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Desperately want Usopp to say something along the lines of "they're not lies, they're dreams" at some point. 'Cause that's the whole point of the character! He doesn't just lie for the bit, almost all of his tall tales have a seed of the things he wishes would come true, the things he wants to work towards. Whether that's being a strong pirate warrior, his dad returning home, going on grand adventures, etc. They're not lies, they're dreams! They are the stories we tell ourselves because we wish them to be true. He never does it to hurt others, it's always either to protect himself or his allies or those who are being hurt. It's to trick villains, it's to gain confidence, never the selfish type of lie, which is why he is contrasted to Kuro in his introduction, a man who lies only for cruel and self serving reasons. They're wishes for the future!

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poc-friendly picrews

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reblogs are appreciated, this will be updated whenever i find more! if you want to suggest picrews to be added, do so in my asks or dms!

edit (03/02/2024): added 11 picrews to the list!

actionpilot's character creator

adriotes' character creator

adrisona maker

aiden's picrew

alli's oc creator

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amiiraux's chaotic gay maker

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anew's girl maker

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bright's picrew hell,

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cool kid maker

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harvey's picrew 2 (only has curly hairstyles)

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marice creator

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how much fun are we having in this timeline folks?

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Piece from May

more active on twt

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Phoenix Wright thinks he's a mediocre lawyer who wins mostly through luck. He has no idea that law courses have books and whole units just about his cases. He doesn't know how many kids and teens want to become lawyers because of him, how many people went to law school because of him. He is completely oblivious to the fact that other criminal lawyers are torn between deep admiration for him and being absolutely terrified of how thoroughly he rips apart everything they thought they knew. He doesn't realize that he's famous for going against unwinnable odds and coming out on top every single time.

Nobody tell him any of this btw, he would have a panic attack if he knew.

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I remember seeing a headcanon post a bit ago concerning the Flash franchise and ADHD, specifically that Wally was diagnosed as a teenager and reading up on the condition to help him led to Barry discovering it about himself, and while the idea is good and all I actually think Wally specifically seems to me to be someone who wouldn’t have discovered he was ADHD until late in life.

I admit this comes from a place of self-projection onto favourites, but as someone who also was in my mid-twenties when I discovered it, I feel a lot of Wally’s characterisation specifically comes off as someone who’s undiagnosed.

Wally doesn’t do anything to manage the condition; he’s not taking medication, he’s rarely in therapy, and he has a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms, from his binge-eating and preference for junk food, to his (pre-Linda) flirting and skirt-chasing behaviour.

Likewise, much of his quirks (which are actually ADHD symptoms) get light teasing from those around him (like the time Linda and Frankie teased his eating habits, or Linda and Piper before that mocking his inability to sit still during sports games, or Iris remarking how similar he is to Bart in a loving-but-teasing way), which, based on my own experience, is a very realistic reaction to undiagnosed ADHD behaviour. This would, however, make them all colossal assholes if they were aware he had ADHD and still mocked it, so for their sake, I think it makes more sense they’re as unaware as he is.

It also explains Wally’s annoyance at Bart; Bart’s clearly got ADHD too, but hasn’t got Wally’s years of self-coping so he’s way more reckless and unstable. Wally, if he knew he himself had ADHD, he’d recognise this as being why Bart is the way he is and be more patient with him, but he doesn’t, so he isn’t.

This also, sadly, is just more likely given his background and his parents. Wally is a working class kid, and, as I learnt first-hand, working class kids are far more likely to never be diagnosed. A combination of lower quality education and the costs of screening mean most working class kids with ADHD fly under the radar, as are most learning disorders, especially compared to middle class kids.

Likewise, Rudy and Mary West are definitely not the kind of parents who’d think to screen Wally for ADHD, even if it was pointed out by people who knew. Both were incredibly neglectful, with Mary being a narcissist who’d refuse to believe there was anything ‘wrong’ about her boy (since it would look bad on her), while Rudy’s outright shown to have smacked Wally for his ADHD behaviour, indicating he’d think it’s just something they could discipline out of him.

I think if anything, Barry is more likely to have been diagnosed when young given he’s shown to have a much better handle on how to handle the condition. I actually think the reverse of the aforementioned idea is more possible, that Barry recognised Wally’s ADHD because of his own, and that is what motivated him, in-part, to reach out to the kid and be a more supportive figure, because he himself knew what Wally was experiencing. He just, evidently, didn’t voice it to Iris or others (possibly because he thought it was better for Wally’s sake if he didn’t get labelled, but equally possible because Barry has a serious issue with trusting others), so when he died, so did that knowledge (and with it, the only person in Wally’s life who got what he experienced).

Continuing then with ‘every speedster has ADHD’, we then have Jesse Quick. As I surmised a bit ago myself on a thread about this, Jesse (like Barry) has clear signs of ADHD as well, but in her case it presents itself differently. This is, in-part, because ADHD presents differently between boys and girls (girls with ADHD are more likely to struggle with anxiety, aggression, low self-esteem, and being more emotional, all of which Jesse definitely has), but also because Wally and Jesse had different childhoods, particularly in how they were raised, and I feel that would have led to her being diagnosed and thus the condition presenting itself differently because she’s actively treating it.

Jesse’s childhood is like the polar opposite of Wally’s; she was middle class, which automatically makes her more likely to get a diagnoses when young, while she had parents who were overly involved in her life rather than neglectful. Johnny himself likely had ADHD too (partially because of the ‘all speedsters have ADHD’ idea, but also just…I don’t want to recap all of Johnny’s character but there’s a lot about him that seems neuroatypical too) so he’d have likely noticed and seen to it she be screened, while Libby was very focused on making sure Jesse studied as much as possible, so if she showed any signs of being distracted she’d have done what she could to find out why and fixing it.

(To be clear here, Jesse’s parents aren’t great, either; while Wally’s would have ignored the signs and let them be untreated, Jesse’s would have obsessed with trying to ‘fix’ them, which doesn’t necessarily help, especially with self-esteem)

This also gels with how Jesse and Wally’s treatment of Bart differ. Both treat Bart like a little brother, and both express annoyance, but Jesse is shown more tolerant and willing to spend time with Bart, even as he actively annoys her. Especially early on, Jesse was the one who reached out to make sure Bart was OK after Wally ‘fired’ him from the role of being the future Flash, and defended him to Wally after. The differing reactions indicate the two had differing knowledge of why Bart was the way he was; Wally just assumed Bart was like himself at that age and was just annoyed at being saddled with a kid, while Jesse recognised specifically that Bart had ADHD as well and was more lenient with her judgement of his behaviour because of it.

So, rather than Wally discovering as a kid that he had ADHD, I imagine it’s more likely something that was discovered collectively some time around Grant Morrison’s run, when the Flash Family had begun hanging out more. I’d imagine Jesse would have noticed the signs in both Wally and Bart, and most likely brought it up with Iris and Linda; Linda was shown, around this time, taking special interest in Bart, providing positive attention, giving him effective instructions, praising his efforts, and establishing rewards for good behaviour (all of the, by-the-way, are how of ADHD children are recommended to treat their kids, and is also how Barry himself likely treated Wally; that Linda was the cool aunt to Bart that Iris was to Wally is something that really needs more attention). She’d also stopped teasing Wally for his own ADHD behaviours, and Wally had, at this point, began being more healthy in how he managed them, adding credence to the idea that here is when they realised.

So, tl;dr, Barry was diagnosed as a kid, recognised the behaviour in Wally and tried to help, but never voiced it to others. When he died, Wally lost his only real effective support with it so went undiagnosed into his twenties with a lot of unhealthy behaviours, annoying those around him and butting heads with his young cousin who also had the condition. Jesse Quick by contrast was diagnosed as a young girl and raised in a household that tried to over-correct, resulting in the condition presenting itself differently, but because of it she recognised it in the boys and voiced it to Linda and Iris, and probably Jay too, leading to Wally and Bart getting better support.

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uhhhh what if they were college professors

don’t repost/trace my art, thx! <3

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Yep! They wrote a Chinese-based fantasy/scifi novel in a re-imagining of the first female Emperor of China and get this! it's poly! And we get bi characters!!!

Y'all should totally, 100% give Iron Widow a read

Everyone please pay respects to your local Chinese-American restaurant for being the direct heritage of Chinese laborers coming over and learning how to make dishes that resemble home with limited resources as well as trying to cater to more and more white people who were eating at their restaurants

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the local misfits

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Google and Amazon are going to sign a $1+ billion contract with the Israeli occupation to provide cloud technology for their government and military in order to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land.

Please use this link (HERE) to add your name and email to demand that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Google  CEO Thomas Kurian end all ties with Israeli apartheid and cut the Project Nimbus contract.

Aside from that, please join Palestinians in giving bad reviews in all their platform.

(for more information visit https://bdsmovement.net/)

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what is the ethnicity of ra's and talia?

Short answer: Ra’s is Chinese and Arab, probably Bedouin. On her mother’s side, Talia is Chinese and Arab.

Long answer:

Something that DC doesn’t always seem to remember (or at least emphasize) is that Middle East and Arab are not synonymous. Obviously the Middle East is a geographic situation considered from a european pov & that regroups a lot of ethnicities. Arab is an ethno-linguistic group but it’s pretty damn broad a word. Some Middle Easterners are also Arab, some are not, and vice versa. Ra’s is coded as both, arguably he’s always been, but in a lot of books it feels more like a reflex than a conscious & educated move. I think Birth of the Demon knew what they were doing but the same can’t be said of every one of Ra’s’ appearances. That being said BotD is the ultimate reference where Ra’s’ origins are concerned so there’s that.

In the same vein and contrarily to what I’ve implied above, “Chinese” regroups a bunch of ethnicities. DC probably was going for Han but again, more a reflex than a conscious move imo.

With Ra’s’ centuries-old ass we also have to take into account the fact that his native people is extinct and that countries have changed names. We know his father’s ethnicity but not his mother’s for sure. Ra’s has a geographical location of birth at least, even if it’s not super precise.

Here’s the canon information we have:

• Talia’s mother Melisande was part Chinese and part Arab. We don’t have more specific than that so go with whatever Chinese ethnic group and whatever Arab country or people you want.

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• Ra’s was born in a nomad tribe in the Arabian desert.

• Ra’s al Ghul, an arabic title, is not his birth name— he took it from “a local dialect” apparently distinct from his own*. We don’t know what was his birth name nor what language his people spoke, nor are we explicitly told know which people it was exactly. Although since we’re in the Arabian desert it’s highly probable they were Bedouins, which would make them Arab.

*EDIT: @wintersrchild kindly corrected: “[That] may be true in comic canon but is pretty weird irl. You see, his name is literally “head of the demon”. Ras=Head, al=the, Ghul=demon tho different demons than the Christian ones, and you don’t actually need to add the “of” here (it’s also why the correct spelling should be Ras and not Ra’s since it’s 1. a full word 2. redundant and 3. English grammar for Arabic words). Those are also pretty common words that aren’t limited to any one dialect, hell they’re so common they appear in other semitic languages (i.e. in Hebrew “Rosh” means head). I guess what I’m trying to say is apparently no one at DC knows enough Arabic to realize when someone else used google translate :P“

• Ra’s made it so that his people’s tongue disappeared, meaning it was either a totally fictional people or one that actually existed but is indeed extinct today. Bedouins have always regrouped a number of tribes/peoples, so it’s perhaps possible to link the story with a real-life extinct dialect?

• Their deity, Bisu, seems inspired by Bes/Bisu which was worshipped from Egypt to Syria at that time.

• We also have a vague chronological indication: Ra’s was born during the Crusades. With the extinct dialect and Bisu, we have three clues to help us find out if Ra’s can be linked to an actual tribe of that era or if it’s a fictional one— in which case it’s coherently implanted in the historical context! I’ll make time to research it all one day.

• Ra’s’ father is the Sensei, who is Chinese. (His being most known by a Japanese honorific title is another case of Lady Shiva syndrome but to be fair he also has a base of operation in Japan and a bunch of followers there who could’ve nicknamed him in their own tongue regardless of his heritage.) The Sensei’s ethnicity is probably Han by default as often in media, but like with Melisande give him whatever ethnic group feels right.

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It’s technically a retcon but it doesn’t really contradict Ra’s’ origins in Birth of the Demon so it’s valid. The mysterious old dude at the beginning hinted to be either a random prophet ominously passing through or Ra’s’ actual father could very well be The Sensei.

A rich mixed legacy for Damian to inherit :)

Hope that helps! If someone has more precise information, please let us know!

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tag game: type 'life' in the tags and reveal what your opinion on life is

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i don't know what happened here. something wrong with the composition ehe

[pls like or reblog if you like this post <3]

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just murr asking the right questions