryan Reynolds shenaniganery. The rest of the movie is broody and serious this is JUST every Hal Jordan scene

#hinacu dc #dcu #justice league #ryan reynolds #hal jordan #green lantern #deadpool #green lantern 2011 #justice league 2017 #hal: pulls a deadpool mask out of his bag* hal: NO wrong movie #arthur: why is he even here? hal: i would also like the answer to that question #OMG I FORGOT he would make a furry joke HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD #hal: wtf is robin? bruce: what? hal: ah i see. the producers are too much of a coward to tell a proper batman story #remember that end credit scene in deadpool 2 where he stops GL from ever filming? well we see it again but this time Hal hits Wade on #the head from behind. and then he says something #felt like using proper formating today please forgive me