#you have no idea how liberating this was

[phlurrii]

I cannot sleep and I am curious about your take on this random conundrum I am faced with that I was wondering your take on because I love how you are able to depict dynamic movement and action in your art and animations.

So, I absolutely LOVE it when the typically cutesy being that is Mew is depicted as a feral godly beast and I am so utterly in love with Meau’s truly powerful design. An absolute apex predator. However, my brain is hung up on a frustrating detail. If they weren’t floating everywhere all the time how would they like… prowl? Or chase down something. They’ve got these nubby little arms and these looooong legs.

Like. I’m trying SO hard to imagine something that could anatomically work because as eery as floating can be there’s something satisfying about feeling in the weight of a creature through its gait. But all I can picture with their body shape is…hopping. Just a murderous psychic kangaroo cat god bounding towards something but like…It’s kind of silly? I’m sure irl that would probably be absolutely terrifying to see a kangaroo bouncing at you with malicious intent but… it’s hard to picture it as an intimidating movement.

The slow predatory prowl or the fast thumps of heavy clawed paws of something huge and large sharp teeth that quadrupeds have is so a satisfying in a heart racing way. I WANT a Mew or Mew-ish creature to be able to have that vibe while connected to the earth that but then I look at those LONG footers and nub paws and I…I’m left feeling like it’s not possible.

Even for Meau like…their arm to leg ratio…I don’t think it’s possible to run on all 4s. Naruto-run sure. Absolutely. All the mews and twos can Naruto run and kangaroo-hop with them leggies…but none of them move with the “tiger on the hunt in the forest” vibes. I want to make something close to that but I keep making something too permanently quadrupedal in anatomy.

Sorry for the tired brain rambling I just my brain won’t let me sleep because of it’s “How would Meau run down their prey on foot” thoughts sending me in a spiral.

You see- you see, I have the same. Exact, brain worms. Constantly.

When I made the Ancient mew, I wanted something feral, a physical threat. That happens to be psychically able to obliterate you as a side treat. In my earliest comics, I tried so hard to demonstrate she was a power house, so much so her mega evolution is entirely just… that. A massive, wall of steel. Meau tore those scientists limb from limb, literally, with her jaw. Even in mew form, she bitch slapped a nidoking with her tail and kangaroo kicked a persian. She could’ve just shadowballed them, sure, but I want that weight. That feral energy, that sense of an unstoppable force, meeting an immovable object, except it’s just one cat and they are about to flatten you.

As her design has clearly evolved, I’ve tried to make alterations that fit this feeling, that vibe of apex predator no matter the size. She’s larger then average because she’s a threat, she’s more muscular because she’s a threat, her tail is thicker, packed with said muscle because she’s a threat, her front paws are meaty and girthy because She’s. A. Threat. Her entire mega evolution is just amping up that primal energy of raw, unadulterated strength. That’s why I made it, it was my first freaking thought after I designed her XD

I was actually caught between animating a younger Meau acting like a mew or an current Meau acting like a threat. I went with younger Meau cuz we don’t see a lot of her and she’s about to come up with Noe’s arc. So if you sent me this lovely and viciously relatable brain dump 3 days ago, I probably would’ve swayed to animate feral meau XD

But, to answer your question, yes. She can absolutely hunt you down on all fours and disembowel you with her jaw, she is that untamed, wild concentration that kills with a sleek efficiency fellow gods fear. And! At the end of our current arc we’ll finally get that secondary typing reveal I’ve had planned since April XD

#ask #it felt #so #good to get an ask that brain dumps as hard as I do about this concept #you have no idea how liberating this was #I dropped everything and willed a doodle page into existence #tired of these thoughts just living in my head #let her be unhinged #puzzled zebra #meau #ancient mew #mew #pokemon #mew pokemon #the ancient mew #pokémon mew

[hussyknee]

They put Motaz Azaiza's face on the cover of GQ Middle East for his coverage of Gaza while he's still trapped in there and being targeted by quadcopters and not one Arab government has done more than be like "oh that's sad tsk tsk". He's really pissed off about it obviously; man's been pleading for a ceasefire for nearly two months live from the seventh circle of hell and liberals slap his face on the Sexy Man magazine and draw hearts around it instead. Fucking clown world.

#motaz azaiza #we've been checking on him nearly every hour because he's been tweeting about how obviously the drones are targeting him #and then this #do you think being a famous middle eastern face will discourage israel from killing him or something #have they been living under a rock. is this their first day outdoors #this is why open bigots are preferable to liberals #their idea of support is more destructive to morale and more insidiously dehumanizing #it wasn't even a good picture of him #gaza genocide #free palestine #knee of huss

[craycraybluejay]

yeah yeah you hate me I'm an evil disgusting perverted manwhore we have each other blocked everywhere blah blah but I know you still jerk off to me and I know it makes you hate yourself a bit because you don't have the strength to accept the darker parts of your desire. but you can't help yourself and I take pleasure in the knowledge.

#this pussy makes homosexual men hate themselves !! #this tdick makes you want to kill yourself !! #this wretched and desirous personality has captivated you so !! #pussy change your life like im god~ they always fall in love not my fault~ #im never pickin up when they call~ #<- song lyrics #you want to fuck me so bad it makes you act stupid !! #im genuinely not mad people are generally going to end up hating themselves too much to be chill #but i am having a wild laugh bc this mf who told me i'm a gross freak also told me that he has sex dreams about me regularly #like yeah ok faggot #watch this loser text me in like a year apologizing for being a judgy little bitch begging me to respond LMFAO #thank u next hoe !! #idk its extra liberating to not only decide to be more choosy but also to know they obsessed #how's the vanilla boyfriend taste? can he get you off 7 times in a row? does he make you feel free and hedonistic? #anyway yeah im just being mean here bc its a mood boost i would not say this shit to anyone lmao #trust me bro i am literally the last person to cross the line when i get emotional (usually excited sometimes angry or horny) #ok no im a little prone to excitedly infodumping for 8 hrs but i try not to offend people #making enemies for no reason is a terrible idea

[uncanny-tranny]

Do you believe in transandrophobia

I mean, I talk at length about being a trans man and the intersections of my trans manhood and interacting in a world which often doesn't want people like me to exist, so even if I don't really call my experiences that, maybe you might? I generally support people calling their experiences with oppression how they see it, which is why some trans men say they experience misogyny and some don't. Neither are "more correct" because we almost all experience transphobia, misogyny, and everything else slightly differently.

At the end of the day, trans liberation must happen with all of us no matter what their experience is. I've seen so much "discourse" surrounding terms like these when at the end of the day, we're still being oppressed no matter what we call our experiences. I think it's okay for people to label their experiences as they see fit, but I don't think that's the end-all-be-all. I guess my sole focal point is trans liberation before debating about what terms we have to use.

I always find asks like this to be very odd, mostly because I don't know what the context behind this is or why it's asked. If you want a more direct answer to my political or philosophical views, I really would at least like more details as to what inspired questions like these so I can clarify, expand, or discuss specific points.

#ask #anon #trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #blog boundaries #(mostly for the last paragraph) #i think this ask is especially odd to me because i talk so often about being a trans man and what my experiences are #and also because 'believe in' is weird to me #like i follow a lot of other trans men* as well and other trans people who talk at length about trans lib and how they fit in with that #i think being able to engage with the idea that we must have each other's backs even if we aren't fond of each other is important #YES you're going to come across trans people you don't like or who use language for themselves you don't like... #...but how you treat them is more important. do you sacrifice them or do you include them in trans liberation? #are there trans people who you just don't like so you do your best to exclude them from trans liberation? #when i talk about trans liberation i don't mean that you have to like all trans people #hell *i* don't like all trans people. we're flawed and we can be plain TERRIBLE. but i don't exclude them from trans lib #not liking (and hating) people is part of the human condition 👍

[whywoulditho]

if you're still not boycotting israeli products, protesting against the genocide, sharing the news, asking for a ceasefire, I am judging you. I know my followers, I know my mutuals. I know the ones who selectively interact with my anime shitposts and ignore the ones about palestine. I am seeing you and I am judging you. I won't call you out on your bullshit personally, because if you can still ignore this humanitarian crisis while being active online and seeing all those posts, you're just not worth trying to reason with. But know that if you still choose to be silent, if you still think this issue is too political or complicated you're an ignorant, pathetic little bitch. you can't live without your starbucks? grow the fuck up. you think celebrities don't owe anyone their support and it is okay for them to stay quiet when it's the brown, the muslim who suffers? you're fucking delusional and you're pathetic. you think you get to turn a blind eye because it's not effecting you? you're a self-centered whiney little toddler. stay in your bubble and keep quiet all you want, i know you will lie to your kids one day and tell them you stood with palestine.

none of us are free until all of us are. free palestine 🇵🇸

#the biggest dumbfuck arguement i've seen esp from turkish media was 'well there are other genocides going on too 🤓' #and i think that's like the lowest you can sink #trying to use other ppl's suffering to promote the idea that any act done against genocide is in vain bc ppl always suffer and always will #like how fucking out of touch with reality do you have to be to think that's a valid point #yes many people are suffering #when we say free palestine we mean free the opressed. anywhere in the world #my heart cries for uyghurs. for sudan. for congo. for yemen. every single nation that's being massacred #the reason we put so much emphasis on palestine right now is that if we dont their freedom will be lost very very soon #this is not to say i'm prioritizing one nation's liberation above another #just the reality that if we dont speak up right now it might be too late #they are literally waiting for us to stop talking about it #to forget and get used to it #that's why its so important #all of them are. but if you're using the others to justify your apathy you're a disgusting person #freepalestine #free palestine #free gaza #boycott starbucks #boycott israel #boycott mcdonalds #boycott disney #boycott zara

[namisweatheria]

I understand most people aren't very conscious of these things but gender is a huge, huge mode through which people connect to each other, especially in youth. (Think wanting to imitate gendered features, or participate in gendered activities together.) Yamato didn't have peers or a real parent to connect with, so it makes perfect sense he would connect with his hero through gender instead. To invalidate that is just insane to me.

What do people who do that think gender is.... no don't tell me, because if someone doesn't respect the language people choose for themselves, (and trust me, there have been and continue to be plenty of real people who describe their own trans experiences as "choosing to be x" whether you like it or not), I am not interested in anything they have to say on the subject. Yamato is a man!

#yamato #one piece #my posts #you either support gender liberation and autonomy or you don't. it is honest to god that simple hahaha #regardless of one's personal discomfort with people's “unclear” or “problematic” language! it's not anyone else's business! #and how a person reacts to yamato's clearly stated and untroubled gender identity says a lot about their ideas of gender. #whether they realize it or not. #I've seen a couple assholes but we're mostly past this discourse right. I'm not.. gonna get death threats or something.. #i was just thinking of how gender is a social activity and how yamato substitutes his hero for what he should have had. it's sad :') but #also metal as hell. ok just decide that then. I love you.

[rotzaprachim]

you’re thinking about how easily massive numbers of the wildly antisemitic tankies would have been pulled into the actual political tenets of (esp early to mid 20th century) armed Zionism and you’re laughing?????

#This folks is why analysis of ideology and the structures of an ideology is important #Rather than just random ass ethnic signposting #A lot of people see Zionism as something suspicious and jewy that had to do with Jews - I don’t like them #But the reality of Zionism as an initially distinctly leftist branch of political ideology that sought to liberate an oppressed people #With that tiny niggly wiggly issue of the fact people might #Already have lived on that land???? Ohhhh boy #All these cottage core back to the land the world would be better if I could reject modernity and return to the ancient ways of Farming #Society is broken it cannot be fixed the only option is to found a New Tough society that will fix all our previous problems #And we’ll get round to it in heavily armed leftist commune farming settlements #Which we will defend with violence because any violence in the name of an oppressed people is justified and our legitimacy comes from the #Rifle!!! #The only reason you see this ideology as inherently removed and bizarre is antisemitism and the only reason you see yourself removed from i #Also antisemitism!!! #You would have done numbers in ahdut ha-avoda you would have called Ben gurion abbaleh/ #Remember: a bunch of the people who got sucked into this of ideology weren’t the *rich Republican aipac Jews*!*’ your head #They were broke often very secular Jewish leftists working dead end gig economy jobs in farms and sweatshops for whom the idea of a Brave #New World with a. Brave new culture was very appealing and liberating #It offered something new to the broken. #It’s important to talk about this stuff to talk about how it can be undone #But also. The world is not divided into the Oppressed and the Unoppressed #Your political ideology does not stop you from hurting others #No political ideology even anti capitalism or leftism is innately pure- all can harm others #No ethnic and cultural identity no matter how oppressed is free from the potential to subjugate others #No identity or ideology is greater than the right of other people to live freely #Cycles of oppression and the pyramid structure of many empires result in oppressed people harming other oppressed people #Many many goyim think that they’re removed from the logic of Zionism because they aren’t Jews because it’s something wierd and jewy #But I see a lot of the most destructive logics parroted by leftists every day

[konfizry]

Anyway speaking of the sun did I ever tell you about the tales of arise eclipses

#im thinking about it again xyhdfgdchdchjh #do you think they like. considered it #i MEAN ofc they did #they cided that sun disappearing behind rena but dO YOU THINK #that they initially planned to have that actually impact like. the WORLD #in a significant manner? #with the actual luminosity level being affected and all #because like for cyslodia iirc this means no sunlight in the morning #(or cyslodia that we get to explore cyslodia's pretty big after all) #but like i can see how this is a problem like #you liberate cyslodia that is the One Realm where its always nighttime except when you end the renans' grasp on the region there #it still doesnt get a full day of sunlight because of astronomical reasons that we cant do anything about yet #also probably the region of the Central Ocean is in perpetual darkness as well but for those same astronomical reasons #like it GERS CONFUSING it would confuse everything idk #but heres the solution: you ditch that cyslodia in endless nighttime idea bc it was stupid in the first place #like. in calaglia they harvest fire astral energy so its a fiery place. theres fire everywhere. in menancia theyre harvesting #earth astral energy so its super lush and green. and so on and so forth #and in cyslodia theyre harvesting light astral energy so theres. theres no light. its dark. because theyre stealing it!!!!! #well why usnt menancia a barren wasteland then. why isnt ganoth super dry. wha #i COULD accept it if like. maybe. if like the completely stealing the light thing us like. ganabelt specifically. #like hes just a Special Boy and found a way to pull all the stops #and something like that has never been done before in the history of the crown contest #but no this has been going since the great conquest apparently so??? #like how arent the other lords doing something like that too? #is light astral energy like so fundamentally different that the harvesting process is the opposite of what happens in other realms? #and if thats the case why dont they ever explain it in the game. or just make a pasing comment about it. I'm not picky #aaaanyway. just get rid of that specific cyslodia plot point #and THEN you can focus on how living in the shade of rena influenced what parts of Dahna #like. to just kinda like. cement the world building a bit?

[54prowl]

I remember this person I used to consider a friend way back who only interacted with me to police what I did or to mention some other person copying something they did and just having general bad juju. heavy black hole vibe...

anyway if you've read this and the tags, drop me a paw print boop 🐾🐾

#ooc #open tags at your own risk and grab a cuppa #cuppa ready? ok let's go gamers #which is so funny like idk!! #''i can't believe someone would write the same trope after i did and it gets more notes'' #''oh prowl i also had that idea last week'' #be normal!!! #it's the holier than thou 'i write better and put more effort in my fanfiction than you do' mindset that you need to burn to a crisp fr #but it's also the tone policing and white woman pearl clutching that i could not handle #it's also the sending themself and others (incl me) anon hate #and the vaguing on dash how can i ever forget!!! #glad that's over #anyway if you have a person like this in your life....cut them off #they are siphoning your energies and you are not a healthcare worker to sit there and wait for them to get better #tons of friends out there to make with the time you'll be saving from their drama lbr #anyway freely and liberally nuke your old accounts #nuking old accounts feel like a weight off your shoulders #life is good if you make it good babey #ok im done #idk why i thought of them suddenly #they're probably into bts now or some other thing

[orangememesicle]

my most “liberal” media take is that not only is “revolutionary oppressed person who chooses to commit war crimes” a real type of person, but an important type of person to explore in art. sometimes, people who are correct do heinous shit. it’s better to reconcile with that than to blindly defend individuals who enjoy finally being able to be the boot. there are ways to go about writing this that don’t both-sides or dismiss political violence entirely

#original post #writing #you have to make it make sense but it’s not inherently libshit propaganda #anyways this is kinda why i like the opa in the expanse #diverse loosely coordinated coalition of anticolonial revolutionaries with different ideas of how to gain liberation? #that aren’t just ‘total pacifism’ or (spoilers) drop an asteroid on earth and cause an entire apocalypse? #good shit

[machinavocis]

tl;dr the last 24 hours:

roommate & i have decided we will, in fact, be getting the fuck out of utah.

but where the fuck out that will be, we have almost no clue.

& so the quest begins.

#(roommate is just like. existentially exhausted by Being Here. & i totally get it. that's a reasonable response.) #(& the funny thing is i'd also been feeling like i Wanted to Be Not Here but i hadn't figured out how to tell roommate about this) #(but then literally the next day he's like yeah so i feel like i maybe want to be Not Here? so like. i think we will be Doing That.) #so i pitched the idea of meeting up later this week to order some takeout dinner & make a Big Ol' List of must-haves & would-like-to-haves #& then start Doing Research & looking into whereabouts fits a sufficient amount of the bill & therefore might warrant an in person vibechec #so yeah lol hi friends do any of you like & recommend the united state you are currently living in #is it culturally & legislatively progressive enough that disabled people like roommate feel like they are generally Given a Shit About #at least more so than here lol #prior to 2020 census redistricting our federal congressperson was a man who wrote a book abt how The Liberals are 'whiners weenies & wimps' #an Extremely Normal Mormon Republican Man #such jesus very compassion

[musclesandhammering]

Every major instance of Girl Power they’ve tried to do in the mcu has been the most shallow, performative, pseudo-feminist shit I’ve ever seen. And it’s very telling that mainstream fans eat it up so much.

#the same Twitter folks that have rainbow flags in their bio and a bunch of support Ukraine and blm and feminist stickers all over everything #you know the ones that make being Woke 75% of their personality #the same ones that know nothing about lgbt people and have no idea what poc are actually demanding #and have never once voted in a primary and couldn’t tell you how the Ukraine war got started #I’m just- I’m so tired of people using liberalism as a fad and a personality trait #and not actually understanding or being interedted in the complexities of it #and this same bs attitude is bleeding into corporate film companies #and it’s just aaaugabahshga #I’m tired #marvel criticism #anti mcu

[hussyknee]

The worst thing the whole Harry Potter discourse has done is making fandom parrot the take: "Death of the Author doesn't apply when they're living and profiting off their work." Idk how we can come back from that one tbh.

#That's. Not. What. Death. Of the. Author. Means. #it's about the fact that the story must be interpreted according to nothing more than what is on the page #that the way you consume and interpret a piece of art relies on nothing more than your own understanding and preferences #instead of authorial intent‚ fiat or motivation or 'Word of God' (info tacked on later by the creator) #it doesnt free you of the onus of consuming it critically while acknowledging it's problems #or finding an ethical way to consume it which includes not giving the creator money if they use it for harmful purposes #so people who use Death of the Author to continue buying the books and merchandise #or simply gloss over the valid criticism of it #and people who rebutt it by implying that Death of the Author LITERALLY MEANS THE AUTHOR'S DEATH #are both stupidly wrong #unfortunately this idea has now rooted itself so deep as the battle line between white liberals and leftists #that it's hard to imagine it being dispelled any time in the near future #ethical consumption under capitalism is necessary and useful #but the west's egoism as usual has taken a concept and rendered it actively counterproductive through hardwired neoliberal individualism #anyway trying to eradicate the third most read book in the world from global cultural consciousness is a fool's errand #that ends up punishing and policing only the most accessible and vulnerable targets with internet access #and making a franchise of wizard school books the battleground of systemic transphobia #is a clear indication of how leftism has been entirely co-opted by the white bourgeoisie #and the fact that how their approach impacts trans and queer people of the global south #is not even on the west's radar‚ let alone having any allyship with our queer folks #harry potter #fandom #fandom discourse #writing #literary analysis #decolonization #knee of huss

[magicdyke]

theoretically the idea of being a masculine woman is so awesome to me, but whenever i see anything posted by my family referring to me with "she," my vision develops chromatic aberration and i start hearing a really loud buzzing noise and a fog starts rolling in

#luckily i can still be a butch lesbian without a need for those pronouns but like ykwim #there are so many theoretically good pronouns out there like xe/xirs + hi/hirs + no pronouns #but they don't really get it. he doesn't quite do it either but it's probably the closest I'll ever get #it's really annoying #that being said i am happy when ppl gender me correctly when they get what it is I'm about #but every single thing i see being like 'uhh you use he?? how the crap are you a lesbian' gets under my skin no matter how stupid it is #this is such an annoying insecurity to poses #s #idk pronouns are so fucking annoying and i know that every adult i introduce myself to just sees me as a man #and that idea makes me uncomfortable #but not as uncomfortable as just being misgendered all the time #everything is so fucking annoying i just wanna work by myself and spend time with my friends #i do not want to be in an environment around ppl all the time #so i dont have to get reallt annoyed about how people see me #like im very visibly a lesbian #but i tell ppl i use he and then everyone obviously gets confused bc their concepts of gender are so deeply limited #it's frustrating as fuck to live in this like. art community with all these liberal freaks or whatever #and still have to explain myself to people 😭

[starredforlife]

a message, hi, hello, to the predominantly white estadounidense community on tumblr: I hope it depresses you to be American. I hope you are realizing how much blood we have on our hands. Decades and generations of it. I don’t want it to make you hopeless and helpless and victimized I want it to make you ashamed and devastated and motivated to do something. Your tax money pays for weapons that kill children overseas and if you got a minimum wage job here you couldn’t afford to live between paychecks. What a shit fucking country. Are we supposed to accept this? Is this how you want to live in ten or twenty or thirty years from now? Do you want to continue to shoulder the responsibility of our great acts of “justice” and “mercy” and “intervention” on the countless souls who don’t even live in our borders? What can your own soul live with? Don’t we owe it to humanity to at least feel the gulf of guilt we’ve made for ourselves?

#YES. we individually are not solely responsible for harm done to the world #but get a grip. you do have a part in this. that part can at least start to protest it #I think the idea that we can only do so much had good intentions to alleviate the overwhelming horribleness of the world but #it’s time we grow up actually. and try and fix things instead of ignore them for the sake of our mental well-being #bc there’s only so much we can ignore really. we’re just treating the symptom #txt #usa hate tag #star’s stuff #dl #Jesus Christ sit with it please SIT with the fact that you are part of a nation that has killed millions of people and hurt others #in countless horrifying ways #I am of the firm belief that no one person is uniquely evil and everyone can be equally good and bad #but there is a breaching point and the United States has breached that point a hundred a thousand times over #I can really only speak for this country and Argentine on a much lesser level so this is where my criticism remains. my point of knowledge #*argentina #it begets my opinion too #I am sorry this is phrased somewhat like those angry tweets by white liberals I might delete it later. I don’t like #how they try to manufacture guilt without calls to action. I’m trying to avoid that but still