#they deserve a separate tag

[bumfuzzled-bee]

Lil birdie and his eldritch demon (build in friend) !!!

#bumfuzzled art #bumfuzzled animations #mha #tokoyami fumikage #my absolute beloved lil guy #dark shadow #they deserve a separate tag #I’m just rotating through old interests #I always kept up with the manga #the story lost me halfway through #but I just had to know what happened to my two favorite students #I’ll probably rewatch the whole series before the new season #which likely means more art! #also I seriously could not log into this account anymore. but we’re so back

[saudrag]

no more wip enjoy

#the boys #the boys tv #my art #saudraguard #homelander #butchie #im very proud of the Eyes #the boys art #pls repost #there’re A LOT of butcher because this man is so hot #nobody understands butcher the way i do #like i would let him ruin my entire life #if you even care #also i believe this deserves to be a separate tag #Homelander’s Baby Blue Eyes #also #a lot of blood #cause its shexy #billy butcher #hughie campbell #hughie campbell x billy butcher #ryan butcher

[delicatepointofview]

Niall Horan for his new upcoming album 'The Show'

#niall horan #the show #1dsource #listennnn idk who to tag lmao #so you guys better reblog this #gif* #im making a bigger post but i feel like this deserved a separate one

[zombvibes]

everyone is always wanting more TMS! Noelle, but no one be talking about the goat: berdly! please draw some more of the chicken legal tender

SIIIIIIGH, if I MUST. (was gonna draw him anyways) (feat tms!susie and noelle)

ABOUT TEAMMATESWAP

#zomb answers #zombfied art 🪦 #teammateswap - dr au #i’ll pur tags on this…was gonna make this a separate post but nahhhhh i won’t #*PUT #deltarune #deltarune fanart #utdr fanart #deltarune au #deltarune berdly #berdly deltarune #deltarune noelle #noelle deltarune #deltarune susie #susie deltarune #if there’s any new people here no tms!susie doesn’t have a crush on berdly don’t worry #put down the (well deserved) pitchforks #(basically trying to figure out if berdly likes her or hates her) #(the answer is yes)

[walison-abigobaldo-iii]

Luke Newton's fingers were a separate performance

They had just one moment to shine and they burned like a star

#they deserve a grammy emmy oscar bafta Cannes award #they had one scene and they killed it #absolutely amazing performance by a pointer and middle finger in the history of performances #god bless this man acting choices #luke newton #polin #bridgerton #colin bridgerton #luke newtons fingers deserve to be a whole separated tag

[reikunrei]

when it’s about queerness it’s “groundbreaking and powerful and beautiful high art that’s going to change the world” but when it fumbles topics of race and class and disability and copaganda it’s “not so serious omg it’s just a tv show why do you have to make so much drama about it” like do you see your own dunce cap in the mirror

#that post by user sayyourprayers already had one good angle on this about the gangrene metaphor #and you can’t separate the bad thing from the whole thing and leave the whole thing as good #that’s not how it works. it permeates the entirety of the work #but I’m specifically thinking about the hypocrisy within fandom spaces to treat one part of it with heaps of respect #and then pretend the other part doesn’t deserve that same respect #i say things #stranger things // #anyway I also wasn’t kidding about the tip jar tag earlier if you ask or expect poc to point this stuff out and talk about it over and over #then you should give them literal money for their time and effort LOL

[voided-selfships]

All the ask doodles :]

[Taglist]

@comfycozycirrus @ghost--girlfriend @wanderers-wife @fireborns

#had to post these separate :O #if i drew anything for the other two i had left chances are they deserve their own post #assuming i drew something #bastard.png #one day ill focus on the future || 💙 #she opens her lips & it goes like this || 💙 #we are creation. both haunted and holy || 💙 #fly me to the moon || 💙 #self ship #self ships #self ship art #self shipping #self ship community #adventure time #adventure time oc #simon petrikov #betty grof #winter king #im gonna main tag and im gonna be so cool for it /silly

[seagreenstardust]

I’m gonna say something that’s probably not going to be well received in certain circles so let me start by saying this: I believe, with only a few rare exceptions, that you should be able to ship whatever speaks to you the most. And just because I don’t ship something doesn’t mean it’s wrong for anyone else to ship it, and the same for things I do ship, no one else has to ship it too. Who you do or don’t ship will never be a reason I pass judgment on you, ever. Live your best life.

That being said, I want to talk about Horikoshi and straight ships.

(And bakudeku.)

Here’s the thing: Hori has written straight ships into MHA and he’s done it so masterfully that it’s made me ship them without even realizing it. I don’t know if we can call them canon because as far as I know no ship is actually canon yet, but what is canon is the care Hori put into building these relationships.

Kirimina. Hori wrote in a backstory that parallels bkdk that I just adore. There is something about Kiri looking up to Mina and being so inspired by her bravery that it shapes the hero he becomes that is such good content. They’ve had multiple mid-battle moments of protecting and helping each other. I ship Kirimina so hard because of the canon Hori gave us.

I am a low key Denki/Hitoshi shipper but season six kinda hit me in the face with whatever we’re calling Kyouka/Denki these days and now I guess I’m a multi-shipper???? That is how hard Hori hit me with the Kyouka/Denki feels. And he did it the same way as Kirimina, because we have years of content of Kyouka teasing Denki mercilessly, plus the cultural festival band, so when they’re separated in Season 6 and Denki has this intense moment of realization that she’s who he needs to be brave for and it actually works??? I’m a goner.

Heck, I ship todomomo too you guys though I can’t blame Hori for that one, that’s just me being me. The point is that I ship it because the characters Hori gave me struck a chord inside.

But there is one straight ship Hori never once made me ship.

Every time izu*cha showed up I just kinda endured it? It just wasn’t for me. I didn’t see two kids with chemistry, I saw two kids who didn’t know who they were or what they wanted fumbling their way through a will they/won’t they without either of them seeming all that invested in it.

In six seasons and nearly 400 chapters and multiple times revisiting the story I have never once felt any inclination to ship izu*cha

Hori can write straight ships. Hori made me ship his secondary straight ships nearly effortlessly. So if izu*cha was meant to be canon why have I never once felt the chemistry?

You know who has the chemistry? Bakudeku. But here’s the thing: I wasn’t thinking about Katsuki as a possible love interest for Izuku the first time I watched the entire story. I honestly wasn’t paying much attention to him at all, he was everything I didn’t like on the surface so I more or less ignored him despite Izuku holding onto him for dear life. Katsuki never once colored my opinion of izu*cha, they did that all on their own.

It wasn’t until after my first watch through, when I was hungry for more and trolling around tumblr, that I realized people shipped Katsuki and Izuku and it was literally like something out of alignment popped into place in my head.

Oh. Duh. That’s the ship.

I went from zero to a million in a handful of seconds because the chemistry was there, the backstory was there, and boy are Izuku and Katsuki loud about how obsessed they are with each other. Just like Kirimina, just like Denki and Kyouka, Hori planted the seeds throughout the entire series so that when it was brought to my attention everything about the narrative and character development supported it.

And I have to take a moment to explain my dislike of Katsuki at first: I honestly fell for the surface-level interpretation of his character and then kinda wrote him off without much more thought. Which is insane to think about because you can’t really understand MHA without Katsuki, he is so integral to the story as a whole that any version of it without him is skewed so far out of alignment that it’s not even the same story anymore. But I just saw angry boy who yells for no reason and put Katsuki in a box and left it at that.

It wasn’t until I was willing to give his character a second look that I started understanding him, and more importantly, his relationship with Izuku. And it helped that when bkdk was presented to me as a ship that my brain understood immediately why it worked. The canon source material supports bkdk at every possible moment.

I really don’t think it does the same for izu*cha.

#bkdk #bakudeku #I’m being very deliberate about not including actual ship names for the one ship I’m arguing against here #because the shippers for that ship deserve to have their tag filled with positivity and I am not trying to rain on anyone’s parade #mainly I’m just word vomiting something I’ve been thinking a lot about while tumblr lurking #and I guess you could say that Hori doesn’t actually know how to write a solid romance and mistakes his way into it three separate times #but izu*cha reads to me like the token het ship for the main character that Hori doesn’t want to write but has to #there’s no care being put into it except how it highlights the other ships for the two characters #anyway #good for you if you made it this far in to my rambling #or maybe I’m sorry is the better thing to say 😂

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

Spoiler sources in chronological order of poll appearance: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4, 4, 4, 4 - 5 - 6, 6 - 7, 7 - 8, 8 - 9 - 10

#WE HAVE SO MANY SPOILERS - i couldnt even fit all of them in this poll #fernando frias spoilers deserve separate options fr fr #ofmd #ofmd poll #our flag means death poll #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoiler #ofmd s2 spoiler #our flag means death spoiler #i tried to tag it every spoiler tag under this earth bc.... you know.. it is every spoiler under this earth #thank you for the gift of poll meow - tumblr hates me fr i still dont have the function q-q

[darkcreamz95]

Now that all the chapters are out...

#joker out #kris guštin #bojan cvjetićanin #nace jordan #jan peteh #jure maček #damon baker #so i feel like the shots with jan and nace together deserve to stand on its own as an answer #thats why its separate #basically which chapter do you relate to #based on the tons of analyses out there or just by looking at the photos alone #if you want feel free to belt out why in the tags or reblogs

[wasyago]

another patch of random things

#wouldn't say they don't *deserve* their own posts. they just look better together than separate #plus i wouldn't have to tag all these #also apologies to genshin people for ruining your man. itll happen again #my art #sketch #my sona

[cyberslasharpie]

GX girls💙

#ygo #yugioh #yu-gi-oh gx #alexis rhodes #asuka tenjoin #momoe hamaguchi #makurada junko #ygo mindy #ygo jasmine #asuka's friends were written so bad and done so dirty #like asuka's whole thing was she didnt want to get looked down on for being a girl #so how good would it have been if her friends who were a bit shallow at first actually developed after becoming friends with asuk #and then during the tag duel tournament they pair with each other and not some rando guys #anyway also junko's eye colour is momoe's hair colour and vice versa #is that not just the cutest thing #i could talk for ages #anyway i've adopted them and now they live separate from canon like this #same with asuka #they deserved better #also the girl's uniform sucks ass so i'm also just gonna ignore it now #illust

[spoopy-cactus]

A small collection of some nevermore shitposts I've made in the past week or so

#nevermore webtoon #i dont feel like tagging all the characters #i should make a tag for everyone #uhhhh #misfit militia nevermore #does that work? #probably not but eh im tired #spoopy's meme corner #i have more memes i just think they deserve separate posts

[simcardiac-arrested]

i think we should include this

It’s so fucking good

#cramswering #oc: needless separation #he deserves this to go in his tag

[friendlyengie]

May I just say... Thank you for your good good lady merc designs. Like, scout's Ma was already in milf territory but you really just 😙🤌. And Quinn! Lanky awkward woman my beloved. Her and Yvainne's weird gay thing is perfect. Anyway I am spinning them around in my brain, thank you for feeding my hyperfixation.

ive actually been drawing a lot of scout’s ma today, so this is a very apt ask to get !! Thank you sm! I’m having a lot of fun drawing strange women, always very happy to see people liking them!

Heres a wip of a ma. ^_^

#I dont always have the energy or art backlog… but when i do i like to be able to add art to ask responses #mostly bc it helps me feel like im not being too repetitive when i respond to compliments #i get worried that i seem disingenuous! And i hope that i am not coming across that way! #every time i say i am glad people appreciate my women art! I always mean it! #or any of my art in general ofc. Thank you for taking the time to say nice things. :] #Merry #fem fortress but they’re separate characters from their canon merc counterparts #i have been ironing out how i characterize scouts ma as i draw her more for the fem merc team… #and i think i have ultimately found her true form: bimbo /hj #bc i think she deserves that #ok sorry for rambling in tags. Im done now

[presiding]

What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?

(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)

thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -

short answer: she’s really cool

& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...

long answer:

i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.

since you ask...

billie is a cool character

when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.

then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!

she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.

but... the meta

mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.

skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.

i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.

most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).

i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.

ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.

while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.

it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-

- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?

.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.

lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.

you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.

in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.

all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3

billie's character potential

she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.

she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).

her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.

she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!

#i assume my followers are cool enough to let me give a brief measured critique on fandom trends and DotO #thanks for the anon question!! what fun! #i love billie lurk <333 #jumped on the opportunity to rant n rave #what part of billie isn't my fav! (im a guy who likes the bad stuff too. mmm interesting meta) #trying to be not unfair or mean- i'm not targeting anyone but rather trends. and it's ok to be disappointed with something you love #fuck it. make it part of the appeal! her writing sucks! plenty of room for me & other creators! #its easier for me to indulge my billie brainworms when it sorta feels like she's not getting as much love as she deserves #you know? i want stories where her history is explored and her agency is important so i guess i'll roll up my sleeves #tumblr is a terrible place for this sort of critique IMO- lots of nuanceless empathy-free guilt-trip-ish rhetoric #so i hope i avoided that. but not so much that i seem forgiving. #that said i'm not tagging this one with fandom tags! no thank you. #i am blaming arkane yes. but that is also not without games industry context #i could complain about amateurish writing but that also never happens in a vacuum. industry problem(s) for sure. #people love to blame writers for things #and yeah a couple really fucking good writers can push a boulder uphill #but its usually a company problem #hire lots of diverse people in your company. give them authority and respect and reasonable workloads. and no crunch. #ah fuck this is a separate essay in tags. again #THIS WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION #*clutches head in hands* #uh if you're still reading at this point im SO sorry and thank you and i love you