#we technically didn't

[chrisrin]

lineup of all my designs so far!

#gemcyt #mcyt #su #lizzie is probably technically taller but i didn't want to make EVERYONE so small #gem is similarly realistically smaller but i wanted her to be yknow visible #ok we're gonna go from left to right tagging everyone #ready? #here we go #pearlescentmoon #docm77 #smajor1995 #solidaritygaming #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #tangotek #bigbst4tz2 #ldshadowlady (again) #bdubs #impulsesv #geminitay #grianmc #skizzleman #goodtimeswithscar #mumbojumbo #zombiecleo #rendog #inthelittlewood #ethoslab #wow that's a lotta dudes

[priestessamy]

hey girl, your boyfriend uh- yeah, we showed him the weird door in his house that appeared out of nowhere and- yeah, he went through. yeah there's a hallway that's like five and a half minutes long. mhm, he's already down the spiral staircase and everything.¹

no, yeah, he's pretty much abandoned you because of his obsession with the supernatural labyrinth beneath his house. sure, you can fuck his brother if it'll make you feel better (it won't)².

the good news is that he's not really being chased by a minotaur. gotta look on the bright side, right? yup, just a manifestation of his trauma. textbook, honestly.

anyway it's just that the narrative is crumpling a little bit. just like the house is unstable, so is the story's fourth wall. he's trapped in the house and you're trapped in the story. sorry, girl.

˙ɯᴉɥ ɹǝʇɟɐ ƃuᴉɯoɔ sᴉ snǝsǝɥʇ puɐ ˙ʍou ɥʇuᴉɹʎqɐl ǝɥʇ oʇ sƃuolǝq ǝɥ³

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¹ I seriously can't even fucking believe it's yet another one of these fucking memes. Like the author just thought it was so fucking clever. Yeah, we all have access to text editors and shit. Anyone could have made this.

² Doe, Jane. "Cuckoldry and Infidelity: The Pointlessness of Shallow Cheating." Extramarital Affairs Quarterly, 123, 45, March 7, 2000, 99-103.

³ This is an especially fascinating entry. The original author did take the time in the hand-written manuscript to carefully write each letter upside down rather than simply rotating the page. They even went to the trouble of writing the second sentence, despite eventually choosing to cross it out like nearly every other reference to the classic Greek myth.

#house of leaves #why am I like this #i put so much work into this #and I really didn't need to #but here we are #sorry girl #also I guess technically uhhh #spoilers #kinda?? #whatever

[what-aboutno]

Big brother things

#zara's art #ragbros #this is platonic btw if you didn't get the message #diluc ragnvindr #diluc #kaeya alberich #kaeya #wait this might be the first comic ive ever posted online :0!! #yeah hope you enjoy i speedran this for i could get it out #also this was for practice 👍 #oh fun fact this is all in Diluc's pov but that fitst dialogue is in black rather than red because its both of them thinking it :) #this is technically vent art because i wrote this while being incredibly sad at 3am but we can ignore that

[front-facing-pokemon]

#scorbunny #YEEEEAAAAAAAH WOOOOOOOOOOOO BABY BUNNYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HRSGRHSGSHAGGRAHRAGRAGH #oh sorry. am i cheering way more for scorbunny than i did for grookey? am i showing my bias toward the bnuuy more than the monky? #i don't care 'cause it's SCORBUNNY TIIIIIME YAAAAAAAAY BABY WITH A KRAFT SINGLE ON ITS FACE WOOOOOOOOOO #this isn't even the starter i chose personally in my swsh playthrough. i kinda went into swsh blind and i didn't know what the #final evos were gonna look like. if i'd known about cinderace in advance i would've chosen this thing. i am a furry. we all are #and this thing's final evolution gets a whole paw-shot animation on its signature move are you KIDDING me. are you KIDDING #but in my first run-through (technically the run that got me back into pokémon as a hyperfixation/special interest) i chose sobble #so i have a soft spot for inteleon too #but SCORBUNNYYYYYY WO

[svtskneecaps]

dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,

when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO

and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!

bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances

i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished

so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.

#qsmp #this is a mess but i keep marvelling at it ever since jaiden's streams #just that. it could have gone to hell. but they TALKED TO EACH OTHER. #and i kept seeing people on tumblr like 'nooo they're dividing them 😭' and i kept thinking in my head: #'it's ok. don't panic. don't worry. they're so good about communicating: roier will say something or jaiden will say something' #'and they'll resolve anything right there and then' #i fucking love it. i fucking love it. there have been cross lingual projects before that didn't breed community like this does #everyone is trying so hard to protect everyone. forever and baghera didn't even trust quackity and they were still trying to protect him #i can't express how much this silly fucking server means to me. i can't explain it #its so good. its so good. i love it so much i swear to god #like i promise you if some of the less active members were to step back online and ask about the lore #they'd get a FULL fuckin rundown of it even though the ordo theoritas is technically a secret society #just immediately #i love it. there may be gaslighting and girlbossing but there is NO gatekeeping #unless we count the french exp farm lmfao #idk idk idk!!!!! it means so much to me i swearrrrrrr #THEY'RE A TEAM YOUR HONOR. THEY!! ARE!!! A TEAM!!! #shut up vic #block game brainrot

[dootznbootz]

I'm happy that the "Helen is of Sparta, not Troy" post is getting seen and people are giving love to her as they should but I'm getting a wee bit frustrated by the Menelaus inclusion with the whole "She was a possession to others and never had a choice".

Yes, Helen is a victim of fate and multiple horrible circumstances. She gets kidnapped by Theseus and Paris. So much blame is being put on her when she really isn't at fault and doesn't have much choice.

A choice she made though? WAS MENELAUS!

The Oath of Tyndareus was all about how "If you want to have a chance of marrying her, you have to swear to respect her and her choice and defend their marriage if it's needed".

If anything, Menelaus was her "prize"! Not the other way around!!! And they are clearly shown caring for one another!!! uyfuygluhyutfugy

#we technically don't know EXACTLY why she chose him but that doesn't matter with this. She still chose him. #She picked the goofy guy!!! :D She picked the silly sealy guy!!!🦭 #Menelaus: Hello! I'm Helen's Husband🥰 #Not people erasing women's agency even when it's explicitly stated. #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #menelaus #helen of sparta #helen x menelaus #tagamemnon #greek mythology #fuck it. I'll use normal tags. I'm getting sad about this. More for Helen. #She didn't have a choice all the time but the time we KNOW she did and people will act like she didn't. #That's not even going into her yelling at Aphrodite and Paris and her knocking on the side of the horse! #this is very semi-unserious btw. I'm talking about the Sealy boy. That's clearly for the silly.

[general-cyno]

wano has become a favorite arc of mine for different reasons and it also gave me a lot of zolu brainworms to mull over, so here I go (again). spoilers for some of the big reveals in the arc so beware

despite getting separated shortly after reuniting, yasuie's execution once again highlighted how similarly minded zoro and luffy are - like zoro, luffy gets pissed at the sight of ppl laughing at yasuie after he's killed, though they both learn it's due to the effects of the smile fruits. and despite the fact that doing so could put their plan in jeopardy (hence why sanji yells at zoro to cool his head), luffy actively cheers zoro on (from the distance) when he goes after orochi in retaliation

a nice tiny moment is also back when they're together. luffy was worried since big mom appeared in wano yet jimbei (who had stayed in whole cake island to fend her off along his former crew so the straw hats could escape) hadn't arrived. albeit zoro wasn't even part of the WCI arc events, he's quick to reassure luffy:

although I'm not certain whether law was referring to them specifically or not, there's a part during the discussion of the raid where he says there's two idiots who, no matter how much planning goes into it, are likely to charge straight in regardless. then, of course, this happens:

(so yeah. I think they're probably the idiots)

and funnily enough, zoro doesn't get lost for once. not only does he find luffy, any intention zoro had of (ironically, considering he was causing a ruckus himself) chastising luffy for messing up the infiltration goes out the window when he tells zoro about the spilled oshiruko

this is a direct callback to their interactions with tama when they first reunited in wano. it's cute how attached they got to her and yeah, they're both stupidly reckless at times but this is one occasion in which it isn't just for the sake of chaotic shenanigans - it's them getting angry at how these ppl are disrespecting what tama and the oshiruko stand for. to those present, it seems foolish/weird since they don't understand the context behind it, but it's the kind of understanding that goes on between luffy and zoro precisely bc of the moments they share together.

there's some good panels of both worrying about each other after getting hurt and zoro carrying an injured luffy to safety. they're soooo.

this was pretty good too:

their plan to jump to the roof to face kaido ultimately fails here but it's still cute that zoro's so willing now to just cling to and let luffy carry him around like this (arlong park zoro has come a long way lol). it also says a lot abt luffy's trust in both the crew and zoro that he was fine letting them in charge below while he and zoro went to face kaido together.

the x drake ordeal was kind of funny but it served to show exactly why zoro complements luffy so well. luffy tends to be very trusting toward others, even those who might've started out as enemies which usually works out fine but still. zoro's quick to remind luffy that the guy's a traitor and unreliable, and (along with some of the other straw hats) refuses to blindly accept the impromptu alliance. it's interesting though, that zoro doesn't entirely disregard luffy's opinion nor x drake's help per se - he's just understandably wary of drake's true intentions (pointing out that he's still hiding where he stands in the whole conflict) and eventually agrees to team up. love the balance of it ngl.

that said, the actual fight on the roof has to be one of my favorite parts! it's probably one of the most obvious occasions in which zoro's role as luffy's first mate/right hand man and how much luffy relies on him too shines through. there's zoro slashing big mom and kaido's fire attacks so they wouldn't hurt luffy, taking the lead in attempting to stave off kaido and big mom's joint attack (and succeeding for a bit) despite the fact that he's got three powerful captains beside him, and several panels of him protecting luffy. this one was particularly crazy

this is pretty much zoro's equivalent to "if you wanna kill him you'll have to kill ME first". insane. I love them so much. zoro may be the one to have more instances in which he gets to demonstrate his loyalty and protectiveness towards luffy rather than the opposite - but knowing luffy's the one who usually risks himself for others in grandiose ways, I find it very compelling that zoro gets to be the one to protect him in these important moments, that luffy trusts him to do it and even thanks him for it here in this arc. to me, there's a reason why, out of the whole crew, zoro was the only one to take part in this particular confrontation. mutual trust/understanding/respect etc are at the core of their relationship. it's a two way thing.

fast forward to zoro vs king and OF COURSE this mf thought of luffy when facing the guy.

I posted about this the other day, but something similar happened during zoro's duel against mihawk. when the latter asks what drives zoro to fight despite being so weak, it's this exact part of his meeting with luffy at the marine base that he recalls. zoro has certainly driven himself to get stronger for the crew's sake and for his dream, but it's clear that luffy (and his own promise to kuina) is one of zoro's biggest motivators. he's also the one person zoro has cast aside that very dream of his for so... (thriller bark zoro you live in my heart always).

when zoro wins against king, too, it's his promise to never lose that he recalls. the promise he made to luffy. regardless of how you interpret their relationship, it's obvious luffy means a lot to zoro and moments like these don't let the readers forget it.

that said, this was perhaps the most insane part to me:

just when you think zolu can't get more trope-y than it already is, the manga says: wait a fucking second. canon sun/moon, heaven/hell, god/demon zolu.

I was already spoiled about these bits, though they were exciting to read through anyway. I think it's very curious that both zoro's ancestry and his conqueror's haki reveal happened during the arc where the true nature of luffy's devil fruit comes to light and his awakening into joyboy/nika takes place. can't say for sure what oda's planning for them in the future, but wano is probably the biggest glimpse so far as to the kind of figures luffy and zoro are bound to become (or are already becoming) in one piece's universe.

joyboy luffy being considered a hero to wano only rivaled by shimotsuki ryuma is also so... oof, knowing that ryuma (also called god of the blade) is zoro's ancestor, whose zombie he faced back in thriller bark and whose sword shusui he wielded for a while after that, and that he resembles physically too (both being one-eyed samurai/swordsmen). there's a lot more parallels to be drawn between them, and zoro's conqueror's haki adds a whole new layer to their relationship, but a detail that's fascinating to me is that both zoro's presence and joyboy's awakening in wano are hailed as the work of fate at different points, by kawamatsu and zunesha respectively.

overall there seems to be a thread of "fate" that's tying the story together from the void century to roger's era to the present but choice is also an important aspect imo. zoro and luffy are an example, bc in spite of how their stories have turned out to be somewhat intertwined... it was luffy's choice to seek out the demon pirate hunter and rope him into his crew. it was zoro's choice to join him, to make a promise that'd tie his own dream to luffy's. there's a potential that neither of them could've reached if they hadn't come together to sail in that dinghy and formed an entire crew (a family!) that have all of them journeying towards their dreams, always relying on and striving to become better for one another. all of these little choices for luffy and zoro led them up to this point and onwards, which tbh is just really fucking good.

#zolu #tp #long post #yes it's me....again. and with a longer post yet #there's a lot more I wanted to mention djdjdkdkd but I think it was too much for a single post #and I didn't want to derail much #can't say I wasn't a little disappointed bc wano felt like it could've been The zoro arc yknow #still. there was A Lot going on in the plot to squeeze something more and honestly ajdjdjd I think oda kinda botched the possibility #of a rescue zoro arc in this particular angle simply bc there is no way that current zoro would ever leave luffy and the crew #much less for a legacy he's never even known (and technically still doesn't). zoro's loyalty was already put to test in a way #back in thriller back I mean. and we all know how that went so yeah #anyway that's exactly the stuff that could warrant its own post djdjdj but long story short #I LOVE ZOLU SO MUCH #jay reads op

[deadpanwalking]

#“you are not immune to propaganda” problem is some of you have absolutely no fucking immune system

thank you! i'm so sick of being nice about this particular thing. this webbed site is so invested in telling people it's okay if they fall for a little blood libel as a treat

I feel like I'm going insane. That post was well-intentioned and I hope it reaches people who need to see it, but the fact that OP and their friends hung out with fascists for hours before they began to suspect something was off is absolutely fucking wild to me—the dogwhistles wouldn't have even registered if they hadn't walked past a literal synagogue, and they only picked up on those because they recognized the rhetoric as things the Klansmen in their family would say. OP is in their 30s, btw—that level of credulity in an adult is objectively horrifying! If I truly believed every gentile leftist were that susceptible, I'd fucking kill myself.

#the nazis don't fish for white able-bodied people...have you seen the average nazi? lol #they fish for pre-packaged idiots who are too insecure to question orders #people like OP will get taken in and be like oh we ALL got radicalized but that's just not true #(yes‚ i know they didn't technically get taken in but this andcdote is told as a “near miss” when the fact is that it was a palpable hit) #anonymous #assbox #i do think these people should be swept out of any organized activist group along with the dirt they tracked inside #i do think that critical thinking should be the price of admission to activist spaces

[clotpolesonly]

Blue Lily, Lily Blue ch 31 // Mister Impossible ch 19

#ronanedit #trcedit #Ronan Lynch #TRC #quote posts #if it didn't happen all the time BEFORE it certainly does AFTER #which is a deeply deeply disturbing thing to just get dropped casually in the narration and then never mention again #where did he put all of these corpses? what did he do with them? #is there a back field that serves as a graveyard? #what tf does this do to him emotionally? when he dreams about his loved ones (which we know he does frequently)? #you're telling me just.....kills them??? and then sometimes wakes up with their fucking doppelganger corpses??? #when the line between dream and reality is so so thin for him experientially #he may know it's not real technically sort of but it FEELS REAL that's the whole dreamer shtick #that it HAS to feel real in order to BE brought back #these are real corpses #seriously i cannot get over this i don't understand how this can just be tossed in there and never mentioned again or followed up on #it's genuinely horrific and disturbing

[themadknightuniverse]

100 Lalo/Tony :)

#the ultimate proof i'm totally normal about him #michael/nacho isn't far behind! #gonna make one too #but not today because this takes an eternity to make #i didn't featured the ones where we don't see enough of his face #so there is technically more than 100 #because i'm sane #lalo salamanca #tony dalton #100lalo #lacho #grid #bcs #my art

[robindaydream]

Saw pictures of velvet worms on my dash again and now I'm thinking about how nice it would be if they were big and liked to be pet. And maybe they'd crawl on your lap and knead on you with their nubby little feet before curling up into a cute little spiral. They're purring also.

#bugs cw -- #not TECHNICALLY but just to be safe #yes I KNOW their feet have little claws but so do cats and we still let them do that #apparently they're also social?? I didn't fucking know that that's wild

[youweremyversaillesatnight]

finally, the thought that has been plaguing me for weeks:

i was going to try and do a venn diagram and then i realized that would be a nightmare so here is my funky little string board of the bad kids and their parents

(in writing under the cut)

the teal line, labeled 'killed their dad', connects fabian and adaine.

the dark green line, labeled 'dead dad', connects riz, fabian, and adaine.

the dark blue line, labeled 'estranged from their parents', connects kristen and adaine.

the purple line, labeled 'more than two parents', connects gorgug, adaine, and fig.

the red line, labeled 'dad in hell', connects fabian and fig.

the orange line, labeled 'parent dating another bad kids' parent', connects riz, fabian, and fig.

the yellow line, labeled 'met their parent during the show', connects gorgug, adaine, and fig.

the light blue line, labeled 'multiclass is related to a parent/parents', connects gorgug and fig.

the light green line, labeled 'abandoned by parents', connects kristen, fabian, and adaine

#i think i'm probably missing things and there's nuance/technicalities to some of them but hey. this is what we got #for the purposes of this chart gilear is NOT counted as fabian's parent bc fabian doesn't see him that way #but jawbone IS counted as adaine's parent because he adopted her #i did almost put a line between fig and fabian just labeled 'gilear' but didn't bc i had already decided gilear didn't count for fabian #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #d20 #the bad kids

[dragondawdles]

forbidden pudding

#legend of zelda #four swords #fsa manga #shadow #shadow fsa #zelda #tloz #dragon doodles #alt in id #eating #(<- unsure if that's an appropriate tag for this lmk if I am mistagging!! ) #directly inspired by a discussion in the lu discord but not *technically* lu so I didn't tag it as such. also unsure of etiquette here #another addition in 'trying to be more casual artposting here'. you get discord comik #yeah btw I benrey'd him. we have fun here #GRAHHHH working on MANY COOL THINGS and you will see at least one of them SOON ish hopefully!! #(AFTER PIKMIN 4. I THINK. I DON'T HAVE IT YET BUT *RUNS AROUND IN CIRCLES* PIKMIN 4.)

[carryonlikewedidbefore]

On one hand I would love to go to the Ghost Files live shows in the UK this week. On the other hand I think it would be the most uncomfortable live performance I'd ever been to, and I've gone to a standup comedy show where there were 2 audience members

#and no we didn't know each other #ghost files #watcher #I've technically been to a comedy show where there was only 1 audience member but we decided to have a drink and a chat instead of comedy

[the-stove-is-divorced]

Remembering I can draw fanart for my own fics, SO BEHOLD! The most mentally sound halves of a fusion imaginable! Technically a redraw of art I did way earlier for the same fic! Flexing my art muscles and thinking about these two is good for the soul. Love them. Bastards to write though. I can't wait to write them fused back together, but we're not here yet and it's AGONY.

#fanart for me #because it's mine haha #steven universe #my fics #steven universe future #steven universe fanart #pink steven #unfortunately steven 2.0 does not have pretty pink rose curls (just yet maybe ???) #we will see if that happens sooner or later #sometimes when you cant write cause u brain is mush you draw instead and that's just the honest truth of this world #i literally forget i can draw art for my own fics #I do not know why #steven universe au #i mean yeah technically steven unfuses in future au #as someone described it “steven if he was 2% more fucked up” #also ty for the bookmark that says “Plz this story has me feeling things I didn't know I could feel” devolve where ever u are #AND I WILL DESIGN STEVEN BACK TOGETHER CAUSE HE'S GONNA LOOK A LIL DIFF HEHE #lovingly been calling him steven 3.0 lol

[strange010]

Rise!Leo x Miyamoto:

Leo: *doing something stupid*

Miya: please don't die-

Rise! Leo x Yuchi:

Leo: *doing something stupid*

Yuchi: *joins him*

#i love both these ships because they are so different #Leo is being silly and miyamoto wants to contain the silly to a non lethal level #Yuchi is just encouraging it #Also used first named bc both last names are usagi #im also upset we didn't get usagi in rise but part of me is glad bc I'm scared of what they would have decided to do #Like idk what if they made him like 5000 yr old ghost or something #They made shredder a demon so I wouldn't put it past them #Rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #leosagi #Leochi #A rare occasion where both tags should be used #Srsly stop tagging leochi content with the leosagi content #Ik leosagi is technically correct for both but miyamoto came first so he gets claim on it #technically correct bc it’s their last name