#themed asks

[bishoukun]

🌊 for the Naruto ask game.

Th-there as an anon in my askbox?!

I may or may not have actually jumped in shock.

And then spent the next several hours writing expositions to mentally process the fact that I got an ask.

🌊 favorite story arc (and why)?

WHY DID YOU GIVE ME SUCH A HARD ONE?

My answer (all of our answers, actually) changed over the years, for sure. While I still think Shika vs Hidan is one of the most incredibly well-done arcs of the series, I have hindsight now that I didn't used to.

Now? I cannot stop returning to the three of the first arcs, the Naruto Bridge, the Chuunin Exams, and the Sasuke Retrieval. Haku, Zabuza, understanding each of them more than I ever thought I would, understanding who Zabuza was trying to kill and why, AGREEING with his goal, realizing that Haku was officially a Kirinin as well, seeing their dynamic in a whole different way. (and yes, still hard shipping them.)

Gaara. I haven't updated our carrd page yet, but uh, yeah. Obvious reasons for loving him are obvious. But even just as a character, he's always been high on the favorite list. Neji. The wonderful asshole genius I want to punch hug at the same time. (I did a breakdown to some friends once about the single panel of all the Jounin stopping him at once and the significance of who did what where.) LEE.

Now, put the three of them together.

Gaara and Lee's dynamic and relationship, the way their interactions change each other so drastically, and then how Lee being the most sweet precious cinnamon roll basically secured Gaara's stability. (Also the fact that we get to see him use his kekkei genkai here when we don't anywhere else, and when it happened nobody knew it was a fucking kekkei genkai he was using with his sand!)

Neji and Lee's relationship changes so drastically. I have something I'm writing with my writing partner that goes through the full transition of Neji and Lee fighting outright to beginning to realize what's at risk for Lee and that he understands him more than he would previously admit. Both of them are based heavily in a martial art culture that none of the other characters outside of Gai adhere very strongly to, so when others are telling Lee to stop trying to train, Neji gets pissed off. We see how much he's processed his trauma and how it's no longer holding him back, he's not a tiny whirlwind of anger and fear anymore.

And then there's Kakashi.

I could go on for hours and hours and hours about this man. The amount of personal growth and recovery we see is astounding, and terribly subtle. This is another area where hindsight makes me appreciate what he goes through in these arcs even more.

To know how much all three of Team 7 resembled his own, to know everything Naruto doesn't understand about his own situation and not be allowed to say a thing - because it would probably get him removed from the team, and he has his priorities in the right places, to know he is directly tied to both boys of the team through one's father and the other's brother having been student to one and mentor to the other, to be in a state of complex and complicated emotions in regards to the one man easily responsible for doing the most harm to himself and the only child of his teacher as he goes from being streamlined for war to being the village grandfather to everyone except Asuma as the village finally secures peace and has what he believes is necessary for his own teacher's and Hashirama's dreams to be reality. What a fucking transition, even if he's still far from perfect. Even if it took Asuma playing the "I'm literally your son, so fucking listen to me" card to get Kakashi out of ANBU and then kept him off S-Rank and likely off most A-Rank for years, to the village at large he was a very different influence. He's clearly conflicted when Hiruzen dies.

And that's only a small facet of the complex ball of anger and anguish that is Hatake Kakashi.

I could go on, and on, and on, about four of the aforementioned (Kakashi, Haku, Gaara, Neji), indefinitely. I have a deep love for them and the relationships they have, all of the complexities and intricacies, in-depth analysis. I write for all four of them, among other characters, such as my blond namesake.

But this has taken me, uh, ten... hours... (admittedly with a four hour break, but still).

It's now 8pm and I need some pain meds and lying down time.

Thank you, anon. This really, really made my week.

#Anonymous #anon #themed asks

[animezinglife]

Bubblegum?

bubblegum— how do you feel about your love life right now? are you happy with it?

It's not an upbeat answer, but no, I'm not happy when it comes to my love life. Truthfully, I'm miserable to the point it's dangerous. I don't really want to bring the mood down by going further into it than that.

Pink-Themed Asks

#answered #pink-themed asks #asks #ask me stuff #themed asks

[panthermouthh]

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

#frankenstein #mary shelley #gothic literature #monster #gothic lit #gothic art #illustration #my art #Alternative caption: he asked for no pickles >:( #I wanted to get a more clear lightning theme in here but eh I think it turned out well enough #victors face says: yes I made this abomination against nature. and what? #ok enough of them getting along time to return to the insanity and violence

[lucidloving]

@inanotherunivrse // You're On Your Own, Kid— Taylor Swift // @inkskinned // Richard Siken, Crush // @lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223 // Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World // Zoe Heller, "Everything You Know" // Atticus

#theme: someone should have helped me #please ask me if i'm okay #and stick around if the answer is no #web weaving #webs #poetry #aesthetic #art #prose #prose poetry #song lyrics #collage #literature #books #book quotes #novels #novel quotes #words

[theoldkyokodied]

If you follow my main you had to know this was coming… anyway. Enjoy these bloodweave doodles :)

#bloodweave #gale x astarion #astarion x gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate more like baldurs gay amirite folks? #yeah sorry the themes of hunger abuse and power got to me. I’m not immune to thematically mirrors #I have so many thoughts about the it’s not even funny anymore #oh you mean to tell me that canonically gale would offer up his blood if asked and that astarion can’t even do that bc of the orb ?? #tasteful irony that the guy who would want to help can’t do that bc of a mistake he made for love. #especially devastating for someone who measures his self worth in usefulness #oh they are so fucked up and they could understand each other in ways hardly reachable to others #once I start an origin run it’s over for you guys I will be so insufferable. even more than usual

[akanemnon]

Turns out this new Dark World is paid DLC

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

Heads up: By the time this comic is published I will be on a trip to visit my partner in the US. Asks will stay closed for the time being! I will officially be back on April 28.

#deltarune #undertale #crossover #crossover comic #utdr #undertale fanart #deltarune fanart #twin runes #twin runes comic #kris dreemurr #frisk #chara #deltarune susie #ralsei #and here we have our first real encounter with this Dark World's residents #and they're immediately trying to scam our heroes #what a great start to a fun adventure #maybe it's a little to soon to ask this #but you might be able to guess the theme of this place already #just by looking at these guys alone #but it'll be a bit more clear as time goes on

[beescake]

Are you an AraSol enthusiast. If you’re a Sollux fan you must be it’s impossible to enjoy him without also enjoying araSol. It comes with the xbox

HELL YEHA OFC I LOVE THEM

theyre so endgame 4 me

i also think they are the coolest characters in homestuck. nobody else on their level

#ask #anon #homestuck #aradia megido #sollux captor #arasol #arapostings #2024 #vioart #ICB I GOT AN ARASOL ASK UAAAAAAAA #wnt2 megadump my arasol essay so bad... but its so sentimental ughhhhhhhhh embarrassing #they make me spin like crazyyy theyre literally so fun so amazing both individually and together #ik hs has a lot of themes around what makes someone "cool” and whatnot but. #these 2 hv clocked it. embodied it. way before everyone else

[willowser]

i think katsuki just answers his phone by barking out, "bakugou." no hello, probably doesn't even look at the caller id LOL when he hears it's you, though, i think he breathes out the tension he didn't realize was coiled in his shoulders, and says a lil, "hey," 🥺🥺

and i think when he calls you, and you answer with your sweet, "helloooo ??" he is so soft 😌 just mumbles out a quiet, "what'chu doin'?" and listens as you tell him, before saying what he needed to 😌

#okay one bkg thought and then i am going to bed hehe #i need him terribly i fear 😔 #pls just the idea of him huddling in a corner so no one can hear him 🥺 as he speaks softly to you 🥺 #and even if he calls to tell you something—he always asks what you're doing 🥺 #and listens 🥺 and engages 🥺 #i also dont think he says goodbye LOL #he just says 'alright' and hangs up LOL #or he says 'alright love you' hang up #why does this make me so insane for him idk idk #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: domestic bakugou

[livwritesstuff]

Honestly, Eddie doesn’t know why it had taken so long for him to realize his and Steve’s children could understand the shit that came out of his mouth.

(It took an embarrassingly long amount of time).

Even when Moe’s third or fourth word was fuck, he didn’t realize it (and she was using it mostly correctly too, which should have been a serious flag, but nope).

What made him realize it was when they started repeating the shit that came out of his mouth. 

To strangers.

In public.

The first time Eddie had been really caught off guard by something one of his daughters said was when Moe, who was three at the time, had proudly announced to an unsuspecting grocery store cashier, “Daddy says my Papa’s a DILF!”

And, like, Eddie had just heard the term for the first time, and obviously he was goddamn delighted by it because…duh. Steve. 

It just hadn’t occurred to him that his toddler might have caught it too, but little pitchers have big ears, or so the proverb suggests, and Eddie had taken it as a wake-up call that Moe isn’t a baby anymore (tragic as it may be).

He’s not the only problem though – Steve is just as bad, (if not worse, because he really doesn’t bother to check where their kids are before he starts running his mouth).

One particularly damning incident was at a restaurant, which is something they don’t even do all that often because, seriously, going to a restaurant with very young kids should be an Olympic event or something.

(The last time they all went out to eat, Nancy and Robin had made a drinking game out of all the times Steve and Eddie had to take a child to the bathroom and ended up so far gone that Eddie had needed to drive them home).

The incident started with the waitress asking, “Can I get you started with anything to drink?”

And it had ended with four-year-old Moe confidently announcing, “My Papa needs a fucking margarita.”

Thank god, the waitress had been a twenty-something college student and thought it was hilarious, but Steve had still been completely mortified.

#little do they know – once the girls hit elementary school they start recounting all the parent-gossip they overhear #then eddie comes home one day to this conversation between steve and moe: #steve: and if anyone asks where you heard about this? #moe: carpool #steve: excellent #steddie #liv’s steddie dads verse #steddie dads #steve harrington #eddie munson #i feel like there's been a theme to this week's drabbles lol

[rayactive-factory]

[🐈🥀🪴⚫🐈‍⬛🐈]

#sth #sonic fanart #shadow the hedgehog #sketchbook #kicks and dresses #i got even more skirt shadow prompts on top of that ask (affectionate!!) #shadow with cats is a theme #as always there will be more #also can we get an F in the chat?? #for shadow's poor lantanas

[bearotonin-international]

Jesus fucking christ this reddit shit lmao

Uuuhhhh.. Friend, you might not have noticed, but we’re a bear blog

#we post about bears #just bears #sometimes the teams use bears as a way to vent #but the underlying theme is always bears #if someone wants to make the connection from comment cursing out Reddit be our guest #but the team is unable to do so #y’all can ask us for bears #because #we post bears #ask

[varilien]

you know me, in the way that matters most.

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #I JUST!!! i love the way 98 goes about invoking its overarching Themes And Questions #how the story began with ''who is vash the stampede?'' when it was a very literal #there are 60.000.000.000 outlaws w big guns on this planet and any one of them could be him #which slowly became ''but who IS he. behind the legend. behind the personas. Who Is He really?'' #and then wolfwood asks. and ''i've only known you as the stampede'' #but that's not true. it's not the only way he's known him. it was always more than that. #anyways do u guys ever make something that's So Important to u u are RELUCTANT TO SHARE IT LMAO #i've been holding this one very very tightly for MONTHS dhfkjghdfk

[animezinglife]

rose quartz

rose quartz— what’s your love language (romantic or platonic)?

Quality time either way.

Thanks for the ask!

Pink-Themed Asks

#answered #pink-themed asks #themed asks #asks me stuff

[plumadot]

OK normally i don't feel things for drawn characters but...i wanna put a wildflower in your scar's hair, kiss his cheek, and then run away. yeah. he's just that beautiful.

hehe silly bardic inspiration especially for youuuuu

i love drawing him singing sorry

#he gets to sing the catdog theme song if he wants to shush #ask #plume art #plume dnd au

[araekniarchive]

she's leaving home (bye, bye)

Sandra Cisneros, House on Mungo Street // Kevin Lucbert, Homes // The Chicks, Wide Open Spaces // Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

#webs #web weaving #theme: home #theme: absence #theme: growing up #theme: dependence #theme: letting go #theme: this i choose to do #mine #sandra cisneros #kevin lucbert #the chicks #rainbow rowell #requests #for the anon that asked for something about moving out :) #and @adalimones who requested something for leaving home #thanks to @juliaflame for correcting me on the name of sandra cisneros' book <3

[kyurochurro]

caught a cold yesterday so I rewatched a good old childhood fav of mine, which also included another robot buddy I love! here’s data with wall-e cus why not :D

#churro art #my art #digital art #fanart #illustration #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #data soong #lieutenant commander data #i dedicate this to the wonderful user who asked that I draw more data!! THIS IS FOR U HOMESLICE #i was listening to the WALL·E soundtrack a lot for this ofc and I like the track define dancing a lot :D #maybe it’s just me but I like to think that that song could be a wonderful theme for data :P #gosh drawing Star Trek characters never gets old #i feel like every time I draw one again it just gets more fun and delightful for me :D #LIKE I LOVEDE HOW THIS DATA CAME OUT #HEHEHE #now. if only I could figure out Picard and riker… #anyways queuing this for the morning after as it’s 1 am and I’m still sick :P #i