#think I need to mix them

[bas-writes]

tfw you try to maintain your mosshead and accidentally give yourself Hiyori's hair color

#it looks green on photo (at least on my screen) but irl has a lot of blue undertone #the other dye was too grass-like hhh #think I need to mix them #excuse me showing my face #fighting body hate with exposing myself to others before I get stuck and avoid mirrors for weeks again #bas mumbles #tw: selfie

[galoogamelady]

after 2 years I found my favorite sims 4 screenshot again

#he's going thru it #I based his Mixed Messages bedroom on this btw #but those lamps and nightstands look gigantic I should've shrunk them down #his penthouse in my head is a mix of his Weazel Plaza apartment and this one I built for him in the Sims #this pic always CRACKS me up #get it.... #the Sims 4 #sims 4 #Buttons #GTA Online #since it's that AU #screenshot #cw nudity #I don't think it needs a label but w/e

[stromblessed]

Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

#blue eye samurai #mizu #racism #bes #I am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that Taigen saw Mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal #but I still think that scene is making a point #again I dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously #but its been bothering me ever since I first saw them #I really dont think Mizu just looks like a 100 percent Japanese person...... with blue eyes #and I bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to London where Im sure she will meet plenty of people #who are more than happy to point out their observations to her #also I ran out of room in this post to go into it but this is also what made Mizus marriage an absolutely doomed prospect #Mikio talks about wanting to find the right creature for his lord and well... a mixed race woman is the right creature huh #he just needed a little push imo #getting kind of sad at the thought that Ringo is the only person in Mizus life who knows her whole identity AND accepts it wholly

[lonicera-edulis]

Finally figured out a design for Perry. And this piece can be concidered an art for HobbitCember Prompt Challenge, Shire Fashion.

#sansukh #HobbitCember #I wanted to do these prompts but I am late as usual #I will make other few prompts later #I still need to finish hobbits with kids and boffins fam from lotro and I think I can fit them in this challenge too #gimizh is literally a mix of gloin gimli and bofur I don't know #perry is a took but I decided to give him a distinctive nose and hairstyle #actually I had a controversial feeling about their story #first how am I supposed to read Gimizh and think of an adult dwarf now #second I was opposed to another hobbit/dwarf thing (but this opinion of mine contradicts with the whole idea of sansukh and tasâlalkhud) #like isn't it enough it happened once #but I like both perry and gimizh so let it be

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

brain dumps magical girl velvet and her begrudging familiar floyd(hes only here for community service hours)

ok im gonna sleeeeep

#the trolls are fairy thingys.... #to be more magical or wtvrr #still need to workshop them #trolls #dreamworks trolls #gonna do more with tjwm xos ive been watching a lot of magical girl cartoons lately #trolls au #magical girl #i need to name tjis au #velvet #trolls velvet #velvet trolls #floyd #trolls floyd #floyd trolls #velvet is a crystal dolly #she can steal people souls into her perfume bottle wand thingy #and floyd eats it #shes also 14-16 #i think floyd would be a mix of the weird cat from madoka and kero from cardcaptor #he doesnt wanna be tjere but also might aswell #trolls fanart #floyd fanart #velvet fanart #my art #my art 2024

[peridots-pixiwolf]

in honor of TF2's sweet sixteen and repostober, one Pyro from just about six months ago 👍

@friendlyengie since i heavily referenced off your pyro here! Hope you don't mind me tagging you, your stuff is cool and I'm a big fan of your femfortress designs especially :]

#peridots-art #pyro tf2 #tf2 #bugs #to this day i have still not drawn more than a doodle of any other merc. which is weird since pyro isn't even my favorite just fun to draw #don't have much to say here since. y'know. made this in april. i still don't know yet if i'm ever gonna play tf2 (and besides i still have #a few uninstalled games in my steam library to get to. portal outer wilds and disco elysium i'm coming for you) and i'm kind of losing the #fixation on it now but i'm sure whatever i do it'll be fun :] #also this came long before i saw someone interpret them as a bot. which is an a+ headcanon to me. also i think they'd be any pronouns #obviously i just needed to write the id too fast to mix it up :tragic:

[clownsuu]

Hey I have a question but are you the original creator for mafia mob au or is someone else cause I think I stumble in a TikTok creater and they made a mafia wally au. Both arts are amazing but I was just curious to know.

I think I know who you may be talking about! There is basically two “mafia” aus lol, theirs and mine- our aus are completely separate from each other and from what I know, have no affiliation with each other whatsoever besides coincidence of universe

#Theirs is the “Mafia au” while mine is the “Mob au” #Another reason why I don’t really call mine the “Mafia” au is due to a mix of things I add to my stuff #(Cult like behaviors- psychological warfare- abdominal nightmaric horrors- etc etc JDHDD) #I think they are more focused on building Wally-? #I focus a lot more on basically everyone else LMAOOO #I probably should draw mob Wally more- #He is the face of it all smhh and his hair is fun to draw #I like making it as a “not what meets the eye” kinda au #Like oh you think it’s just this but it’s so much more deeper and fugged up JDHDHHD #Nobody remembers anything and even if they try there is a force stopping them #Is it psychological? Is it from a giant suspicious house god father? Is it the drinks? Who knows! #Well we kinda ish know but still lmAOOO #Wait that reminds me #I need to make a list of everyone’s “usual” drink is at the bar-

[notmoreflippingelves]

#elena of avalor #beauty and the beast #batbedit #disneyedit #eoa edit #belle x beast #estebalena #kinda but also not kinda #I think a lot about the fact that it's been confirmed that this is an intentional homage #like EoA series supervising director Elliot M. Bour was just like casually bringing BATB into things as an Easter egg #since it was his first job in animation #and like don't get me wrong; I LOVE that he did this. I just don't know how he expected anyone (i.e. me) to be normal about it afterwards #once you've introduced BATB; it ceases to be a fun and casual reference and just makes the literature major girlies go feral #i thought this was gonna be a quick and easy little project but it wasn't #the parallels are all there but they're in slightly different order in EoA than the original and the pacing for each reference is differen #so i had to determine which ones I needed to skip frames for and which ones to use all the frames #and then try to figure out the speed from there #the coronation day scenes were very hard to color because the grey skies and muted filter kind of whitewash the characters #like you don't even understand i added so MUCH vibrance and saturation to the 4th and 5th gifs but elena's skin still is just gray #and the coloring is still just a very very mixed bag #also i've realized that while I don't think it was an intentional reference in the same way BATB was #anna's sacrifice and resurrection from frozen is perhaps just as --if not more-- a clear parallel to the coronation day scene than BATB #so maybe I will do that one someday too? #once i psych myself up again to try coloring coronation day again #which i imagine will be awhile #these do not look like the same scene and pretty much the same scene at all even if i tried to use the same psd when i could #and edit them to make the coloring as close as i could

[charmac]

A decade ago, Sunny sent out their Season 10 press, highlighting the milestone they were about to reach with 10 seasons, including a comparison graphic with the few other long-running comedies in existence:

This week, at the 2023 (in 2024) Emmys, Sunny presented alongside many celebrated TV shows, including Cheers, all of which ‘reunited’ or were honoured for their past runs. Sunny has now out-run every show on the above graphic, they didn’t have to reunite (as press may want you to believe) to celebrate their show, because they continue to air as the longest running network show on television today.

Nah, still no Emmys, still no nominations, but they're a part of television history that has grown impossible to ignore. They're taking their space on the stage now, and they're gonna continue to remind everyone they're still around for years to come. Extending their historical run every year, press acknowledgement and prestigious awards be damned.

#iasip #cast #rcg #im a little #mixed emotions of emotional over this and stewing still a little lol #i dont really think they need it #they know what they are and what they have #and that's special #but i am yeah.. a little emotional about them finally taking the fucking space they deserve #quit telling everyone im dead!!

[sadisthetic]

hanbok!!! for fun!

#just because i wanted to see my favorite boys in them #ninjago #ninjago jay #ninjago kai #jay walker #my art #i feel like with the sheer amount of orientalism thats in the show i feel like i have full freedom to draw the fuck i was as an asian dude #for the record i actually dont headcanon either of them as korean i hc kai as japanese which like #i feel like he couldnt be anything else? as the one of the two characters in this show who are actually strongly japanese coded? #like waves hand he could be mixed but he at Least needs to be part japanese #but thats not my personal headcanon tho i just generally headcanon him as japanese #and ninjago doesnt have fucking countries and theyre just legos i know but like #the world is def still based on this one. so gestures very hard. #i do what i want. #and also i headcanon jay as a one fourth chinese wasian who never fucking realizes hes part chinese BC HE NEVER MET HIS MOM #this is funny to me personally #he will never know..... im normal about jay never meeting his mom i swear. #anyways all these tags are irrelevant to the art drawing them in hanbok was just sheer indulgence #lemme have this #(bc sometimes i think about s4 specifically and scream) #closes eyes. at least s4 had best episode ninja roll at least.

[cas-theghostking]

Hi, sorry if this seems like a bizarre request, but I feel it would suit him. Zane seems like he'd be a dancer, and I'd like to see your design of him dancing (it can be as uncomplicated or as complex as you please)! And if you'd like, you could include another Ninja (or as many as you'd like)! It's all up to you; I would like to see him as a dancer! :D

So this ask was from two years ago and I completely forgot it existed but I absolutely loved this idea so here's zane and pixal doing the lindy hop!

#I have a sketch somewhere from when I first got this ask #But it's from two years ago and is 100% missing now #Something about zane (older seasons specifically) gives me this vibe that he would know old people dances #And I drew #Pixane #Cause they give old people couple vibes #Like that old couple who actually love eachother so much #But anyway #Their outfits are 60s/40s inspired #Like a mix of it #And yes these are my desgins of them #Though pix is usually a bit taller and I should've drawn both their shoulders wider #Oh well #Lindy hop #BTW pixels hand in the back is a reference to the charms my abuela puts on her bracelets but none of yall needed to know that- #ninjago #lego ninjago #lego ninjago fanart #pixal borg #ninjago pixal #Pixal ninjago #zane julien #zane ninjago #ninjago zane #To whoever sent me this ask I'm so sorry it took me so long I forgot it existed #Now that I think about it the original sketch mightve been glacier #Dang it now I gotta go find it #Edit: I changed my mind this is pixal pre being rebuilt but everything i said was off its still off on her pre desgin too so

[skillbattle]

woe! another wip be upon ye. I was thinking abt them and watching the cartoon so yknow gestures to this

#my hcs are an mix of every peice of media of them . #heavily inspired by the dkc cartoon and the movie with world building and characters deisgns and personalities #sprinkle in a little bit of game only characters ( tiny and kiddy. debateably chunky but he was in the movie ) #and I gotta figure out voice claims and shit . sorry seth rogan really works for me I’m sorry 💔💔 #did u know eric bauza voiced diddy in that one line he had. I was over the moon over an actual voice actor . #ANYWAYS I wanted to draw my marioverse interpretations and I have the wip princesses + toadette #I need to do mario and luigi and the warioware cast…. I want to include waluigi in the warioware cast I think…. #IDK WE’LL SEE WHERE THIS TAKES ME #wip

[non-un-topo]

See you soon

#the old guard #tog fanart #yusuf al kaysani #andromache of scythia #quynh #nicolo di genova #siggy draws #good lord it's finished. i don't think i've ever spent a month on a drawing before but here she is. #all from scratch. i am dead and my hand is a claw. #i missed them terribly #the old gays #oh wait i have to add my commentary #yusuf and nicolo are leaving. where? could be anywhere! #and they're leaving mid-morning instead of at dawn because andromache and quynh refuse to let them go. hence quynh isn't dressed yet. #not sure what she's wearing. it's like a mix of westley and buttercup's fits for some reason. #i tend to put andy and nicky in battle-ready clothes. doublets or gambesons. and ofc nicky needs a pair of leather riding pants #for... riding horses. #joe's outfit is based on a 10th century design i found. several centuries old but i think he's a man who appreciates vintage things dfgds

[eddiemunsongf]

my ideal steve/eddie dynamic is for there to be a while where eddie is integrated into the gang but steve’s still really standoffish about him. arms-crossed and questioning everything he says in that steve way. eddie doesn’t think he wants him around. but then one day they’re all out in the world and someone gets in eddie’s face calling him a murderer. and usually he can stand his ground just fine and owns the things people call him. but this guy is going off about how “we all saw what you did to that poor girl” and he still just can’t take that shit and he’s frozen and triggered as hell and he’s either about to cry in the street or crack this guy’s skull open on the pavement-- but then. steve’s there, standing between eddie and the guy. “do we have a problem? back the fuck off, man. seriously. get out of here.” and the guy hesitates but he doesn’t wanna get his ass kicked by steve harrington and the freak so he does fuck off. and steve stands right where he is with his hands on his hips glaring until the guys out of sight. and he turns back to eddie like “jesus man, some people.” but eddie’s just staring at him with those saucer eyes and steve’s like “...what?” and eddie’s like “why’d you do that?” and steve makes a face like that’s a stupid thing to say and he’s annoyed he has to spell it out. “you’re... you know. one of us.”

#this is platonic to me but actually writing it out.... pretty gay. this is pretty gay #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #you could get a similar thing out of a steve/jason altercation #but i think i need the eddie/jason confrontation to be between them #adding steve to the mix detracts from both of their arcs #even if it would be cash #mp

[foursaints]

What ethnicities do you headcanon Evan, Barty, and anyone else as? Ok if you don’t wanna answer, Just curious.

oh of course! i'll put it under the cut so i can talk about nationalities too. nothing on earth could compel me to imagine them all british.

my barty is balkan! i feel really strongly about this one... i see him as croatian, which in canon-times would make him yugoslavian. i think he's filipino on his mother's side though!! but without a strong connection to his culture on that side because of his dad :(

my rosier twins are egyptian but i also enjoy the headcanon that their family immigrated to the czech republic when they were ~13

james is desi, the black brothers are mixed korean (just like meee), lily is distantly polish, and remus is insanely german <- real ones will remember the berliner remus era of this account.

#a #in canon i accept that they're british so i can think about pureblood estates & land holdings #but idk. in modern au I like having them be from different countries #i need every character to be mixed from an immigrant family like me or I die

[stormyoceans]

I APOLOGIZE FOR THE PERSON IM GONNA BECOME WHEN THIS PHOTOSHOOT COMES OUT

#JIMMYSEA MY LORDS AND SAVIOURS JIMMYSEA #THE SEROTONIN I BADLY NEEDED THANK YOU KINGS #im doing terrible but i know i can always count on them #also i know i said i don't want jimmysea to do school stuff (unless they play teachers) but the first one is giving #i think i could deal with them as students if it was the boarding school horror QL of my dreams or some kind of time travel thriller #like a mix between be my favorite and triage #jimmysea #jimmy jitaraphol #sea tawinan #m: txt