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playing catch-up sharing my sxf art here on tumblr, so here's some things i've been up to lately! 🤲😌 merry x-mas by the way! ☃️

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yor and loid really do make a good couple, even if we don’t necessarily get a lot of ship moments focused on them. like the seeds of how they could fall deeply in love with another are all there because of their history and personalities. and I love how the reasons they can and would fall in love with each other are all inextricably linked to anya.

loid gives yor confidence and validation, that all her years up to this point mean something. he gives her acceptance for all of her perceived faults. with him, she can be comfortable in just bumbling along and growing, without having to fear that she’ll be abandoned. because of loid she has an equal she can share the burden with. it’s because of him that she finally has more people who are so precious to her besides yuri.

meanwhile, loid admires yor so much because yor just by being herself can create the world that loid has been fighting for all these years. yor gives loid rest and respite, the same way that yor provides anya with warmth and security.

yor and anya are tangible proof that the world loid is fighting for - where children are safe and are no longer crying - is possible and worth fighting for. and similar to yor (even if the information balance is quite unequal in favor of twilight’s side), just by being who she is can equally share in loid’s responsibility in raising anya. things that he might miss because of his focus on the mission are highlighted and brought to his attention because of yor. she grounds him and makes him remember, that ultimately operation strix is just a means to an end, and in fulfilling his mission, he can’t lose sight of the bigger picture - and yor does all this without even knowing about everything! it’s wonderful. both of them may have their secrets, but they really do show their truest self to one another.

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To celebrate that today I'm posting the last chapter of My Enemy and the return of SXF, here's a fanart of my fic.

I'd like to thank @roucaelum-art for drawing this fanart for the last chapter of this fic. Thank you, Rou, for such a wonderful job!!

And you can read this completed fic here on ao3.

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legit so annoyed about the way the corporate media wants to paint those women waiting outside the court as crazy and as only being there because Luigi is hot. I looked up pictures of them outside the court and they all held signs and were there to send a message: "health over wealth", "denial of medical care = violence", "murder for profit = terrorism", "the United States healthcare stole my livelihood", "insurance lobbyists line politicians' pockets", "healthcare reform NOW". Yeah, they're there because he's hot for sure. Also, there were a lot of men as well but hey, that's not helping the narrative right?

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Are you ugly on purpose pickles?

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you’re sitting across from me in a shitty diner in anywhere, america, and i watch you pour too much creamer in your coffee and i think “i love you.” you look up, catching me staring, and for a moment i think i’m brave enough to say it, but i take too long and the moment passes. i take the balled up straw wraper and flick it at you, pretending that was my plan all along. you laugh. i never want to go another day without hearing that laugh. i think i will have all the time in the world to say it.

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I love that Loid is gonna be interacting with Melinda. Now they can gossip about how much they love Yor teehee

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I've been noticing that Endo has been making a point of introducing us to Jeeves and the other butlers a lot in the latest chapters, and to show us that they're actually nice and nothing like their patrons (Donovan at least). But now I think, based of the panels below, that will be seeing more of them, most likely in the form of Intel gathering by Twilight but that will develop into a friendship.

That throwback image, along with all the exposition they've been giving Jeeves, plus they spent the entire afternoon talking, I think Mission friendship will develop from every side until the Forger family has Donovan surrounded. Plus I think Loid deserves some friends besides Frankie

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I like the way Yor always comfort Damian.

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oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

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Alright, hit it Melinda! Show us what we got!

Oh damn we got some legit cards here? Oh my... Time to put my brain to work

So we have a Star spread, I see. I suppose the cards are aligned towards melinda so we have this numbering

You can see it is a star because it makes a six-pointed star. The numbers in sequence are the problem in question, the positive influences, the negative influences, past influences, the present, the future, and the final outcome. And the cards that we got on the table are:

Ace of Cups reversed

Three of swords upright

Four of cups upright

Death upright

Three of wands reversed

Ten of Pentacles upright

The Star reversed

Now I'm not gonna get what each card means right now, let us see if her reading is right or not and I'll give a yay or nay about it, and later on I'll try to convince my sister to give a yay or nay about my interpretation of it.

Yes Anya, she summoned a floodgate formation, I hope you have some Kaijus to remove her cards from the field because otherwise this game is set. Those fucking snake eyes decks I swear to god.

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Wait no, what you doing Melinda? That one was in the position of negative influences, it was meant to represent things that are being counterproductive for the current situation and should be minimized, the card that was in the present was the Three of Wands reversed!

Wow okay you suck at this, never mind.

Since we're talking about the present let us the the Three of Wands.

The Three of Wands upright is a card of momentum, of looking ahead, growing, confidence, and when it's reversed it shows limitations, lack of progress, delays.

For it to be at the Present means that the current situation with Damian is stagnate, that things are not going forward, and that commitment from both of you is needed to make things grow.

Actually that one is correct, carry on.

Okay so she pointed at Death upright, which was at Past influences, which are things that are not working anymore for the current situation and should be let go.

Death upright represents change, transformations, letting go, and reversed it means stagnancy, fear of change, and resisting change.

In that position we can infer that trying to change the relationship between you two is not working. Trying to force him to move to a next step is going to push him farther away, you should be show some restraint in this situation, and go slower.

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A Bug’s Life, 1998

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