#they bring all the effort

[suntails]

200 years

#200 FUCKIGN YEARS OF EFFORT. 200 YEARS OF SEARCHING ENDLESSLY FOR A SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE ANSWER #DISGRACED AND LOSING ALL OF WHAT LITTLE HE HAD TO TRY AND BRING THIS GUY TO LIFE. FOR HIS PARENTS HE LOVED. FOR THE KINGDOM #like oh my GOD happiest moment of his life indeed. he gave up a fifth of his lifespan for this and achieved the impossible. so fuckign prou #dragon malleus looks so scrungly he looks so silly goofy. i kiss his head. he breathes fire in my face #tumblr as a reminder that ur my fav platform u get this two hrs before twitter does. i kiss u so lovingly #NOW im all lore-d out. leaving for the airport in 45 minutes i still havent packed lmao #twst #twisted wonderland #lilia vanrouge #malleus draconia #twst spoilers #ch 7 spoilers #suntails

[fisheito]

(3) remaining

#OH NO THE IDOL BEAM HAS HIT EVERYONE EXCEPT THE MEANEST ONES IN THE CLAN 🤣 #can u imagine.... the absolute catty group energy coming out of these 3 if they had to sing together... #the idol beam bazooka is one of aster's fave weapons of ???profit #rei and kuya hate standing beside each other so dante always has to be in the middle #everyone who attends any of their shows will get their memory instantly wiped after the event #whether it's by illusory magic or fiery explosion (fire comas don't completely erase the memory but they'll certainly distract) #or father directly clawing someone's eyes out #actually i wouldn't put it past kuya to just make an entire illusion out of the thing #so he wouldn't have to move at all or put any effort into the silly song and dance. #he sittin backstage with the catering table while the audience screams for the fake show happening on stage #kuya the pioneer of IRL MMV projection magic. incredible #actually u kno what. aster hits them with the idol beam #and every show is just the three of them playing UNO #that would still bring in money #the drama. the intrigue. the competitive spirits flaring and tables being flipped. what a spectacle #aster #kuya #dante #rei #nu carnival

[storm-driver]

from here

#this is so fucking important to me #im... so happy about how the manga tackled THIS scene #kingdom hearts #this part of kh3 always felt odd to me tbh #it felt like the writers wanted to do something and just. didnt go all the way #there were ideas and they just didnt fully write them down and put the same amount of effort into them as they did in other places #THIS feels so fucking... emotional. and for what reason? #it's just. sora cares about roxas. #it's just true. he cares about roxas and feels bad about the situation that him and roxas both were put in. #he never found it fair that he got to exist while roxas was told to unalive. #and while the sora writing in khDDD and kh3 definitely told us that #definitely told us that sora DOES NOT like this situation and he would be willing to do anything to bring roxas back #it wasn't this. #this feels like a friend you barely got to know. realising that you had it so rough. #and desperately trying to break down any barriers between you two and grab your wrist #to hold onto you tight and refuse to give up on searching for you and trying to help you out of your darkest places. #sora is so fucking insistent on proving that roxas is not just his nobody. #roxas is roxas. #donald being sorta confused makes complete sense #because he didnt see how roxas fought with every fibre of his being against sora to just try and beat him and prove his right to live #he didnt see sora bearing the weight of roxas' life and feel the betrayals and lies and deception that he barely understood as it was. #to anyone else. roxas probably is just sora's nobody. #sora may very well be the one person who knows that isn't true.

[twst-mer]

more fairy gala couture jack

#jack howl #twst #twisted wonderland #fairy gala #fairy gala remix #FINALLY IN EN #gala couture jack is free #and hes a healer #thank you #i still remember the first time i played the rhythmic and jack smiling so much made me cry #brb crying all over again #and you know what else still makes me emo #--the way jack gets worried hes bringing the team down and thinks he has to work harder but really he just needed to take a break and relax #the way hes not used to it but its not something he makes fun of or looks down on--he's always impressed by effort #i love jack so much #twitter crosspost

[biblically-accurate-dca]

day 19: dolls/puppets/ect.

it's a puppet themed dca!! or maybe it's actually a dca themed puppet?

#my art #daycare attendant #yeah thats good #puppet #dca fandom #cringetober #lmk if the image id is too wordy there's just a lot of details lmaoo #this was fun tho!! i've actually drawn this sort of thing before a few times :] #these two are just sort of similar conceptually? however it seems to be implied the dca killed ppl while the puppet did the opposite #but i like imagining that the sb cast was the result of years of research on ''remnant'' #as a strange material that somehow brings inanimate objects to life #''where fantasy and fun come to life'' and all that... it's half a marketing thing and also half a sick fascination with playing god #and then sb is the cumulative effort of all of that research.. where they've finally perfected it and given their mascots life #and the dca is... important to it somehow...... idk. im rambling lmao

[feluka]

i hateeee jokes about arab parents only wanting sons and not wanting daughters because 1- when it's like that, that's an awful thing and not something to be joked about and 2- it spits on the face of every arab parent who consistently has to put their middle finger up to the world and say fuck you my daughter is my greatest treasure and i'd rather have her than a thousand sons and i won't hear a word against her!! because in my experience these are the most loving parents to be found in the whole wide world

#like. for all my parents' faults and the ways they screwed up as parents #they DID pick a fight with a nurse over this!! #the nurse was like 'i'm so so sorry :/ but it's a girl :/' when my mother was pregnant with me #and they yelled at him 'why are you sorry??? DON'T BE SORRY FOR A BLESSING!' #also my extended family is. uh. very old school. so my parents straight up passive aggressively announced #'if anybody implies that this is bad news they're dead to us thanks <33' #like there's this genre of arab parents who are 100% aware of the society that they're bringing their daughter into and the problems in it #and they KNOW their daughter will have to put up with so much crap. so they try to compensate by openly loving her so strongly #and always boasting about her and telling everyone they're proud of her #so she never ever feels less than anybody else #it's very heartwarming when it happens and it's a direct resistance against the misogyny in our culture #and i hate that these jokes kind of spit on that effort #AND makes light of something so awful too

[genderkoolaid]

It's so frustrating to see people purposefully misunderstand transandrophobia/transmisandry and then very confidently talk disparagingly about the people who talk about their experiences of it and then blatantly ignore everyone going "hey yeah no that's not what that means"

Like. Devon price trying to frame it like people who talk about transandrophobia are doing so firstly because they're just ignorant misogynistic babies who want to be oppressed so bad and also to try and drive a wedge between transmascs and transfemmes is so fucking disingenuous I don't even know where to start.

We're literally just trying to talk about the experiences transmasculine people have and the institutional problems specific to us? Why is this such a fucking problem?

Its painfully obvious that the people who make these posts do not ever actually engage with the discussion of anti-transmasculinity & the wider transunitist-feminist theories. Its embarassingly obvious in this case because Devon tried to make this sick gotcha, by bringing up one of the most common topics of conversation in our spaces.

And then there's the whole "TMRAs don't realize most of what they deal with is misogyny!" take, which I've seen in other places as well. Which imo comes from the idea that people who discuss transmisandry are literally just the trans version of MRAs. & the MRA idea of "misandry" is just a reversal of their idea of feminist theory- so they use it to describe "actually society is based around women's needs and desires and it targets (cis) men and we actually live in a matriarchy!" While the transunitist concept of misandry/antimasculism is "patriarchal beliefs about men/masculinity & the roles they are expected to fulfill, used both generally to reinforce patriarcharal control and specifically to target marginalized men/perceived-masculine people." I coined antimasculism specifically to provide an alternate to misandry for those who are uncomfortable with it because of the MRA associations.

& like. whether or not you agree that these are useful words, its obvious that the transunitist idea of misandry/antimasculism is very different to the MRA one. But to know that you'd have to actually, like, read the things we write & take seriously to our theories on the patriarchy. And not just trust Tumblr Callout For Evil Trans People #3245853723 that said we don't think misogyny exists.

Also tbh I think a bigger part of this issue (transmascs who are anti-transunitist) is that its a symptom of anti-transmasculine erasure. If you don't personally experience, assault, demonization, or accusations of being a predator for being a trans man, and no one you know has either, then... you certainly aren't gonna hear about those issues from wider society. And even if you have, you might not recognize what happened as anti-transmasculine, or tell yourself it must be only a fraction of what trans women go through. & again, they don't fucking read anything we post. That's why I feel like its so important to point out & remember incidents of anti-transmasculinity (like what I do w the AoVaTP). Because its so easy to buy the "people don't violate trans men the same way" until you've read about (tw for somewhat graphic anti-transmasculine violence)

trans men getting their faces cut off, beaten with a chain, thrown out of men and women's bathrooms, hit over the head with a cooler, having their shelter at a refugee camp firebombed, having hot coffee poured in their eyes while being called a "he-she", institutionalized & tortured for not showing "proper gender behaviors" as a child, having their family burn their documents to keep them from getting a job, forced to jump from a 2nd-story window and left to die, being harassed by Fox News for being a "groomer" until their school got bomb threats, held captive and tortured for two years, found dead with their genitals stabbed, assaulted by a police officer for "lesbian activity", called "tranny" a lot, and so many rapes and so many suicides, and this is just some of the shit that I have collected for that archive.

But yeah. We're just whining about silly representation nonsense.

#sorry for bringing up all the awful shit but like. sometimes i just wanna grab these peoples faces #and be like WHILE YOU NITPICK LANGUAGE THE PATRIARCHY DOESNT STOP KILLING US #i try to pretty regularly search for news articles about trans men to keep up w anything new #and ive done a fair bit of research to find stories that NEVER!!!!! get brought up by other queer activists #wheres yalls fucking support for zahair martinez. for chriton atuhwera. for ky peterson. for ebeng mayor. #if you are an activist then put the effort in #m. #ask box #examples of transandrophobia #rape tw #suicide tw

[ley-med]

I had a week long vacation not long ago, so I finally have enough energy to talk to non-medical friends once again. And I just realized once again, I'm not sure how to talk to them.

They tell me all the things they participated in, and I'm truly happy for them, all the while thinking I would never have half that much energy. They ask me how I am, I tell them I'm good, finally had a vacation. What did I do? Oh, literally nothing, tried to sleep off the worst of the exhaustion and tried to avoid interaction with other humans. How's work? You know, just the usual, it's good. It is good, and I love it, but how could I tell them all the horrors witnessed? That's right I don't, but what else do I have left to talk about? Most of my fun work stories are tainted with the shadows of tragedies... And unfortunately, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

So I just read their cheerful message and leave it on read, contemplating what to answer. And just hope they won't take offence to my agonizingly slow replies...

#medblr #medical life #sometimes it's so isolating #but it also brings along the tightest of communities #one of my work besties just messaged me #to talk about a very gruesome case that left them not okay and they needed to vent #listening and comforting each other is easy #holding up a normal conversation? #seems impossible #this post was written a while ago then sat in my drafts for several months #i just found it #and realised how actual it is at the moment #thank god for my work friends #they are indeed more like family #i love my other friends too and hey im trying here #but sometimes it takes enormous efforts to not just let it all drift apart

[lonelystarbuckslover13]

Joe Alwyn wore a ceasefire pin to the pre-bafta dinner I don’t care what you guys say you can never make me hate that man

#it’s just annoying seeing all these random articles claiming to have some inside source and making him look bad #and some swifties starting to hate him in an effort to side with Taylor #when he’s out here taking a stance that most other public figures are too afraid to take #like there’s something so much bigger than this celeb goss bullshit going on in Gaza right now #and I refuse to let you guys drag Joe into petty celeb drama when he’s actually speaking on something important #let’s focus on that! let’s focus on the issue he’s trying to bring to light! #I hope most celebs start speaking out about Palestine but idk man it’s looking grim #I really wish Taylor would speak out #it makes me sad that she hasn’t #jemma personal

[kisaraslover]

if anyone has any problem making sense of the way i interpret Kaiba just remember this: Tea Gardner looks at him one day and has the dawning realization "hes like a lesbian of some kind" this should make all the pieces fall into place

#not art #tea gardner #anzu mazaki #seto kaiba #yugioh #ygo #i mean it. kisara existing or not. i mean ittttt #i look at him. i look at myself. i look at his barely contained animosity towards all men- immediate competition- rivals #and then his much more calm reception of women. and i go ''hes literally me'' #this is why im forever kaiba-mai valentine kaiba-ishizu friendship truther. tea doesnt make the cut but like. #if i write the series again id have to make him choose her for anything that isnt dueling. that spot is determinedly atem #but hes gotta sit next to someone from yugi gang for a flight? gardner. hes gotta share a cab? gardner. hes gotta save a yugi friend? #gardner. #not that they speak. not that hed want to spend time with her he doesnt have to. but to me hes like those dogs that hate men always #mai valentine would genuinely have his respect -she seems to have given battles of her own and came out a bit similar to him #hed actively enjoy her humor especially if joey is the butt of it. she would actively make an effort to get close too. birds of a feather #ishizu though. ohhh hed be so annoyed anytime shes like ''fate and gods and magic'' the way i am when straight girls bring up. #astrology. and tarot and whatnot. half disproving and trying to convince them. half listening to see where they take it #but 100% not taking it seriously for himself #but shes an accomplished woman who can be a deadly business woman and hed like that part of her. #again he can see himself reflected in powerful women and the sexist writing aside he just wouldnt be threatened by them #COUGH gozaburo COUGH. #sigh i just gotta make everything about that asshole dont i. #<- actual seto kaiba thought whenever he has an emotional awakening to his trauma once again being tied to gozaburo #DAMN im a good kinnie. yeeeesh

[writesailingdreams]

To new One Piece fans, don't make shipping discourse into a thing. The only ships that really matter in the story are the ones you sail in.

#opla #opla spoilers #one piece #like ship whatever you want. go for it! but dont be mean or so serious about it #kind of joking (hoping this is unnecessary that is) #but also kind of serious #dont bring shipping discourse into one of my old fandoms #this is my bias but my experience with romantic shipping was so chill. there were the popular ships sure #but i dont recall any effort to compete against/between ships #wsd opinions #(i think the usopp x kaya kiss is the first canon kiss in all op)

[mstrchu]

big big shoes to fill

#nezha reborn #new gods: nezha reborn #ao bing #art tag #this movie is about... identity...! #ok i know there's some uncertainty surrounding like the actual nature of ao bing's reincarnation #but i personally like to think it was like he was reborn as just a kid and had to grow up again #because i think it creates this seriously fucked up situation where he has his yuan shen his whole life #and obviously he doesn't have the same like. cognitive dissonance issues that li yunxiang has where lyx just talks to his nezha yuan shen #as like a separate entity/person entirely when it's like that is literally just you my guy #(and part of that is probably because for him it's like well I'm a grown man and this soul projection is a Child) #BUT ANYWAY THIS POST ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT LI YUNXIANG SORRY AS I WAS SAYING #i cant imagine how fucked it would be to grow up with this visible #palpable projection of your adult self that you're supposed to grow up to be because it's who you were in the past #this ideal You that you can see #that simultaneously Is you and is something else entirely #literally always trying to fill your own shoes and to recreate this You #not to mention never being sure if your father loves You and put in all this effort to bring You back #or if he loves and wants back this version of you that existed 3000 years ago #shit's crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ive been stewing on this for a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #the past 2 weeks have been cray zee but i really wanted to make this.. #also excuse to draw baby ao bing. #gonna queue this for tomoz i think

[haveyouwatchedthiscartoon]

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE READ

Hey y’all, so this blog is probably gonna be on a VERY SHORT hiatus. Just like. Literally less than a week.

The short long of it all is that my parents are coming in tonight for the holidays and unfortunately as much as I tired I didn’t have time to queue up enough stuff for that period of time.

The ask box is STAYING OPEN during this period of time! So you CAN keep sending stuff in there just won’t be any polls for a hot second! Holidays are just kinda hectic, you know? Lol

But thanks again for everyone’s support and I’ll see y’all after I’m done showing my beach parents around the mountains haha

Also! In case anyone is interested! Cartoon Network is on YouTube streaming Holiday Special reruns of their cartoons for FREE for this month! Here’s the link! Happy Holidays and go watch cartoons!!

#also I just wanna say. i know the queue has died a few times #and I’m just really greatful and thankful that even if any y’all DID notice #that no one was like. weird or rude about it #i hope it goes unspoken that yes! i love this blog! soooo much!! #but I also am an adult with a life and full time job lol!!! #but yalls support means the world and I’m so excited to come back and keep going! #also I’m gonna make sure that with the next batch of polls to also bring back the data reblogs! #I’m sooooo dorky I LOVE the data part of it all #but those reblogs do take a LOT more time and effort than the polls themselves which is why they don’t come out as often qwq #BUT THANKS AGAIN #AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!!! #toonz talks

[cryptid-condor]

some soup for the traveler on the edge of town

#week 2! during week 3 but ignore that #week 3 will probably be more low effort but whatever #im testing new harpy designs #we got my boy oliver (western sandpiper) and his friend james (monk vulture) #still placeholder names cuz idk what the naming conventions of this universe are yet 😭 we're getting there #oliver had to bring him soup in a crockpot cuz his family doesn't own vulture-sized bowls #i love vulture wings they dont fold very neatly down onto the bird's back because of how huge they are so most vultures look like a mess #all my rat #original character #oliver has some yet-unnamed genetic defect that makes his feathers curly #because i was absolutely determined to keep his original hairstyle #kinda makes him look like a sheep imo

[bo0bydrake]

i have got to emphasise on the fact that this is huge actually- gay rights in football is something that's just barely discussed. during the world cup in qatar, captains were banned from wearing a one love captain's band because it was too political (it was just a band with a rainbow heart on it), homophobia and racism is practically rooted in the songs sung during matches and there are no out players in the premier league, or more generally, there is only one (1) out player in the top leagues. having a character simply just,, be with another man and also a footballer in the premier league is a huge statement and will hopefully aid in trying to make football a better space.

#i listened to a podcast about why there are no out players in sports last year #and the conclusion was that it had to do with a lot of different factors #among them: the fans #take for example in the netherlands there's a hooligan group that roots for feyenoord. they threatened a fellow supporter who - #- started a supporter's group for lgbt+ fans. and also tried to light the man's place of business on fire #and in an away game to (albania i wanna say??) they brought banners that said they wanted him to die of hiv #mind you this is a FELLOW SUPPORTER #for the same club #and the songs supporters sing are a hell of a lot less tame than in ted lasso #homophobic racist antisemetic or islamophobic chants are just regular business in football matches #and in addition to that: locker room culture! #locker room culture in football and many other sports (with the men mostly) is toxic as hell! #there have been some efforts to try and nip this in the bud with trainings and seminars on diversity being given at youth clubs #but it's an issue in society as a whole that a lot of young men are just homophobic as FUCK #and i mean having a character on an acclaimed and popular show on tv/streaming right now could have a huge impact #esp on all the young ppl who'll see this thru fk tiktok and whatnot #im just really excited for what this will bring. and i hope it might do some good in football as a whole #ted lasso #colin hughes #ted lasso season 3

[reel-fear]

Just a little follow up on that last post but just in general I think one of the reasons I've really stopped caring for railing on the Playtime devs... Is just because it feels like so much of it is just speculative nonsense trying to make every single thing they do secretly evil or lazy or bad. Why isn't it enough to discuss the Actual bad things they did [the fact they used to run a shady content farm before doing game work, the fact they tried to sell lore to their fans via NFTs, etc] it's hard for me to engage with content that rightfully critiques that bc oftentimes they then spiral into speculative 'so now we have to tell you why this moment where an employee blinks in the game is code for the devs secretly stole all their code from Bendy and kill babies as a hobby'.

Which makes me turn off my brain and not want to take any other points they make seriously, bc like I said if you lie to me to try and convince me of your point, I'm not gonna take anything else you say seriously bc I won't know if it's true or just something you made up anymore.

It honestly feels like everyone just keeps making shit up bc Poppy Playtime used to be the internet punching bag but now that the NFTs thing isn't the hottest topic to discuss about it anymore we all just need a reason to make fun of it and the people who like it. Which just kinda feels like unfair cringe culture, because if our real problem is the devs being greedy and shady why isn't the same effort put into roasting similar devs like the Bendy team? We can't suddenly say 'well actually being a bit greedy isn't That bad' when it's a team we like instead of one we all decided is 'cringe n bad'.

#ramblez #I hope all this makes sense Im not saying u cant dislike the devs of any of these games #just that the double standards on display really drive me nuts #sure playtime co tried to sell nfts but kindly beast laid off almost all of its employees and tried to sell its fans at full price a game #made by two people in three weeks last minute #if being greedy and lazy is really as bad as the internet says it is why arent the bendy devs the internets punching bag too #you cant have that sort of obvious double standard and then still expect me to think you take that topic seriously #bc when you only bring it up in relation to devs you clearly have a bias against and dont bring it up against devs ur bias towards #its clear that the greediness isnt actually the problem you care abt at least thats how it reads to me #anyways both of these devs suck but I dont think that means everyone at playtime co is secretly evil and in on it #a lot of effort is clearly on display in the writing animation coding etc and we shouldnt pretend its all awful just bc the ceos suck #same way I only level a lot of my problems with bendy towards mike n mood and not every single person who works on the games #bc clearly someone at JDS and playtime co cares a lot about what theyre making and thats really nice to see #its just that the ceos keep fucking up the product esp when it comes to Bendy-